Month: September 2021

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 09/08

Classrooms in crisis as students and teachers contract COVID. Demanding action on infrastructure. How security changed forever after 9/11. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - The call before the storm? Brazil’s protests

Tens of thousands of people aligned with President Jair Bolsonaro held protests—at his direction. Yet the numbers are increasingly aligned against him as he eyes next year’s elections. Conspiracy theories are nothing new, but politicians espousing them, and exploiting them to great effect, make them much more than harmless tales. And a listen to the disappearing sounds of old Beijing.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Geologic Timeline

The Earth is pretty old. Our current, best estimate is that it is 4.54 billion years old, plus or minus 50 million years. Since then, however, a lot has happened. To help clarify the Earth’s timeline, geologists have divided the Earth’s history into various eras and periods. Each division of time represents a change in something, which happened on the planet. Learn more about the Earth’s history and geologic time scales, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan

Should we be worried that the protection against Covid-19 provided by the vaccines is going down? Could it really be the case that eating a hot dog takes 36 minutes from your life? The Bank of England holds 35% of Government debt. Who owns the other 65%? Has the UK spent more on Test and Trace than on its operations in Afghanistan?

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The NewsWorthy - New Afghan Gov’t, Flu Season Prediction & #FreeBritney Update – Wednesday, September 8th, 2021

The news to know for Wednesday, September 8th, 2021!

What to know about the Taliban's newly announced government in Afghanistan, a powerful earthquake in Mexico, and the billions of dollars up for debate in the U.S.

Plus, why flu season could be worse this year, a major update in the legal case that inspired the #FreeBritney movement, and in what way TikTok has taken over YouTube. 

Those stories and more in about 10 minutes! 

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The Daily Signal - In 2 Blue States, This College Teaches Students About Western Civilization

At Thomas Aquinas College, students study the original works of the great thinkers of Western civilization, among them Aristotle, St. Augustine, Chaucer, Descartes, Newton, Locke, Lincoln, Einstein, and Dostoevsky.


After reading these influential scholars, students engage in small group discussions about the works, their conversations guided by a professor.


But it's not just the curriculum and the classroom methodology that make Thomas Aquinas College different. Despite having campuses in liberal California and Massachusetts, this small Catholic college is bucking trends in higher ed.


As students across America must obtain higher and higher loans to pay for higher education, Thomas Aquinas College is committed to ensuring that no student needs to take out more than $19,000 in loans. It encourages religious practices by making Mass available daily. And it offers only single-sex dorms.


Paul O'Reilly, incoming president of Thomas Aquinas College, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the college's approach and results.


We also cover these stories:

  • The Taliban announce formation of an interterm government in an attempt to formalize control over Afghanistan.
  • Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says new documents prove that Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress about government funding for coronavirus research at a lab in Wuhan, China. 
  • Texas Gov. Greg Abbot signs election reform legislation despite opposition from the left.


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What Could Go Right? - Building a Better Internet with Danielle Keats Citron and Eli Pariser

Not too long ago, the Internet was seen as humanity's great hope. Today it feels more like our undoing. We see social media amplifying negative voices and harassment and producing political partisanship and interpersonal dysfunction, and it seems like no one knows to fix it—except maybe these two. Today we're joined by Danielle Keats Citron, a leading expert on information privacy, free speech, and civil rights, and Eli Pariser, co-founder of Upworthy and the author of "The Filter Bubble," who now leads the New_ Public project. Together they share their views on the Internet's current trajectory and how we might course correct.


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Short Wave - Fewer COVID Vaccine Doses Materialized Last Fall Than The U.S. Government Hoped

Manufacturers can expect to face unforeseen hurdles when they begin to mass-produce a brand new pharmaceutical product, and in a pandemic, there are bound to be supply chain problems as well. But in late 2020, Pfizer was delivering fewer doses than the government expected and then-federal officials told NPR they did not know why.

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