In 1787, Russian Empress Catherine the Great took a six-month trip to visit her newly acquired territories in the Crimean. Along the way, she sailed down the Dnieper River and saw many of the shiny villages in the new Russian Crimean.
However, there was a problem. The villages were all fake.
Learn more about Potemkin Villages, and how they still exist in the modern world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
One officer in Los Angeles used car inspections to hit on women. In the San Francisco Bay Area, another woman says an officer used police resources to harass and stalk her. The California Highway Patrol quietly fired both of them for sexual harassment, but never looked into whether their misconduct was criminal. The second episode of On Our Watch examines the system of accountability for officers who abuse their power for sex and exposes where that system falls short.
We'll tell you about a tragic workplace shooting in northern California.
Also, there's a new kind of investigation into the origin of COVID-19 and new research shows COVID-19 immunity may last years.
Plus, which major movie and TV studio Amazon is buying, how you can hide the likes on Facebook and Instagram, and where to watch the reunion 'Friends' fans have been waiting for.
What happens when the feds buy data about you and use it to surveil or prosecute you? Is it an end-run around laws meant to prohibit exactly that? Cato's Julian Sanchez and Patrick Eddington comment.
Though it is particularly true of New York City, it’s apparent across this country: The political class has lost its enthusiasm and affection for the nation. They are focused not on revivifying and reinventing it, but on divvying up what’s left while you can. It’s not just a Democratic fixation, either. The GOP’s obsession with relitigating the 2020 election prevents them from looking forward... Source
Vaccinating students at school. Trump Organization case before a grand jury. Facebook's report on election disinformation. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
What do lasers, photovoltaic cells, the transistor, digital cameras, cell phone technology, the communication satellite, computer networking, radio astronomy, and the UNIX operating system have in common?
They were all invented or developed at the same place by the greatest collection of scientists and engineers ever assembled.
Learn more about Bell Labs, the greatest research laboratory in history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
