Month: January 2021

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Is China Poised to Nationalize Alibaba?

The International Business Times reports China might nationalize Alibaba. Here’s what that has to do with China’s digital currency efforts. 

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Today on the Brief:

  • Whales accumulated during yesterday’s crash 
  • Kentucky legislators introduce bill to attract crypto miners
  • UBS lowers the threshold for charging savers because of negative interest rates


Our main discussion: What China’s prospective nationalization of Alibaba has to do with the nation’s digital currency efforts. 

In this episode, NLW:

  • Gives a background on China’s digital currency project
  • Discusses why the DCEP is motivated by a larger attempt to internationalize the RMB
  • Background on Alipay, Ant Financial and Alibaba
  • How Alibaba founder Jack Ma annoyed the CCP and why he hasn’t been seen publicly in two months


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Surströmming: The World’s Smelliest Food

There are many foods that are considered an acquired taste. Foods that might not be very palatable the first time you try it, or something that just doesn’t sit right with most people. It could be something as simple as blue cheese, or something like the Filipino delicacy, balut, which is a boiled, fertilized egg with the embryo still inside. Sweden has its own acquired taste delicacy which has spawned hundreds of reaction videos as people and caused it to be banned by airlines.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: Julian Assange, Tensions in Iran, Dippin’ Dots and COVID

The UK has ruled against extraditing Julian Assange to the US--not because they disagree with the merits of the accusations, but because they feel Assange has no reasonable guarantee of safety if sent to a US prison (paging Mr. Epstein). The technology used to keep novelty ice cream Dippin' Dots fresh could soon be used to store the Pfizer COVID vaccine. International tensions rise as Iran plans to further enrich nuclear material and a divided US seems unable to project a coherent policy message abroad. All this and more in this week's Strange News.

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The Impeachment Calculation

Congress once again compelled to take up an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, and the old political calculations are making a comeback. Republicans have a gun to their heads—if reports are to be believed, in a very literal sense, and are increasingly less inclined to support such a motion. But Democrats don’t seem inclined to make betraying Trump an enticing prospect. Source

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 01/12

Trump supporters threaten new violence in all 50 states. Two Capitol Police officers suspended. California's mounting COVID deaths. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Life Raft - Bonus Episode: Confronting The Loss That Climate Change Promises

Happy New Year, Life Raft listeners!

We’re busy readying the second half of the Life Raft season, but we still wanted you to feast your ears on some climate content, so here’s a story for you.

It’s all about our attachment to place in the face of climate change — our connection to the land, our ways of life, and how we emotionally process what it means for those places to be threatened by climate change.

This story was originally produced by Davis Land for Houston Public Media. Davis is currently a senior producer for Slate’s daily news podcast, What Next.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - You don’t say: tech’s Trump bans

Moves to shutter the president’s accounts and to crimp corners of the internet given to right-wing extremism raise thorny questions, both about free speech and social-media firms’ business models. Our public-policy editor takes a broad look at girlhood: how women’s adolescence has changed for the better but is challenged mightily by covid-19. And science’s bid to save more snake-bite victims’ lives.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S4 E2: Charlie & Chinmay, RidePanda

Charlie Depman grew up in Connecticut, then went to college in Canada - pursuing environmental studies. His first job out of college was to be the Asia regional coordinator for an environment NGO, or non-government organization. He writes short sci-fi stories, and as he was learning to code, he discovered that he could now create these future stories with code, rather than just write them. He's been into bicycles since his first trip to China, prior to college - and has bought, built and used many different types of bikes... including an ice bike with metal studded tires.


Chinmay Malaviya grew up in New Delhi with engineers as parents - so math and science was always a thing growing up. He ended up doing his undergrad in Singapore, studying computer science. Funny enough, he is the trained engineer in his current venture. After trying out big companies and computer research early on in his career, he realized that he didn't like either one. He took the leap into the startup world with Food Panda, and eventually got involved with Lime, the popular micro mobility platform. At Lime, Chinmay was exposed to the environmental challenges we are facing as a society, especially around transportation.


Charlie & Chinmay got together early in 2020, with a shared passion for reducing transportation related emissions by creating the one stop e-mobility shop - complete with a marketplace and vetting system for the best micro mobility options available.


This is the creation story of RidePanda.


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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – The Best Way to Punish Trump

With just over a week left in the Trump presidency, Congressional Democrats are asking Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and strip President Trump of his power. Is that the right way to hold the president accountable? 

Guest: Brian Kalt, law professor at Michigan State University. His latest book is Unable: The Law, Politics, and Limits of Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. 

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