Month: February 2020

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The Best One Yet - “Your score dropped, Nicolas 😓. New credit score, Nicolas 😃” Intuit buys Credit Karma. Tubi (almost) acquired. Dow drops 1,032 points.

The Dow plummets 1,032 points because coronavirus expanded beyond China (to South Korea and Italy). Fox wants to splurge $500M on streaming service Tubi, even though it’s got terrible content (it’s all part of Tubi’s plan). And Intuit just announced it’s officially dropping $7B to buy Credit Karma so it can data-double-dip you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Did Bill Barr Break the Justice Department?

Attorney General William Barr has lost the confidence of more than 2,600 former Department of Justice employees. We talked to one of them. 

Guest: Donald Ayer, who served in the Department of Justice under George H. W. Bush. Read his piece in the Atlantic, “Bill Barr Must Resign.”

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Short Wave - This NASA Engineer Is Bringing Math And Science To Hip Hop

NASA engineer Dajae Williams is using hip hop to make math and science more accessible to young people. We talk with Dajae about her path to NASA, and how music helped her fall in love with math and science when she was a teenager.

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New Books in Native American Studies - Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillipa Chong, assistant professor in sociology at McMaster University, provides a unique sociological analysis of how critics confront the different types of uncertainty associated with their practice. The book explores how reviewers get matched to books, the ethics and etiquette of negative reviews and ‘punching up’, along with professional identities and the future of criticism. The book is packed with interview material, coupled with accessible and easy to follow theoretical interventions, creating a text that will be of interest to social sciences, humanities, and general readers alike.

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What A Day - That’s A Wrap On Harvey Weinstein

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been convicted on two counts of felony sex crimes. The convictions are the culmination of a month-long trial and testimonies brought by six women. 

The Supreme Court added a case to its docket on Monday, which will decide whether it was okay for city officials in Philadelphia to end a foster care contract with Catholic Social Services because the agency said it would not accept applications from same-sex couples. 

And in headlines: Trump is big in India, marsquakes, and another coronavirus update.

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The NewsWorthy - Harvey Weinstein Guilty, Dow Nosedive & Netflix Top 10 – Tuesday, February 25th, 2020

The news to know for Tuesday, February 25th, 2020!

What to know today about the outcome of the Harvey Weinstein trial, why the Dow took a nosedive yesterday, and a major step toward a coronavirus vaccine...

Plus: we're talking NASA, New Orleans and Netflix.

Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!

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Sources:

Harvey Weinstein Guilty:  CNN, FOX News, NYT, THR

Dow Nosedive: WSJ, AP, USA Today, CNBC

COVID-19 Vaccine: WSJ

President Trump in India: ABC News, Bloomberg

Kobe Bryant Memorial: LA Times, CBS Sports, ESPN

Lawsuit Filed: AP, CBS News

Midwest Winter Storm: USA Today, ABC News, AccuWeather

Mardi Gras: CNN, Mardi Gras

Barrier-Breaking Mathematician Dies: NBC News, NYT

NASA Detects Marsquakes: CNN, The Verge

Uber Ads on Cars: Ad Week, Engadget

Netflix Top 10: Variety, Cnet

Free Pancakes: USA Today