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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #815 – Feb 20 2021
Cold Snap in Texas; News Items: American Megafauna Extinction, The Fifth Dimension, Bird's Magnetic World, Pentagon UFO Wreckage; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Police and Lie Detection, Saunas and Sweat; Science or Fiction
Byzantium And The Crusades - The Second Age of the Crusaders Episode 2 “The German Crusade of 1197”
Ever heard of the German Crusade of 1197? Probably not. It must be one of the most overlooked Crusades. And yet it could have been a game-changer. Discover why in this episode.
Please take a look at my website nickholmesauthor.com where you can download a free copy of The Byzantine World War, my book that describes the origins of the First Crusade.
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: ‘I Am Not a Cat’ – The GameStop Hearing Shows How Desperately a New Financial System Is Needed
What we learned from the congressional hearing featuring representatives from Reddit, Melvin Capital, Citadel Securities and Robinhood.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
This week, instead of our normal Weekly Recap, NLW digs into Thursday’s congressional hearings around GameStop, Robinhood and WallStreetBets.
He explores:
- Why there was a significant focus on T+2 settlement
- Bipartisan agreement on retail investors getting screwed, but different diagnoses on how to address
- Why Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, aka DeepF***ingValue is a new American folk hero
Ultimately, NLW argues that any congressional action needs to make it easier for retail investors to be full participants in the market, rather than further limiting their options.
This week on The Breakdown:
Monday | The Mainstream Media Narrative Shifts as Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley Come to Bitcoin
Tuesday | Is $50,000 BTC the Beginning of a Bitcoin Supercycle?
Wednesday | Coinbase Trades at a $77B Valuation as BTC Heads Towards a $1T Market Cap
Thursday | How 2,000 Years of Monetary History Led Us to Bitcoin, Feat. Nik Bhatia
Friday | Bitcoin Is Now a Trillion-Dollar Asset: Where Do We Go From Here?
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Elevator
Some of the things we use every day were invented in the distant past. Other things were invented quite recently.
However, there is a category of inventions that have been known forever, but no one ever had any practical use for it until recently.
Learn more about the elevator, and how it helped create the modern world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - New Film Shows Immigration Story Through Eyes Of Korean Americans
Actor Steven Yeun talks about making “Minari”, and how it’s the first film he’s been involved with that shows the immigrant experience through the eyes of a recently-arrived Korean family to the U.S.
Short Wave - BONUS: Throughline — Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction
To round out our celebration of Black History Month, we're bringing you a special episode featuring acclaimed science fiction writer Octavia Butler from our friends at NPR's history podcast Throughline.
Octavia Butler's alternate realities and 'speculative fiction' reveal striking, and often devastating parallels to the world we live in today. She was a deep observer of the human condition, perplexed and inspired by our propensity towards self-destruction. Butler was also fascinated by the cyclical nature of history, and often looked to the past when writing about the future. Along with her warnings is her message of hope — a hope conjured by centuries of survival and persistence. For every society that perished in her books, came a story of rebuilding, of repair.
Read Throughline's article about Octavia Butler.
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Octavia Butler's alternate realities and 'speculative fiction' reveal striking, and often devastating parallels to the world we live in today. She was a deep observer of the human condition, perplexed and inspired by our propensity towards self-destruction. Butler was also fascinated by the cyclical nature of history, and often looked to the past when writing about the future. Along with her warnings is her message of hope — a hope conjured by centuries of survival and persistence. For every society that perished in her books, came a story of rebuilding, of repair.
Read Throughline's article about Octavia Butler.
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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: Impact of Virtual School
Today we’re talking about the impact of virtual schooling on students.
We discuss why (and how much) some children are falling behind, what schools have to consider other than safety when returning to in-person learning, and some practical solutions, including what parents can do right now.
This episode is brought to you by BLUblox.com/newsworthy and Fitbod.me/newsworthy
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Gray Wolf Is a Recovered Species, So Why Won’t the Feds Say So?
When species recover, the feds should remove them from the Endangered Species List. But that's not how it often works. Jonathan Wood of the Property and Environment Research Center comments.
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This Machine Kills - 45. Platform’s Republic of Facebook (patreon teaser)
We riff on the archetype of the tech guy who can’t bear his California dream being soured by the existence of other people struggling to get by in a city his industry has immiserated. Then dive into the formation of Facebook’s Oversight Board—their very own so-called Supreme Court—and how their cosplaying as Founding Fathers reveals larger lessons for shifts underway in corporate vs. state sovereignty.
Some stuff we reference:
• California Exit Interview: Fleeing $17 Salads and 'General Lawlessness' by Joe Garofoli: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-Exit-Interview-Fleeing-17-salads-and-15947926.php
• Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court by Kate Klonick: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/inside-the-making-of-facebooks-supreme-court
• Liberalism is Dead by Vicky Osterweil: https://thenewinquiry.com/liberalism-is-dead/
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