Sarah tells Mike about her new foray into Dad Studies and, for the second time this week, discusses a horror movie about families from 1975 and sings a little.
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Bay Curious - The Secret Lives of The Palace of Fine Arts Swans
The lagoon in front of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts has been home to swans since its was built in 1915. Bay Curious listener Mishi Nova loves the spot and the swans. She wondered how the swans survive the night and escape the coyotes.
Additional Reading:
- The Swans at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts Have Attitude
- Check out what different birds sound like on the Audubon website
- A Very Curious Activity book
Reported by Asal Ehsanipour. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Michelle Wiley.
The Intelligence from The Economist - Team-building exercise: America’s Middle East diplomacy
American officials hope more Arab states will follow the United Arab Emirates in normalising relations with Israel; the groundwork for that has been quietly laid for years. Not every expectant mother wants all those doctors and nurses fussing over them; we take a look at the increasing politicisation of childbirth. And a step change for robots that can walk. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
Tech Won't Save Us - We Can’t Talk About Tech Without Talking About Resources w/ Thea Riofrancos
Paris Marx is joined by Thea Riofrancos to discuss why we should care about the supply chains of technology, what that resource extraction means for people in Latin America, and how we should think about a less resource-intensive future.
Thea Riofrancos is the author of “Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador” and co-author of “A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.” She is also an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute. Her argument against green extractivism was published by Logic Magazine. Follow Thea on Twitter as @triofrancos.
Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- “Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism” by Martín Arboleda
- “Could a Green New Deal makes us happier people?” by Kate Aronoff
- “Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk” by James Wilt
Omnibus - The Duke of Anjou (Entry 386.EC0804)
In which we trace the convoluted, "kooky-wawa" genealogy that identifies the Spanish playboy banker who should be sitting the French throne, and John wants to be a ski-town sheriff. Certificate #24409.
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.
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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
Python Bytes - #196 Version your SQL schemas with git + automatically migrate them
Topics covered in this episode:
- Surviving Django (if you care about databases)
- * Python Numbers and the Flyweight design pattern*
- What Are Python Wheels and Why Should You Care?
- * Pandas_Alive*
- How To Use the Python Map Function
- Version your SQL schemas with git + automatically migrate them
- Extras
- Joke
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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