Month: August 2020

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The Best One Yet - “Can someone wake up Casper?” — Urban Outfitters’ fashion smoothie. Casper’s fresh CFO. Salesforce is in the Dow.

We’re looking at Casper’s new CFO, who has 1 mission: Find profits under the mattress (even if that means changing Casper’s core identity). Urban Outfitters’ stock jumped 19% because it isn’t just faux-ironic t-shirts — it’s actually a smoothie of innovation. And Salesforce is the newest addition to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, so we jumped in Snacks Style to its fresh earnings report. $URBN $CSPR $CRM Want a shoutout on the pod? We got the form for Snackers to fill out right here: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - U.S. Foreign Policy Is Officially Incoherent

Last week, the Trump administration used shaky reasoning to pursue additional sanctions against Iran. The proposal was rejected by nearly the entire U.N. Security Council, including close allies like the U.K and France. It was just the latest example of how “America First,” and the rejection of multilateralism under Trump, has turned the U.S. into a loner state on the world stage.

Guest: Fred Kaplan, Slate’s War Stories columnist. Fred is the author of The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War. 

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The NewsWorthy - Laura Makes Landfall, NBA Players Protest & Apple’s Augmented Reality – Thursday, August 27th, 2020

The news to know for Thursday, August 27th, 2020!

We're talking about:

  • one of the most powerful storms to ever hit Louisiana: updates about Hurricane Laura, which made landfall early this morning
  • new tensions and another shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin
  • the fourth and final night of the RNC
  • a major milestone in global health
  • why the NBA season is now in question
  • Apple's plans for augmented reality at home

All that and more in just 10 minutes!

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Sources:

Hurricane Laura Update: AP, WSJ, National Hurricane Center

Teen Arrested for Shooting Kenosha Protesters: Milwaukee Sentinel, WaPo, AP, Axios

Trump Sent Law Enforcement to Kenosha: ABC News, Politico, FOX News, Axios

Jacob Blake Shooting Updates: CBS News, Milwaukee Sentinel, NY Times, Kenosha News

CDC Changes Testing Guidelines: Reuters, WaPo, NY Times, CDC

RNC Night 3 Recap/Night 4 Preview: WSJ, Politico, WaPo, FOX News

Kamala Harris Counter Speech: AP, The Hill, 

Africa Declared Polio-Free: BBC, NY Times, NPR, WHO

Bucks Boycott Playoff Game: ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC News, NBA, Bucks Statement

MLB, WNBA Games Also Canceled: AP, WaPo, Deadline, TSN

Fortnite New Season Rollout: The Verge, CNET, Engadget, New Season Trailer

Apple Working on AR Content: Engadget, Bloomberg, Forbes

TTKT: 2020 Census Response Rates: Census.Gov

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Python Bytes - #196 Version your SQL schemas with git + automatically migrate them

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NBN Book of the Day - Adam Rutherford, “How to Argue With a Racist” (The Experiment, 2020)

Racist pseudoscience has become so commonplace that it can be hard to spot. But its toxic effects on society are plain to see—feeding nationalism, fueling hatred, endangering lives, and corroding our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even well-intentioned people repeat stereotypes based on “science,” because cutting-edge genetics is hard to grasp, and all too easy to distort.

Paradoxically, these misconceptions are multiplying even as scientists make unprecedented discoveries in human genetics—findings that, when accurately understood, are powerful evidence against racism. We’ve never had clearer answers about who we are and where we come from, but this knowledge is sorely needed in our casual conversations about race.

How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don’t) Say About Human Difference (The Experiment) emphatically dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference. We now know that the racial categories still dividing us do not align with observable genetic differences. In fact, our differences are so minute that, most of all, they serve as evidence of our shared humanity.

Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, science writer, and broadcaster. He has written and presented many award-winning series and programs for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 program Inside Science, The Cell for BBC Four, and Playing God (on the rise of synthetic biology) for the leading science series Horizon. He is also the author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Creation, on the origin of life and synthetic biology, which was short-listed for the Wellcome Book Prize.

Matthew Jordan is a professor at McMaster University, where he teaches courses on AI and the history of science. You can follow him on Twitter @mattyj612 or his website matthewleejordan.com.

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What A Day - Game Off

Police arrested 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse yesterday for killing two protestors and injuring a third at demonstrations in Kenosha, Washington against police brutality. Professional athletes joined in calling for justice for Jacob Blake, with teams from the NBA, WNBA, MLB, and more going on strike.

Biden and Trump are averaging a near tie at the moment in North Carolina, which is sort of the site of the RNC this week. North Carolina is also a state where Republicans have repeatedly practiced voter suppression, through voter ID laws and gerrymandering. We discuss the state’s role in the 2020 election. 

And in headlines: Hurricane Laura makes landfall, the CDC gets USPS’d, and the MTA needs billions to keep running on time.

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Short Wave - The Science Of Wildfire Smoke

Smoke from wildfires can travel huge distances. We've already seen smoke from the fires in California reach all the way to Minnesota. And with all that smoke comes possible risks to human health. So what actually is smoke? Jessica Gilman, an atmospheric chemist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, explains what it's made of, how it behaves in the atmosphere, and smoke's role in climate change.

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The Goods from the Woods - “The Corona Diaries #74” with Daniel Magden

Three L.A. comedians are quarantined in a podcast studio during a global pandemic. There is literally nothing to be done EXCEPT make content. These are "The Corona Diaries" and this is Episode #74.  Sitting in with us again today is our hilarious next door neighbor, Daniel Magden! Follow him on Twitter @MagdenDaniel and check out his podcast "Reefer Sadness".  Music at the end is "Survival in a Plastic World" by J.R. Collins.

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The Daily Signal - Portland Has Been Rioting Since May. Is There an End in Sight?

Portland, Oregon, is three months into rioting after the May 25 death of George Floyd with no end in sight.

What do you think is the driving force behind the continued violence? The far-left anarchist group Antifa has been behind a lot of the violence in Portland. How is the situation developing?


Lora Reis, a senior research fellow for homeland security at The Heritage Foundation, joins the podcast to discuss it.



We also cover these stories:

  • Two people are dead and a third was badly wounded after a third night of violence Tuesday and into Wednesday morning in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man.
  • Julia Jackson—the mother of Blake, the 29-year-old man shot multiple times by police Sunday in Kenosha—had harsh words for rioters in an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon, and she also apologized to President Donald Trump for missing his call. 
  • Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers turned down federal assistance to curb the violence in Kenosha. 



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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO252: Lindsey Osterman on Parasocial Relationships

It's been a while, but today we've got a science episode! Making her return to the show is Lindsey Osterman, a psychologist who has been studying parasocial relationships. It's already incredibly likely that you take part in some number of parasocial relationships, but now in the time of COVID they're more prevalent and important than ever.

Here are the studies Lindsey references!

Gabriel et al (2018) - From apprentice to presidentDownload

Osterman & Hecmanczuk (2019) - Parasocial ForgivenessDownload