Month: October 2021

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Headlines From The Times - Stuck for days in L.A.’s biggest traffic jam

Hundreds of thousands of sailors worldwide are stuck on cargo ships far longer than they’d intended, with few chances to contact the outside. Usually ports offer opportunities for a break, but most of these sailors haven’t had access to COVID-19 vaccines, so they’re not allowed to set foot in the United States.

Today, L.A. Times Business reporter Ronald D. White takes us to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation’s largest. A huge backlog of cargo ships is waiting offshore for a turn to unload merchandise. Meanwhile, the crews aboard are going nowhere fast — and there’s basically no internet access, no visitors, no nice restaurant food delivery. They’re trapped.

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They’ve been stuck for months on cargo ships now floating off Southern California. They’re desperate

When will supply chains be back to normal? And how did things get so bad?

A tangled supply chain means shipping delays. Do your holiday shopping now

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Trouble in Khartoum: Sudan’s coup

Just as the country was moving towards democracy, its generals have overthrown the civilians—again. We look at what sparked the unrest, and why coups in Africa are on the rise. Ecuador declared a state of emergency last week over a wave of violent crime. It’s just one of several headaches for Guillermo Lasso, the country’s president. And we explain why you have an accent in a foreign language.

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The Best One Yet - 🏈 “Tom rents a Tesla” — Hertz’s cookie deal. Walmart’s Bitcoin ATM. 23andMe’s personalized DNA.

Hertz teamed up with Tom Brady and Tesla for one of the biggest electric car deals ever. Coinstar’s coin counters are hitting 200 Walmarts to become the Bitcoin ATM for the people. And 23andMe wants you to call it “Dr. 23andMe” because its latest acquisition wants to personalize your next appointment based on your DNA. $HTZZ $ME $TSLA $WMT $BTC 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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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Afghans Who Got Out

Sharifa Abbasi knows exactly what it’s like to board a plane to a new country. She immigrated from Afghanistan to the U.S. with her family in 1993. Now, she’s helping other Afghans navigate the complicated red tape of American immigration law after the Taliban takeover. For these immigrants, coming to America wasn’t easy -- being able to stay here might prove even harder.


Guest: Sharifa Abbasi, immigration lawyer at The HMA Law Firm. 


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Bammers - Watching the Tide in Empty Stadiums

Alabama limited Bryant-Denny Stadium's capacity to 20 percent during the 2020 national championship season, meaning about 20,000 fans would attend each home game. With so many COVID-19 restrictions in place, did the fans who attended the games still enjoy them the same way they would during a normal season?


Guests: 

Hunter Johnson, Die-hard Alabama fan you know from Twitter as HunterLJohnson (or BurnerLJohnson)

Hannah Saad, UA journalism graduate and former photo editor for the campus student newspaper The Crimson White

Roger Myers, Alabama fan and season ticket holder.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Louvre: The World’s Greatest Museum

Located in the heart of Paris, along the banks of the River Seine, lies the Louvre. It has over 750,000 square feet of gallery space, it has over 615,000 items in its collection, and in a non-pandemic year, gets over 10 million annual visitors. Yet, it wasn’t always a museum, and the way it acquired its collection wasn’t always above board. Learn more about the Louvre, the world’s greatest museum, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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NBN Book of the Day - Nicolette Hahn Niman, “Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat” (Chelsea Green, 2021)

In Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat (Chelsea Green, 2021), Nicolette Hahn Niman makes the expanded case for large ruminants as part of the solution to the climate crisis. In our discussion, Hahn Niman does some myth-busting and presents a system for managing beef cattle that can enhance ecosystems rather than degrade them. Hahn Niman recognizes not all beef enterprises are equal in their impact and argues components of the industry are tone-deaf. To move the industry forward Hahn Niman offers several places to improve. Some of these are to stop routinely killing primary predators, stop feeding drugs and other junk, stop using hormones, and stop long-distance transport. Join us and challenge some of your perceptions of beef cattle production.

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New Books in Native American Studies - Roberto J. González, “Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network” (U California Press, 2020)

Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network (U California Press, 2020) is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network—without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collective tribulation, triumph, and tragedy the community experienced in pursuit of getting connected. In doing so, this book captures the challenges and contradictions facing Mexico's indigenous peoples today, as they struggle to wire themselves into the 21st century using mobile technologies, ingenuity, and sheer determination. It also holds a broader lesson about the great paradox of the digital age, by exploring how constant connection through virtual worlds can hinder our ability to communicate with those around us.

Hussein Mohsen is a PhD/MA Candidate in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics/History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. His research interests include machine learning, cancer genomics, and the history of human genetics. For more about his work, visit http://www.husseinmohsen.com.

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The NewsWorthy - Northeast Flood Watches, Facebook Papers & World Series Begins – Tuesday, October 26th, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, October 26th, 2021!

We'll explain where and how severe weather is still taking a toll on millions of Americans. 

Also, the U.S. is keeping a close eye on a military coup in Africa while average Americans step In to help refugees from Afghanistan.

Plus, thousands of newly-leaked documents detail more than one crisis at Facebook, Jeff Bezos has a plan for a "space business park," and the World Series starts tonight. 

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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