Month: February 2021

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: A Bitcoiner Is Now on the Senate Banking Committee

Wyoming’s Cynthia Lummis – the first U.S. senator to publicly hold bitcoin – has been appointed to the key financial regulatory committee.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

On this edition of The Breakdown’s weekly recap, NLW discusses:

  • The state of WallStreetBets
  • The Bitcoin for Corporations event
  • ETH all-time highs in advance of CME ETH futures
  • Tether
  • Cynthia Lummis on the Senate Banking Committee


This week on The Breakdown:

Monday | Have the Hedge Funds Infiltrated Reddit’s WallStreetBets?

Tuesday | Is This the End of the Reddit Retail Investor Dream?

Wednesday | Michael Saylor’s Mission to Get 1,400 Corporations Into Bitcoin

Thursday | What We Learned About PayPal’s Crypto Strategy This Week

Friday | Travis Kling: In the Fed Era, There’s No Such Thing as Market Fundamentals

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: Impeachment Trial Q&A

Today we’re breaking down what to expect at the Senate impeachment trial against former President Trump next week.

We’ll discuss the arguments we’ll likely hear from both sides, how the constitution and our nation’s history come into play, and what the senators (who act like the jury) will likely be keeping in mind as they decide whether to convict.  

Be sure to tune-in again each weekday (M-F) for our regular episodes to get quick, unbiased news roundups in ~10 minutes! 

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World Book Club - Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island

This month World Book Club discusses Bill Bryson’s hugely acclaimed travelogue Notes from a Small Island with the author and his readers around the world. After two decades as a resident of the United Kingdom, Bryson took what he thought might be a last affectionate trip around his adoptive country before returning to live in his native America. Notes from a Small Island is the irreverent and hilarious account of this meandering journey through his beloved island nation. From Dover to Downing Street, from Giggleswick to Loch Ness by way of Titsey and Nether Wallop, Bryson rejoices in Britain’s inimitable placenames and much else of more substance besides, his very own State of the Nation address, as it were.

A huge number-one bestseller when it was first published, Notes from a Small Island has become that nation's most loved book about Britain.

(Picture: Bill Bryson. Photo credit: Catherine Williams.)

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Glasgow vs Rwanda

Tim explores a shocking claim that life expectancy in some parts of Glasgow is less than it is in Rwanda. But is that fair on Glasgow and for that matter is it fair on Rwanda? And a listener asks whether loss of smell is a strong enough symptom of Covid that it might be used to help diagnose the virus, replacing rapid testing.

Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Chloe Hadjimatheou

(Left: Rwanda refugee - photo Reza. Right: Glasgow homeless man - photo Christopher Furlong / both Getty images)

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The Gist - Taking QAnon Seriously

On the Gist, cost of living and minimum wage around the U.S.

In the Interview, journalist David Gilbert from Vice News joins Mike to talk about QAnon, the cult of disinformation, it's propulsion into 2021, and how people from all walks of life are susceptible to believing. Plus, Gilbert translates Marjorie Taylor Greene's floor speech, and explains why it wasn't a disavowing of Q or the conspiracy theories she still believes in. 

In the spiel, it’s the first lobstar of the antentwig of 2021!

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PHPUgly - 222:PHP Security Tools

This week on the podcast, Eric, John, and Thomas talk about database management with GUIs and Commandline, security checkers for PHP, Crypto, and more...

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Roundup

Mayor Lori Lightfoot sends her “best and final offer” to the Chicago Teachers Union, raising the stakes for a strike. Illinois loosens COVID-19 restrictions across the state. Plus, the Obama Presidential Center gets the greenlight to break ground in 2021 after years of delays. Reset breaks down the biggest news of the week in our Friday News Roundup with host Sasha-Ann Simons. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset.
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Consider This from NPR - Live Performance, The Pandemic And The Domino Effect Of Dark Stages

The pandemic leveled live performance, and the industry is last in line for a return to normal.

Musician Zoe Keating and production designer Terry Morgan describe how their work has changed with live venues nationwide shuttered for nearly a year.

Venue owner Danya Frank of First Avenue and Jim Ritts of the Paramount Theatre explain why the gears of the performing arts economy are not designed for a slow return to normalcy.

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