Month: December 2021

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S5 E29: Nick Clayton, Savitude

Nick Clayton has been into tech most of life. Outside of tech, he loves a good strategy game or board game - in face, he met his fiancé playing these types of games. He is an avid Magic the Gathering player, and has been enjoying the game for over 20 years. When I asked the difference between Magic and Dungeons and Dragons, he notes that DND is a role playing game and more about telling a story, while Magic is more about strategy and mechanics. He also enjoys spending time with friends and family, and cooking a good meal with lots of flavors.

Nick and his co-founders followed the data, and learned that there were a large number of people in the population have a hard time finding clothes... because clothes aren't produced in their body shape. After iterating on solutions around education and recommendation engines, they decided to move upstream into the designer's process.

This is the creation story of Savitude.

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Replay: Why You’re Right – And Wrong – About Abortion

The abortion debate is top of mind as we enter 2022, with a pending supreme court decision that could radically change the legality and availability of abortion in this country. So, we thought we’d revisit my conversation with writer Caitlin Flanagan. 


The most honest thing I’ve ever read about abortion is by Caitlin Flanagan. It’s called “The Dishonesty of the Abortion Debate: Why We Need to Face the Best Argument From the Other Side.” You can read it here.


Read all of Caitlin’s work for the Atlantic here.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Incredible Polgar Sisters (Encore)

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László Polgár was born just after World War II in Hungary. His field of study was the nature of human intelligence. After studying the lives of over 400 great intellectuals from throughout human history, he came to a startling conclusion: geniuses weren’t born, they were made. 

So he set about conducting an experiment on his own children. The results were astonishing. 

Learn more about Judit, Susan, and Sophia, the incredible Polgar sisters, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

 

 

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NBN Book of the Day - Bill Schutt, “Pump: A Natural History of the Heart” (Algonquin Books, 2021)

In this lively, unexpected look at the hearts of animals—from fish to bats to humans—American Museum of Natural History zoologist Bill Schutt tells an incredible story of evolution and scientific progress.

We join Schutt on a tour from the origins of circulation, still evident in microorganisms today, to the tiny hardworking pumps of worms, to the golf-cart-size hearts of blue whales. We visit beaches where horseshoe crabs are being harvested for their blood, which has properties that can protect humans from deadly illnesses. We learn that when temperatures plummet, some frog hearts can freeze solid for weeks, resuming their beat only after a spring thaw. And we journey with Schutt through human history, too, as philosophers and scientists hypothesize, often wrongly, about what makes our ticker tick. Schutt traces humanity’s cardiac fascination from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, who believed that the heart contains the soul, all the way up to modern-day laboratories, where scientists use animal hearts and even plants as the basis for many of today’s cutting-edge therapies.

Written with verve and authority, weaving evolutionary perspectives with cultural history, Pump: A Natural History of the Heart (Algonquin Books, 2021) shows us this mysterious organ in a completely new light.

Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch.

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The NewsWorthy - Quarantine Change, More Travel Troubles & Ozzy’s NFTs- Tuesday, December 28th, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, December 28th, 2021!

We'll explain how President Biden is counting on governors to get Covid-19 under control, as well as new recommendations about quarantines and New Years' celebrations. 

Also, we'll update you about air travel troubles and winter storms out west that keep coming. 

Plus, the types of foods expected to get more expensive in 2021, the device from nearly 20 years ago that's said to be making a comeback, and how one rock star's NFT collection is promising to be different from any other.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes for sources and to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #311 – “Thicc Lizzy” with Narado Moore, Nick Thomas, & Wes Van Horn

In this episode, Rivers is back in Birmingham, AL with the elite of Magic City Comedy: Wes Van Horn, Narado Moore, and Nick Thomas! On this one, the boys cover a possible anthrax attack at a conspiracy theory convention, the ongoing story of "Bishop-Sycamore" the fake high school football team that got their asses kicked on national TV and then turned out to be a scam, and a man in China who's been banned from an all-you-can-eat buffet. Thin Lizzy's "The Boys are Back in Town" is our "Jam of the Week"! Also, everyone's on the show is on "Cocaine" (the energy drink).  Give us a listen and HAPPY NEW YEAR, Y'ALL! Follow Narado on Twitter and Instagram @Rod4Short and check out his podcast "Uncle Rod's Story Corner".  Follow Nick on Twitter @OneDumbBoy and on Instagram @NockThimas.  Follow Wes on Twitter @WesVanHorn and on Instagram @WesVanHornComedy.  Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod.  Rivers is @RiversLangley  Sam is @SlamHarter  Carter is @Carter_Glascock  Subscribe on Patreon for 100+ HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod

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The Daily Signal - Top 5 of 2021 Day 2: Davis Hanson on ‘The Dying Citizen’ (Repeat)

Top 5 of 2021 Day 2: During this Christmas season, we're sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year to allow our team to take time off for the holidays.


What does it mean to be an American citizen today?


Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor emeritus at California State University, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about citizenship and other topics covered in his new book “The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America.”


A bestselling author and one of The Daily Signal’s most popular columnists, Hanson’s latest book serves as a wake-up call for citizens to take their responsibility seriously.


“I think we have to just take a deep breath and say, ‘We have to reassert citizenship,'” Hanson says. “We’re starting to see it with local school boards, where somebody, somehow, thought that either school bureaucrats or locally elected people are not responsible for the will of the voters who either elected them or they were hired by elected officials through that vote. And yet parents are starting to object and hold them accountable.”


Hanson also reflects on historical comparisons to the tumultuous year 2020. And he explains why, despite the challenges we face today, he remains optimistic about America’s future.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Best of 2021 | How Should We Remember Colin Powell?

We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in October 2021.


Colin Powell, known as a “trailblazer” and “pathbreaker” in his military career, leaves behind a complicated legacy. The four-star general became a household name during the first Gulf War as the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later the first Black secretary of state. 


Thirty years after his rise to national prominence, Powell’s death has prompted reflections on the Iraq War and his role in using false intelligence to justify the U.S. invasion.


Guest: Fred Kaplan, Slate’s War Stories columnist. 


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Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Danielle Hewitt, Elena Schwartz, Davis Land, and Carmel Delshad.

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