Month: May 2021

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The Best One Yet - 🧳 “An Escalade fits 60 Away suitcases” — iRobot’s makeover. Suburban’s biz class. FB’s non-decision on Trump.

We have 2 ideas for how iRobot can make itself over, because its Roomba vacuum isn’t living its best life. The Cadillac Escalade borrowed a strategy from the airlines (and that’s why GM’s stock jumped 4%). And Facebook’s mysterious Oversight Board just made a no-decision on the Trump ban, so we’re examining the Board. $IRBT $GM $FB $TWTR 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 - The Gates Divorce

Divorces aren’t usually major news events. But in the case of Bill and Melinda Gates, the state of their union is in the public interest. For the last 20 years, the two have led one of the most influential philanthropic organizations in the world.


What happens to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation once its founders are broken up? And what does it say about society’s dependence on billionaires that we even have to ask?


Guest: Teddy Schleifer, reporter on money and influence for Recode at Vox.


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Short Wave - A Fragile X Treatment May Be On The Horizon

Katie Clapp and Michael Tranfaglia's son was born with a genetic disorder that affects brain development. It makes it hard to learn language and basic daily tasks and often is accompanied by a host of other disorders. To help find a cure, they started a foundation and raised research money. After several setbacks, one treatment is showing promise. NPR neuroscience reporter Jon Hamilton tells Emily Kwong the story.

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The NewsWorthy - CDC’s Summer Outlook, Unruly Travelers & Baby Bust – Thursday, May 6th, 2021

The news to know for Thursday, May 6th, 2021!

We're talking about:

  • what a new report from the CDC predicts for COVID-19 this summer
  • how a white police officer who shot and killed a Black man last summer is getting his job back
  • a recall affecting a popular fitness product
  • a new alert system that could warn people before an earthquake hits
  • the annual time of year to thank a nurse

All that and more in around 10 minutes...

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes to read more about any of the stories mentioned.

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Sources:

CDC’s New Outlook for Summer: AP, USA Today, CNBC, CDC

Judge Overturns Eviction Ban: CNBC, Axios, WaPo, Reuters

Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Reinstated: AJC, AP, ABC News, NPR

American Students Guilty in Italian Police Death: NY Times, Fox News, NBC News, WaPo

Facebook Upholds Trump Ban, Orders Review: WSJ, Axios, Fox News, Oversight Board, Facebook

Earthquake Early Warning System: NPR, U.S. News & World Report, ShakeAlert, USGS 

More Violent Incidents on Planes: CNN, NBC News, Reuters, Axios

Peloton Recalls Treadmills: Peloton, CPSC, USA Today, Fox Business, CNET

Successful SpaceX Starship Test Flight: CBS News, WaPo, CNBC

Nurse’s Week Begins: Nursing World, USA Today, Parade, Bureau of Labor Statistics, AACN, Gallup

Thing to Know Thursday: U.S. Birth Rate Drops: AP, NY Times, Axios, CDC

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NBN Book of the Day - Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, “Twitter: A Biography” (NYU Press, 2020)

As Twitter enters its own adolescence, both the users and the creators of this famous social media platform find themselves engaging with a tool that certainly could not have been imagined at its inception. In their engaging book Twitter: A Biography (NYU Press, 2020), Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym (@nancybaym) tell the fascinating and surprising story of how this platform developed from a quirky SMS tool for publicly sharing intimate details of personal life to a major source of late-breaking news, political activism, and even governmental communication. This story explores how many of Twitter's most ubiquitous and iconic conventions were not systematically rolled out from a centralized corporate strategy, but so often driven by users who continued to innovate within the limitations of the platform they had to democratically create the platform they desired. Yet this story highlights the tensions along the way as Twitter has adapted to new and unforeseen challenges, business models, and social consequences as the experiments of social media have become increasingly powerful, influential, and contested. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the wild and changing landscape of internet communication and communities.

Ryan David Shelton (@ryoldfashioned) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast.

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New Books in Native American Studies - Inside Look: “Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education”

Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we’d bring in an expert about something? Email us at cgessler@gmail.com or dr.danamalone@gmail.com. Find us on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN.

In this episode you’ll hear about: Dr. Bradley Shreve’s decision to leave academia after he became a parent; his job as the editor of Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education; what the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) does; and his work as a podcaster interviewing tribal elders.

Our guest is: Dr. Bradley Shreve, the editor of Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education, the quarterly publication of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). Previously, he taught history and chaired the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Diné College, America’s first tribal college, which is located in the Navajo Nation. Bradley is the author of numerous articles, essays, and the book Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism (University of Oklahoma Press, 2011).

Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender.


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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO291: Bret Weinstein Spreads Dangerous Anti-vax Nonsense

Joe Rogan said healthy, young people shouldn't get the COVID vaccine. This is dangerous and anti-science and incorrect. Though Rogan apologized, Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein took to their YouTube channel to double down on Rogan's claims and do further damage to the cause of science and the effort to vaccinate and protect the public against this deadly disease. It's shameful, and Lindsey is here to explain why they are wrong.

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What A Day - The Union Makes U.S. Strong with Sara Nelson

Tomorrow, the National Labor Relations Board is set to hold a hearing into the failed unionization vote of workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, with the union that sought to represent the workers alleging foul-play. We spoke with Sara Nelson, head of the Association of Flight Attendants, about the hearing, and the state of the labor movement in the U.S. more generally. Nelson has been a lead figure in supporting Amazon workers and unions across the country.

And in headlines: the Biden administration will support waiving patent protections of the COVID-19 vaccines, a judge strikes down the CDC's moratorium on evictions, and a farmer does landscaper's diplomacy on the Franco-Belgian border.

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The Daily Signal - Georgia Lawmaker Reflects on Trip to Southern Border

Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., recently returned from a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border. On his flight back, Clyde sat next to illegal immigrants.

"We are, the taxpayers are paying for this," Clyde says of illegal immigrants flying in the U.S.


"This is federal government funded activity. Not only that, they don't even have to abide by the TSA rules because they don't have any valid government issued ID. So, TSA is allowing them to fly with everyone else without government issued photo ID."


Clyde joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about this experience, who is paying for transportation of illegal immigrants, what stood out to him most from his latest visit to the border, and more.


We also cover these stories:

  • Facebook’s independent oversight panel upholds Donald Trump's suspension from the social media platform for the time being. 
  • Conservatives criticize Facebook after the social media giant says it will maintain an indefinite ban keeping Trump off the platform. 
  • House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., calls for the ousting of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., from her position as chairman of the House Republican Conference. Scalise says Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., should take Cheney’s place as the House's No. 3 Republican. 



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