Month: September 2020

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 09/01

President Trump visits Kenosha amid pleas to stay home. A controversial L-A police shooting. The FDA chief's vow on vaccine approval. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S3 E7: Kimeshan Naidoo, Unibuddy

Kimeshan Naidoo grew up in a small sugar can farming town, on the east coast of South Africa. At 12 years old, he found an old python book, installed Python... and started to teach himself how to code. Five years ago, he moved to London to study for his masters in Computer Science at UCL. He is a triathlete, completing his first triathlon last year - and is planning to complete an olympic triathlon and eventually, an iron man race. He and his co-founder both moved from different countries to London, but didn't really know what to expect. They met up for a coffee to discuss an idea, which immediately spoke to Kimeshan - as he lived out the problem they were trying to solve when he moved to London. They decided to move forward and build a platform that embeds chat capabilities for high school or prospective university students to chat with current students at a particular school. In fact, Naidoo built the first version as his dissertation project. This is the creation story of Unibuddy.


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The Intelligence from The Economist - Integration, differentiation: migrants in Germany

Five years ago, a vast wave of migrants and refugees began to spill into the country. We examine their fates amid a tangle of bureaucracy. Even for the uninfected, the coronavirus has caused widespread “collective trauma”; we ask about its effects and how to heal from it. And Palestinians sneak to the beach as security forces look the other way.

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The Best One Yet - “Free Netflix (but not for iPhone users)” — United ends change fees. Netflix’s free option. Lemonade’s non-profit-ness.

Cheers of joy spread throughout the land as United ended its change fees — aka 15% of overall US airline sales. Netflix is trying a new “give-our-content-away-for-free” strategy. And renter’s insurance icon Lemonade is giving away 17X more money than the average publicly traded corporation does… but it’s still not profitable (investors not down). $LMND $NFLX $UAL Want a shoutout on the pod? We got the form for Snackers to fill out right here: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - A Democratic Mud-Fight in Massachusetts

The Democratic primary for a Massachusetts Senate seat is becoming a test of progressive bona fides and the strength of the Kennedy family name. So perhaps it’s not surprising to learn that, when it comes to their voting records, the two candidates are extremely similar. 

Guest: Victoria McGrane, political correspondent for the Boston Globe. 

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The NewsWorthy - Candidates Tackle Unrest, Airlines Ditch Change Fees & ‘Fresh Prince’ Reunites – Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

The news to know for Tuesday, September 1st, 2020!

We have updates about:

  • how social unrest is shaping the presidential race: both President Trump and Joe Biden are condemning violence, but also pointing fingers
  • the "herd immunity" theory: which White House official could be pushing for it and why other health experts say it's a bad idea
  • Amazon's drone deliveries
  • airlines making a permanent change to change fees
  • what anyone can now watch for free on Netflix, subscriber or not

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

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Trump to Visit Kenosha: ABC News, Politico, AP, CNN

Biden ‘Law and Order’ Speech: WaPo, FOX News, Axios

Trump/Lawyer Defend Kenosha Gunman: Reuters, USA Today, CNN, FOX News

New CDC Report on COVID Deaths: Axios, CNN, CDC, Epidemiologist Post, Johns Hopkins

Trump Medical Adviser Pushes Herd Immunity: WaPo, Business Insider, The Week

Another Vaccine Starts Stage 3 Trials: NBC News, Reuters, Bloomberg

Airlines Drop Change Fees: NPR, CNBC, WSJ, United, Delta, American

FAA Approves Amazon Drone Delivery: CNN, USA Today, The Verge, Engadget

Netflix Free Content: Gadgets 360, TechCrunch, Netflix 

Boseman Movies Dominate Charts: CNN, Variety, Amazon Bestsellers

‘Fresh Prince’ Reunion: Variety, Deadline, People

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Short Wave - SPACE WEEK: Every Moon, Ranked

Science writer Jennifer Leman did it. She ranked all 158 moons in our solar system. The criteria? Interviews with NASA scientists, astronomers, and her own moonpinions. She talks to host Maddie Sofia about some of her favorites. Here's her full list for Popular Mechanics. (Encore episode.)

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NBN Book of the Day - Lisa Bortolotti, “The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs” (Oxford UP, 2020)

There is something intuitive about the idea that when we believe, we ought to follow our evidence. This entails that beliefs that are the products of garden varieties of irrationality, such as delusion, confabulation, false memory, and excessive optimism, are for that reason epistemically derelict. Many philosophers would go so far as to say that people ought not to hold such beliefs; some would go further and say that it’s our duty to challenge those who hold beliefs of this kind.

However, in The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs (Oxford University Press, 2020), Lisa Bortolotti argues that the full story about irrational beliefs is far more complicated and philosophically interesting. She identifies circumstances under which irrational beliefs are nonetheless beneficial, and thus, as she says, “epistemically innocent.”

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