Let’s celebrate Halloween with one more poem from our prince of darkness, Edgar Allen Poe. In this episode we explore the beautiful ballad Annabel Lee and Poe’s Poetic Principle.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
A headline in a British tabloid newspaper claimed that ?Staggering 86% who tested Covid positive in lockdown had NONE of the official symptoms? but what does this mean and is it true?
Byzantium And The Crusades - The Decline of the Crusaders Episode 5 “The Second Attack on Egypt”
In this episode, we hear about the King of Jerusalem, Amalric's alliance with the Byzantines against Fatimid Egypt, where a young man called Saladin has seized power. A large Byzantine fleet and Crusader army converge on the Egyptian fortress of Damietta. But can they succeed in defeating Saladin, the man who will in time become the nemesis of the Crusaders?
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Everything Everywhere Daily - A History of Halloween
On October 31 every year, we celebrate Halloween. It is especially popular in the United States where we use the holiday as an excuse for kids to dress up and ask for candy, and for adults to dress up and drink.
But why do we dress up, and what’s the deal with pumpkins, how does this have anything to do with monsters and bats?
Learn more about the history of Halloween and how so many unrelated things got lumped together on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The World Is Never Getting Off Government Stimulus
The Breakdown weekly recap looks at bitcoin buying by Iran, JPM Coin and the latest round of lockdowns coming to Europe.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic.
On this week’s weekly recap, NLW looks at:
- Bitcoin’s resilience in the face of a week where many investors went risk off, causing a drop in stocks and gold
- JPMorgan’s dramatic three-year attitude shift around bitcoin and crypto
- Iran stockpiling bitcoin to be able to pay for imports
- A new round of COVID-19 lockdowns and the stimulus that will follow
This week on The Breakdown:
Monday | Hedge Funds Failures, Bankruptcies and Pandemic Fatigue
Tuesday | JPMorgan Launches JPM Coin: Welcome to the Private Currency Era
Wednesday | The ‘Everything Crash’ Is Coming? Markets Go Risk-Off as European Stocks See Worst Day in 5 Months
Thursday | Mirage Recovery: What ‘Record’ GDP Growth Tells Us About the Economy
Friday | Why Satoshi Chose Halloween to Release the Bitcoin White Paper
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Canaries in the Coal Mine of Justice
Episode Notes:
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to discuss voting and the crisis of legitimacy facing a Supreme Court embroiled in politics, the election, and an epochal shift to the right.
In our Slate Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Brian Fallon of Demand Justice to discuss the whys and the wherefores of court reform.
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Podcast production by Sara Burningham.
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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: Conspiracy Theories in 2020
Today we’re talking about conspiracy theories. We cover everything from the roles of the pandemic and politics to the personality type that tends to be most vulnerable to believing these theories, and more…
This episode is brought to you by www.MunkPack.com. Listen for the discount code.
Be sure to tune-in again each weekday (M-F) for our regular episodes to get quick, unbiased news roundups in 10 minutes!
Cato Daily Podcast - Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Executive Power
The answers Joe Biden and Kamala Harris gave to a longstanding survey on executive power are less than promising for separation of powers. Gene Healy explains.
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The Gist - Broadband Is Not A Luxury
On the Gist, Trump in Michigan.
In the interview, Mike talks with former governor of Florida Jeb Bush about his push for access to national broadband internet access. He argues that high-speed internet in the U.S. is lagging compared to other industrialized countries. Now more than ever, digital infrastructure has become a critical resource to the economy, as well as our nation’s security. Read Gov. Bush’s piece in Slate published in early October.
In the spiel, painting Trump in a terrible light.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Roundup
From soaring COVID-19 cases to another police-related shooting in Waukegan to Tony LaRussa returning to Chicago to manage the White Sox, Reset’s Justin Kaufmann sits around the virtual table this week with Pro Publica’s Mick Dumke and A.D. Quig of Crains to talk about the biggest local and state stories for WBEZ’s Weekly News Roundup.
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