Month: July 2020

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The NewsWorthy - Mask Mandate Debate, Most Valuable Automaker & 90s Cartoon Comeback (+ Voting in a Pandemic)- Thursday, July 2nd, 2020

The news to know for Thursday, July 2nd, 2020!

What to know today about:

  • announcements to slow down or reverse reopening plans
  • guidance for schools from the American Academy of Pediatrics
  • a reported change to the NFL preseason
  • NASA giving big money to small businesses
  • the cartoon making a comeback for a new generation

...and more in less than 10 minutes!

Then, hang out after the news for the Thing to Know Thursday bonus interview. Our guest talks about the impact of a pandemic on voting.

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Sources:

More States Reverse Reopenings: AP, USA Today, CBS News, NY Times

AAP Gives School Guidance: AAP, WSJ, NYT

Case Count/Death Toll: Johns Hopkins, CNN

Trump Changes Tone on Masks: AP, CNN, FOX News, USA Today

Mask Mandate Could Save Economy: USA Today, CNBC, ABC News, Business Insider

Congress Extends Paycheck Protection Program: Axios, NY Times, CNN, CNBC

Seattle Protest Zone Cleared: Seattle Times, AP, Reuters, WSJ, FOX News, Mayor Durkan

Richmond, VA Confederate Statues Removed: WaPo, CNN, FOX News, Axios

DHS Guarding Monuments: AP, Al Jazeera, ABC News

World's Most Valuable Automaker: TechCrunch, CNBC, Forbes, CNN

NASA Pays Millions to Small Biz: TechCrunch, NASA

Odwalla Going Out of Business: FOX Business, WSJ, Business Insider, CNN

NFL Shortens Preseason: USA Today, ESPN, AP

Beavis & Butthead Comeback: AP, CNN, MTV, Variety

TTKT: Voting in a Pandemic: Vote.org, Rockthevote.org, CBS News, NY Times, The Atlantic

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The Daily Signal - Gingrich Calls on Conservatives to Focus on ‘Black Success,’ Not ‘White Guilt’

How will historians look back at 2020? "I think it's a decisive moment and I don't think we know yet how it's going to work out," says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.


"Once you start tearing down statues, somebody hates the next statue, the statue after that," adds Gingrich, author of "Trump and the American Future: Solving the Great Problems of Our Time." "And then you end up with a statue that was built by freed slaves as a tribute to the man who freed them, Abraham Lincoln, is now inadequate, according to people who don't have a clue what the Civil War was like, what Lincoln did, or how gigantic the change was. So you basically have barbarians."


We also cover these stories: 

  • Seattle police are disbanding the CHOP zone.
  • President Trump tweets about the New York Times article that Russia is paying bounties for dead Americans in Afghanistan.
  • British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks out against China's new crackdown on Hong Kong.

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The Gist - Redefining Racism

On the Gist, the McCloskeys in Missouri.

In the first part of this two-part interview, John McWhorter is here to dig into definitions with Mike. They discuss how the meanings of racism and white supremacy have changed over the years, and what that says about the ways culture is shifting. McWhorter is the host of Lexicon Valley, and his latest piece is “The Dictionary Definition of Racism Has to Change,” in the Atlantic.

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Consider This from NPR - The Mask Debate Is Over; Fauci On Mandates, Vaccine Skepticism

As Arizona hits new records of coronavirus cases and deaths, the state announced they will pause their reopening plans.

More and more Republicans are speaking up in support of face masks. Even Vice President Mike Pence has been wearing one in public lately.

Dr. Anthony Fauci tells NPR the coronavirus surges we're seeing now are partly the result of too few people wearing masks. Fauci said it's especially hard to explain the risk to young people, because the virus has such a broad range of severity.

Plus, a group of scientists who wanted to make it easier to track the virus in your community created an online risk assessment map. NPR's Allison Aubrey and Carmel Wroth reported on the new tool.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Satoshi’s Unappreciated Marketing Genius, Feat. Dan Held

There is a constant free market competition to define the Bitcoin narrative, and Kraken’s Dan Held argues this is part of what makes the protocol so strong.

This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com.

Satoshi Nakamoto is often recognized for his technical genius in solving the double-spending problem. He is also widely revered for his willingness to walk away from the protocol to make it stronger, something no other entrepreneur who has created anything on the scale of Bitcoin has ever done. 

What people discuss less often is Satoshi’s marketing instincts. In this illuminating conversation, serial bitcoin entrepreneur Dan Held argues: 

  • Satoshi had strong instincts about how price would drive bitcoin adoption
  • The bitcoin white paper document was a marketing pitch aimed specifically at the cypherpunks 
  • The competition between bitcoin narratives is something that gives the protocol strength
  • The competition to shape bitcoin's narrative is truly free and open to all


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Song Exploder - Apparat – Goodbye (Theme from “Dark”)

The Netflix original series Dark debuted in December 2017. It’s a really mysterious, mind-bending German science fiction show with a unique tone. A big part of that tone is announced every episode with the music in the show’s opening title sequence. It’s the song “Goodbye,” by German electronic artist Apparat, the solo project of Sascha Ring. This song actually came out years ago, on the 2011 Apparat album The Devil’s Walk. Since then, before it was used as the theme song for Dark, it’s been featured in a bunch of films and commercials, and notably, in the Season 4 finale of Breaking Bad. The final season of Dark just came out last week, so I wanted to find out how the show’s theme music was made. “Goodbye” features vocals from Anja Plaschg, an Austrian artist who makes music under the name Soap&Skin. In this episode, Sascha and Anja break down how the song was created.

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