By Ted Kooser
CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 09/06
Concern grows about Americans trapped in Afghanistan. Unemployment assistance expires. Evacuated New Orleans residents warned not to return. CBS News Correspondent Deborah Rodriguez has today's World News Roundup.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Heartbeat of the matter: Texas’s draconian abortion law
The Supreme Court’s surprise decision to let the country’s harshest “heartbeat bill” stand bodes ill for the landmark Roe v Wade decision; we ask what happens next. Brazil’s police kill six times as many people as America’s—and the numbers bear out a clear racial divide among the fallen. And how Lebanon is reviving its olive-oil industry, with global ambitions.
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First Things Podcast - Where Education Is At
On this episode David Steiner joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss the state of public education in America and his work as director of the Johns Hopkins Institute For Education Policy: https://edpolicy.education.jhu.edu/.
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: “Bitcoin at $1,000,000 is a Global Government”
One of the world’s most interesting thinker joins NLW for a wide-ranging discussion
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
This interview originally aired December 19th, 2020.
Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur, the former CTO of Coinbase, a former General Partner at Andressen Horowitz and more.
In this wide-ranging conversation with NLW, he discusses:
- How networks are taking a power role once reserved for god and the state
- Why pre-internet institutions will not survive the internet
- Why bitcoin at $1 million is a global government
- Woke capital vs. communist capital vs. crypto capital
Find our guest online: @balajis
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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: Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus, modified by CoinDesk.
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Strict Scrutiny - Untitled Dating Show
It’s law school advice time, Strict Scrutiny style! Melissa and Leah chat with Mark Moran, graduate of UVA Law and contestant on FBoy Island, for the first ever Strict Scrutiny x FBoy Island Crossover. What can law school teach you about reality TV, and reality TV teach you about law school? A lot, it turns out….
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Air Force One
The era of presidential aviation began on October 11, 1910 when former president Theodore Roosevelt took to the skies in a Wright Brothers Flyer at a county fair in Saint Louis. The flight only lasted a few minutes.
Fast forward 110 years, and the President of the United States has one of the sweetest rides on the planet.
Learn more about Air Force One, the airplanes which have served presidents, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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30 Animals That Made Us Smarter - Octopus and transplants
S2 Ep11. Can the remarkable dexterity of octopus suckers help improve delicate surgery? The octopus uses its powerful arms to grip onto rocks, capture prey and walk around the sea floor. Suckers are found along the arms which are crucial for manipulating objects. The action of these suckers has inspired a device to transfer fragile sheets of thin tissue in surgical procedures.
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Audio Poem of the Day - How to Draw a Perfect Circle
By Terrance Hayes
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: WTF Is A “Metaverse?”
A reading of David Hoffman’s latest essay for Bankless
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads David Hoffman’s recent essay in Bankless “The Metaverse Emerges”
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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 Michele Musso. 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: Michael Stevenson/UIG/Getty Images Plus, modified by CoinDesk.
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