Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg, professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, about the pandemic, geometry and drinking straws.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Why a CBDC Would Make the Fed’s Job Miserable
Does the Fed really want to be the morality police for payments?
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
A reading of JP Koning’s essay for Coindesk “Are Central Bankers Ready for Payments Theater?”
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Aye, Mate! Here be Pirates!
Ahoy ye mates! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
So I be thinking tis time to talk about the pirate life and how much of the legends of the pirates be true. Did they bury their gold? Did they fly the Jolly Roger?
Did their dogs have scurvy? ...and did they really talk like this?
So join me as I cast me pod on tis episode of Arrrverything Arrrverywhere.
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This Machine Kills - Patreon Preview – 102. Rhythms and Flows in Human Society
Intro: https://youtu.be/7YynqVvgZYI
We spend the first half finishing our discussion of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s essay. Then, in the second half, we switch gears and talk about the video of a Tesla trying to mow down pedestrians, the cultural logics of speed, worlds built for objects over people, and the relations between automation, authority and anarchy.
Some stuff we discuss:
• How to change the course of human history | David Graeber and David Wengrow https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/#
• Error | Endnotes 5 https://libcom.org/files/Endnotes%205.pdf
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Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)
Audio Poem of the Day - Heart’s Needle 5: Winter again and it is snowing
by W.D. Snodgrass
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #845 – Sep 18 2021
Swindler's List: Auto Warranty Robocalls; News Items: Tongue Snakeoil, Keyhole Spying, Fact Checking Misinformation, Cognitive Control and Cheating, Bringing Back the Mammoth; SGU Recommends: What If; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails
Big Technology Podcast - A Look Into Facebook’s Soul — With WSJ’s Jeff Horwitz and Ex-FB Exec. Brian Boland
Jeff Horwitz is the Wall Street Journal reporter who unearthed a trove of internal Facebook documents that reveal a damning disconnect between what the company says in public and its actions inside. Brian Boland is a former Facebook executive who spent more than 11 years inside the company. The two come on to discuss Horowitz's bombshell series of reports, unpacking what they tell us about Facebook, dissecting the company's responses, and looking at potential solutions.
Enjoy this bonus episode!
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Texas and New Jersey Securities Regulators Go After Celsius
A roundup of regulatory and global macro news from the previous week.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this edition of “The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at:
- The latest in China’s Evergrande crisis
- Texas and New Jersey target Celsius on their lending products
- Bitcoin adoption in Laos
- A wrap-up on the OpenSea NFT front running scandal
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NYDIG, the institutional-grade platform for Bitcoin, is making it possible for thousands of banks who have trusted relationships with hundreds of millions of customers, to offer Bitcoin. Learn more at NYDIG.com/NLW.
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Only in Time” by Abloom. Image credit: krisanapong detraphiphat/Moment/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Ken Burns Documentary Takes New, Deeper Look At Icon Muhammad Ali
The subject of countless documentaries, movies and biographies, it’s hard to determine just what is left to learn about Muhammad Ali.
Filmmaker Ken Burns joins Reset to discuss his comprehensive look at Ali’s life, with footage even his family has never seen.
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Assassination of James A. Garfield (Encore)
At 9:30 am on July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., James Garfield, President of the United States was fatally shot.
It is an event that, quite frankly, doesn’t really get the attention that other political assassinations have received. The story behind how and why it happened is as fascinating as any in American History.
Learn more about the Assassination of President Garfield and his assassin, Charles Giteau, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Dail
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