Month: December 2019

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The NewsWorthy - Weekend Winter Storm, Uber Co-Founder Departs & Christmas Space Cookies – Friday, December 27th, 2019

The news to know for Friday, December 27th, 2019! 

We're talking about a winter storm moving across the country, a recall impacting popular grocery stores, and why Uber's co-founder just sold all of his shares in the company.

Plus: surveillance airplanes, space cookies, and what to do with your Christmas tree now...

Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

Today's episode is brought to you by GenoPalate.

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Sources:

Weekend Winter Storm: USA Today, ABC News

Philippines Typhoon: AP, Weather Channel, CNN

Kazakhstan Plane Crash: AP, BBC, CNN

Israel’s Party Vote: ABC News, The Guardian, AP

Hard Boiled Egg Recall: CNN, TODAY, FDA (full list)

Uber’s Founder Departs: CNBC, WSJ 

Nasdaq’s Record High: Business Insider, WSJ, Reuters

Russia’s New Internet: TechCrunch, Engadget, BBC

Surveillance Airplanes: CBS News, Baltimore Sun

Christmas Space Cookies: The Verge

The Rise of Skywalker Success: Variety, Deadline

Recycling Christmas Trees: CNN

 

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Opening Arguments - OA345: How John Roberts Saved Christmas (Or: Everything You Need to Know About Nixon v. US)

Happy Holidays, everyone! Today, we tackle a number of issues that managed to distract us over the holidays regarding impeachment and do a deep dive into Nixon v. US -- all while weaving in a John-Roberts-as-the-Grinch-Who-Saved-the-Country-From-Mitch-McConnell story. Can it happen? Absolutely. Will it? We don't know. Do you need to listen? ABSOLUTELY.

We begin, however, with the recent filing by the lawyer for the House Judiciary Committee suggesting it might "impeach Donald Trump again." What on earth does that mean, and why is he taking this position? We explain it all.

Then it's time for a brief foray into the debate between Noah Feldman, Laurence Tribe (and Jonathan Turley for good measure) as to whether Trump has really been impeached given that the House has not yet transmitted the articles to the Senate.

As we all know, that question is really academic -- the real issue is: what power does Mitch McConnell have to transform impeachment into a sham proceeding? The answer lies in a 1993 Supreme Court case, Nixon v. US , 506 U.S. 224 -- and it may just reside in Chief Justice John Roberts. You won't want to miss this deep dive storytelling.

After all that, it's time for a brand new #T3BE involving burglary, larceny, and the world's angriest ex-employee. Remember to play along on social media!

Appearances

None! If you’d like to have either of us as a guest on your show, drop us an email at openarguments@gmail.com.

Show Notes & Links

  1. Click here to read the House's filing before the D.C. Circuit in the McGahn subpoena litigation.
  2. In the battle of expert turncoats, we have Noah Feldman arguing that Trump hasn't been impeached, and Jonathan Turley arguing that he has.
  3. Finally, make sure you read Nixon v. U.S., 506 U.S. 224 (1993).

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the memory palace - Nate’s Favorite Episode of 2019

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia.

Music

  • First up is Requiem from Nico Muhly’s score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

  • November by Colleen.

  • Edward Hong’s arrangement of Sleep from the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble.

  • The solo version of Broad Channel by Bing & Ruth

  • Won’t Be a Thing to Become by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld

Notes

  • Here’s Shane DuBay and Carl Fuldner’s study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, including Fuldner’s remarkable photographs.
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Science In Action - Gaming climate change

The latest round of climate negotiations, COP25, have ended without agreement on many fundamental issues. We join researchers from Perdue University in the US who have developed a role-playing game to encourage climate negotiators and others to take a long-term view. Key to this research project is the concept of tipping points, where an environment changes irreversibly from one state to another. This is accompanied by the loss of ecosystems - for example, the widespread melting of Arctic sea ice, rainforest burning or coral bleaching.

The idea is that such tipping points provide a more meaning full focus for the implication of climate change than abstract concepts like temperature rise.

Image: Polar bear in the Arctic Sea (Credit: Coldimages/Getty)

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Marty Bent on the Macro Fires on the Horizon

Marty Bent is the author of one of the most popular daily Bitcoin newsletters and co-host of Tales From The Crypt. In this end of year interview with The Breakdown, he talks about the macro context - from trade wars to pressure on the fed to continue and expand the QE experiment to global instability - and how it is painting in stark colors the need for tools like bitcoin. 

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