Stock-trading is shifting to the continent; businesses are bound up in red tape; border issues are still simmering. There is far more than mere “teething problems” as Britain and Europe adjust to their new relationship. Our correspondent looks at the slippery nature of risk by speaking with wing-suited daredevils. And in Kenya the flower-industry bounce-back is blooming great news.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
For most of the last year, Clubhouse—the audio-only social media app—has been dominated by conversations about business, branding, and Elon Musk. But as users picked up the app around the globe, something extraordinary happened.
Censors in mainland China overlooked it. And for two weeks in February, it hosted a series of unusual, unfiltered conversations. Han Chinese, Hong Kongers, Taiwanese, and Uighurs all flooded to the app to speak freely about authoritarianism, democracy, and propaganda.
Here’s what happened when the censors looked the other way.
Guest:
Melissa Chan, journalist with the Global Reporting Centre
Women-first dating app Bumble pulled off the double-double IPO before Valentine’s Day (but don’t call it a dating app). Clubhouse gets Kanye on-board, but we’re looking at its earliest Black community. And flying robot taxi Archer (sounds scary) shows why big companies keep their enemies close.
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Happy Valentine's Day from Short Wave! We've got something special for the holiday, Maddie and Emily exchange the gift of science facts - from the process of farming and fermenting cacao to the courtship rituals of scorpions and loggerhead shrikes.
In this new volume, Dr. Steinberg offers both theoretical inferences and practical guidance related to the application of psychoanalysis to medical practice. Dr. Steinberg provides insight on, among many other topics, how clinicians’ awareness of their own feelings can aid in the diagnostic process and how a psychoanalytic approach can enrich patient interview.
Alec Kacew is a medical school student at the University of Chicago.
President Biden announced yesterday that the US will have enough doses to vaccinate all Americans by the end of July. We talk to Dr. Anthony Fauci about the vaccines on the way, what they’ll mean as we start to face new variants, and mask guidance in the meantime.
And in headlines: House managers wrapped up their final arguments in Trump’s second impeachment trial, queer and trans Americans will be protected under the Fair Housing Act, and Jeep pulls Bruce Springsteen’s ad after reports of his November DUI.
Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., recently wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on House Democrats' efforts to require the International Monetary Fund to issue special drawing rights to all member countries. What is the agenda and goal here? "All the third world countries that [China has] loaned money to over the last 10 years and taken strategic minerals, commodities, oil, and gas reserves as collateral suddenly have hard currency to pay them back," Hill notes on the podcast, discussing this and more:
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On Thursday the Senate held the third day of the trial to impeach former President Donald Trump.
President Joe Biden has made good on his promise to halt funding for construction of the U.S. Mexico border wall.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, says he thinks the coronavirus vaccine will be available to everyone by April.
Thanks to Marceli Wac for sending us a question about cron jobs. We love getting mail from listeners and try our best to read interesting questions on the show.
The goal for Ben's app is simple: let anyone register their intention to show up to the dog park at a certain time so that strangers can have a better chance of arriving at the same time and get some exercise for the pups. What's the simplest web app that would collect the least personal information and reset every 24 hours. Bonus points if we can do it without a database!
Kristina Lustig, a veteran Stacker, wrote a great blog post for us: I followed my dreams and got demoted to software developer.
