Celebrated R&B star R. Kelly is accused of using his music empire to sexually exploit women and minors for decades. Currently on trial in New York, the singer also faces federal charges in Illinois, and state charges in both Illinois and Minnesota. But will Kelly finally be brought to justice? And if he is, what took so long?
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When the Austro-Hungarian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated it set off a chain reaction resulting in the First World War.
That chain reaction, however, was fully anticipated and one of the belligerent countries, Germany, had a plan in their back pocket ready to go.
It was a highly detailed plan, nine years in the marking, which was designed to give them a swift victory.
Learn more about the Schlieffen Plan, and why it didn’t work, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
With technological advances and information sharing so prevalent, health care should be more transparent and easier to access than ever before. So why does it seem like everything about it―from pricing, drug development, and the emergence of new diseases to the intricacies of biologic and precision medicine therapies―is becoming more complex, not less?
Rohit Khanna's Misunderstanding Health: Making Sense of America's Broken Health Care System(Johns Hopkins UP, 2021) examines some of today's most revealing health care trends while imploring us to look at these issues with alacrity, humor, and vigilance. Over the course of eighteen short, engaging chapters, Khanna explains
• how unexamined beliefs can endanger patients, drive cost, and increase bureaucracy
• the "Dr. Google" effect on the ways that we seek (or eschew) care
• why our health care costs more than in any other country
• the unintended consequences of using rating sites like Yelp
• what we can learn about health care from hurricanes
• how social media influencers impact health care
• how artificial intelligence can improve health care
• why health screening programs are so complicated
• what the industry is doing to combat health care fraud
• what the big deal about legalizing medical cannabis is
• how to think about behavioral "nudges" designed to improve health
• why understanding how data are collected is critical to understanding what they can tell us
• and much more
Each provocative and easy-to-read chapter covers a familiar aspect of health care in a clear and succinct way. Offering inquisitive readers a warts-and-all view of American health care, Misunderstanding Health is the book that you'll want to read if you know enough to be frustrated by the system but want a deeper dive into its challenges and opportunities.
Stephen Pimpare is director of the Public Service & Nonprofit Leadership program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire.
One of the COVID-19 vaccines now has full FDA approval. We'll explain how that's different from its prior status and what mandates it's inspired.
Also, a decision about a police officer's actions during the Capitol riot in January. Were they justified?
Plus, a historic first for New York as a new governor takes over, why you might want to skip the latest viral video trend, and the Paralympic Games begin in Tokyo.
The FDA granted full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, making it the first vaccine in the country to move beyond the "emergency use authorization" that's been in place for months now. The announcement was followed by a slew of new vaccine mandates for educators, service members, and more.
Republican attacks on voting rights are continuing every day in Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia. We discuss the latest updates in the conservative push to make voting harder, and the racist history of laws that bar people who have been convicted of a felony from casting a ballot.
And in headlines: the Paralympic Games begin in Tokyo, the Cyber Ninjas are taken out in Arizona, and the latest on T. Rex's jaw.
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In this episode, Rivers Langley and comedian John Hastings sit down to chat about pro wrestling legend and unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement in Memphis, Tennessee: Sputnik Monroe! This is Part 1 of a two part series on Memphis Wrestling and we're so please to bring you this little-known story. Follow John on all forms of social media @TheJohnHastings and check out his AWESOME podcast "The Wrestler Review". Follow our show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod. Rivers is @RiversLangley Carter is @Carter_Glascock Sam is @SlamHarter Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content and being added to all the time! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
The House Rules Committee voted Monday on rules governing debate on election legislation known as HR 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The controversial bill now goes to the House for a vote.
After Democrats failed to pass HR 1, a partisan piece of election law, they crafted HR 4, which Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky says is a danger to states' election rights. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
HR 4 “gives federal bureaucrats control over all these state [election] rules all over the country,” says von Spakovsky, a former member of the Federal Election Commission. “It is an unbelievable invasion of state sovereignty.”
The bill is likely to pass along party lines in the House, but faces a battle in the evenly divided Senate, he says.
Von Spakovsky joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why the left is advocating for federal control of elections, and how HR 4 would affect the nation if it were to become law.
We also cover these stories:
The Food and Drug Administration formally approves the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
The Pentagon plans to mandate that all U.S. military personnel be vaccinated.
Monday was Andrew Cuomo's last day serving as governor of New York.
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. You loved her Oceanology episode and now she is in your feed to address everyone’s agonizing internal question: IS MY CARBON FOOTPRINT BS?! I don’t drop a lot of podcast episodes into my precious Ologies feed, but this topic was so wonderfully covered by Dr. Johnson and co-hot Alex Blumberg that I had to do it. And as a bonus, stay tuned for Wednesday’s episode between me and my old friend C. Andrew Hall, the creative director of the non-profit illustration collective, the Drawdown Design Project. I’ve been consulting with him for 2 years on a giant project that just dropped and I think you’ll love what he has to say about our individual roles and responsibilities in climate change.
(Encore episode) Class is back in session. We're going "back to school" to dig a little deeper on a concept you were taught in school: states of matter. Today, Emily and Maddie explore OTHER states of matter — beyond solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Martin Zwierlein, professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT), discusses his work with ultracold quantum gases and observing superfluid states of matter.
We sit down to talk with Geoff Mann, a Professor of Geography and Political Economy who also co-authored the book Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory For Our Planetary Future.
