Month: May 2020

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The NewsWorthy - Leaked New Predictions, Travel Guidelines & Tiger King Scripted- Tuesday, May 5th, 2020

The news to know for Tuesday, May 5th, 2020!

What to know today about a leaked government report that predicts a big hike in the daily death toll from COVID-19.

And the world is racing to produce a vaccine. What the U.S. government is and isn’t doing to have one ready by the end of the year.

Plus, new travel predictions and guidelines, Nicholas Cage as the Tiger King, and it’s Cinco de Mayo.

Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!

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Sources:

Daily Death Toll to Double: NY Times, WaPo, Reuters

Case Count/Death Toll: Johns Hopkins

Trump to Visit AZ: USA Today, Politico

EU Funding Vaccine Research: ABC News, AP

U.S. Identifies 14 Possible Vaccines: CNN, NBC News

Amazon Executive Quits: AP, WaPo, Blog Post

Meteor Shower Peaks Today: USA Today, CBS News, CNN

Carnival Will Start Cruises Again: USA Today, AP

Travel Industry Reopening Guidelines: Miami Herald, The Hill

CDC Travel Advisory

NYC to Use UV Light to Kill Viruses: NY Daily News, Mashable

New Tiger King TV Drama: The Verge, USA Today, Variety

New Star Wars Film in the Works: CNN, Mashable

Cinco de Mayo: History, USA Today, People

Talk to Me Tuesday - How the pandemic is affecting higher education: Axios, NY Times, FOX News, AP

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Short Wave - What Is Dark Energy? Physicists Aren’t Even Sure

Dark energy makes up almost 70% of our universe and is believed to be the reason the universe is expanding. Yet very, very little is known about it. To figure out what we do know — and what it could tell us about the fate of the universe, we talked to astrophysicist Sarafina Nance. She studies cosmology, a field that looks at the origin and development of the universe.

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What A Day - Leaky Projectors

A leaked government projection shows the US daily death toll from Covid-19 reaching 3,000 by June, which would almost double the current rate. Both the model's creator and the White House say that number shouldn’t be taken at face value. 

The FDA announced that companies selling antibody tests have to submit data that proves their accuracy within the next 10 days or face the possibility of getting removed from the market. 

And in headlines: a former VP at Amazon resigns over the company’s treatment of whistleblowers, Costco limits meats, and former Governor Matt Bevin predicts a Pulitzer prize.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S2 E13: Adrienne Bolger, BlocHealth

Adrienne Bolger grew up in the midwest, and moved up to Boston to attend MIT. She is a lover of running, and was a jujitsu martial arts coach at the institute. Growing up, she loved art and math, and found her way into computer science, trying to find the intersection of both. Bolger interned at Pixar, and tinkered in robotics and medical devices. Eventually, she founded Bloc Health, which aims to solve healthcare credentialing, and the pains associated with moving yourself, your practice, or even working, in another state.


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The Daily Signal - ‘We Can Protect Lives and Livelihoods,’ Says North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest thinks his state is ready to reopen. "I believe right now many of our counties could start to open back up and you could start to do that in a safe and healthy way," Forest, a Republican, says.


The lieutenant governor joins The Daily Signal Podcast to propose how America can begin to reopen at a local level to protect both lives and livelihoods. Plus, he discusses what he experienced traveling through North Carolina the past several weeks, and how he's been helping those struggling. Listen to the podcast below or read the lightly edited transcript.


We also cover these stories:

  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts coronavirus-related deaths will reach 3,000 per day by June 1.
  • House GOP members are investigating China's influence on U.S. university research of COVID-19.
  • The Supreme Court broadcasts teleconference arguments, allowing the public to listen in real time for the first time ever.


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Opening Arguments - OA383: Trump’s Taxes & The CARES Act (Or: Why Your Vote Matters)

Today's episode checks back in with the status of the consolidated cases pending before the Supreme Court regarding Trump's tax returns. As it turns out, this overlaps pretty strongly with the show's "B" segment about the potential for abuse in the CARES Act.

We begin with a colossal "Andrew Was Wrong" -- in which Andrew optimistically predicted we'd see Trump's tax returns in 2019. That... turned out not to be the case. So what are the odds that we'll see Trump's taxes before the November elections? Listen and find out!

After that, it's time for another semi-deep-dive, and this time we're checking back in with the just-passed CARES Act as Andrew talks about a provision we missed the first time around that has the potential to... well, you'll just have to listen and find out!

Then, it's time for the answer to #T3BE 176 involving burning a copy of the IRS Code. Is it illegal? If so, why?

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  1. Click here to read the letter sent by Liz Warren & other Democratic Senators to Deutsche Bank.
  2. Our comprehensive overview of the CARES Act was in Episode 372, and you can read the final CARES Act here.
  3. The Sunshine Act is 5 U.S.C. § 552b.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Contact Tracing Calibration: Balancing Civil Liberties with Fighting the Pandemic

You can read more about Sham's app, Covid Safe, here. You can  find his university bio here.

The app isn't live in the iOS or Android app store yet, but you can download an Android demo here and help the team work out the bugs. You can also use that link to find their GitHub community.

You can read Paul's take on the contact tracing spec released by Apple and Google here.

This is a two part episode, so tune in Friday for the second half.

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The Gist - Do Morals Matter?

In the Gist, we get no further with Biden.

In the interview, Mike discusses moral judgments and how they relate to both domestic and foreign policy with none other than Joseph Nye, one of the most influential political scientists of our time, and one who co-founded the theory of neoliberalism. Nye’s book, Do Moral’s Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump is the topic of their conversation.

In the spiel, the Mississippi mindset.

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