In which a new gypsum miracle product takes more than a century to replace lath-and-plaster walls in home construction, and John thinks lizards have ears. Certificate #35059.
The Best One Yet - 📺 “YouTube > Netflix” — Crocs’ secret hero. YouTube’s 1st earnings. Apple vs Facebook.
Facebook and Apple both delivered stick-it-up-on-the-fridge record quarters… but 1 single quote reveals who has the advantage. Crocs stock surged 25% this week thanks to its adorable secret hero product, Jibbitz. And Alphabet announced earnings, but we think this was something different: The 1st ever YouTube earnings report.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Inside India’s COVID Wards
India started 2021 with government officials repeatedly declaring victory over COVID-19. But the virus has overrun hospitals and crematoriums, in part due to massive gatherings and a slow vaccination rollout.Â
Guest: Chahat Rana, health reporting fellow at The Caravan magazine.Â
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NBN Book of the Day - Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Committed” (Grove Press, 2021)
What do you ask a novelist who has won a Pulitzer, a Guggenheim, and a MacArthur genius grant? Cocktail advice, of course. When I had the honor of chatting with Viet Thanh Nguyen about his two novels The Sympathizer and The Committed, we started by discussing what beverages would go well with his books. While the first book is a spy novel and the second is a noir mafia story, they both use the same hard-drinking narrator to explore issues of race and racism, colonialism and decolonization, and violence and non-violence. Set in Southern California in the 1970s and Paris, France in the 1980s, the novels combine a history of the Vietnamese refugee experience with a critique of whiteness and a generous dose of literary criticism. The books are also full of humor, which is at times ribald and scatological.
Dr. Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Professor Nguyen is the author of several books including Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America and Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. About a year ago I got to chat with him about that book here on New Books, so check the New Books archive for that interview. He also edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field with Janet Hoskins. He has a collection of short stories called The Refugees and edited The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. He also co-wrote Chicken of the Sea, but I suspect his co-author Ellison and son did most of the heavy lifting on that one. This children’s book was illustrated by the amazing Thi Bui and her son Hien Bui-Stafford. Grove Press published The Sympathizer in 2015 and The Committed in 2021.
Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018). When he’s not reading or talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California.
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Short Wave - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: 10 Years Later
In 2011, villages and towns around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant in Japan were evacuated because of a series of meltdowns caused by a tsunami. Ten years later, some of the villages and towns are slowly reopening. Geoff Brumfiel talks with producer Kat Lonsdorf about the Fukushima nuclear accident, its lasting effects on Japan, and the future of nuclear power.
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The NewsWorthy - ‘Ready for Takeoff’, NFL Draft & Cookie Delivery Drones- Thursday, April 29th, 2021
The news to know for Thursday, April 29th, 2021!
We're talking about:
- the key points and policies President Biden promoted in his first address to Congress and how Republicans didn't hold back in their response to it
- the latest in the investigation of Rudy Giuliani
- new federal hate crime charges in the Ahmaud Arbery case
- tonight's NFL draft
- what Google's new travel tool will tell you
- where Girl Scout cookies are getting delivered by drone
All that and more in around 10 minutes...
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Biden Address to Congress: AP, WaPo, WSJ, CNN, Fox News
GOP Response to Biden’s Speech: CBS News, Politico, Fox News, CNN
Giuliani’s Home, Office Searched: NY Times, Politico, Fox News, CBS News, ABC News
Hate Crime Charges in Arbery Case: NPR, AP, WaPo, Politico, DOJ
U.S. Covid Cases Dropping: WSJ, NY Times, Reuters, Johns Hopkins, CDC
NFL Draft Begins Tonight: NFL, NBC Sports, ESPN, WSJ, WEWS-TV
Amazon Workers Get Raises: CNBC, WSJ, GeekWire, Amazon
Google’s COVID-19 Travel Tool: The Verge, 9to5Mac, CNET
Drones Deliver Girl Scout Cookies: USA Today, Axios, AP, Wing
Thing to Know Thursday: Artificial Intelligence Regulation: Brookings, Axios, Fortune, AP, European Commission, IT Industry Council
What A Day - 100 Days Of Biden
President Biden gave his first address to Congress last night, themed largely around moving America out of the most difficult stage of the pandemic and approaching a new normal. Part of that has to do with The American Families Plan, a $1.8 trillion program that would pay for two free years of community college, universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, and more. We go over the main takeaways.
Biden timed his speech to come right as he approaches his 100th day in office on Friday, too. To discuss that broader context and what we can learn from Biden's first 100 days, we spoke with Crooked Media's editor-in-chief and host of the podcast Rubicon, Brian Beutler.
And in headlines: Mario Gonzalez died after being pinned by police in California, charges for the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery, and the Senate restores Obama-era regulations on methane leaks.
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The Goods from the Woods - “The Corona Diaries #134” with Carly Garber
Three L.A. comedians are quarantined in a podcast studio during a global pandemic. There is literally nothing to be done EXCEPT make content. These are "The Corona Diaries" and this is Episode #134. Our VERY SPECIAL guest today is Carly Garber. Follow her on all social media @CarlyJGarber. Music at the end is "The Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground. RIP Shock G.
The Daily Signal - Minorities ‘Perfectly Capable of Getting Photo ID,’ Nikki Haley Says of Election Laws
Nikki Haley, previously U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and governor of South Carolina, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what conservatives realistically can try to accomplish during the next 18 months while faced with a liberal Democratic president and Congress.
Haley—a Republican and founder of Stand for America, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group that promotes public policies it says strengthen America's economy, culture, and security—also discusses how conservatives can engage in the debate of issues such as race and election security, including voter ID.
"Don't assume that minorities can't do for themselves," Haley says of the latter. "We are perfectly capable of getting a photo ID. We're perfectly capable of picking the school of our choice. We are perfectly capable of understanding how to make the most of our opportunities if they are put in front of us."
Plus: We share some of the highlights from President Joe Biden’s address to Congress.
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Tech Won't Save Us - Celebrating One Year of Tech Won’t Save Us!
Paris Marx is solo this week, providing an update on the podcast, the series of guests planned for May, and what’s coming next for Tech Won’t Save Us!
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris wrote about the future of the internet, why Elon Musk is planning for climate apocalypse, the problems with Jeff Bezos’ space future, and why a socialist future won’t look like a capitalist one.
- Paris was recently on the Digital Void podcast.