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Music
Sarah in Bath from Komeda's great score to The Fearless Vampire Killers
David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's great score to Straw Dogs
When It's Time to Go by Buddy Fo and His Group (great name for a backing band, btw)
Completely Gone from Ludwig Gorannson's score to Everything, Everything
In this episode, NLW speaks with Kyle Bass. Kyle is the founder and chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management, a hedge fund focused on global events. He is known for correctly predicting the subprime mortgage crisis, as well as for his outspoken and critical views on China.
In this episode, he and NLW discuss:
Contrarian investing
The larger macro landscape
Bitcoin and crypto
How the U.S.’ relationship with China changed under former President Donald Trump
How the relationship is likely to evolve under current President Joe Biden
The Earth takes a year to go around the sun, and a day to turn on its axis.
It is tilted 23.5 degrees which is what causes the seasons.
All of these facts which you learned in school are true, but they are not permanent. They change, very slowly, over time.
One astrophysicist in the 1920s figured out that all of these cycles could interact with each other, affecting the long term climate of the Earth.
Learn more about Milankovitch Cycles on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Amanda Holmes reads Pablo Neruda’s poem, “Tonight I Can Write (the Saddest Lines),” translated by W. S. Merwin. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
Today’s podcast asks whether the Democrats are both overplaying their hand politically and setting themselves up to seem like extremists in 2022 or whether Republicans in places like Oregon are setting up the GOP for disaster because of their embrace of conspiracy theory and lies. And what does this mean for the politicians who like to straddle fences? Give a listen. Source
Why do some people believe the Middle Ages never happened? Can we really trust our calendars? Do current world powers have a compelling interest in suppressing our knowledge of the past? Listen in and learn more with Matt and Ben in this week's classic episode.
Wild weather --- a rare January tornado turns deadly in Alabama as snow blankets the Midwest. Article of impeachment delivered to the Senate. CA eases up on virus restrictions. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
The 2020 Hurricane Season was intense. It set all kinds of records: most named storms in a season,and most to rapidly intensify, among others. Five storms hit the Louisiana coast.
How much of this can we chalk up to climate change, and how much has to do with normal weather patterns? What’s the link between hurricanes and climate change?
This week on Life Raft we revisit interviews with people who survived Hurricane Laura this summer, take a road trip across Louisiana, and learn the latest science about climate change and hurricanes.
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This week, we welcome the wonderful, brainy Rozi Ali, a journo friend who writes about Islamophobia and the US “war on terror.” We also dish about basketball and a kimchi-based spat between South Korea and China.
17:45 – Biden started his presidency by reversing Trump-era actions on immigration, including the Muslim ban. Rozi puts these moves in context of foreign policy and the forever wars. Shout-out to the Quincy Institute and anti-war activism; plus: Jay and Rozi still don’t know who Fran Lebowitz is.
54:30 – The South Asian diaspora in the US tends to vote very Democratic, but some of its members have big blind spots around class concerns as well as the government in India. We discuss all this in the context of Arun Venugopal’s recent piece in The Atlantic, “The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism.”
>> If you’re free tonight, Tuesday, Jan. 26, join this US–Canada event on transnational “movement lawyering,” organized by TTSG friends. Tammy is in the mix: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/asian-american-asian-canadian-perspectives-on-movement-lawyering-tickets-135937527805
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