The California dream comes with more than its fair share of disasters — earthquakes, wildfires, fire tornadoes, eroding coasts, and so much more. The L.A. Times has a disasters unit to cover them, and our reporters are some of the best in the business. So we invited three of them — Rong-Gong Lin II, Rosanna Xia, and Alex Wigglesworth — to talk about how to prepare for the unpreparable. Think of this as a regular monthly series about calamities, with our Masters of Disasters as your guides.
CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 05/13
Crippled pipeline restarts, but it will take days to get back to normal. President Biden signs cyber security executive order. High chemical levels in breast milk. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Purged: Liz Cheney’s sacking
Liz Cheney had been a rising Republican star. Now the staunch conservative has been purged by her own party. Her removal shows that, even in defeat, Donald Trump retains an iron grip on the Republicans. Denmark has taken in thousands of Syrian refugees over the past decade, but its welcome has waned. The Danish government says that Damascus is safe enough for many to return. And, we explain why companies are paying more attention to the curves and curls of their fonts. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S4 Bonus: Erik Chelstad, Observa
Erik Chelstad is a child of both coasts. In his life, he spent a lot of time skiing, and carried that activity into his adult life. Funny enough though, he is actually a better boarder than skier. He volunteers with the local avalanche centers, and climbs mountains where he lives - which is the Pacific Northwest, near Mt. Ranier. In his words, climbing gives him ample time to think.
He's married, and just moved into a house outside of the city. He has found a new hobby in being a home owner, which he says as a new platform to play with - cameras, sensors, sprinkler systems - etch. They have a dog, and if they are lucky enough to have kids one day, Erik hopes it will be easier than having a dog... and, that the kids won't bite him.
In a prior venture, Erik was the owner of bakeries. In developing certain channels for distribution, he ran into a problem where he didn't have visibility to his product at places he didn't control. He figured out the answer was cell phones, and a centralized location for entities to consume this information.
This is the creation story of Observa.
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Bay Curious - The Gold Rush Delicacy That Started A War: Eggs
During the Gold Rush, people flocked to the San Francisco Bay Area to make their fortunes. A few entrepreneurial folks realized seabird eggs could provide protein to the hungry miners. Matthew Tuckner heard there was even a war fought over eggs on the Farallon Islands and wanted to know more.
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- The Gold Rush Delicacy That Started A War: Eggs
- The Kitchen Sisters Present podcast
- When California Went to War Over Eggs (Smithsonian Magazine)
Originally reported by Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson for The Kitchen Sisters Present. Bay Curious is made by Katrina Schwartz, Suzie Racho and Brendan Willard. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Carly Severn, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Don Clyde.
Everything Everywhere Daily - Randomness
Randomness is all around us. Many of you probably think that this podcast is pretty random given that you have no clue what each day’s episode is going to be about.
However, true randomness is a very different thing than something being seemingly random. While randomness is actually all around us, harnessing it for our purposes, especially in computing, can be rather difficult.
Learn more about randomness and why some things that seem random are not, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Omnibus - The Worst Poet in History (Entry 1445.PR2622)
In which Scottish mill-worker William McGonagall becomes notorious for his utterly sincere but terrible poetry, and John plans to instigate a sex riot. Certificate #44448.
The Best One Yet - 🎈 “1 balloon bouquet, please” — Bird’s e-scooter SPAC. Party City’s helium hype. SoftBank’s record *profit.
Party City knows you didn’t love Becky’s Zoom baby shower, so it’s betting the future on balloons (literally, Balloon Bouquets). Bird tossed off its helmet and is going public via SPAC. And Japanese venture capital firm SoftBank has a 300-year investment timeline and just delivered a bigger profit than Amazon… with just 1 asterisk.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Palestinian Perspective
This week’s violence across Israel and the occupied territories points to a new era in Israeli-Palestinian relations. Palestinian observers find themselves wondering: Is it a changing diplomatic paradigm, thanks to a growing movement to acknowledge the human rights of Palestinians and find lasting peace? Or is it something more frightening, more deafening -- is it the beginning of unbridled war?
Guests: Yousef Munayyer, a fellow at the Arab Center Washington, and Mariam Barghouti, a writer based in Ramallah.
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The NewsWorthy - Panic-Buying at the Pump, GOP Leader Ousted & Ellen Show to End- Thursday, May 13th, 2021
The news to know for Thursday, May 13th, 2021!
We're talking about where people are panic-buying at the pump, making a gas shortage worse.
Also, one of the most prominent Republican leaders gets kicked out of her leadership role as other Republicans are pushing for a third party.
Plus, how you can get the government to help pay one of your bills, why it might be harder to fill swimming pools this summer, and what's behind the Ellen DeGeneres Show coming to an end after nearly two decades.
All that and more in around 10 minutes...
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Sources:
Colonial Pipeline Back Online: WaPo, USA Today, Fox Business, CNBC
CyberSecurity Executive Order: NPR, WSJ, Reuters, ABC News, White House
Liz Cheney Loses Leadership Role: Politico, WSJ, Fox News, NPR
Republicans Threaten Split from GOP: NY Times, Reuters, USA Today
Preventing the Next Pandemic: WaPo, NPR, Politico, Reuters, WSJ, Full Report
CDC Recommends Pfizer Vax to Adolescents: NBC News, NY Times, Politico, Reuters
Ramadan Ends & Eid al-Fitr Begins: iNews, Newsweek, CNN, Vox
Low-Income Internet Program Starts: NY Times, WaPo, TechCrunch
How to Sign Up: FCC Emergency Broadband
Tesla Stops Taking Bitcoin: The Verge, CNBC, Reuters, Business Insider, Elon Musk
Ellen Show Ending: Hollywood Reporter, Variety, CNN, NY Times, Fox News
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame New Inductees: Hall of Fame, CNN, USA Today, NME
Thing to Know Thursday: Chlorine Shortage: CNBC, Popular Mechanics, USA Today