The President and First Lady test positive for Covid-19 after flouting public health precautions and exposing countless others to the virus. Joe Biden, who has so far tested negative, resumes limited in-person campaigning and canvassing. Then Andre Banks of Win Black / Pa'lante talks to Dan about how we can handle the flood of disinformation being directed at black and brown voters.
Mayor Lightfoot relaxes restrictions on bars and restaurants, suburban parents are demanding their schools reopen, and House Speaker Mike Madigan is refusing the governor's request to tell a panel of lawmakers what he knows about the Com Ed allegations swirling around him. Those are some of the stories we unpack with our panel of journalists this time around on WBEZ's Weekly News Roundup
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Science is great, but scientific determinations do not and should not dictate all behavior. Peter VanDoren discusses some of the limits of science in his new Pandemics and Policy essay.
Science is great, but scientific determinations do not and should not dictate all behavior. Peter VanDoren discusses some of the limits of science in his new Pandemics and Policy essay.
The market reacts to news that President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. The Labor Department reports slowing jobs growth. Bed Bath & Beyond soars on surprising earnings. Twilio hits a new high. Pepsi gets a boost from snacks. McCormick serves up strong earnings and a stock split. Popeye’s gets into the chocolate-stuffed beignet business. And the Supreme Court of Ireland rules that Subway bread isn’t really bread. Motley Fool analysts Andy Cross and Ron Gross discuss those stores and share two stocks on their radar: Union Pacific and Rocket Companies. Plus, journalist Matthew Yglesias talks about his new book, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger.
In 1908, in the middle of the Siberian wilderness, near the Tunguska River, an explosion took place which was equivalent in size to the detonation of a 5 megaton nuclear bomb.
But it wasn’t a nuclear bomb. Such things didn’t even exist then. It was a mystery that scientists are still trying to figure out today.
Learn more about the Tunguska Event on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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00:00 – Introduction
04:15 – Sponsors
07:58 – Putin and the Russian soul
15:01 – Love and trolling
25:31 – Problem with government
31:03 – Anarchism
53:07 – Politics
54:59 – Are most people capable of thinking deeply?
1:02:08 – Willy Wonka and Albert Camus view of life
1:08:08 – Trolling
1:12:26 – Conspiracy theories
1:29:43 – Donald Trump and the Election
1:36:58 – Trump Biden presidential debates
1:41:15 – Journalism is broken
1:47:56 – Communism
1:54:02 – Presidential candidates
2:04:34 – Libertarian party
2:14:56 – Objectivism
2:24:17 – Trolling
2:35:21 – The New Right
2:43:29 – Cancel culture
3:13:17 – Book recommendations
3:18:08 – Fear of mortality
3:21:08 – Meaning of life
Sometime between between c. 1250 - c. 1150 BCE, civilization as we knew it simply... collapsed. Once-thriving empires fell one after another. Trade routes disintegrated. Literacy plummeted. Mysterious raiders from the sea pillaged city after city. In less than a century, the known world became a distant dream. So what exactly happened? Perhaps more disturbingly, what can the Bronze Age collapse tell us about the modern day?