Month: March 2020

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The Best One Yet - 🦇 “The Fed’s Batman move backfired” — Waymo snags $2.25B. Honeywell’s supercomputer. The Fed’s 0.5% interest rate cut.

Alphabet’s self-driving car division, Waymo, grabbed $2.25B in outside funding for the first time as it adds 5 new godparents. Honeywell doesn’t just make charming thermostats — the historic company is now building (allegedly) the world’s most powerful supercomputer. And the Federal Reserve acts like the economy’s Batman, but the latest/shocking interest rate move had the opposite effect that it intended. 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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CBS News Roundup - WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP: 03/04

Joe Biden scores big on Super Tuesday, but Bernie Sanders remains standing. Picking up the pieces after Tennessee tornadoes. Abortion back before the Supreme Court. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Joe through a rough patch:Biden’s super Tuesday

The former vice-president stormed a raft of primaries yesterday, setting up a two-horse race to the Democratic nomination. What happens next, though, doesn’t depend entirely on those two. A new study examines subtleties in the “bamboo ceiling” that holds back Asian-American workers. And why wealth divides in English football reveal societal divides, too. Additional audio by stinkhorn at freesound.org. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/radiooffer
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - He Saw the Coronavirus Coming

The coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, started in China as a bat virus that eventually made contact with humans. Researchers say this leap between species was highly predictable – so why were communities and governments caught flat-footed? And what does the virus’s transmission from animals to humans say about how we interact with the greater ecosystem?

Guest: Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance.

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New Books in Native American Studies - Alex Hidalgo, “Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico” (U Texas Press, 2019)

There is far more to a map than meets the eye. Such is the case in historian Alex Hidalgo’s Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2019), which focuses on the complex lives of dozens of Oaxacan maps created by Indigenous mapmakers. Tracing the legal, social, cultural, and political history of these maps, Hidalgo sheds new light on the purpose, production, and preservation of maps as well as the lives of Indigenous peoples and Spaniards alike involved in their production. The result is a vivid re-orientation of Oaxacan history that speaks to the historical power of collaboration, adaptation, and cartography.

Trail of Footprints provides a deep dive into the production and use of maps, focusing specifically on the roles of patrons, painters, and notaries as well as the complex material dimension of mapmaking. Hidalgo lends equal attention to both the broader historical context of mapmaking and the smallest details of each cartographic creation, emphasizing how maps both recorded and created spatial relationships. In tracing the long lives of these maps, Hidalgo demonstrates, among other important interventions, the potency of Indigenous skills, ideas, and ways of knowing in creating and charting Oaxacan history.

 Annabel LaBrecque is a PhD student in the Department of History at UC Berkeley. You can find her on Twitter @labrcq.

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What A Day - They Joe Up So Fast

Yesterday was Super Tuesday, where 14 states and one territory voted in the presidential primary. Former VP Joe Biden over-performed in what some (read: none) are already calling "Joebal Warming," while Senator Bernie Sanders didn’t do as well as some predicted. Final delegate totals are still coming in—we’ll talk you through what we know. 

And in headlines: deadly storms in Tennessee, an election update in Israel, and the Knicks lose their biggest fan.

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The NewsWorthy - Biden’s Big Night, Volcano High-Wire Walk & Smart Tires – Wednesday, March 4th, 2020

The news to know for Wednesday, March 4th, 2020!

What to know today about the Super Tuesday results and how the Democratic primary is looking more like a two-man race. Also, we're talking about the impact of an emergency interest rate cut...

Plus: a daring stunt on an active volcano, high-tech tires, and a first for Mickey Mouse.

Those stories and 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 to read more about any of the stories mentioned under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below...

This episode is brought to you by www.Zola.com/newsworthy 

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Sources:

Super Tuesday Results: NYT, NBC News, Fox News, Washington Post

Tennessee Tornadoes: CBS News, USA Today, Weather Channel, AP, Billboard (how to help)

Fed Cuts Rates: Reuters, WSJ, NYT, CNN Business

Coronavirus Latest: AP, CBS News, USA Today

High-Wire Walk Over Volcano: USA TODAY, ABC News

Facebook Rethinks Libra: The Verge, Reuters, The Information

Robinhood Outages: CNBC, TechCrunch,

Faster Same-Day Shipping: The Verge, Cnet, CNBC

Goodyear Smart Tire: Engadget CNET

Mickey Runaway Railway: AP, CNN, Disney

Work Wednesday- Fox Business USA Today

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The Daily Signal - 2 Conservatives Who Led Opposition to Impeachment Look Back on the Fight

Reps. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, led the opposition in the House to Democrats’ impeachment push. They join today’s Daily Signal Podcast to reflect on what it was like to be in the middle of that fight, and what they've learned about their constituents' perspectives on it. 


We also cover these stories:

  • A tornado touches down in Tennessee, killing at least 22. 
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defeats his chief opponent, Benny Gantz of the Blue and White Party, in a parliamentary election but doesn't secure enough votes to form a governing coalition.
  • Chris Matthews, longtime host of MSNBC’s "Hardball," announces his retirement from the show over allegations of sexual harassment. 


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