Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S5 E28: Oona Rokyta, Lance

Oona Rokyta is a first generation American, which you wouldn't expect from her lack of accent. Her parents are artists from the Czech Republic, who migrated to the US 6 months before she was born. Because of her parents profession, she comes from the land of not understanding business, nor tech. Her parents are role models for her - in fact, they are her personal heroes. From this inspired place, she finds her greatest motivation in life, which is to learn as much as possible and share it with others. She spends a lot of time with her boyfriend and his kids, and has even kicked off a weekly baking challenge with his daughter, creating experimental dishes.

As a freelancer, and a part of a community of freelancers, Oona found that it was difficult to understand cash flow with variable income. Through interactions with accountants or financial systems, she saw that most systems or professionals were backwards looking. She though, well what does it look like moving forward? What does it look like to bring on additional client?

This is the creation story of Lance.

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Abigail Shrier: On Freedom in an Age of Fear

Abigail Shrier, the author of the bestselling book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” was recently invited to speak at Princeton. But this being a college campus in 2021, you can imagine what happened next. The event was moved off campus. It was limited to 35 people. And the police had to be called in because of threats.


But despite the limited audience, Shrier’s message that night was loud and clear: don’t buckle in the face of the mobs. Don’t become a sock puppet to your institution or employer or social circle. Tell the truth. Speak your mind. Reclaim your freedom.


It’s a speech that deserves to be heard by as many people–especially young people–as possible. So today, we share it with all of you.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Highly Improbable Flight of Mathias Rust

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In 1987, a German teenager and novice pilot named Mathias Rust set out on a two-week flight where he visited several countries in Europe. 

What was remarkable about the flight wasn’t the age of the pilot or the distance he traveled. The reason people still remember it was where he ended up. 

Learn more about The Highly Improbable Flight of Mathias Rust and what happened in its aftermath, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Smologies #8: HAGFISH with Tim Winegard

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Who doesn't love a floppy, slime-filled, hot dog shaped creature of the deep sea? On this Smologies (It's like if Ologies were more Smol) we return to our conversation with Tim Winegard, a professional hagfishologist (YES IT'S A WORD) at Chapman University, and he dishes on the world's slimiest treasures. You're gonna learn about things like why you don't always need a spine and how special ketchup is and, of course, lots and lots about mucus.

Also in case you didn't know, Smologies is indeed an abbreviated, de-filthed episode of Ologies for when you only have 20 minutes to learn something interesting about the thing your date said they're into in their profile you've got kids with you in the car who are definitely going to repeat the curse word they learned from their ol' GrandfatherWard all through fingerpainting class.

The uncut, adult version of Hagfishology plus research links

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NBN Book of the Day - Sarah S. Richardson, “The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects” (U Chicago Press, 2021)

The idea that a woman may leave a biological trace on her gestating offspring has long been a commonplace folk intuition and a matter of scientific intrigue, but the form of that idea has changed dramatically over time. Beginning with the advent of modern genetics at the turn of the twentieth century, biomedical scientists dismissed any notion that a mother--except in cases of extreme deprivation or injury--could alter her offspring's traits. Consensus asserted that a child's fate was set by a combination of its genes and post-birth upbringing.

Over the last fifty years, however, this consensus was dismantled, and today, research on the intrauterine environment and its effects on the fetus is emerging as a robust program of study in medicine, public health, psychology, evolutionary biology, and genomics. Collectively, these sciences argue that a woman's experiences, behaviors, and physiology can have life-altering effects on offspring development.

Tracing a genealogy of ideas about heredity and maternal-fetal effects, Sarah S. Richardson's The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects (U Chicago Press, 2021) offers a critical analysis of conceptual and ethical issues--in particular, the staggering implications for maternal well-being and reproductive autonomy--provoked by the striking rise of epigenetics and fetal origins science in postgenomic biology today.

Sohini Chatterjee is a PhD Student in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Western University, Canada. Her work has recently appeared in South Asian Popular Culture and Fat Studies.

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The NewsWorthy - Omicron Takes Over, Sports on Hold & Winter Solstice – Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, December 21st, 2021!

We'll update you about how quickly the omicron variant of Covid-19 is spreading in the U.S. and how it's having an impact on sports and entertainment.

Also, some Americans are in for a white Christmas. Others are going to feel a little more tropical this week. 

Plus, the tightest-ever pollution rules for automakers, the company that made its biggest deal ever, and what rules are now changing at the Emmys.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #310 – “Sam Patch: America’s First Daredevil” with Ben Sawyer & Narado Moore

In this episode, Rivers is hangin' out in Nashville, TN with, longtime friends of the show, comedian Narado Moore and comedian/history professor Dr. Benjamin Sawyer! Today we're telling the true story of America's first daredevil and the most recent entry into The Goods from the Woods Hall of Fame: "The Yankee Leaper" Sam Patch. This is such an incredible story from history with so many incredible and hilariously strange details. Honestly, this episode should probably be titled "Ye Olde 'Jackass'". We absolutely cannot wait for y'all to hear this! Happy Holidays.  Follow Dr. Ben on Twitter and Instagram @SawyerComedy and check out his podcast "The Road to Now".  Follow Narado on Twitter and Instagram @Rod4Short and check out his podcast "Uncle Rod's Story Corner".  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

The Daily Signal - How This Pilot Fights United Airlines’ Vaccine Mandate

As private businesses mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their employees under pressure from the Biden administration, employees are banding together to make their displeasure known.

In the airline industry, United Airlines pilot Sherry Walker and her group, Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom, are pushing back against what they view as an overreach by the industry to control their health and violate their religious freedom.

"I cannot wake up some day in 10 years and my kid turns to me and says, 'Mom, you had a chance to fix this and you didn't and you left me this mess,'" Walker says. "So I'm going to fight till the end for my religious faith and that of my coworkers. And if that means that I'm done flying, I guess I have a bigger fight God put in front of me."

Walker joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about her efforts to push back against vaccine mandates in the airline industry.

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