Traditional farming depletes the soil and releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But decades ago, a scientist named Rattan Lal helped start a movement based on the idea that carbon could be put back into the soil — a practice known today as "regenerative agriculture."
NPR food and agriculture correspondent Dan Charles explains how it works and why the idea is having a moment.
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Python Bytes - #195 Runtime type checking for Python type hints
Topics covered in this episode:
- watchdog
- Status code 418
- pydantic’s new Validation decorator
- Building Python Extension Modules in Assembly
- easy property
- Non Blocking Assertion Failures with pytest-check
- Extras
- Joke
New Books in Native American Studies - Ryan Hall, “Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877” (UNC Press, 2020)
Ryan Hall is the author of Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2020. Beneath the Backbone of the World tells the story of the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people who lived and controlled a large region of what is today the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains. Dr. Hall explores how the Blackfoot people were able to hold onto their positions of power within the borderlands as both European and American colonizers encroached on their lands for over a century.
Ryan Hall is an Assistant Professor of History and Native American Studies at Colgate University.
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What A Day - First Lady’s Night
This year’s socially-distanced DNC began last night, with speeches from former First Lady Michelle Obama, Senator Bernie Sanders, and more. Joe Biden went into the convention with a 7-9 point national lead against Trump, but the next few months are still full of unknowns. Watch the convention along with us every night this week at crooked.com/convention
UNC Chapel Hill has decided to pivot to online-only instruction after 130 students test positive for Covid-19. Los Angeles' public schools start remote classes today, and are launching a large-scale testing system for students and staff.
And in headlines: Lebanon sees a Covid-19 surge after the explosion in Beirut, California experiences one of its worst heat waves on record, and the Trump administration finalizes plans to drill in the Arctic.
The NewsWorthy - College Reversal, 100 Years of Women Voting & New Alcohol Guidelines- Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
The news to know for Tuesday, August 18th, 2020!
We have updates about:
- the importance of this day in history 100 years ago: what it did and didn't do to change America
- what investigators uncovered 18 years after a high-profile murder
- the first big reversal at a big university as COVID-19 sweeps through campus
- new alcohol guidelines from the federal government
- how TikTok is trying to change minds about its popular platform
- SpaceX being poised to break another new record today
Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!
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UNC Chapel Hill Reverts to Online Learning: WSJ, NBC News, CNN
COVID-19 Outbreaks at Other Colleges: NBC News, AP, WaPo
Jam Master Jay Murder Suspects Charged: CNN, NY Times, AP
DNC Opens, Day 2 Today: AP, NY Times, WSJ, DNC Livestream
Trump Blasts Biden in Upper Midwest: The Hill, USA Today, AP
100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment: AP, NBC News, NY Times, Women's Vote 100, NPS, Pew Research
New Men Alcohol Guidelines: WSJ, FOX News, Dietary Guidelines
NFL’s First Black Team President: NBC News, ESPN, WaPo
TikTok Addresses Rumors: USA Today, TechCrunch, TikTok Website, TikTok Twitter
SpaceX Rocket Launch could Break Record: TechCrunch, Space.com, Florida Today
Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College - Once Upon a Time… in the Valley S1 | Ep 8: Marion Davies’ Love Button
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The Daily Signal - How ‘Life Is Winning’ in 21st Century
How has the pro-life movement affected culture and politics? Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List, examines that impact in her new book, "Life Is Winning: Inside the Fight for Unborn Children and Their Mothers." She joins the podcast to discuss how the pro-life cause went from “an orphaned political problem” to a winning issue "embraced at the highest levels of the Republican Party,” how women built the pro-life movement, and more.
We also cover these stories:
- The Trump administration announces plans to begin drilling for oil and gas in 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska.
- Protests against police in Seattle again become violent, and police arrest 18 on Sunday when another riot breaks out.
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks in support of the city's police Sunday after violence erupts again over the weekend.
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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Maxing out our stats with Personal Development Nerds
Juvoni describes himself as someone who helps people explore ideas and strategies for improvement. He focuses on combining multiple skills, better thinking and tools for thought, inner engineering healthy habits, and discovering how systems in the world affect us.
You can follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juvoni
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He can be contacted at juvoni@hey.com
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Read Me a Poem - “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Amanda Holmes reads Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem, “Spring and Fall.” 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 - Oceanology (THE OCEAN) with Ayana Johnson: Encore Presentation
With some fresh updates, ocean and policy expert Dr. Ayana Johnson guests in an encore presentation of a fan favorite episode. Hear updates from her, learn about her new podcast “How to Save a Planet,” and what she’s been up to since this episode originally aired in 2018. Are plastic straws really that bad? What's the oldest message in a bottle? Any scuba vs. snorkel strategies? Does sunscreen kill coral? Can we reverse ocean warming in our lifetime? Alie struggles with finding a balance between the wonders and the bummers, and in the first 20 or so minutes, we’ll learn weird ocean trivia, why we love the sea, and facts about the ocean's depths and beauty. Then, we get to the sad stuff: ocean health, climate change, acidification, pollution, policy and what we can all do.
If you've been feeling helpless, this episode gives you all the tools you need to understand and help our friend, the World Ocean.
Also: some great information about whale pee.
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