Month: November 2020

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CrowdScience - Why are elephants so big?

CrowdScience listeners come in all shapes, sizes and ages. This episode is dedicated to our younger listeners who, as we’ve learned before, are experts at asking those superficially obvious questions that for parents, are anything but easy to answer. To start off with, Sylvia, asks why elephants are so big? As we hear from our expert – mammals were at one time, much larger – so perhaps the question should be, why aren’t they bigger? We investigate what drives body size in the animal kingdom.

Presenter Marnie Chesterton, together with our ‘cub’ reporter Arlo, goes in search of the most brilliant scientific minds to respond to a slew of other queries. Shambhavi, from Singapore wonders why humans have five digits on each hand? And Benni from California asks why dogs don’t get sick when they drink from muddy puddles? Do dogs have some amazing ability to fight off viruses and bugs?

Beyond the confines of our planet, we’ve also got a question from Olivia, from Sydney, Australia, who regularly contemplates the universe: what is the biggest object in it she wonders? Marnie and her experts do their best to solve these mysteries.

Presented by Marnie Chesterton, produced by Dom Byrne for the BBC World Service. Image: Getty Images

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: How the World Stopped Producing Enough Money, Feat. Emil Kalinowski

In a year when the popular narrative says money printing went crazy, the host of “Making Sense/Eurodollar University” says the problem is actually too little money.

This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com and Nexo.io.

Emil Kalinowski is the host of “Making Sense/Eurodollar University" collaborations with Jeff Snider. 

In this illuminating conversation, he and NLW discuss:

  • How the global monetary order changed over the last 50 years
  • The exact moment the world demonstrated it had too little money
  • Why bitcoin and MMT are competing to shape the next generation of monetary thinking 
  • Why a big crash is coming, but we’ll be better on the other side 


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SCOTUScast - Rutledge v. Pharm. Care Management Association – Post-Argument SCOTUScast

On October 6, 2020, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association. The issue in this case is whether states have the right to regulate pharmacy benefit managers, or PBM’s. Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas’s Attorney General, has petitioned the court to overturn the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth District’s prior decision to maintain Arkansas’ statute regulating PBMs’ drug reimbursement rates. Rutledge argues the statute is preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
Max Schulman joins us to discuss this case’s oral arguments. Schulman is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Pig War

Over the course of history, humans have fought over land, honor, wealth, and religion. But perhaps the oddest, and dumbest war which almost ever broke out between two major world powers….was over a pig. A single pig. Learn more about the British-American conflict known as the Pig War, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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SCOTUScast - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club – Post-Argument SCOTUScast

On November 2, 2020, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club. This case addresses the scope of transparency under the Freedom of Information Act’s key “deliberative process” privilege. More specifically, oral argument addressed whether documents drafted as part of a statutorily required interagency consultation process between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries fall under exemption 5 of FOIA. This exemption grants that records that are “inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters that would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency” are protected from disclosure.
Joining us today to discuss this case’s oral argument are Nancie Marzulla and Damien Schiff. Ms. Marzulla is Partner at Marzulla Law, and Mr. Schiff is a Senior Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Why does the US let Saudi fugitives flee the country?

On August 19th, 2016 Saudi national and college student Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah was charged with first degree manslaughter for fatally hitting a 15 year old girl named Fallon Smart with his car in Portland, Oregon. Two weeks before his trial, he disappeared from the United States. Today, federal agents suspect he escaped with the help of the Saudi Arabian government -- and it seems he's not the only one. In fact, over the years, it seems dozens of Saudi nationals accused of various crimes in the US and Canada have illegally escaped prosecution, and will likely never see jail time or justice. And the US government hasn't done much to address this ongoing pattern of conspiracy. Tune in to learn more.

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 11/06

Joe Biden takes the lead in Georgia as the race tightens in Pennsylvania and Arizona. Joe Biden expresses confidence. President Trump claims voter fraud, but offers no evidence. CBS News Correspondent Deborah Rodriguez has today's World News Roundup.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Abiy damned: Ethiopia’s looming civil war

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has taken drastic steps to quieten a state stacked with trained militias. The conflict could draw in more states—or the whole of the Horn of Africa. China’s increasing push for self-reliance in a globalised economy has its complications—made clear by a vast influx of precision-bred super-chickens. And the macabre tale of books bound with human skin.

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