Month: April 2021

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The Best One Yet - 💎 “She went to Jared’s” — Rocksbox’s Zoom bling. China’s digital currency. Booking’s awkward quote.

Jewelry legend Signet just acquired Rocksbox because it can turn 1 diamond into an infinite transaction. The Booking CEO just dropped a quote that’s extremely painful for every airline stock. And China whipped up the 1st ever national digital currency. We’re calling it, the command currency.  $SIG $BKNG $JETS $DAL $KHC  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 - How Worried to Be About Michigan

Michigan is currently home to 13 of the worst performing metro areas when it comes to the coronavirus. They recently surpassed 10,000 new cases and their curve has “gone vertical”. With vaccine distribution ramping up across the country, is the Michigan surge a warning for the rest of the country? 

Guest: Abdul El-Sayed, host of America Dissected

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Short Wave - The Queen’s Squeak

"Dialects" is one of those words tossed around a lot when talking about human language. They indicate where a speaker is from. But dialects aren't exclusive to humans; scientists have known for a while that whales and songbirds also show these variations in language. Today, NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce explains research that expands that list to include naked mole rats.

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NBN Book of the Day - Dennis McDougal, “Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King” (Simon and Schuster, 2020)

Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King (Simon and Schuster, 2020) traces the rise and fall—and rise and fall again—of the psychedelic community through the life of the man known as the “Acid King”: William Leonard Pickard. Pickard was a scientific prodigy, a follower of Timothy Leary, a con artist, a womanizer, a man who believed LSD would save lives, and one of the first voices warning about the dangers of fentanyl. He was also a foreign diplomat, a Harvard fellow, and the biggest producer of LSD on the planet—if you believe the DEA. His biography Dennis McDougal, who grew close to Pickard while he was in prison and remains his friend now that Pickard is free, shows how the story of the Acid King is the story of psychedelics in America, as the drugs have transformed from psychedelic enhancements to personal introspection, to dangerous threats to the safety of the American public, to now, when they’re once again being used as tools for personal recovery and healing.

Emily Dufton is the author of Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America (Basic Books, 2017). A drug historian and writer, her second book, on the development of the opioid addiction medication industry, is under contract with the University of Chicago Press.

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The NewsWorthy - Covid Hotspots, Promising HIV Vaccine & New Billionaires Record- Wednesday, April 7th, 2021

The news to know for Wednesday, April 7th, 2021!

We'll tell you about:

  • the latest COVID-19 hotspots in the U.S.
  • how almost all American adults will be eligible for a vaccine this month
  • why the idea of vaccine passports has become a hot-button issue
  • the new city hosting the MLB's All-Star Game 
  • a growing number of billionaires getting even richer
  • the industry that has almost too many job openings, so hiring can't keep up

Those stories and more in about 10 minutes! 

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Sources:

New COVID-19 Outbreaks: AP, CNBC, NY Times, Johns Hopkins, Helix

White House Moves Up Vaccine Eligibility Deadline: CNN, AP, USA Today

Check Vaccine Eligibility in Your State: NY Times

States Banning Vaccine Passports: NY Times, NBC News, FOX News, TX Ban, FL Ban

AR Lawmakers Override Veto: WaPo, ABC News, WSJ, ACLU

IMF Economy Growth Outlook: NPR, AP, CNN, WSJ, IMF

New HIV Vaccine Being Developed: ABC News, The Hill, Research Data

MLB All-Star Game Moves to Denver: MLB, Denver Post, CBS News

Fallout From MLB All-Star Decision: WaPo, The Hill, AP, WSJ, Sen. McConnell

Starbucks Testing “Borrow a Cup” Program: Starbucks, USA Today, Restaurant Business

Forbes Releases Annual Billionaires List: Forbes, Reuters, WaPo, USA Today

Work Wednesday: Restaurants Struggling to Hire Enough Workers: Reuters, Bloomberg, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - Toolkit: When Will Kids Get Vaccinated?

Dr. Bob is joined by Paul Offit, pediatrician and Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, to answer your questions about kids and the vaccines. This Toolkit is your one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about vaccinating kids against COVID-19: what ages will be eligible, when it'll happen, how to know it’s safe, and much more.

 

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Find Paul Offit on Twitter @DrPaulOffit.

 

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Security Unlocked - The Language of Cybercrime

How many languages do you speak? The average person only speaks one or two languages, and for most people that’s plenty because even as communities are becoming more global, languages are still very much tied to geographic boundaries. But what happens when you go on the internet where those regions don’t exist the same way they do in real life? Because the internet connects people from every corner of the world, cybercriminals can perpetrate scams in countries thousands of miles away. So how do organizations like Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit combat cybercrime when they don’t even speak the language of the perpetrators?  

On today’s episode of Security Unlocked, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla sit down with Peter Anaman, Principal Investigator on the Digital Crimes Unit, to discuss how Peter looks at digital crimes in a very interconnected world and how language and culture play into the crimes being committed, who’s behind them, and how to stop them.  


In This Episode, You Will Learn:

  • Some of the tools the Digital Crime Unit at Microsoft uses to catch criminals.  
  • How language and cultural factors into cyber crime 
  • Why cyber crime has been on the rise since Covid began 


Some Questions We Ask:

  • How has understanding a specific culture helped crack a case? 
  • How does a lawyer who served as an officer in the French Army wind up working at Microsoft? 
  • Are there best practices for content creators to stay safe from cyber crime? 


Resources

Peter Anaman’s LinkedIn

Microsoft Security Blog

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn


Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

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What A Day - Senate Parliamentarian Funkadelic

Senate Democrats got the green light to pass more bills with a simple majority vote. On Monday, the Senate’s parliamentarian ruled that the Dems can pass more budget reconciliation bills this year — the same process they used for the relief bill. We explain what this means.

President Biden wants states to make all adults eligible for vaccines by April 19th. The new date is two weeks sooner than his previous goal.

And in headlines: St. Louis jail uprising, Iran and the US take steps to resume nuclear deal, and Kim Kardashian West becomes a billionaire.


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