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Republicans’ top priority is giving corporations the freedom to let their workers and customers get sick, former Republican Justin Amash explores a third party bid for president, and new reporting emerges about an allegation of sexual assault against Joe Biden. Then Congressional candidate Christy Smith talks to Jon about her May 12th special election in California’s 25th district.
Slate is dark, and its staff are taking a much needed and deserved breath. And with that, Team Gist has gone dark for a day, too, so we bring you two old interviews from the fall of 2014.
First, an interview with biologist and mathematical modeler Nina Fefferman, who at the time this was recorded was based at Rutgers University and working on predicting the spread of Ebola. Now she's at the University of Tennessee and modeling Covid-19.
The second interview is about the power of analogies with author John Pollack who chats with Mike about his book Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas.
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John Green reviews the board game Monopoly and a high-school nerdfest called the Academic Decathlon.
A potential breakthrough for treating coronavirus. Final day of federal guidelines. Cruise ship workers stranded at sea for two months. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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The coronavirus pandemic is affecting people in ways big and small. Some are very personal. What's it like to date an immunocompromised person right now? And, listener Marcus Adams wants to know if hair stylists are allowed to make home visits if they take safety precautions. We've got answers.
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The news to know for Thursday, April 30th, 2020!
What to know today about the first drug that could get federal approval as a COVID-19 treatment, how the government is hoping to find solutions with a Shark Tank-like program, and the way dogs are working to sniff out the disease.
Plus, whose salary will go from $40 million to zero, a new record for social media and when to catch a Parks and Rec comeback.
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
Then, hang out after the news for the Thing to Know Thursday bonus interview, where a virologist answers unique questions about COVID-19.
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Death Toll, Case Count: Johns Hopkins
Trump Not Extending Social Distancing Guidelines: AP, Politico
Second Wave “Inevitable”: CNN, The Hill, LA Times
Remdesivir Trial Positive Results: Stat, NIH, NBC News, NYT
“Shark Tank” for Testing: Stat, Axios
GDP First-Quarter Decline: WSJ, NPR
Fed Holds Rate Near Zero: USA Today, AP
Andrew Yang Sues New York: Politico, CBS News
Training Dogs to Smell Coronavirus: WaPo, Philadelphia Inquirer
TikTok Tops Two Billion Downloads: TechCrunch, The Verge
Facebook Sees Surge in Usage: Engadget, Facebook
Microsoft Teams Jumps 70 Percent: The Verge, VentureBeat
Uber/Lyft Layoffs: Mashable, The Information, CNBC
Aerospace Layoffs: WSJ, NY Times
NFL Commissioner Taking $0 Salary: USA Today, AP
Amazon to Stream TNF: TechCrunch, The Verge, ABC News
Parks & Rec Charity Episode: CNN, Rolling Stone
In the last episode of poetry month, we read a short poem from Marie Ponsot.
A true wit, Ponsot liked to write in challenging forms like the villanelle and the sestina. She found form more of a help than a hindrance and once said, “they are not restrictive. They pull things out of you. They help you remember.”
On the Gist, grades at New York City schools.
In the interview, Nate Duncan and Ben Taylor of the Covid Daily News podcast talk to Mike about how two basketball analysts started covering the latest developments in this crisis, and the parallels to be drawn between basketball and Covid-19 data. Nate Duncan is the host of the Dunc’d On Basketball NBA podcast, and Ben Taylor is the host of Thinking Basketball.
In the spiel, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is frequently giving offense.
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Life Interrupted is a new weekly series from Curious City about daily life in Chicago during the pandemic. In today's episode, Lucy Keating first learned to sew on her grandmother’s Singer sewing machine. Today, she’s reviving her skills to make masks for COVID-19.