Month: October 2020

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The Best One Yet - “Cannabis runs for Vice President” — Microsoft’s forever WFH. Cannabis defines the relationship. Disney’s $3B shuffle.

Cannabis stocks just enjoyed their best day in months after 2 major moves to finally define the relationship with DC. Should Disney send out dividend checks forever… or permanently treat itself to $3B every year in a Netflix world? And Microsoft is the first Big Tech to go permanent Work From Home — so we got ourselves the first WFH Playbook. $TLRY $ACB $CGC $DIS $MSFT Got a #SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @TBOYJack @NickOfNewYork and tag #SnackFact Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: 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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Strict Scrutiny - The Red Death

Leah and Melissa recap the first week of the October sitting, as well as all of the beginning of term developments on the Court’s docket, orders list, and so much more.

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Short Wave - Butterflies Have Hearts In Their Wings. You Won’t Believe Where They Have Eyes

Adriana Briscoe, a professor of biology and ecology at UC Irvine, studies vision in butterflies. As part of her research, she's trained them to detect light of a certain color. She also explains why they bask in the sunlight, and why some of them have 'hearts' in their wings. Plus, you'll never guess where their photoreceptors are.

She's written about the importance of teachers and mentors in diversifying the STEM fields.

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NBN Book of the Day - Boel Berner, “Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th-Century Medicine and Beyond” (Transcript Verlag, 2020)

In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. It was a contested therapy because it meant crossing boundaries and challenging taboos. Was the transfusion of lamb blood into desperately sick humans really defensible?

Boel Berner, Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond (Transcript Verlag, 2020) takes the reader on a journey into hospital wards and lunatic asylums, physiological laboratories and 19th century wars. It presents a fascinating story of medical knowledge, ambitions and concerns – a story that provides lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care.

Boel Berner is a sociologist, historian, and professor emerita at Linköping University in Sweden. In her research she investigates the character and power of expertise, historically and today. She has studied education and work, the gendered nature of technical knowledge, household modernization, and issues of risk. Her current work is oriented towards the history of medicine. It focuses, besides questions of blood donation and transfusion, on the politics of blood group analysis in the interwar years.

Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine

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New Books in Native American Studies - Charles F. Walker, “Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru” (Oxford UP, 2020)

Charles F. Walker’s Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru, 2020, is part of Oxford University Press’ Graphic History Series, which takes serious archival research and puts it into a comic format. For this volume, the brilliant Liz Clarke illustrated Dr. Walker’s biography of a ½ brother of José Gabriel Condorcanqui Tupac Amaru, the leader of the 1780-1783 Tupac Amaru Rebellion. Juan Bautista was a relatively minor figure in the revolt who was arrested with scores of others in the Spanish repression of the rebellion but was not executed. Instead he spent decades in brutal confinement on three different continents. His life interacts with several phases of the Age of Revolution and offers a subaltern perspective on the era. Listeners should find the Latin American angle on the Age of Revolution particularly enlightening. Witness to the Age of Revolution does a stunning job at literally illustrating the sprawling Spanish empire from Peru to Argentina and Cadiz and on to North Africa. Liz Clarke’s gorgeous artwork bring images of Iberian colonialism to life in vivid color. We also get a solid introduction to maritime history as Juan Bautista is transported halfway around the world. Witness to the Age of Revolution is a fascinating story, comparable to the tales of the Man in the Iron mask as told by Alexandre Dumas. Walker’s account of Juan Bautista’s suffering, the friendship between the Andean prisoner and an Augustinian priest, and the rebel finally achieved his freedom will engross readers.

Charles Walker is Professor of History and the Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the University of California, Davis, who has held a MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in International Human Rights.

Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford, 2018). When he’s not quietly reading or happily talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California.

 

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - The Next 12 Months of COVID-19 (with Dr. Zeke Emanuel)

We all want to know what’s next so Andy calls up Zeke Emanuel, someone who spends a lot of time thinking about just that. Zeke was a special advisor to President Obama and now advises Vice President Joe Biden's coronavirus task force. Andy and Zeke look ahead at what might happen with COVID-19 in the late fall and winter, at what we hope to learn about what COVID-19 does to the human body in the next few years, at how effective a vaccine might be, and at what may change with a Biden victory in November.

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What A Day - Vaccine Nation With Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Senate confirmation hearings begin today for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's Supreme Court nominee. The president is scheduled to return to the campaign trail today just over a week after being hospitalized with COVID-19, after his doctor released a memo saying he’s no longer contagious, but providing no other information. 

Daily new cases of COVID-19 in the US are creeping above 50,000, which is the highest since August. Our guest host for today—epidemiologist and former Detroit health commissioner Dr. Abdul El-Sayed—answers our questions on what’s to come this winter, the long-term effects of COVID-19, and how to fight “vaccine hesitancy."

And in headlines: Nigeria’s government disbands a controversial police unit, Pakistan bans TikTok, and Jaime Harrison’s record-breaking fundraising against Senator Lindsey Graham.

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The NewsWorthy - Trump Restarts Rallies, Controversial Federal Holiday & 2020 NBA Champs- Monday, October 12th, 2020

The news to know for Monday, October 12th, 2020!

What to know about:

  • President Trump restarting rallies for the first time since his COVID-19 diagnosis: where he's going and what doctors say about it
  • Senators grilling Judge Amy Coney Barrett about whether she's right for a job on the Supreme Court
  • the new 2020 NBA champions
  • holiday shopping starting early 
  • a lip-syncing skateboarder getting millions of views on TikTok and what happened next

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Sources:

Trump Rallies this Week: Orlando Sentinel, Axios, The Hill

White House Weekend Event: NY Times, CNN, WaPo

Trump Not Considered Transmission Risk: WSJ, USA Today, Politico, Full Memo

Coronavirus Cases Set Records: CNN, NBC News, NY Times, Johns Hopkins

Judge Amy Coney Barrett Hearings Begin: CBS News, CNBC, FOX News, Axios, Watch Live

Hurricane Delta Impacts: NBC News, Weather Channel, FEMA

Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day: CNN, WSJ, Smithsonian

Lakers Win NBA Championship: CBS News, ESPN, KNBC

Rafael Nadal Wins French Open: CNN, USA Today, WaPo

Iga Swiatek Wins French Open: SI, NY Times, AP

Yelp Labeling Businesses Accused of Racism: Engadget, NPR, Yelp

TikTok Star Gets New Truck: TMZ, NPR, Today, Billboard, TikTok

Monday Monday: Holiday Shopping Starting Early: AP, NBC News

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You're Wrong About - Princess Diana Part 3: The Affairs

This week, Diana swaps out her husband for a Horse Dude and Mike and Sarah act out other people's PG-13 dirty talk. Digressions include shoulder pads, Billy Joel and "Seinfeld" (twice!). There's a moment 55 minutes in that is going to make you feel very weird. As with previous installments, this episode contains detailed descriptions of disordered eating.

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Lex Fridman Podcast - #130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

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18:18 – Consciousness
40:32 – Roger Penrose on consciousness
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