Month: March 2021

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The Best One Yet - “Mango is #1 in fruit” — Mission Produce’s fragmentation. Squarespace’s $10B website. Uber’s UK “workers”.

Avocado icon Mission Produce jumps into the mango game because “commodities only exist in the minds of the inept.” Squarespace hits a $10B valuation building websites, but the real story here is its “Comp”: Wix. And Uber’s huge switcheroo in London is an unprecedented precedent for the entire Gig Economy. $AVO $WIX $UBER Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform 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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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Why Cuomo Won’t Resign

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo faces calls to resign over accusations of sexual harassment and allowing a toxic workplace culture to persist. But to the people who know him best, it’s unlikely the governor will ever bow to those demands. 

Guests: Jimmy Vielkind, Wall Street Journal reporter covering New York politics & government.

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The NewsWorthy - Spa Shootings Outrage, Tax Deadline Delayed & March Madness Begins- Thursday, March 18th, 2021

The news to know for Thursday, March 18th, 2021!

We're talking about:

  • one of the worst mass killings in the last couple years: what may have compelled the gunman and why it's left the Asian American community especially rattled
  • a large new study about how likely it is you'll get COVID-19 twice
  • the first high-level meetings between the U.S. and China that are bound to get heated
  • a tax extension you didn't have to ask for
  • airless bike tires that won't puncture
  • how this year's March Madness will be different than usual

All that and more in around 10 minutes...

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Sources:

Atlanta-Area Spa Shootings: AJC, NPR, AP, USA Today, Biden Tweet

Intelligence Report on Domestic Terrorism: NY Times, AP, CBS News, DNI

Biden Officials’ First China Talks: Politico, Reuters, NY Times

COVID-19 Reinfection Appears Uncommon: ABC News, CNN, NY Times, Journal Lancet

Tax Deadline Delayed: USA Today, WSJ, WaPo, IRS

Gasoline Demand Peaked: AP, WSJ, IEA

Scientists Grow Mice in Mechanical Womb: NY Times, MIT Technology Review, Full Study

SMART Airless Bike Tires: TechCrunch, Cyclist, NASA, WeFunder

Most Popular Dog Breeds of 2020: AKC, NPR, AP

Thing to Know Thursday: Unique March Madness: AP, FOX News, NCAA

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Short Wave - Reflections On Coronavirus A Year In

It's been about a year since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. The world has learned a lot in that time — about how the virus spreads, who is at heightened risk and how the disease progresses. Today, Maddie walks us through some of these big lessons.

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NBN Book of the Day - Steven Blush, “Bustin’ Balls: World Team Tennis 1974-1978, Pro Sports, Pop Culture and Progressive Politics” (Feral Press, 2020)

Steven Blush's new book Bustin' Balls (Feral Press, 2020) tells the strange but true story of World Team Tennis (1974-1978) that attempted to transform the prim and proper individual sport of tennis into a rowdy blue-collar league. Billie Jean King and her partners merged feminism and civil rights with queer lifestyle, pop culture, and a progressive political agenda to create a dazzling platform for the finest tennis players of the day to become overnight stars. Filled with rare photographs and images of WTT ephemera, this book recounts King's vision of a competitive tennis league with mixed-sex teams and looser rules that encouraged fast and aggressive play propelled tennis into a television fixture and the players into household names.

Bustin' Balls presents in-depth stories and history of the WTT and tennis in the 1970s, including Evonne Goolagong who fought racism throughout her life as the first indigenous woman to win at Wimbledon and a member of the Pittsburgh Triangles. Chris Evert of the Los Angeles Strings became America’s sweetheart. Billie Jean King played for the Philadelphia Freedoms at the height of Bicentennial fervor and was feted by Elton John in the song, “Philadelphia Freedom.” While tabloids followed the nightlife exploits and made pin-ups of Ilie Nastase, Jimmy Connors, and Vitas Gerulitis.

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What A Day - Biden At The Border

A White gunman attacked three spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday killing eight people including six women of Asian descent. The shootings happened in the larger context of increasing violence and racism faced by Asian-Americans. 

Yesterday we talked about the surge in migrants seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border. Today, we spoke to Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Dickerson to get a better sense of how we got here, how the Biden administration differs from Trump and Obama, and what’s to come. 

And in headlines: the ADL says 2020 marked a huge surge in White supremacist propaganda, the Movement for Black Lives doesn't support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and Uber to treat drivers as workers in England.


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Learning for Justice has put together a toolkit for how to respond to COVID-19 Anti-Asian racism

https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/how-to-respond-to-coronavirus-racism

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https://www.aaldef.org/

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http://apen4ej.org/


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Text "CONNECT" to 741741

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The Daily Signal - As Teen, Byron Donalds Was Mugged at Gunpoint. He’s Now in Congress.

Freshman Rep. Byron Donalds was a businessman before he served in the Florida House of Representatives and now in Congress, where he arrived in January.


Donalds grew up in a single-parent household and says his mom made sacrifices to make the American Dream possible for him.

"Growing up in the inner city, a lot of things happen, unfortunately," Donalds said of his upbringing in Brooklyn, N.Y.


"You get mugged. I was mugged when I was in middle school. I was held up at gunpoint at 16 years old. So now, being in politics and being a grown man, a lot of things just don't really faze me, because just from my experiences growing up in the inner city," he explained.


Donalds joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to share his story, both personal and political.


We also cover these stories:

  • Eight people died in three shootings at massage parlors in the Atlanta area. 
  • Members of N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s inner circle circulated a letter aimed at tarnishing the reputation of Lindsey Boylan, a former Cuomo aide who accused him of sexual harassment, according to a New York Times report.
  •  New York state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat, said that Cuomo would be convicted if an impeachment trial were held in the state Senate, according to a report on New York’s WCBS-TV.



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Tech Won't Save Us - How Britain Killed its Computing Industry w/ Mar Hicks

Paris Marx is joined by Mar Hicks to discuss why we need to know the history of tech and how the British history of sexism and colonialism in computing has lessons for the present-day US tech industry.

Mar Hicks is the co-editor of “Your Computer Is on Fire,” along with Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, and Kavita Philip. They are also the author of “Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing” and an Associate Professor of the History of Technology at Illinois Tech. Follow Mar on Twitter as @histoftech.

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Curious City - COVID-19, One Year Later

We’ve reached the one-year anniversary of Chicago’s stay-at-home order. From schools going virtual to plastic shields lining the grocery store check-out lane, just about every aspect of life has been affected by the pandemic. To mark all the change this year has brought, we hear some essays from folks who’ve written about their experiences. Plus we look to the future and visit some vaccination sites to answer a listener’s question about what the vaccine means to people. From “cautious” to “hopeful,” they tell us what they’re most looking forward to next.
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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO283: Quantum Physics 101, with the What the FUP Podcast!

What is the "What the FUP?" Podcast, you ask? It's none other than Dr. Lindsey Osterman's new show with physicist Dr. Brian Gentry! We all watched "What the BLEEP Do We Know?" with a mind to critique it, but the episode turned into a fascinating Quantum Physics 101 lecture because there was so much to go over before we could even dive into how wrong the documentary is on every level!