The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the use of a vaccine for Covid 19. But some people are worried that the decision was taken too quickly - can we really know it?s safe yet? Tim Harford tackles these safety concerns. Plus, what is the best way to distribute the vaccine? How do you maximise the benefit of the first round of vaccines? Stuart McDonald, a fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the UK works out what groups would benefit most.
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Voynich Manuscript
In 1912, a Polish rare book dealer purchased an extremely old codex that contained an unknown system of writing.
Since then, the best and brightest minds in cryptography, linguistics, and artificial intelligence have not been able to decipher what is written in the book.
That hasn’t stopped people from trying and periodically making claims that they have cracked the code.
Learn more about the Voynich Manuscript on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Act III, Sc. 2
by Jorie Graham
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #804 – Dec 5 2020
COVID-19 Update; News Items: The Home of Jesus, Ancient Seeds, Treatment for Progeria, Protein Folding Solved, ISS Longevity; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Principia Follow Up; Name That Logical Fallacy: Slippery Slope; Science or Fiction
Byzantium And The Crusades - The Decline of the Crusaders Episode 10 “The Crusaders Divided”
In this episode, we hear how the Crusader states in the 1180s were unable to find unity or strong leadership to face the growing threat of Saladin. Instead, the death of the leper King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem resulted in a fractious and divided political environment. Matters were only made worse by the renegade behaviour of Reynald of Châtillon, whose outrageous attacks on Muslim convoys passing between Egypt and Syria provided the perfect excuse for Saladin to call for a decisive war against the Crusaders.
Please take a look at my website nickholmesauthor.com where you can download a free copy of The Byzantine World War, my book that describes the origins of the First Crusade.
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: $50K BTC in 2021? Bloomberg Analysts Join the ‘Traditional Onslaught’ Driving Bitcoin’s Rally
A new crypto outlook from Bloomberg suggests BTC could reach $50,000 in 2021, topping off a month of major institutional momentum for the asset.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and this week's special product launch, Allnodes.
On this edition of the weekly recap, NLW looks at the consolidating narrative of a bitcoin rally that is:
- Being driven by institutional investors
- Shifting the center of the industry from East Asia to North America
- Winning converts from major research houses and institutions
- Driving the price of bitcoin to new all-time highs
This week on The Breakdown:
Monday | Bitcoin Hits a New All-Time High: What Happens Next?
Tuesday | Why a $631B Asset Manager Just Changed Its Mind on Bitcoin
Wednesday | Josh Brown on Bitcoin’s ‘Respectability Rally’ and Why We’ll See Dow 100,000 in Our Lifetime
Thursday | Why Stablecoins Are the First Battleground of the Coming Crypto Regulation Wars
Friday | A ‘Santa Claus Rally’ for the Stock Market?
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Trump’s Pardonpalooza
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law professor, senior Hoover Institution fellow, co-founder of the Lawfare blog, and co-author (with Bob Bauer) of After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency. They unpack the presidential pardon power and try to figure out what Attorney General Bill Barr is up to with John Durham’s investigation of the investigation into the 2016 election.
In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia to analyse what’s been happening at the Supreme Court in the last 14 days, including last week’s religious freedom decision weighing public worship in the pandemic, the latest Census case, and Justice Samuel Alito’s eagerness to hear from Pennsylvania.
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Trump’s Pardonpalooza
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law professor, senior Hoover Institution fellow, co-founder of the Lawfare blog, and co-author (with Bob Bauer) of After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency. They unpack the presidential pardon power and try to figure out what Attorney General Bill Barr is up to with John Durham’s investigation of the investigation into the 2016 election.
In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia to analyse what’s been happening at the Supreme Court in the last 14 days, including last week’s religious freedom decision weighing public worship in the pandemic, the latest Census case, and Justice Samuel Alito’s eagerness to hear from Pennsylvania.
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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: Celebrities on Addiction, Pandemic & Getting Help
Today we’re talking with ‘The Hills’ star Jason Wahler and Billboard-charting singer Hilary Roberts about mental health, addiction, and how to get help.
Roberts founded the Red Songbird Foundation, which Wahler now co-chairs. Both of them overcame personal struggles with addiction and now dedicate their lives to helping others overcome it, too.
This topic is especially important during this pandemic. New research shows 2020 has triggered a rise in emergency room visits for cardiac arrest tied to drug overdoses, while the Kaiser Family Foundation reported a growing number of U.S. adults are struggling with a variety of mental health issues, increasing from 32 percent in March to 53 percent in July.
Be sure to tune-in again each weekday (M-F) for our regular episodes to get quick, unbiased news roundups in ~10 minutes!
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PHPUgly - 215:PHP 8 Release
This week on the podcast, Eric, John, and Thomas talk about the release of PHP 8, XDebug 3, Salesforce buying Slack, and more...
- PHP: PHP 8.0.0 Release Announcement
- Rasmus Lerdorf thoughts on PHP 8 Release
- PHP: Supported Versions
- PHP 8 Docker Image released
- SpaceX Starlink: User terms of service declare Mars as ‘free planet’
- Laravel Internals – A new YouTube podcast from the Laravel Team
- Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal
- Amazon Sidewalk: Should You Be Co-Opted Into A Private Neighbourhood LoRa Network?
- Amazon is bringing macOS to its AWS cloud
- A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip
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