Month: August 2020

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CBS News Roundup - CBS World News Roundup 08/07

300,000 coronavirus deaths predicted in the US by December. A fresh look at the virus's drain on the workforce. Losing patience without power in the Northeast. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the World News Roundup for August 7, 2020.

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NBN Book of the Day - Kim Adrian, “Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle” (Fiction Advocate, 2020)

In 2009, a novel was released in Norway with a fairly simple premise; the author would simply write about himself, his life and his attempts to write. The autobiographical novel would be the first in a 6-volume series that would eventually total over 3,500 pages written in just 3 short years. The frenzied pace at which it was produced would only be matched by the frenzied pace at which it was consumed, with each volume hitting the bestseller list, and it would all eventually be translated into over 30 languages. The author was Karl Ove Knausgaard, and the novel was called ​My Struggle​.

With the dust finally settling in the wake of the enormous controversy the book stirred up, many people are starting to move in to analyze the work with a more critical lens, trying to examine what the work actually achieves, what it’s place might be in the larger canon of literature, and elements of it we should be skeptical of. One of those critical examiners is Kim Adrian in her book ​Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle (Fiction Advocate, 2020)​, a collection of short letters written to the man himself where she wrestles with his work. While Adrian is herself a fan of Knausgaard, she is not uncritical of him, and even finds herself frustrated at various moments with his views on writing, literature, politics, gender and identity, but this dynamic gives the book an interesting back-and-forth as it helps her wrestle with these topics.

Kim Adrian is a visiting lecturer in English at Brown University, and is the author of the memoir The 27th Letter of the Alphabet and ​Sock​. She has had both fiction and nonfiction appear in a number of outlets, including ​Tin House,​ ​The Gettysburg Review​, and ​The Seneca Review​.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - That history should not repeat: Hiroshima’s storytellers

Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are now in their eighties. A new generation is learning to tell their tales, in hopes of preventing more atomic tragedies. Belarus’s president of 26 years will probably win in Sunday’s election, but an invigorated—and unexpected—opposition has him on the back foot. And the horror movie that will make you nervous to use Zoom. 

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | How One Block Got Through It

Over the past five months, city blocks have been slipping away. Bars are closed; restaurants are half-empty; retail is shuttered. As the country returns to varying states of lockdown, how long can these blocks hold on?

 

This week: how one commercial strip on Chicago’s South Side is weathering the pandemic. 

 

Guests:

Nedra Sims Fears, executive director of the Greater Chatham Initiative

Brian d'Antignac, The Woodshop

Jaidah Wilson-Turnbow, Frances Cocktail Lounge

Zoie Reams, Brown Sugar Bakery

 

 

Host

Henry Grabar

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Short Wave - Micro Wave: Spreading Warm Bread With Socks

It's another Micro Wave! Today, what happens in your brain when you notice a semantic or grammatical mistake ... according to neuroscience. Sarah Phillips, a neurolinguist, tells us all about the N400 and the P600 responses.

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What A Day - N-R-Ain’t

New York’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Association. AG Letitia James alleges that the NRA has engaged in years of corruption.

In the absence of a federal testing strategy, seven governors have formed a purchasing agreement in attempts to get faster COVID antigen tests. In California, problems with the state’s data system may be creating inaccurate coronavirus data. 

And in headlines: Minneapolis won’t vote to dismantle the police department, an exiled Saudi intelligence officer says MBS tried to kill him, and Nintendo reports a huge earnings boost.

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The NewsWorthy - Trump Targets TikTok, NRA Corruption Lawsuit & ‘A League of Their Own’ Reboot- Friday, August 7th, 2020

The news to know for Friday, August 7th, 2020! 

We’re covering:

  • President Trump's formal action that could effectively ban WeChat and TikTok
  • what could save them both
  • why the New York attorney general is gunning for the NRA
  • how the influential gun-rights organization is fighting back
  • how many NFL players are opting out this season
  • why hundreds of thousands of people are getting together in South Dakota
  • the iconic movie from the '90s getting a reboot

Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!

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Sources:

Trump Bans ByteDance Business: NBC News, The Verge, WaPo, USA Today

U.S. Lifts Global Travel Advisory: CNN, AP, Reuters, USA Today

How the U.S. COVID-19 Outbreak Compares: NPR, Newsweek, CNN, Johns Hopkins

WHO Chief on “Vaccine Nationalism”: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Reuters

NY AG Aims to Dissolve NRA: NY Times, NBC News, FOX News, Reuters, AP

NOAA Hurricane Season Outlook: NY Times, CNN, Axios, WaPo

66 Players Opt Out of NFL Season: AP, ESPN, CBS Sports

Sturgis Rally Begins: CNN, NY Times, WaPo, Sturgis Motorcycle Rally

Twitter Labels Government Accounts: Engadget, BBC USA Today, Twitter

'E! News' Canceled: CNN, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Instagram

'A League of Their Own' Reboot: Variety, Bustle

‘Mulan’ Skips Theaters: Vox, WSJ

Feel Good Friday - 96-Year Old Graduates: Reuters, NY Times, People

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The Goods from the Woods - “The Corona Diaries #66” with Katrina Davis

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 #66.  Our guest today is comedian Katrina Davis! Follow Katrina on all forms of social media @KatrinaSivad.  Music at the end is "Mas Que Nada" by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66. 

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The Daily Signal - What’s Going On in Minneapolis After City Council Vote to Defund Police

At the end of June, the Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to "defund" the city's police. Now crime is on the rise. 


John Hinderaker, president of the Minnesota policy organization Center of the American Experiment, joins the show to explain what the future may hold for the Minneapolis Police Department and what his organization is doing to support local law enforcement. 


We also cover these stories: 


  • New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, moves to shut down the National Rifle Association. 
  • The votes of more than 84,000 New York City residents weren't counted during the summer’s Democratic primary. 
  • A Secret Service report reveals that many shootings are carried out with illegal guns. 


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