Month: November 2020

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The Best One Yet - “Ronald McVegan” — McDonald’s McPlant-wich. Pfizer’s hero vaccine. Supreme’s $2.1B trick.

Markets surged on word that Pfizer’s latest vaccine is over 90% effective… but that means stock winners and some stock losers (sorry, Zoom). Just as Beyond Meat was about to announce earnings, McDonald’s revealed its very own plant-based competitor: McPlant. And Timberland-owner VF Brands is splurging $2.1B on Supreme to streetwear-ify its social media sales game. $MCD $VFC $PFE Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @TBOYJack @NickOfNewYork 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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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - How Democrats Took Latino Voters for Granted

Some early exit polls showed Joe Biden winning a strong majority of Latino voters but if you look closely there’s a more complicated story. In some key areas, Biden and Democrats more broadly underperformed with Latino voters compared to Hillary Clinton in 2016. How did the Biden campaign miss the mark?

Guest: Chuck Rocha, head of Nuestro PAC.

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The NewsWorthy - Vaccine 90% Effective, Obamacare’s Future & Hyperloop Human Test- Tuesday, November 10th, 2020

The news to know for Tuesday, November 10th, 2020!

We have updates about:

  • promising results from one COVID-19 vaccine and how officials say this could be a turning point in the pandemic
  • new lawsuits from the Trump campaign that challenge the results of the election
  • the U.S. Supreme Court weighing the future of Obamacare
  • a milestone for a futuristic transportation system
  • two athletes defying the odds and breaking barriers

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.TheNewsWorthy.com under the section titled 'Episodes' to read more about any of the stories mentioned or see sources below...

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Sources:

Pfizer Vaccine is 90% Effective: NY Times, AP, WaPo, Stat, Pfizer

FDA Authorizes Antibody Treatment: Reuters, CNN, NBC News, FDA

Biden Names Coronavirus Task Force: NPR, CNBC, USA Today, FOX News

Trump Election Challenges Cont: WSJ, The Hill, AP, FOX News

Sen. McConnell Defends Trump: Politico, Axios, Reuters

DOJ Election Crimes Chief Resigns: NBC News, CNN, NPR

Trump Fires Mark Esper: AP, NY Times, WaPo, Reuters, Trump Tweet

Supreme Court Hearing Obamacare Case: AP, FOX News, NBC News, NY Times

Virgin Hyperloop Transports Passengers: Axios, USA Today, Engadget, Virgin

Apple’s “One More Thing” Event: USA Today, Engadget, Cnet, Watch Event Live

Woman Makes History in El Capitan Climb: NBC News, ABC News, NY Times, Instagram

Man with Down Syndrome Finishes Iron Man Race: CBS News, Fox News, CNN

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NBN Book of the Day - Robert Vitalis, “Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy” (Stanford UP, 2020)

We've heard and rehearsed the conventional wisdom about oil: that the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf is what guarantees access to this strategic resource; that the "special" relationship with Saudi Arabia is necessary to stabilize an otherwise volatile market; and that these assumptions in turn provide Washington enormous leverage over Europe and Asia.

That common sense is wrong. The author of America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Stanford University Press, 2007), Robert Vitalis returns to disenchant us once again—this time from "oilcraft," a line of magical thinking closer to witchcraft than statecraft. Contrary to the deeply-held beliefs of hawkish foreign policy experts and career academics alike, oil is a commodity like any other: bought, sold, and subject to market forces. The House of Saud does many things for U.S. investors, firms, and government agencies, but guaranteeing the flow of oil, making it cheap, or stabilizing the price isn't one of them. Nevertheless, persistent fears of oil scarcity and conflict continue to breed real consequences. Robert Vitalis, Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy (Stanford UP, 2020) presses us to reconsider, among many things, the U.S.-Saudi special relationship, which confuses and traps many into unnecessarily accepting what we imagine is a devil's bargain. Along the way, Vitalis resurrects a forgotten school of critics of empire—a reprisal of his task in White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations (Cornell University Press, 2017).

Freeing ourselves from the spell of oilcraft won't be easy. But the benefits of doing so, and the drawbacks of not, make it essential.

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Short Wave - Undisclosed: Fire And Flood Risk In The United States

There have been many climate-related disasters this year, and along with those events come a heavy emotional and financial toll for residents. But what NPR climate reporters Rebecca Hersher and Lauren Sommer have found is that most people don't realize their wildfire or flood risk — and that's putting millions in harm's way.

Additional Resources:
- Read Lauren and Rebecca's series, Climate Risk Hits Home.
- Reach out to us if you've tried to get information about the risk of floods or wildfires when moving to a new home.

Lauren and Rebecca are both on Twitter. You can follow them @lesommer and @rhersher to keep up with the latest climate news. We're always all ears for your climate inquiries and musings — email us at shortwave@npr.org.

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What A Day - I’ve Vaccine Enough

Pfizer says an initial analysis of their vaccine found it was more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19. President-elect Joe Biden announced his 13-member pandemic task force, which includes health experts that previously served in Republican and Democratic administrations.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell backed Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the election yesterday, while simultaneously welcoming new incoming Republican senators. In Georgia, current senators Perdue and Loeffler are demanding that the Republican secretary of state step down over the election, without providing evidence to support their vague claims of “failures.”

And in headlines: Hurricane Eta made landfall in the Florida Keys, Blue Ivy Carter narrates an audiobook, and Trump ousts Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.

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The Daily Signal - Hans von Spakovsky Explains Election Litigation in 5 States

Even though former vice President Joe Biden has claimed victory in the presidential election, the Trump campaign has filed lawsuits contesting the results with current litigation in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona.


In Pennsylvania alone, there are at least 21,000 dead people on the voter rolls. Is there a possibility that some of these ballots that went to dead people were used fraudulently? We’ve also heard a lot of people talk about how we largely know the results of all the House and Senate races but still don’t have all the ballots counted for the presidential race. Why is this the case?  Hans von Spakovsky, manager of The Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative and and a senior legal fellow at the think tank's Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss.


We also cover these stories:

  • Former Vice President Joe Biden is saying that the 2020 race for the White House is finished and that people need to be wearing masks. 
  • President Trump fired defense secretary Mark Esper.
  • Pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced that its coronavirus vaccine is 90% effective.



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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Turning your coding career into an RPG with Sai Vennam

You can find Sai's videos here. Come for the deep dives on Docker, stay for the live lightboard  magic. Yes, I know what the comments say, but no, he isn't writing backwards. 

Sai also does a lot of work around OpenShift, the containerization software products created by Red Hat. He talks about what the tie up between IBM and Red Hat has been like and how the enterprise is increasingly learning to work with open source. 

Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to Alex for explaining why you're Getting this as undefined when using arrow function.

If you want to find more from Sai, you can follow him on Twitter here.