We’re talking about the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.: where it seems the virus has peaked and what health officials are now saying about going to the grocery store. Also, what a new government report found about U.S. hospitals, and why President Trump is pushing back.
Plus: a new vaccine in the works, the NFL goes digital, and Lady Gaga announces an all-star benefit to help healthcare workers.
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
Then, do mosquitoes transfer COVID-19? Also, is any help on the way for self-employed Americans? The answers in our new “Talk to Me Tuesday" segment.
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The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico has the most older Americans per capita, making their population especially vulnerable to the coronavirus. A vital tool in preventing its spread there? Timely and culturally relevant public health information in Spanish. Maddie talks with Mónica Feliú-Mójer of the group CienciaPR about their science communication efforts.
Trying to lose weight? Might be time to change the scale. Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, offers up some weighty advice on losing weight.
Wisconsin will be moving forward with in-person voting today, despite efforts to postpone the election for the sake of public health. We check in on what’s happening there and in other states set to vote soon. Plus, we interview Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes about the election and what this means for November.
And in headlines: the ACLU sues to block parts of Puerto Rico’s coronavirus curfew, chaste pandas mate in Hong Kong, and the Mississippi governor makes time to honor fallen racists.
Thane Brimhall has been passionately building tech for over 15 years. He started by programming his graphing calculator in High School. He has built solutions for prominent startups, such as Weave Communications, Divvy Pay and Simple Citizen. A long time gamer, frequenting platforms like Dota, he made efforts to create his own games. Through these passions – tech and gaming – he created a treasure hunt using augmented reality. He quickly learned what his clients really wanted, which was augmented reality through the web. This is the creation story of Seek.
In this follow-up to our investigation of Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory, we look at what happens when state safety inspectors and one of the state’s biggest employers go head to head.
Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, joined The Daily Signal Podcast at the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this year to detail the progress that has been made on President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico. Read a lightly edited transcript of the interview, posted below, or listen on the podcast.
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American hospitals are struggling to keep up amid the coronavirus pandemic.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo shared reasons for hope as New York struggles with COVID-19.
California is loaning 500 ventilators to the national stock pile
It's just your hosts this episode - Paul, Sara, and Ben. We chat about the end of the influential open-source events that O'reillly held for many years, conferences that in many ways helped to form the personality of the early web.
Engineers love to solve problems and create new tools. So what do you do when the best solution is to stay home? We have a few ideas about how to deal with the moment.
If we all go into cryosleep, will the bots keep trading the market, and for how long? Sara recommends a novel - Machines Like Me.