An NPR analysis of a key air pollutant showed levels have not changed dramatically since the pandemic curbed car traffic in the U.S. NPR science reporter Rebecca Hersher and NPR climate correspondent Lauren Sommer explain why — and what really makes our air dirty.
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The Daily Signal - How Minnesota Catholics and Lutherans Teamed Up Together to Open Their Churches
Last week, Catholic bishops in Minnesota and Lutherans in the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod united to go against Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota’s stringent order that only allowed 10 people at church services. Diana Verm, senior counsel with Becket Law, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the stand they took that brought Walz back to the negotiating table, and her law firm’s work on behalf of faith leaders in the state. Listen to the podcast, or read the lightly edited transcript below.
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- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweets "Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China, given facts on the ground."
- President Trump made threats to regulate or even close down social media platforms after Twitter added a fact check label to two of the president’s tweets.
- Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., says President Donald Trump should stop tweeting about Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” implying that Scarborough may have murdered an aide who worked in his office.
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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO242: Jane Roe’s Deathbed Confession
Jamie and I are on to discuss the pandemic, the attacks on abortion rights coming from the right, and Jane Roe's deathbed conversion.
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The Gist - It’s Tough to Like the Post Office
On the Gist, wheeling and dealing with Hong Kong.
In the interview, Mike talks to Dr. Leana Wen about the measures States are taking to reopen safely or remain closed. Wen is an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University, a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, and previously served as Baltimore's Health Commissioner.
In the spiel, postal headaches and heedlessness.
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Curious City - Farmers Like Me Are Seeing Crop Prices Drop — But We’re Resilient
As the state and the city take new steps to reopen life during COVID-19, we're releasing our last episode of Life Interrupted, a weekly series about daily life in Chicago during the pandemic. On this last episode, we meet Kate Huffman, a sixth generation farmer. Despite the economic uncertainty right now, she says farmers will come through.
Consider This from NPR - Global Vaccine Competition; More Than 100,000 Dead
According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 100,000 people have died in the United States from COVID-19, and experts at the World Health Organization warn a second peak of COVID-19 infections could occur during this first wave of the virus. Meanwhile, the global race for a vaccine is generating competition between nations, mainly the U.S. and China.
New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal more than 60,000 health care workers have been infected with COVID-19, and almost 300 have died. This is a dramatic increase since the CDC first released numbers six weeks ago.
Bangladesh has extended its coronavirus lockdown — except for the garment factories. But with big brands canceling orders, workers face pay cuts, hunger and little to no social distancing.
Plus, an obituary writer reflects on COVID-19 deaths.
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New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal more than 60,000 health care workers have been infected with COVID-19, and almost 300 have died. This is a dramatic increase since the CDC first released numbers six weeks ago.
Bangladesh has extended its coronavirus lockdown — except for the garment factories. But with big brands canceling orders, workers face pay cuts, hunger and little to no social distancing.
Plus, an obituary writer reflects on COVID-19 deaths.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The COVID-19 Lockdown in Ecuador
There have been massive government errors and bureaucratic bungling in the COVID-19 response in the U.S. How does Ecuador compare? Gabriela Calderon de Burgos comments.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - The Latest On Cook County’s Fight Against The Coronavirus
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Tuesday blocked a resolution to share the addresses of COVID-19 patients with first responders. Preckwinkle joins Reset to discuss her first legislative veto and COVID-19 recovery efforts in Cook County.
Chapo Trap House - Bonus: The Jakarta Method feat. Vincent Bevins
Will and Matt talk to journalist Vincent Bevins about his new book “The Jakarta Method,” detailing the U.S.’s involvement in the mass killings of leftists in Indonesia in the 60’s, and how it set the stage for American-backed violent anti-communist action throughout the cold war.
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Outro is Shark Move's "Evil War" off the excellent Indonesian 70's psych-rock comp "Those Shocking Shaking Days": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ZCZElkWKM&list=PL5075D7AE3D47F1BA&index=4
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Why Innovation Matters (and How Not to Screw It Up), Feat. Matt Ridley
This episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund.
Twenty-one different people can reasonably claim to have invented the light bulb, but Thomas Edison is the one we know about. Was it just good PR? According to Matt Ridley, it was because Edison was the progenitor of an “innovation factory” that didn’t just create things but brought them to market in a way no one else did.
Innovation is one of the most important forces in the economy, and arguably the most important driver of human prosperity over the last century. Yet, for most of its life, it has been viewed as some strange exogenous force, rather than as a discipline that could be understood.
In this conversation with NLW and Ridley discuss:
- Why it took so long for economists to take the study of innovation seriously
- Why invention is different from innovation
- Why innovation has tended to concentrate in geographically proximate areas
- Why free societies produce more innovation than closed societies (including empires)
- Why China’s innovation production over the last decade may be an exception that proves the rule of innovation thriving in freedom
- Why government winner picking is a terrible way to inspire innovation
- Why innovation policy led Matt to support Brexit
- The rational, optimistic take on the future
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