A new satellite, scheduled to launch this weekend, is the latest in a parade of missions to measure sea level rise. As climate reporter Rebecca Hersher explains, it's vital data for scientists trying to understand how global warming is affecting the Earth's oceans.
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NBN Book of the Day - Nicholas Guyatt, “Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation” (Basic Books, 2016)
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that “all men are created equal”? Racism is the usual answer. Yet Nicholas Guyatt argues in Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation (Basic Books, 2016) that white liberals from the founding to the Civil War were not confident racists, but tortured reformers conscious of the damage that racism would do to the nation. Many tried to build a multiracial America in the early nineteenth century, but ultimately adopted the belief that non-whites should create their own republics elsewhere: in an Indian state in the West, or a colony for free blacks in Liberia. Herein lie the origins of “separate but equal.” Essential reading for anyone hoping to understand today's racial tensions, Bind Us Apart reveals why racial justice in the United States continues to be an elusive goal: despite our best efforts, we have never been able to imagine a fully inclusive, multiracial society.
1619, Revisited by Nicholas Guyatt.
How Proslavery Was the Constitution? by Nicholas Guyatt.
1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Adam McNeil is a third-year PhD Student in early African American Women's History at Rutgers University.
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New Books in Native American Studies - Liza Black, “Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960” (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Behind the braided wigs, buckskins, and excess bronzer that typified the mid-century "filmic Indian" lies a far richer, deeper history of Indigenous labor, survival, and agency. This history takes center stage in historian Liza Black's new book, Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960 (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), which looks at Indigenous peoples' experiences in the American film industry that so often relied upon and reproduced racialized stereotypes of "authentic Indians" to produce profit. Black shows how non-Native film producers, in producing monolithic and historically static Native caricatures for profit, reinforced settler colonial narratives on screen while simultaneously denying Indigenous actors, extras, and staff of their modernity.
Thorough in detail and innovative in analysis, Black incorporates film studies, Native and Indigenous studies, and history, shedding new light on the mid-century film industry and Native peoples' roles in it. Black chronicles the contours of American settler colonialism and its cultural and economic manifestations both on- and off-screen, giving the "authentic Indian" so familiar to non-Native audiences a much-needed dose of historical context. The result is an engaging story of Indigenous talent, labor, and livelihood that transcends critical moments in Native and U.S. histories alike.
Listeners can now purchase Picturing Indians using code 6AF20 for a 40% discount on the University of Nebraska Press' site.
Annabel LaBrecque is a PhD student in the Department of History at UC Berkeley. You can find her on Twitter @labrcq.
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The NewsWorthy - Eye on Electors, Stimulus Payment Deadline & Buzzfeed Buys HuffPost- Friday, November 20th, 2020
The news to know for Friday, November 20th, 2020!
What to know about:
- Georgia's recount results
- how President Trump's team is said to be going beyond lawsuits to keep challenging the election outcome
- some of the strongest warnings yet from the nation's top health agency about Thanksgiving
- a little good news in the fight against HIV
- two digital media companies joining forces
- a sanctuary on a mission to protect millions of animals
Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.
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Sources:
GA Recount Results: CNN, Bloomberg, USA Today
Republicans Urged to Intervene with Electors: WaPo, NY Times, Reuters, AP
Mike Pompeo Visits West Bank: WaPo, Reuters, AP, Axios
CDC: Avoid Thanksgiving Travel: WaPo, Axios, AP, NY Times, CDC
CA Curfew: LA Times, Politico, SF Gate
Deadline to Register for Stimulus Payment: USA Today, CNBC, CNet
Get My Payment: IRS
HIV Death Rates Fall by Half: NY Times, Axios, CDC
End of Arecibo Observatory Telescope: Engadget, AP, NY Times
Buzzfeed Buying Huffpost: AP, The Verge, Variety, WSJ
PayPal Launches Generosity Network: Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, PayPal
Wrigley Now a National Historic Landmark: CBS News, ESPN, SI, DOI
Feel Good Friday: Atlantic’s Biggest Marine Sanctuary: UNILAD, The Guardian, AP
What A Day - Yes We Michigan with Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Michigan and Wayne County have repeatedly been targeted in Trump’s attempts to overturn the election results. In particular, he and his supporters have singled out Detroit, a heavily Democratic, majority-Black city. We talk to Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib about that effort. Plus, we get her take on what’s next for House Democrats and what she’d like to see from the Biden administration.
And in headlines: what happens when the Pope likes posts, no more politics in Animal Crossing, and Rudy Giuliani melts. Plus, we’re joined by writer and comedian Demi Adejuyigbe.
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The Daily Signal - What You Need to Know About ‘the Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections’
Today, we’re featuring an interview with our colleagues at The Daily Signal, Jarrett Stepman and Fred Lucas, who co-host "The Right Side of History Podcast." Lucas and Stepman will be discussing Lucas’ book, “Tainted by Suspicion: The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections.”
We also cover these stories:
- President Donald Trump’s legal team held a press conference Thursday afternoon asserting that Trump won the Nov. 3 presidential election and said that they’re intent on proving that vote fraud stole it.
- House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Thursday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom “lost a lot of credibility” when he chose to dine at an exclusive French restaurant, the French Laundry on Nov. 6 without a mask.
- Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are asking the panel's chairwoman, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., to hold hearings to investigate violence carried out against Trump supporters during the Million MAGA March in Washington on Nov. 14.
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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Tim Berners Lee wants to put you in a pod, a web pod.
You can find out more about Sir Berners-Lee's work on Solid here.
Other topics discussed in this episode:
Docker puts a limit on free containers. That has to be good for the environment. But is it also good for Docker and the future of its products? Sometimes, forcing yourself to make something worth purchasing helps drive innovation.
The Tao of Programming isn't new, and some of its technical references are a bit out of date. But it's still good for a laugh and little bit of enlightenment-lite.
Are you interested in putting on your own drone light show? Intel offers options to fit a range of budgets.
This week's lifeboat badge goes to JCL for answering the question: C# compiler: CS0121: The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties.
Opening Arguments - OA440: Rudy’s Literal Meltdown
Rudy Giuliani is as bad at being a lawyer as he is at wearing a believable human suit. Both of these shortcomings were on full display this week as Trump's top lawyer continued to not only lose case after case, but also display an impressive ability to not have any idea what any legal term actually means. Also in this episode, Andrew tells us about the Kim Davis of this election - GSA Administrator Emily Murphy. Murphy can't seem to understand which number is bigger than the other. Then ace associate Morgan Stringer joins us to provide a few highlights of Giuliani's insane ramblings. She listened so that none of us have to!
Links: 3 U.S.C. 102, CFPB Announces Additional Member of Taskforce, The Law of Presidential Transitions and the 2000 Election, Lawsuit tracker: Trump’s battle faces skepticism from judges, Marks v. Stinton.
Cato Daily Podcast - Trumpism and Tylerism Revisited
Four years ago, Anthony Comegna argued that President John Tyler offered the greatest parallel to Donald Trump's presidency. As the Trump Administration winds down, Comegna argues that the parallels are as strong as ever.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Trumpism and Tylerism Revisited
Four years ago, Anthony Comegna argued that President John Tyler offered the greatest parallel to Donald Trump's presidency. As the Trump Administration winds down, Comegna argues that the parallels are as strong as ever.
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