Science In Action - Covid -19 science versus politics

With the announcement in the UK of investment in rapid testing for people who may not have Covid -19 we ask why is this only happening now? For months on this programme we’ve featured scientific research suggesting such a strategy would be the quickest way to end the pandemic.

We speak with Connie Cepko and Brian Rabe who have developed a rapid test and Manu Prakash who is currently rolling it out to countries in the global south.

Could a huge motorcycle rally really have been the source of over a quarter of a million Covid -19 infections? That’s the finding of a study by economist Andrew Friedson he tells us how mobile phone data helped to determine that figure.

And the politics of vaccines, Many health officials in the US have spoken out against president Trumps claim that a vaccine may be ready before the November presidential election. Helen Branswell from Stat news tells us why there is so much concern over political attempts to manipulate science.

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The Government Huddle with Brian Chidester - The One with the GovBizResults CEO

Juliana Slye, CEO and Managing Principal of Government Business Results joins the show to discuss what marketers should be focused on as they build a strategy post-pandemic. We also deliberate ways marketers can duplicate the value of in-person events in today’s conditions and what programs her team has deployed on behalf of her clients that drove positive change.

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Dozens Of Applicant Groups Question State’s Cannabis Equity Policies

Nearly two dozen groups are suing Illinois to keep new cannabis retail licenses from going to “politically connected” companies. Only 21 out of 700 groups qualified for the state’s lottery system to determine who will be allowed to open pot shops.

We’ll take a closer look at the state’s cannabis lottery system and why lawmakers say Black and brown business owners are being left behind.

CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: How Monetary Policy Undermined American Resilience

A legacy of artificially low interest rates is not just the death of savings, but a forced buying into the perpetual growth machine of financial asset prices.

This episode is sponsored by Crypto.comBitstamp and Nexo.io.

Today on the Brief:

  • Jobless claims slightly exceed expectations at 884,000
  • ECB keeps policy unchained; euro rises versus dollar 
  • Survey: What’s the right way to understand the business and market cycle in the U.S. today? 


Our main discussion: interest rates and the undermining of American resilience. 

In this discussion, NLW looks at a number of artifacts of the low interest rate world, including:

  • Increasing cost of child care 
  • Declining share of total net worth held by bottom 50% 
  • New startups using lottery tactics to incentivize savers 


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Who Discovered Calculus?

For the last 300 years, a debate has raged between mathematicians about who should be credited with the invention of calculus: Sir Isaac Newton or Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz. The sides of the debate have mostly been based on geography with English mathematicians advocating for Newton, and Continental Europeans siding with Leibnitz. Learn more about the war over calculus, even if you’ve never taken a calculus course in your life, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Hurricane Woodward

President Donald Trump stares into the storm as revelations he himself gave to Bob Woodward about how he deliberately downplayed the threat posed by COVID-19 dominate the news. He is, as ever, his own worst enemy. Also, the absurd and highly politicized reports around how gatherings of Trump supporters (and seemingly only Trump supporters) represent a public health emergency.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: Dreams, the Bridgend Suicides, Deaths at Fort Hood, and a Ghost in Gibraltar

Do ghosts wander the tunnels of Gibraltar? Why are so many families (Ben's included) convinced they receive mysterious omens of the future in their dreams? Multiple listeners respond to the episode on the deaths at Deepcut, raising question about the deaths at Fort Hood, Texas, as well as the suicide epidemic in Bridgend, Wales. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 09/10

President Trump explains why he downplayed the virus. Joe Biden calls it a disgrace. Western wildfires wipe out communities. NFL kicks off its season. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs - Episode 97: “Song to Woody” by Bob Dylan

Episode ninety-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Song To Woody” by Bob Dylan, and at the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early sixties. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “Sherry” by the Four Seasons.

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