Month: January 2021

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Life Raft - How Much Can We Blame The 2020 Hurricane Season On Climate Change?

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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Time To Say Goodbye - Kimchi nationalism, Biden on immigration and foreign policy, and Desi identities with Rozina Ali

Hi from Obama’s third term!

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.

1:10 – Why Rozi gave up on the Warriors.

3:35 – Korea and China are fighting again. Over kimchi.

Not sponsored content: the offending Li Ziqi video (kimchi at the 13:20 mark: judge for yourself!)

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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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S4 E4: Hrishi Dixit, Yieldstreet

Hrishi Dixit was born and raised in India. He wrote his first program when he was 13 years old... and he was hooked on computers from that point forward. He comes from a family of teachers and book store owners, so he was kind of an outlier - and, as a kid, having a computer was a luxury that his family couldn't afford. In his undergrad, he studied mechanical engineering, as computer science wasn't available. However, he brought in programming as much as possible. His graduate studies were completed at Cornell, where he worked side by side with Xerox scientists on interesting micro-mechanical systems problems.


Books have always been a thing for Hrishi - loving the tactile sense of holding a book. He also enjoys a good whisky, along with traveling - and he'd love to retire living in Scotland within walking distance of Laguvulin.. if he can convince his wife to brave the winters in Scotland. He worked for Schlumberger for a while on robotic drilling tools, but then followed the activity in California, around the time where the internet was evolving and Google was taking shape. He wanted to be apart of that.


Towards the end of his time in San Fran, he worked in fintech - loving the connection point between math, science and software. He was the founding CTO of LearnVest, which was sold to Northwestern Mutual. Around the time of the sale, he met the founder of his current venture and joined the team as a consultant, and then advisor. During that time, he built out the makings of an alternative investment platform - in fact, the first of its kind.


This is the creation story of Yieldstreet.


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The Intelligence from The Economist - Party down: Vietnam’s Communist leaders meet

At this week’s five-yearly congress there will be pride in the handling of the pandemic—but broader discontent and mounting protests should worry party bigwigs. We ask our education correspondent why so many American schools remain empty and what the long-run costs will be. And differentiating the difficult character of Patricia Highsmith from the litany of difficult characters she conjured.

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The Best One Yet - “You, me, some guy, and Oprah” – Clubhouse hits $1B. Latch’s public key. WWE’s micro-stream fail.

Clubhouse has become the only unicorn you can’t see, only hear. Latch is going public to open your door (literally), but the money is in the software. And we’ve got the 2nd failure of the Streaming Wars (after Quibi): World Wrestling Entertainment. $TSIA $CMCSA Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @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 - The Biden-McConnell Relationship

There’s a lot riding on the working relationship of President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They are bonded by their service in the U.S. Senate, their ideological flexibility, and their respect for norms -- unless those norms stand in the way of their ambitions. 

Guest: Alex Thompson, White House reporter for Politico. 

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The NewsWorthy - Travel Bans, Coast-to-Coast Storm & Super Bowl Ads Pulled- Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, January 26th, 2021!

We have updates about:

  • new travel requirements in the U.S.
  • a federal investigation into the Justice Department
  • the winter storm impacting millions of Americans across the country
  • which major brands won't be advertising at the Super Bowl this year and why
  • what Twitter's new Birdwatch feature is all about
  • the top movies of the year

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Sources:

New Travel Restrictions: NPR, CBS News, AP, USA Today, White House

Plan to Overturn Election Investigated: WSJ, WaPo, FOX News, NY Times, OIG Statement

Impeachment Article Delivered: CNBC, NY Times, AP

Italy Prime Minister to Resign: BBC, WaPo, Axios

World’s Ice Melting Faster than Ever: WSJ, Bloomberg, WaPo, Full Research

Latest Winter Storm: USA Today, AP, NBC News, Accuweather

Major Brands Sitting Out Super Bowl: AP, CNBC, NY Times, Budweiser

Google Helps Vaccine Efforts: SF Chronicle, ABC News, Engadget, Google

Twitter Launches Fact-Checking Feature: The Verge, NBC News, AP, Twitter, Birdwatch

Disney Overhauling Jungle Cruise: SF Gate, Bloomberg, Hollywood Reporter, Disney Parks

AFI’s Top Movies: AP, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, AFI

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NBN Book of the Day - Simon Baron-Cohen, “The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention” (Allen Lane, 2020)

Why are humans alone capable of invention? This question is relevant to every human invention, from music to mathematics, sculpture and science, dating back to the beginnings of civilization. In The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention, Simon Baron-Cohen, the director of the Autism Research Center at Cambridge University, presents a new theory of human invention. His unexpected claim is that understanding autistic people — specifically their unstoppable drive to seek patterns, a characteristic of the condition — is the key to understanding both the ancient origins and the modern flowering of human creativity.

In The Pattern Seekers, Simon Baron-Cohen’s goal is two-fold: to provide an answer to the long-standing question about human invention and to understand the role that autistic people played in the evolution of human invention. His higher message is to change the way our society views and treats autistic people. “Among the new generation of hypersystemizers will be some of the great inventors of our future…If we acknowledge that some autistic people were and still are the drivers of the evolution of science, technology, art, and other forms of invention, their future can be different.”

Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch.

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