Month: August 2020

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The NewsWorthy - Police Shooting Protests, First Confirmed Reinfection & Zoom Outage – Tuesday, August 25th, 2020

The news to know for Tuesday, August 25th, 2020!

We have updates about:

  • another controversial police shooting, this time in Wisconsin and why protesters are demanding action
  • one man with two cases of COVID-19: the first documented reinfection
  • the latest track of Tropical Storm Laura
  • the outage that made back-to-school especially difficult for some kids
  • how the Powerpuff Girls are being reimagined for a new generation

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.TheNewsWorthy.com under the section titled 'Episodes' to read more about any of the stories mentioned or see sources below...

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Sources:

Kenosha, WI Shooting: Kenosha News, AP, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Reuters, Axios

Lafayette, LA Police Shooting: Lafayette Daily Advertiser, AP, CNN

COVID-19 Reinfection: Stat, BBC, CNN, AP

RNC Day 2 Preview/Day 1 Recap: AP, WSJ, The Hill

‘Republicans for Biden’ Group Forms: FOX News, Politico, CBS News

Michael Steele Joins Lincoln Project: CNN, Axios, USA Today, Steele Statement

Tropical Storms Update: WSJ, WaPo, AP, Weather Channel, Miami Herald

Fewer U.S. Kids in Foster Care: AP, HHS

Zoom Outage: AP, The Verge, WSJ, Zoom Status, CEO Apology

AA Anti-COVID Surface Coating: Reuters, FW Star Telegram, Fortune, American Airlines

Delta Extra Cabin Cleaners: Reuters, FOX Business, Delta

'Powerpuff Girls' Live-Action Reboot: Variety, Deadline, CNET

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What A Day - Guilfoyle Salesman

Protestors gathered for a second night in Kenosha, Wisconsin following the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, who is reportedly still in intensive care. The three cops that participated in Blake’s shooting have been put on administrative leave, and a state investigation is ongoing. 

Milwaukee Freedom Fund: https://bit.ly/mkefreedomfund

The Republican Party officially renominated Trump and Pence on the first day of the RNC. The night’s offerings included speeches given live from the same podium in Washington, DC, Kimberly Guilfoyle projecting her voice, and a version of America where the pandemic is basically solved. 

And in headlines: it’s been 15 years since Hurricane Katrina, Zoom problems on the first day of school, and Jerry Falwell Jr. resigns over a sex scandal.

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Short Wave - Scorpion Vs Mouse: A Mind-Blowing Desert Showdown

Encore episode. This one doesn't end the way you'd expect. Inspired by the Netflix documentary series "Night On Earth," we learn everything we can about a mouse and scorpion who do battle on the regular — from two scientists who study them: Ashlee Rowe at the University of Oklahoma and Lauren Esposito at the California Academy of Sciences.

If you have Netflix, you can watch the critters clash about 18 minutes into the episode 'Moonlit Plains' here.

Read more about Lauren's work with scorpions here, and Ashlee's work with grasshopper mice here. And you can learn more about grasshopper mouse vocalizations from Northern Arizona University's Bret Pasch here.

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The Daily Signal - Can We Be Forced to Say Something We Don’t Believe? Ask Peter Vlaming.

A French teacher at West Point High School in West Point, Virginia, was fired for not using pronouns preferred by a transgender student.

Should people be forced to contradict their core beliefs just to keep a job? Can you be compelled to speak a message you don't believe in?

Caleb Dalton, a counsel with the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom who represents the teacher, Peter Vlaming, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the issues involved.


We also cover these stories:


  • Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before a House oversight committee on Monday. 
  • Riots broke out in Wisconsin following the shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, by police on Sunday night. 
  • Kellyanne Conway, a long-time adviser to President Donald Trump, is leaving the White House. 



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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Try your own cooking: turning our employees into Stack users

Our guests this week were two of our employees: Yaakov Ellis and Stephanie Cantor. Yaakov is a Principal Web Developer, Community Advocate on the Public Platform team at Stack Overflow, and Former Team Lead for Internal Development at Stack. Stephanie is the Program Manager for Community Strategy at Stack. 

Want to learn more about how the Community-athon worked? Read up on it here. And yes, of course there was a leaderboard and internet points. 

Yaakov was undercover as a brand new user, but some of his answers gave him away. Can you spot the tell? 

Our very own CEO spent a lot of time asking extremely important and nerdy question on our SciFi Stack Exchange. 

We bumped our engagement from employees by more than 100%. Many questions were asked, much knowledge was spread.

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Read Me a Poem - “Let Me Begin Again” by Philip Levine

Amanda Holmes reads Philip Levine’s poem, “Let Me Begin Again.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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Ologies with Alie Ward - Dasyurology (TASMANIAN DEVILS) with Jarrah Dale

Tasmanian devils! Quolls! Carnivores! Wait … what is a quoll? In what will become an instant-favorite new episode, Dasyurologist and Australian critter scientist Jarrah Dale joins from Down-Down Under to discuss his work at Oxford University studying the ecology of misunderstood boofy bush babes. Alie learns about everything from the Tasmanian landscape to Looney Toons to flim flam, karaoke shrieking, wallaby standoffs, the most Australian afternoon ever, Tim Tam slams, moms with the munchies, teat shortages,Tassie tumors that are shrinking populations, and more. Also: Jarrah has perhaps the best laugh ever.

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