Month: April 2020

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Consider This from NPR - Antibody Tests Coming “Very Soon”; Is The Coronavirus Seasonal?

Antibody tests that could help determine who has had the virus are being developed Dr. Anthony Fauci said. There's hope those people will have some measure of immunity.

The CDC issued return-to-work guidelines for critical workers who had contact with someone who had a confirmed or even suspected case of COVID-19.

Scientists are trying to figure out whether changing seasons will affect the spread of the coronavirus.

Plus, how public health experts create models to help us predict where the outbreak is headed.

Wuhan resident Piso Nseke's conversation with Mary Louise Kelly about his first day outside after almost three months of lockdown.

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Pod Save America - “Biden v. Trump v. Coronavirus.”

The general election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump begins as Bernie Sanders suspends his campaign, COVID-19 trutherism gets worse as Trump media tries to spin the death toll, and Democrats look for a way to make voting safe and easy despite opposition from Trump and his allies. Alex Wagner, the host of Crooked Media’s new podcast Six Feet Apart, joins to break down the news, and Stacey Abrams talks to Dan about protecting the right to vote, the coronavirus response, and 2020 veepstakes.


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Science In Action - Covid 19 – the threat to refugees

Massively over crowded Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has seen numbers grow from 5 to 20 thousand in a matter of months. Hundreds of people share taps and toilets, there is little chance to implement measures designed to stop the spread of covid 19. So far the camp has not been hit by the epidemic, but aid agencies fear for the most vulnerable in the camp.

Covid 19 jumped from bats to humans, possibly via another wild animal. A study of zoonotic diseases has identified many other viruses that could do the same.

The skies are clearer, levels of pollution from traffic have dropped by up to 50 percent but how long will cleaner air remain?

And Comet Borisov makes a spectacular exit.

(Image: Moria refugee camp, Lesvos, Greece. Credit: Getty Images)

Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Julian Siddle

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Rebuilding the Resilience Economy, Feat. Anthony Pompliano

As host of the Pomp Podcast, author of the daily Off The Chain newsletter, and founder partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets, Anthony Pompliano is one of the best known media personalities and investors in the crypto industry. 

In this episode, he and @NLW discuss: 

  • The Fed’s just announced $2.3 trillion stimulus package - including the authorization to buy junk bonds
  • Why media and trust have desiccated to their lowest levels ever 
  • The lack of a plan to restart the economy 
  • Why Bitcoin was sold in last months larger market sell off
  • Why smart institutional investors are looking to bitcoin as a hedge when the deflationary environment turns inflationary 
  • Why companies have to be allowed to fail to increase resilience 
  • Why the best way to build a resilience economy is to put money in the hands of entrepreneurs and small businesses


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SCOTUScast - Kansas v. Glover – Post-Decision SCOTUScast

On April 6, 2020, the Supreme Court held by a vote of 8-1 that when a law enforcement officer lacks information negating an inference that a vehicle’s driver is the registered owner, an investigative traffic stop made after running the vehicle’s license plate and learning that the registered owner’s driver’s license has been revoked is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. In an opinion written by Justice Thomas, the Court invoked its 1981 decision in United States v. Cortez (1981), which indicates that an officer may initiate a brief investigative traffic stop if he or she has a “particularized and objective basis” to suspect legal wrongdoing. Here the officer’s inference that the vehicle’s registered owner--whose license was revoked--was also the current driver was a commonsense one; even if not invariably true the inference was reasonable, and the officer possessed no information sufficient to rebut it.
Justice Thomas’ majority opinion was joined by all other justices except Justice Sotomayor, who dissented. In addition, Justice Kagan filed a concurring opinion that was joined by Justice Breyer.
To discuss the case, we have Brian Fish, Special Assistant, United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - AFRICA: If Bitcoin Works in Zimbabwe, It Works Everywhere (Part 4 of a Six-Part Documentary Podcast Series)

In part 4 of this six-part documentary podcast series about Bitcoin in Africa we'll join Anita as she speaks with a young woman from Harare, Zimbabwe. She calls herself a 'Digipreneur' and also works as a teacher. Working with her organization, they focus on the digitalization of Africa and aim to improve outcomes in Zimbabwe. With the use of Bitcoin outlawed and the state of human rights and free speech being rather poor in Zimbabwe, Anita and the guest agreed to not mention her name. In this episode they discuss:

  • The opportunities for Bitcoin adoption
  • The shutdown of Golix, the only Zimbabwean crypto exchange
  • The philosophy of Ubuntu and how it relates to Bitcoin
  • Hyper-inflation
  • The future of Bitcoin in Africa
  • How cryptocurrency feels like luxury in Zimbabwe
  • How to design Bitcoin for use in Africa
  • How Libra is a game changer
  • The most used social media tools
  • The need for even more accessibility and ease of use


"If I have a Bitcoin, I can send money to my relatives, who are in Malawi or in Namibia or in Ghana. Currently I can't with our own currency. I can't send money out freely and quickly, but if we can sit down as a community and say okay, we need to buy a new borehole and we can do that just by using our phone. That's an amazing thing. You know, if we look at it from a place of development, if you look at it from a place of helping the community and taking care of each other, if it allows us to take care of each other without having to create so many barriers and so much red tape to get stuff done with money, I feel like when you change that narrative, you speak to something very deep within an African." - Teacher and Digipreneur, Zimbabwe

"Cryptocurrency feels almost like luxury. It's sad because I don't think that's what it's supposed to be, but it was also bearing in mind cryptocurrency was designed in a functioning environment. It was designed by people who maybe haven't spent 12 hours in a fuel queue?" - Teacher and Digipreneur, Zimbabwe

"We need to start having more conversations about the future with the people who are actually affected by the future. Hold workshops under a tree in Binga and have someone who is there who can translate into the local language and have a conversation." - Teacher and Digipreneur, Zimbabwe

You can find the full transcript on the episode page

A note from Anita:

This podcast special and my trip to Africa would not have been possible without my sponsors and supporters. I want to thank my sponsors first: Thank you: LocalBitcoins.com a person-to-person bitcoin trading site, Peter McCormack and the whatbitcoindid podcast, Coinfinity and the Card Wallet, SHIFT Cryptosecurity, manufacturer of the hardware wallet BitBox02 and many thanks to several unknown private donors, who sent me Satoshis over the Lightning Network.

This special is edited by CoinDesk’s Podcasts Editor Adam B. Levine and published first on the CoinDesk Podcast Network. Thank you very much for supporting the Bitcoin in Africa series with your work.

Thanks goes also out to stakwork.com - stakwork is a great project that brings bitcoin into the world through earning. One can do microjobs on stakwork, earning Satoshis and cash them out without even having an understanding about the lightning network or bitcoin. I think we need more projects like that to spread the usage of bitcoin around the world.

Thank you also to GoTenna, for donating several GoTenna devices to set up a mesh network in Zimbabwe and to Team Satoshi, the decentralized sports team for supporting my work. This special is also brought to you by the Let's Talk Bitcoin Network.

Credits:

Edited by CoinDesk’s Podcasts Editor: Adam B. Levine

Image by: Martina Gruber Photography 

Idea, content and production: Anita Posch Music: "Start with yes" by Delicate beats

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