Month: May 2021

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The Best One Yet - 💗 “Dislike of the Like” — Insta’s Like button. Gap’s Walmart sleepover. Royal Caribbean’s test cruise.

In our last pod before the 3-day weekend (back at it on Tuesday), Facebook is giving you the option to disable the like. The Gap is moving in with Walmart because retail is a story of extremes. And Royal Caribbean just became the biggest test yet of the entire Reopening Economy. $RCL $GPS $WMT $FB 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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Short Wave - Disabled Scientists Are Often Excluded From The Lab

Scientists and students with disabilities are often excluded from laboratories — in part because of how they're designed. Emily Kwong speaks to disabled scientist Krystal Vasquez on how her disability changed her relationship to science, how scientific research can become more accessible, and how STEMM fields need to change to be more welcoming to disabled scientists.

Read Krystal's article in Chemistry World, 'Excluded From The Lab.'

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NBN Book of the Day - Randolph M. Nesse, “Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry” (Dutton, 2019)

Why do I feel bad? There is real power in understanding our bad feelings. With his classic Why We Get Sick, Dr. Randolph Nesse helped to establish the field of evolutionary medicine. Now he returns with Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry (Dutton, 2019), a book that transforms our understanding of mental disorders by exploring a fundamentally new question. Instead of asking why certain people suffer from mental illness, Nesse asks why natural selection has left us all with fragile minds.


Drawing on revealing stories from his own clinical practice and insights from evolutionary biology, Nesse shows how negative emotions are useful in certain situations yet can become overwhelming. Anxiety protects us from harm in the face of danger, but false alarms are inevitable. Low moods prevent us from wasting effort in pursuit of unreachable goals, but they often escalate into pathological depression. Other mental disorders, such as addiction and anorexia, result from the mismatch between modern environment and our ancient human past. And there are good evolutionary reasons for sexual disorders and for why genes for schizophrenia persist. Taken together, these and many more insights help to explain the pervasiveness of human suffering and show us new paths for relieving it by understanding individuals as individuals.

Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network’s Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at r.garfinkel@yahoo.com.

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What A Day - Are You Infrastructure Or Out?

Congressional Republicans have countered President Biden’s nearly $2 trillion infrastructure proposal with their own plan and a lower price tag: $928 billion. It came as Biden is expected to unveil a $6 trillion budget on Friday, too. We breakdown what’s in the GOP version of the infrastructure bill, and where this puts negotiations.

The filibuster is coming into play as Senate Republicans vow to block the creation of a bipartisan commission that would’ve investigated the January 6th Capitol insurrection.

And in headlines: three Tacoma, Washington, police officers charged for the killing of 33-year-old Black man Manuel Ellis, Super Smash Bros becomes a high school varsity sport, and Usher announces a sequel to “Confessions.”


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The NewsWorthy - Biden’s Big Budget, Vaccine Lotteries & Memorial Day Weekend – Friday, May 28th, 2021

The news to know for Friday, May 28th, 2021!

We explain what's in President Biden's first budget proposal. It includes some big numbers causing controversy even before it's officially announced.

Also, police officers in Washington state were just charged with murder from an incident that happened more than a year ago.

Plus, where there are multi-million-dollar lotteries for getting vaccinated, the largest sporting event since the pandemic started, and a few things to do and watch on Memorial Day.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Sources:

Biden Budget Proposal: WSJ, WaPo, AP, NY Times

Charges in Manuel Ellis Death: Seattle Times, AP, Axios, Washington AG, Police Union

DR Congo Volcano Eruptions: CNN, Al Jazeera, NY Times, UN

Worldwide Covid Outbreaks: USA Today, Johns Hopkins, CDC

California Vaccine Lottery: SF Gate, AP, Vax For The Win

Other Vaccine Lotteries: The Hill, NBC News, Axios, AP

New Pipeline Cyber Requirements: CBS News, Politico, Axios, Reuters

Indy 500 on Sunday: AP, Axios, WXIN, Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Oscars Set Date, Say Movies Can Skip Theaters: NY Times, Variety, Oscars

Memorial Day: History, Good Housekeeping, Fox News, Deadline, Today

CDC Urges Memorial Day Caution: CNBC, NY Times, CNN

Feel Good Friday: Man Helps Other Ex-Convicts Become Personal Trainers: CNN, NY Times, Men’s Health, Second U Foundation

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The Goods from the Woods - “The Corona Diaries #147” with Ed Greer & Joe Raines

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 147.  We have TWO very special guests sitting in with us today: Comedians Ed Greer and Joe Raines! Check out all of Ed's various projects including his YouTube show "REBOOT IT" and his new and improved podcast "The Greatest Pod"! Links to both can be found if you follow him on all forms of social media @EdGreerDestroys. While you're at it, follow Joe Raines on all forms of social media @JoeMFRaines.  Music at the end is "Sausalito" by Conor Oberst.

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The Daily Signal - What Conservatives Can Do to Fight Corporate Wokeness

Corporate wokeness increasingly is becoming part of American society.


Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research, argues that Americans can and should stand up to woke ideology.


"The shareholder base of even large companies that are woke, like Facebook, Alphabet, Nike, they're not monolithically left, but that's what the vote looks like," Danhof says. "The management of those companies, they have freedom to take stances against conservative values, because that's what the vote looks like."


Danhof joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss what conservative shareholders can do.

We also cover these stories:

  • President Joe Biden proposes a $6 trillion budget for fiscal year 2022, a senior administration official tells CNN. 
  • Senate Republicans unveil a $928 billion infrastructure proposal to counter the White House’s $1.7 trillion plan. 
  • USA Today removed the word “male” from an op-ed by Chelsea Mitchell on competing against transgender athletes. 



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Opening Arguments - OA494: Florida’s Pointless, Unconstitutional Social Media Law

I know I say this a lot but... this episode is action packed! So much good stuff to discuss that we had to squeeze in the Trump grand jury news into the announcements slot. Andrew breaks down what it means and what to expect. Then, a listener who actually worked on the NRA case wrote in to give us the final word on Sea Girt. But in our main segment, Andrew gives us the full breakdown on the asinine social media law Florida just passed. Eyes, look your last, because this thing is destined for the trash bin. Find out why! Then, we squeezed in a wildcard segment, if you can believe it. Did Alan Dershowitz win a defamation case against CNN? (no) Links: NRA Annual Matches Move To Sea Girt In 1892, 28 US Code § 1408, FL social media law, 47 U.S. Code § 230, Dershowitz v. CNN Order on MTD

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - The Color Of Corporate America: What’s Changed Since George Floyd?

A year after the killing of George Floyd, companies and corporations took major steps to combat racial inequity and diversity within its organizations. From addressing hiring discrepancy to incorporating more people of color in leadership, those are just of the few steps companies have taken to combat systemic racism in this country. Reset speaks with a reporter and ceo more about the significance of this past year in corporate America. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast. And please give us a rating, it helps other listeners find us. For more about Reset, go to wbez.org and follow us on Twitter @WBEZReset
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Pod Save America - “Stop the 2024 Steal.”

A grand jury is convened to decide Donald Trump’s fate as he mulls another run for president, Marjorie Taylor Greene compares vaccine and mask requirements to the Holocaust, Republican legislatures in swing states are laying the groundwork to overturn the results of the next election they lose. Then, The Atlantic’s Clint Smith talks to Tommy Vietor about his new book, How the Word is Passed.



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