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When a company in your portfolio holds a conference call with analysts, is the call in the morning or afternoon? As best-selling author Dan Pink writes in his book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, the answer matters more than you think.
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When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy, depression, mania and anxiety have changed over time, and how societies have tried to treat something which lies on the border between the natural and the pathological. Jonathan Sadowsky's book The Empire of Depression: A New History (Polity, 2020) explores the various medical treatments for depression, classed as a modern illness with definite (but changing) symptoms from the 20th century onwards, in relation to a longer history of treatments for ‘melancholia’ and related states considered either as biological or social sicknesses or as a natural part of some people’s constitution. He also compares the western history of medicalising depression with the experiences of both sadness and clinical depression in non-western cultures, such as Nigeria and Japan. He asks, what have we lost as a consequence of the hegemony of the western clinical model, and how can we reclaim the patient experience in the face of sometimes hostile doctors and pharmaceutical companies? The book is poetic but well-researched, written by a leading medical historian, and distinguished from the crowd of books about depression through its global focus, and its historical rigour.
C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego.
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The news to know for Tuesday, January 5th, 2021!
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GA Runoffs Today: AJC, NY Times, WSJ, AP, Elections Project
Trump/Biden Rallies: LA Times, AJC, CBS News, WaPo
CEOs Urge Peaceful Transition: WSJ, Axios, Full Letter
England New COVID Lockdown: NY Times, Reuters, BBC
New COVID Variant in NY: CNBC, CBS News, Bloomberg
Qatar-Saudi Arabia Deal: Axios, Reuters, WSJ
March Madness Happening Only in Indiana: ESPN, CBS Sports, AP, NCAA
Amazon Healthcare Attempt Failed: CNBC, Stat, WSJ
Google, Alphabet Employees Unionize: TechCrunch, WSJ, Reuters, AP
Slack Outage: The Verge, WaPo, CNBC, Slack
Biewer Terrier Recognized by AKC: AP, NY Daily News, AKC
Today's Senate runoffs in Georgia will determine control of Congress, the future of economic relief, and the country’s response to existential threats like climate change. We spoke to Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey about the Georgia races, what Biden can do on his own on climate, and how to deal with Republicans who want to erase the will of voters.
And in headlines: the UK says Assange can’t be extradited to the US, hundreds of Google workers unionize, and Florida counties use EventBrite for vaccine scheduling.
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Congress is set Wednesday to certify the results of the Electoral College vote. What is the Electoral College certification process, and how does it work?
Additionally, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas and 10 other Republican senators are asking for an “emergency ‘audit’ of results in battleground states where President Donald Trump disputes the outcome," according to DallasNews.com.
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Amanda Holmes reads Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem “A Prison Evening.” 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.
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Nearly a dozen Republican Senators including Hawley and Cruz are still planning on trying to overthrow the results of the election. The exact same election results that, you know, elected many of them. Andrew gives us the quick breakdown of that and explains why it isn't going to work. We also discuss comparisons to 2004 and 2016. Our main segment is a classic OA Signature Deep-Dive (tm) on litigation hold letters, inspired by the very aggressive one sent by Dominion to star Giuliani witness Melissa Carrone. As much as she may deserve scorn, Andrew argues that Dominion is perhaps crossing a line with this letter. Find out why!
Links: 3 US Code § 15 - Counting electoral votes in Congress, 2004 Electoral College Results, Democrats challenge Ohio electoral votes - Jan 6, 2005, Dominion lawyers sent this BRUTAL letter to Mellissa Carrone
On the Gist, President Trump made a phone call and blew apart the life of a private citizen.
And, today in Remembrances of Things Trump: teleprompter stumble.
In the interview, it’s part one of a conversation with David Shor, a researcher and consultant for democratic politicians. Shor discusses the value trade-offs parties have to make in order to win an election. From his analysis, he explains that when a political party’s values are out of sync with what a median voter believes, issues inevitably arise at the polls. He stresses that it’s not just the messaging, it’s about how it is disseminated and used to persuade.
In the spiel, the answer is: This former Jeopardy! contestant is facing Twitter backlash.
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