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The U-S hits a grim record: 3,157 virus deaths in a single day. Los Angeles issues Safer at Home order. President Trump's 46-minute speech full of unproven fraud claims. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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Bay Curious listener Erin Al Gwaiz wanted to know more about the time that famous Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera spent in San Francisco. In this episode, reporter Marisol Medina-Cadena immerses us in their world — exploring who they were, how they spent their time here, and ultimately how their legacy still resonates today.
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Reported by Marisol Medina-Cadena. Frida Kahlo voice acting by Maria Pena. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Katie McMurran and Paul Lancour. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Ethan Lindsey and Vinnee Tong.
In the West market forces are squeezing coal—even as its use rises in Asia. We examine how the world can wean itself off the dirtiest fossil fuel. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Belarus’s probable presidential-election winner, never expected to run for office. Our correspondent visits her in exile, asking about the country’s prospects for democracy. And how candy-floss machines may help make better face masks.
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In which we learn why Los Angeles and other post-war American cities have tens of thousands of the same apartment complex, and Ken wonders where Philip Johnson's water heater is. Certificate #25380.
In the last month, multiple drug companies have announced highly effective vaccines for the coronavirus. But getting everyone vaccinated will be a challenge - not just logistically, but also from a PR standpoint. With distribution on the horizon, how can we build vaccine trust?
Guest: Heidi Larson, director of the Vaccine Confidence Project and author of Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start -- and Why They Don't Go Away.
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The news to know for Thursday, December 3rd, 2020!
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CDC: Stay Home for More Holidays: AP, Politico, USA Today, CDC
CDC Shortens Quarantine Time: FOX News, NBC News, NY Times, CDC
New COVID-19 Daily Records: WaPo, CNN, The Hill, Johns Hopkins, COVID Tracking
Trump Voter Fraud Video: WSJ, AP, NY Times, USA Today, Trump Post
U.S. Diplomats Leaving Baghdad Embassy: WaPo, CNN, Politico
UN: World Failing on Climate Goals: AP, USA Today, BBC, Axios, UN
DOT Emotional Support Animals Rules: NBC News, Business Insider, FOX News, DOT
New Bitcoin Rewards Visa: Business Insider, CNBC, Bloomberg, Bitcoin Rewards Card
UPS Shipping Limits: WSJ, USPS, FedEx, UPS
Lebron James Contract Extension: WaPo, AP, ESPN
National Christmas Tree Lighting: WaPo, Nationaltree.org, NPS.gov
Thing to Know Thursday: Replacing Top Lawmakers: AP, NY Times, CNN, Vox
Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinchingly challenged the ethics of eating animals. Now, in Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically (Liveright, 2020), Singer brings together the most consequential essays of his career to make this devastating case against our failure to confront what we are doing to animals, to public health, and to our planet.
From his 1973 manifesto for animal liberation to his personal account of becoming a vegetarian in “The Oxford Vegetarians” and to investigating the impact of meat on global warming, Singer traces the historical arc of the animal rights, vegetarian, and vegan movements from their embryonic days to today, when climate change and global pandemics threaten the very existence of humans and animals alike. In his introduction and in “The Two Dark Sides of COVID-19,” cowritten with Paola Cavalieri, Singer excoriates the appalling health hazards of Chinese wet markets—where thousands of animals endure almost endless brutality and suffering—but also reminds westerners that they cannot blame China alone without also acknowledging the perils of our own factory farms, where unimaginably overcrowded sheds create the ideal environment for viruses to mutate and multiply.
Spanning more than five decades of writing on the systemic mistreatment of animals, Why Vegan? features a topical new introduction, along with nine other essays.
Written in Singer’s pellucid prose, Why Vegan? asserts that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism. The book ultimately becomes an urgent call to reframe our lives in order to redeem ourselves and alter the calamitous trajectory of our imperiled planet.
One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. The best-selling author of Animal Liberation and The Ethics of What We Eat, among other works, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and Melbourne, Australia.
Mark Molloy is the reviews editor at MAKE: A Literary Magazine.
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