Month: January 2021

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The Best One Yet - “She made the first IPO move” — Bumble’s IPO filing. Spotify’s car thing. Biden’s $1.9 Trillion energy shot.

Bumble’s New Year’s resolution was to go public, so we just jumped into its IPO paperwork. Spotify’s “Car Thing” is the secret gadget to know about. And we’re whipping up the most important numbers from Biden’s $1.9T stimulus plan. $BMBL $SPOT Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @TBOYJack @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 - Congressman Tim Ryan is Pissed

Almost two weeks after the siege on the Capitol, Rep. Tim Ryan still has questions about why Congress was left with such meager defenses. How is Congress dealing with the fallout from the attack? And with one day left before Joe Biden’s inauguration, is the nation’s capital safe?


Guest: Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH 13).


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Ologies with Alie Ward - Bilharziology (BLOOD FLUKES) with Anouk N. Gouvras

A LOST EPISODE! Three years in the making, this interview features vials of vile creatures, worm drama, febrile hallucinations, spooning, and unfortunate snacks. It has waited a long time to meet you, so let’s get weird, take a trip back to summer of 2017 -- before Ologies existed -- and unearth one of the very first, never-before-heard interviews. Alie absolutely bungles her way through a chat with Dr. Anouk Gouvras, a London-based parasitologist studying the flatworms that cause schistosomiasis. Consider this an awkward baby photo of Ologies: before the show had any format or structure, and before your host learned how to properly use sound equipment. Stay tuned for a surprise ending to the conversation, and then follow Dr. Gouvras on Twitter and tell her you’re glad to finally get an introduction.

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Short Wave - Let’s Go Back To Venus!

In 1962, the first spacecraft humans ever sent to another planet — Mariner 2 — went to Venus. The first planet on which humans ever landed a probe — also Venus! But since then, Mars has been the focus of planetary missions. NPR science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel makes the case for why humans should reconsider visiting to Venus.

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NBN Book of the Day - Andrew Jewett, “Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America” (Harvard UP, 2020)

Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that "tenured radicals" have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. Some progressives, especially in the universities, worry that science's celebration of objectivity and neutrality masks its attachment to Eurocentric and patriarchal values. As we grapple with the implications of climate change and revolutions in fields from biotechnology to robotics to computing, it is crucial to understand how scientific authority functions--and where it has run up against political and cultural barriers.

Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America (Harvard UP, 2020) reconstructs a century of battles over the cultural implications of science in the United States. Andrew Jewett reveals a persistent current of criticism which maintains that scientists have injected faulty social philosophies into the nation's bloodstream under the cover of neutrality. This charge of corruption has taken many forms and appeared among critics with a wide range of social, political, and theological views, but common to all is the argument that an ideologically compromised science has produced an array of social ills. Jewett shows that this suspicion of science has been a major force in American politics and culture by tracking its development, varied expressions, and potent consequences since the 1920s.

Looking at today's battles over science, Jewett argues that citizens and leaders must steer a course between, on the one hand, the naïve image of science as a pristine, value-neutral form of knowledge, and, on the other, the assumption that scientists' claims are merely ideologies masquerading as truths.

Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine. She teaches and writes about health behavior in historical context.

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The NewsWorthy - Trump’s Last Day, “Moment of Unity” & Jackpots Up Again- Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, January 19th, 2021!

We have updates about:

  • President Trump's final full day as the nation's leader
  • how the process to get the next president's team in place is underway
  • the country coming together tonight to remember lives lost to COVID-19
  • travel companies adding new rules ahead of tomorrow's Inauguration Day
  • what cause inspired an anonymous donor to give $40 million
  • historic jackpots growing larger

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:

More Trump Pardons Expected: NY Times, Reuters, WSJ, Axios

First Lady’s Farewell Message: USA Today, FOX News, White House

National “Moment of Unity” Ceremony: NBC News, Axios, Biden Inaugural

“We Are One” Event: AP, Deadline, Biden Inaugural

Biden Cabinet Confirmation Hearings: Axios, WaPo, CBS News

Militia Members Charged for Capitol Invasion: WaPo, WSJ, NY Times, CBS News

COVID Deaths Rise in 30 States: AP, NBC News, CNN, Johns Hopkins, CDC

Parler Back Online: Reuters, Ars Technica, Fox News, Parler

Expedia, Vrbo Tighten Security: USA Today, Fox Business, Expedia

Facebook Blocks New Events Around Capitals: TechCrunch, Facebook

Anonymous Donor Gives $40 Million to NAACP: NPR, AP, Marshall Motley Program

Lottery Jackpots Rise Again: USA Today, NBC News, Mega Millions, Powerball

Critics Choice Awards Nominations: Variety, Deadline, USA Today

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What A Day - Executive Order Up

Over the weekend, Biden’s team announced the president-elect’s agenda for the first ten days of his term, plus a dozen or so executive actions Biden intends to sign on Inauguration Day. We discuss.

Tomorrow's inauguration will have a massive security presence, with tens of thousands of National Guard troops headed to DC. Across the country, authorities continue to arrest people who participated in the January 6th attack, and states remain on high alert for any violent demonstrations.

And in headlines: misinformation down on social media following Trump’s ban, Samsung’s chief is headed to prison again, and a pandemic-defining relationship comes to an end as Affleck and de Armas break up.

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The Daily Signal - Trump Made Foster Children a Priority. That Shouldn’t Change Under Biden.

“Every child deserves a family,” begins President Donald Trump’s executive order last June on “Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America’s Children.” 


The Trump administration made foster children a priority, working with state and local groups to place children in loving homes more quickly and to ensure that fewer children are entering the system to begin with. 


Lynn Johnson, assistant secretary at the Administration for Children and Families, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, joins the show to discuss how that executive order last summer has improved the foster care system and why it’s so important for the incoming Biden administration to continue to make vulnerable children a priority. 


We also read your letters to the editor and share a "good news story" about a young woman who found a way to use horses to inspire a love of reading in students. 


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