Month: April 2020

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The Best One Yet - 👊 “Quibi vs Disney vs Everyone’s Expectations” — Wing’s “X” drone. Exxon’s oil price awkwardness. Quibi’s 1st numbers.

We just got fresh download numbers from Quibi and Disney+ — and it reveals how they’re completely different species of streaming. Oil prices surged on a Saudi/Russia kumbaya moment, but it highlights how little control Exxon has over its profits. And Google’s drone delivery startup, Wing, just saw usage double because it’s doing what it always was supposed to do. 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 - What America’s Biggest Nursing Union Wants

At hospitals throughout the country another fight is beginning to spill into the public eye. This one between hospital administrators and their workers who have been put in harm's way. As nurses push for better working conditions, COVID-19 is laying bare a tension that has existed in hospitals and the health care system for many, many years.

Guest: Zenei Cortez, RN at Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center and co-president of National Nurses United

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Start the Week - Nature worship

On Easter Monday, Andrew Marr talks to the psychiatrist and keen gardener Sue Stuart-Smith on our love for nature. In The Well-Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World, she blends neuroscience, psychoanalysis and real-life stories. She reveals the remarkable effects that gardens and the great outdoors can have on us.

William Wordsworth was the great poet of the British countryside, celebrated for his descriptions of daffodils and the passing of the river above Tintern Abbey. But in a new biography, Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World, Sir Jonathan Bate shows how Wordsworth also made nature something challenging and even terrifying. The poet drew on shocking revolutionary ideas from the continent, including pantheistic atheism: the worship of nature.

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Start the Week - Nature worship

On Easter Monday, Andrew Marr talks to the psychiatrist and keen gardener Sue Stuart-Smith on our love for nature. In The Well-Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World, she blends neuroscience, psychoanalysis and real-life stories. She reveals the remarkable effects that gardens and the great outdoors can have on us.

William Wordsworth was the great poet of the British countryside, celebrated for his descriptions of daffodils and the passing of the river above Tintern Abbey. But in a new biography, Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World, Sir Jonathan Bate shows how Wordsworth also made nature something challenging and even terrifying. The poet drew on shocking revolutionary ideas from the continent, including pantheistic atheism: the worship of nature.

Producer: Hannah Sander

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The NewsWorthy - Gradual Reopening?, Contact Tracing & Foster Pet Frenzy – Monday, April 13th, 2020

The news to know for Monday, April 13th, 2020!

What a top public health official is now saying about possibly reopening the U.S. economy: when and how it might happen.

We're also talking about the impact of some of the strongest tornadoes the U.S. has seen in years, and why Sen. Bernie Sanders is still asking supporters for their votes.

Plus: why two tech rivals are teaming up to track your smartphone, and what animal shelters are seeing across the country...

Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes. 

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

 

Sources:

New Cases & Deaths: Johns Hopkins

Fighting COVID-19 in NY, NJ: NY Times, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Rolling Reentry” to the Economy: NYT, Politico

Postal Service Bailout Rejected: The Hill, WaPo, Vox

Oil Production Update: WSJ, CNN

Boris Johnson Discharged: Sky News, Twitter

Italy & UK Trends: AP, BBC

Pope Francis Easter Message: NPR, NBC News

Sunday Tornado Outbreak: AP, WaPo, FOX News, NWS

Biden Wins Alaska Primary: AP, ABC News

“Contact Tracing” Tool: Google, Apple, TechCrunch, Engadget, Recode

Apple Maps Testing Sites: Mashable, Engadget, 9to5Mac

Hotel Rooms for Healthcare Workers: USA Today, Hilton, Marriott

Car Insurance Refunds: USA Today, MarketWatch

“Cat” & “Dog” Searches: Google Trends, Mashable, Washington Post

Monday Monday - Tax Deadline: CNET, IRS, MarketWatch

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Short Wave - How To Talk About The Coronavirus With Friends And Family

Liz Neeley, science communication expert and executive director of The Story Collider, shares some advice for how to talk to your friends and family about the coronavirus. Here's her article for The Atlantic: 'How To Talk About The Coronavirus.'

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What A Day - Minding The Race Gap

States are trying different approaches to address coronavirus racial disparities, from forming a task force in Louisiana to opening new testing centers in New York City. We speak to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed about what he’s seen in Detroit, and how structural racism leaves minority communities vulnerable.

A new investigation in The New York Times says Trump was told about what this pandemic might look like in January and February and that he didn’t heed the warning. 

And in headlines: OPEC countries reach a deal to cut oil production, Trump hates the postal service, and Dutch tulips against coronavirus.

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - Mini-Episode: Andy Calls CBS Correspondent Seth Doane in Rome

In this mini-episode Andy wants to hear what’s going on in Italy. So he calls CBS’ Rome correspondent Seth Doane, a COVID-19 patient quarantined in Rome. They talk about what the US can learn from Italy, the war-like experience of fighting a pandemic, and the bright spots of unity that Seth has witnessed in hard-hit Italian communities.

 

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The Daily Signal - The Dark Reality of China’s COVID-19 Cover-Up

China discovered the coronavirus in December, but chose to hide it from the world. Now nearly every nation on earth is paying the price for China's actions.


Olivia Enos, a senior policy analyst in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, joins the show to discuss her recent report, "How the Chinese Government Undermined the Chinese People’s Attempts to Prevent and Respond to COVID-19."


Also on today show:

  • We read your letters to the editor.
  • University of Nevada medical student Jayde Powell set out to purchase groceries for the elderly in her community. But her local effort quickly grew into a global organization called Shopping Angels. 


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Read Me A Poem Podcast - 03: Brown Penny

Brown Penny, a charming poem by William Butler Yeats, is a favorite of mine. In this poem Yeats contemplates love. My favorite part of this poem is the line, “I am looped in the loops of her hair.” I imagine someone ensnared much like Mowgli was ensnared by Kaa in the Jungle Book.