Month: January 2021

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Closing The Gap On Vaccine Access: Ensuring Diversity In Clinical Trials (Part 2)

In the latest installment in our series Closing the Gap, Reset explores disparities in vaccine access and distribution in the Chicago region.

The series continues with a closer look at the push for diversity in clinical trials with Chicago’s first two COVID-19 vaccine trial participants and two health care workers leading efforts to vet the vaccine at the local and national levels.

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Consider This from NPR - Deplatforming: Not A First Amendment Issue, But Still A Tough Call For Big Tech

Removing disinformation — and users who spread it — can come at a cost for web hosts and social media platforms. But studies indicate "deplatforming" does stem the flow of disinformation.

Kate Starbird with the University of Washington explains why it's easier to see the effects of deplatforming in the short-term. And NPR's Shannon Bond looks at how one growing social media site is dealing with new attention and new challenges.

Additional reporting in this episode from NPR's Bobby Allyn, who's reported on the removal of Parler by Amazon Web Services.

In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.

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the memory palace - Episode 174: The Stone



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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

  • Peri Banu vid sjon (Version) by DUNGEN

  • Debut by Christopher Ferreira

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: ‘The 4 Wars We Could Fight With China,’ Feat. Kyle Bass

One of investing’s loudest critics of China shares his assessment of where the U.S. political and business relationship with the country is headed. 

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

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 


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Milankovitch Cycles

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.

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Read Me a Poem - “Tonight I Can Write (the Saddest Lines)” by Pablo Neruda

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.


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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Who’s Going to Look More Extreme?

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

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 01/26

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.

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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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