Month: August 2020

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The NewsWorthy - Postal Service Showdown, California ‘Firenado’ & NBA Playoffs Begin- Monday, August 17th, 2020

The news to know for Monday, August 17th, 2020!

What to know about:

  • controversy with the U.S. Postal Service: how its new leader is making changes and why he's warning every vote might not count this November
  • a heatwave, wildfires, and a tornado all in one state
  • an unconventional convention that starts today
  • the NBA finals 
  • another app getting into video chatting
  • a first for the Disney Channel

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

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Dems Address USPS Crisis: NBC News, CBS News, WSJ, Politico, Delivering for America Act

USPS Changes: CNBC, USA Today, WaPo, CNN, USPS

New Saliva COVID Test Approved: WSJ, USA Today, Axios, FDA

Drop in COVID-19 Testing: NY Times, USA Today, Business Insider, CDC

COVID-19 Survivors 3-Month Guidelines: NBC News, The Hill, CDC

President Trump’s Brother Dies: NBC News, ABC News, CNN, AP

DNC Begins: USA Today, CNN, WaPo, Reuters, DNC Livestream

More CA Rolling Blackouts: LA Times, WSJ, SF Gate, AP

California Wildfire Triggers Apparent Tornado: WaPo, CNN, Weather Channel, CBS News, LA Times

Trump Orders TikTok Owner to Sell US Assets: AP, Politico, The Verge, Executive Order

NBA Playoffs Begin: ESPN, CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, AP

Disney’s First Bisexual Character: Variety, PEOPLE

Hallmark Showing Gay Wedding: USA Today, Fox News, NBC News, Hallmark

Telegram Launches One-on-One Video Calls: Engadget, The Verge

Monday Monday: Relief Payments Holdup: Today, Detroit Free Press, IRS Relief FAQs, Check Payment Status

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What A Day - DeJoy Division

The DNC was set to begin today in Wisconsin, but instead, it’s beginning in Zooms across America. We talked to Wisconsin Democrats Senator Tammy Baldwin and party chair Ben Wikler about the state’s recent electoral history and how Biden can win there this year. 

The USPS warned that it may not be able to accommodate last minute mail-in ballots. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to call the House back early to counter recent changes at the Postal Service, and is calling for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to testify next Monday.

And in headlines: more people are facing food insecurity, pro-Democracy protests in Thailand, and Apple angers gamers.

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Short Wave - The Science Is Simple, So Why Is Opening Schools So Complicated?

School districts, parents and teachers are all facing big decisions about how to return to the classroom this fall. NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey and education correspondent Cory Turner join Geoff Brumfiel to discuss what the science says about kids and COVID-19, what schools are doing to try to keep students and teachers safe and why there are so many differing approaches in school districts around the U.S.

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - The Democrats: What a Biden-Harris Response Looks Like

On the first day of the virtual Democratic National Convention, Andy talks to Kavita Patel, a policy advisor for Senator Kamala Harris, about what a Biden-Harris pandemic response would be and how it would change from the Trump administration. Then Andy chats with Neera Tanden, the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress, about what to expect this week from the convention.


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The Daily Signal - How the United Nations Promotes an Anti-Family Agenda

Kimberly Ells arrived at the United Nations excited to engage in work to strengthen families around the world. What she found was an agenda to dismantle the traditional family, promote sexuality to children, and reduce parenthood to a burdensome civil construct. 


Kimberly Ells, a policy adviser for Family Watch International and author of the new book, “The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can't Win,” joins the podcast to explain the anti-family agenda being promoted by the United Nations. 


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Lex Fridman Podcast - #116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System

Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets.

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05:32 – Falling in love with the stars
09:55 – Are we alone in the universe?
15:27 – Seager equation for number of habitable planets
27:48 – Exoplanets
34:44 – Earth-like exoplanets
40:43 – Intelligent life
52:34 – Number of planets per star
55:09 – Space exploration
57:36 – Traveling to Proxima Centauri
1:00:52 – Starshade
1:07:34 – Using the sun as a gravitational lens
1:09:44 – Starshot
1:12:45 – Rogue planets
1:15:44 – The Smallest Lights in the Universe
1:30:15 – Book recommendations
1:37:48 – Advice for a young person
1:39:29 – Meaning of life

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - LEIGH: Meet a Freelance Cypherpunk Developer in Africa

In this audio interview, CoinDesk’s Leigh Cuen and Fodé Diop, founder of the Dakar Bitcoin Developers meetup in Senegal, talk about bitcoin in Africa. 

This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.

From how mobile devices offer the primary point of access and social media groups offer local liquidity, Cuen and Diop explore what cryptocurrency adoption actually looks like in emerging markets like Senegal. 

Like many bitcoiners, Diop got his start in the crypto industry working for token projects in 2017. From there, he got involved with the Oakland Blockchain Developers Meetup, and eventually took that experience back to Senegal when he moved back to his hometown to be with family during the COVID-19 crisis.

“I started with Ethereum because it was easier to have access to...Philosophically, I no longer align with the Ethereum ethos,” Diop said. “The first thing I did when I started here [Dakar] with the meetups was I gave away about $1,000 in bitcoin.”

As a dual citizen of the U.S. and Senegal, with an American bank account, Diop can use mainstream bitcoin wallets like Cash App to use bitcoin as a currency anywhere in the world. This came in handy when Diop unexpectedly needed to stay in Senegal throughout 2020. For people with only Senegalese accounts, he recommends the Lightning-friendly Wallet of Satoshi.

Now, with the support of organizations like Chaincode Labs, he freelances from Senegal teaches aspiring bitcoiners like Bineta Ngom, who have a high level of technical understanding yet aren’t fluent in English. As such, she struggled to find the right materials to learn about bitcoin.  

“I’m super happy to find out there was a bitcoin community here in Senegal. I never heard of it spoken of before here. I didn’t have anyone to talk to, exchange (ideas) on the subject. This was a chance for me to meet enthusiasts,” Ngom said. 

Ngom, who studied computer science and now works at a local university, said she hopes to use bitcoin to buy something someday. In the meantime, Diop is focused on translating information from English into local languages like French and Wolof. Plus, he said most people in Senegal only access the internet through their Android mobile devices. So they need information about how to use mobile apps and understand whether something is a scam. 

“We also have peer-to-peer trading through WhatsApp and Telegram,” Diop said. 

Until Diop started the local bitcoin meetup, Ngom said the only other sources she knew for cryptocurrency projects were a few “scams” her friends invested in during the 2017 token boom.

“Places that are English-speaking are moving way faster than their French counterparts,” Diop said, comparing English-speaking Ghana and Nigeria to French-speaking countries in West Africa. “I don’t understand how the bitcoin community doesn’t target more (African) universities and do more hackathons.”

He added the small yet highly curious community in Senegal now uses bitcoin for speculative trading and remittances. 

“I have people who are highly, highly technical when it comes to cryptography, per say, but they don’t understand how bitcoin works,” Diop said.  “I believe this technology is groundbreaking. It could help a lot of people.”

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The United Countries of America

Each of the 50 states in the United States has a unique history. 13 of them were originally British Colonies. Some of them were former Spanish or French territory. Most of them were officially US territories before they became states. A few, however, were actually independent countries before they joined the Union…..or at least they sort of were independent countries. Learn more about the states that were once countries on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Unexpected Elements - Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine

Russia’s President Putin announced the registration of a vaccine for coronavirus. This was reported with widespread alarm amid concerns over safety, but as BBC Russian Service’s Sergei Goryashko, tells us the announcement was a political move to capture the headlines.

Investigations by Alexandra Reynolds and Hooman Poor at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Centre have revealed why some Covid 19 patients have low oxygen levels, but don’t have breathing difficulties. The answer came when looking for signs of stroke in the brain.

Nisreen Alwan, a specialist in public health at Southampton University is concerned about the quality of life of people who have had a Covid -19 infection. Being classed as recovered is not enough she says and we need to look more at recurring health problems associated with the disease.

And Cardiff University’s Haley Gomez has news of a tantalising discovery. The detection of a neutron star hidden in a dust cloud for more than 30 years.

Squelching into the science of slime, Chhavi Sachdev seeks to find out why it took so long for listener Helen Tyson to remove slime from her fingers, after she picked up a tiny slug while gardening.

This unfortunate and hugely repulsive experience set Helen to wonder what it is about the structure of slug slime that makes it gloopy, so she sent Chhavi to meet with slug slime expert Professor Andrew Smith who reveals how the complex molecular structure of this pervasive fluid makes it so difficult to scrub off.

Slime is used by all sorts of creatures including the Giant African Land snail, which invaded India by hitching a ride on imported timber. But invasive species biologist Dr TV Sajeev reveals that these snails are themselves giving a lift to another meningitis-causing parasite that can infect people. Chhavi looks for these massive molluscs in her own garden in Mumbai.

Marine biologist Helen Scales describes how animals can use slime for catching food, mating, defence, or even transportation, and Chhavi speaks with Dr Adam Celiz who has been inspired by this slimy adaptability to create a tool that can provide new cells to replace damaged heart cells after a cardiac arrest.

Slugs, snails and even fish keep a variety of useful chemicals in their slime. Some make them taste bitter, and others numb the mouth of predators, but they may also prevent the animals from contracting infections. Dr Sarah Pitt has investigated these compounds in the slimy mucus of a garden snail and discovered an antibiotic that is brand new to science. Slime is pretty disgusting, but it’s also completely fascinating.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Is Asteroid Mining Really Our Best Argument for Bitcoin Over Gold?

After a Winklevoss encounter highlights Elon Musk’s space mining dreams, maybe we should remind ourselves of the right-here-at-home benefits bitcoin brings.


This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.


Earlier this week, the Winklevoss brothers introduced Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy to bitcoin. 

One of the notable parts of the recap video was a discussion of how Elon Musk was set to destroy the value of gold on Earth by mining gold from asteroids. 

While much meme fun was had, on this week’s Long Reads Sunday NLW has chosen a selection that looks at how fiat beat out gold and how gold beat out silver to provide some – ahem – more immediately relevant lessons on how to explain the benefits of bitcoin. 


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Projection and Throwness

Part III — Bitcoin’s 10x Advantage Over Gold Might Not Lie Where You Think

By David Lawant

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