In which America's forests and suburbs are ravaged by a strange invader brought by bark beetles, and Ken insists on comparing tree sap to mucus even though no one wants that. Certificate #27612.
The Best One Yet - “Does this tie make my hoodie look fat?” — The Big Tech 4 hit DC. Blue Apron’s shocker profit. AMC’s movie truce.
Amazon. Apple. Facebook. Google. CEOs of the Big Tech 4 hit up Capitol Hill for their biggest Congressional grilling, maybe ever. Blue Apron whipped up its 1st profit since IPO’ing, but then the stock plummeted 15%. And AMC Movie Theaters just snagged the most important deal in streaming history — it shortens the infamous “75-day window.”
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - New York’s Mail-In Ballot Failure
At the height of New York City’s “hot-spot” status during the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Andrew Cuomo made absentee ballots available to a wider array of voters than ever before. But state and federal agencies weren’t remotely ready for the deluge of ballots that would be mailed in.
Guest: Washington Post reporter Jada Yuan.
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Short Wave - Butterflies Have Hearts In Their Wings. You’ll Never Guess Where They Have Eyes
Adriana Briscoe, a professor of biology and ecology at UC Irvine, studies vision in butterflies. As part of her research, she's trained them to detect light of a certain color. She also explains why they bask in the sunlight, and why some of them have 'hearts' in their wings.
Plus ... you'll never guess where their photoreceptors are.
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What A Day - I Don’t Get No Relief
Rent is due next week, but we still don’t have a new relief bill to extend federal unemployment assistance and eviction protections. Negotiations have stalled, with Senate Republicans, the White House, and Democrats far apart in negotiations.
Federal agents will withdraw from Portland after a deal was reached between Oregon’s governor and the Department of Homeland Security. When this will happen is unclear, but it’s clear that state troopers will replace them.
And in headlines: retail workers are left to enforce mask rules, Snapchat’s terrible diversity numbers, and Madonna’s bad IG post.
Ologies with Alie Ward - Medusology (JELLYFISH) with Rebecca Helm
What even *is* a jellyfish?! How do they eat? What are they made of? Can we eat them? Your new favorite Medusologist, Dr. Rebecca Helm, is a ray of human sunshine in the depths of the deep sea. Truly one of the finest biology conversations you may ever hear. Get ready for PacMan ghosts, pet jellyfish, the biggest and smallest jellies, new band names, live medusas, secret formulas to incite jellyfish puberty, and the lengths that she will go to to see a jelly bloom. And next week, your ears will fill with Toxinology as we explore jellyfish VENOM. Duck into the Polyp Parlor; this is a duo not to be missed.
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The NewsWorthy - COVID ‘Red Zones’, Mars Rover Launch & NBA Returns – Thursday, July 30th, 2020
The news to know for Thursday, July 30th, 2020!
What to know today about:
- red and green zones in the U.S.
- the deal that has federal agents packing up to leave Portland
- which presidents will, and won't, be at the funeral of civil rights icon John Lewis
- what big tech CEOs said under oath this week
- the return of pro-basketball in "the bubble"
- who is topping the charts and breaking records
All that and more in just 10 minutes!
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‘Red Zone’ Grows to 21 States: NY Times, CBS News, ABC News
New U.S. Death Records: The Hill, Newsweek, Reuters, Johns Hopkins
Federal Agents Leaving Portland: WSJ, NY Times, AP, Reuters, Gov. Brown, DHS Sec. Wolf
Agents go to More Cities: USA Today, Axios, Justice Dept.
Big Tech Hearing: AP, WSJ, Axios, USA Today, Full Hearing
John Lewis Funeral Today: AJC, USA Today, FOX News, NBC News
Mars Rover Launch: Space.com, USA Today, CBS News, Launchpad Live View, NASA Live Coverage
Eid al-Adha Begins: Al Jazeera, CNN, Al Jazeera 2
NBA Returns: AP, CBS Sports, NY Times
Lollapalooza on YouTube: The Verge, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Lollapalooza
Drake Breaks Billboard Record: CNN, Billboard, BBC
Thing to Know Thursday: Furloughs and Layoffs: WSJ, Dictionary
The Daily Signal - Transgender Movement Seduces Teenage Girls
A disturbing new trend has emerged among teenage girls. Abigail Shrier, author of “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” says some groups of young female friends are making the decision together that they're transgender.
The teenage girls begin taking hormones and some receive physically altering surgeries, often before they're legally allowed to drive or vote. Shrier joins “Problematic Women” to discuss her new book and why the transgender movement is “seducing our daughters.”
We also cover these stories:
- The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that they are sending additional federal officers to Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee.
- President Trump said on Wednesday that he is going to 'bring fairness to big tech” by way of executive orders.
- The U.S. is pulling almost 12,000 troops out of Germany.
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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO248: Can Trump Steal the Election? with Andrew Torrez
Hey folks, this is one of those unintentional 2-parters! I originally intended to have Andrew on to discuss the scary (and hopefully unlikely?) ways that Trump might try to stay in power even if he lost, but before we even got to that discussion, we go through the ways that Trump and the Republicans are cheating to try to win. Is vote by mail safe? What's the deal with poll-watchers? Those questions and more became part 1, and next episode we talk about the scary theories of how Trump could potentially try to remain president.
The Stack Overflow Podcast - 25 Years of Java – the present to the future
For this episode we spoke again with Georges Saab, Vice President of Software Development at the Java Platform Group and Manish Gupta, Vice President of Global Marketing for Java and GraalVM.
The very first feature that made a massive impact wasn’t a change in the Java language at all. It was the vastly improved library support that happened in the early releases. Between 1.0 and 1.3, these libraries included the Swing window toolkit, the Collections framework, a RPC-like API for remote calls, JDBC for interacting with databases, and more. The standard libraries grew richer, more sophisticated, and allowed Java to become a real enterprise language.
In 2004, Java added generics, which allowed types, methods, and interfaces to be specified with the associated data types to be specified when that item was instantiated without sacrificing type safety. “At the time, generics were a challenge and people had strong opinions about them,” said Saab. Today, generics are one of the enduring features of the language.
Java may have been designed as a completely object oriented language, but when Java SE 8 was released in 2014, it added Lamda expressions (aka closures), which added some functional programming elements. Not every problem is best served by OOP, and by adding Lambdas, Java became more flexible.
Despite its prominence across numerous industries, Java isn’t sitting still. Saab mentioned four big projects coming to Java that had him excited, all designated by codenames: Loom, Valhalla, Leyden, and ZGC. You can read all about them on our blog.
If you want to learn more, Oracle has put together a wealth of resources to celebrate Java's 25th anniversary.