Month: February 2021

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - What is the Latitude Society?

For many, the story began with the receipt of a mysterious card, which led them to a nondescript address in San Francisco. From there, new members of the Latitude Society found themselves living through a complex, enigmatic adventure in a secret society somewhere between a philosophical group, a city-wide theme park and a real-life conspiracy. But what exactly is The Latitude Society? What are its real origins, and where are the members today?

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 02/05

A big step closer to another coronavirus vaccine. A controversial congresswoman is stripped of her committee assignments. Securing the Super Bowl. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Friday, February 5, 2021:


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | India Turns Off the Internet

Last week, in response to protests by farmers outside New Delhi, India, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi restricted access to the mobile web in areas where the protests were unfolding. The move is the latest in the Indian government’s long history of throttling internet access and censoring speech online. 


Why is the Modi government increasingly shutting down the internet and stifling digital dissent? And what does the party’s history of internet shutdowns tell us about India’s future?


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Pranav Dixit, correspondent for Buzzfeed News


Host

Lizzie O’Leary

 

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Ballot bonanza: Latin America’s year of elections

Ecuador’s elections on Sunday kick off a packed year of polls in the region. Democracy’s foothold in South America looks assured; in Central America, less so. Engineers are vastly improving the core technologies in televisions. We preview the viewing pleasure to come. And remembering Nikolai Antoshkin, a Soviet general who faced unknowable danger to save untold lives.

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The Best One Yet - “The 1st pureplay Super Bowl stock” — Apple’s iCar. Wingstop’s stock pop. End of the S.U.M.O.

Apple and Kia just took their biggest steps yet to make iCar a thing: It’s not a First Mover, it’s a Second Shaker. Wingstop’s stock popped because chicken wing prices are living their best lives for the Super Bowl. And a subtle change may mean you don’t have to be knighted to invest in big pre-IPO startups (no more SUMO’ing - straight up missing out).  $WING $AAPL Send us your Black History Month SnackFact here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Hu00HOlQ-qb6S7Jx4CgnGOfzrA67_j_SLFqxvFKinEQ/edit Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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The NewsWorthy - Congresswoman Penalized, More Refugees Allowed & Super Bowl LV- Friday, February 5th, 2021

The news to know for Friday, February 5th, 2021!

What to know about:

  • rare action against a controversial congresswoman: what happened, how she defended herself, and what comes next
  • another encouraging step for a COVID-19 vaccines
  • the number of new COVID-19 cases going down
  • why the FDA is reviewing if there are possible toxins in some baby foods
  • NASA trying to crowdsource a new way for astronauts to eat
  • Super Bowl LV: from the game itself to unique performances happening this weekend

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Sources:

Rep. Greene Committee Assignments: AP, WSJ, NBC News, FOX News

Biden Raises Refugee Cap: The Hill, CBS News, NY Times, UN

U.S. Ends Support for Yemen War: WaPo, AP, FOX News, Axios

COVID Cases Falling, Deaths Continue: AP, Axios, CNN, Johns Hopkins, COVID Tracking

J&J Applies for EUA: J&J, WSJ, Politico, NBC News

NASA’s Food-Growing Competition: Fox News, Food&Wine, NASA, Contest

Toxic Metal Found in Baby Food: Report, NY Times, WSJ, Axios

Super Bowl Game: NFL, CBS Sports, NBC Sports

Super Bowl Performances: NY Times, GMA, WaPo, NPR

Puppy Bowl: USA Today, People, Animal Planet

Feel Good Friday: Teacher Uses Instagram to Give Back: Sharon’s Campaign, RIP Medical Debt - Donate, Sharon’s Instagram, KQDS

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Short Wave - When Life Gives You Lemons…Make A Battery

We're going "Back To School" today, revisiting a classic at-home experiment that turns lemons into batteries — powerful enough to turn on a clock or a small lightbulb. But how does the science driving that process show up in household batteries we use daily? Emily Kwong and Maddie Sofia talk battery 101 with environmental engineer Jenelle Fortunato.

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NBN Book of the Day - Mical Raz, “Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way” (UNC Press, 2020)

In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse. The message, relayed repeatedly over television and radio, urged abusive parents to seek help. 

Support groups for parents, including Parents Anonymous, proliferated across the country to deal with the seemingly burgeoning crisis. At the same time, an ever-increasing number of abused children were reported to child welfare agencies, due in part to an expansion of mandatory reporting laws and the creation of reporting hotlines across the nation. 

In Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way (University of North Carolina Press Books, 2020), Mical Raz examines this history of child abuse policy and charts how it changed since the late 1960s, specifically taking into account the frequency with which agencies removed African American children from their homes and placed them in foster care. Highlighting the rise of Parents Anonymous and connecting their activism to the sexual abuse moral panic that swept the country in the 1980s, Raz argues that these panics and policies--as well as biased viewpoints regarding race, class, and gender--played a powerful role shaping perceptions of child abuse. These perceptions were often directly at odds with the available data and disproportionately targeted poor African American families above others.

Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine. She teaches and writes about health behavior in historical context.

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