Month: November 2021

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Inflategate

How many times a day do you hear the word “inflation” now? Many items are getting more expensive, but what’s actually driving those price increases? And are we heading towards a repeat of the 1970s wage-price spiral, or is this a temporary blip? 

Guest: Jordan Weissmann, senior editor at Slate. 

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Smologies #6: WOLVES with Bridgett vonHoldt

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Wolf howls, wolf packs, wolf history and more! November 23 is the dog appreciation holiday Wolfenoot so we’re dishing up a puppy-sized and kid-friendly Smologies with lupinologist and Princeton professor Dr. Brigette vonHoldt. Learn about wolf populations, canine family dynamics, Game of Thrones direwolves, if wolves howl at the moon, myths and truths about alphas, and how you can help our lupine friends. 

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Out of Office’ considers ‘why’ companies want to bring back remote employees

The working world looks a lot different today than it did nearly two years ago, when the coronavirus pandemic sent many office staff to work from home indefinitely. Writers Anne Helen Peterson and Charlie Warzel take a look at what work, and our relationship to it, will look like going forward in their new book, Out of Office. NPR's Rachel Martin spoke with Peterson about why so many companies want their employees back in person. And, spoiler alert: it's not about productivity.
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Short Wave - A Mission To Redirect An Asteroid

In movies, asteroids careening towards Earth confront determined humans with nuclear weapons to save the world! But a real NASA mission to change the course of an asteroid (one not hurtling towards Earth), the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), is about to launch.

NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce joins the show to talk about what it takes to pull off this mission and how it could potentially protect the Earth in the future from killer space rocks.

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It Could Happen Here - Open Source Verification

Garrison walks us through how they identified Rittenhouse the night of the Kenosha shooting and gives tips for starting open source verification.

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You're Wrong About - True Crime with Emma Berquist

Emma Berquist stops by to tell us about how true crime doesn't have to make us better people, and in fact may be more harmful to us than we realize—but we don't let her in, because we don't want to get KILLED!

Content advisory: This episode contains some brief descriptions of a violent knife attack.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - A TikTok tale

Nowadays if you are an academic and who needs some participants for a study you go online, but over the summer academic studies were inundated with participants who all happened to be teenage girls ... we explore how one TikTok can tip the balance of data gathering.

Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Chris Flynn

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Are Stablecoins the Path to Continued Dollar Dominance?

A reading of two prescient Nic Carter essays from 2020. 

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In today’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW goes back to read excerpts from two Nic Carter pieces that seem particularly prescient today, as the U.S. weighs the opportunities and risks of stablecoins. 

Policymakers Shouldn't Fear Digital Money: So Far It's Maintaining the Dollar's Status

The Crypto-Dollar Surge and the American Opportunity

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