Month: December 2021

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Getting Hammered - The Ideas Man

Would a can of Vienna Sausages outlast mask mandates? CDC director Rochelle Walensky thinks so. Elon Musk joins the ranks of Mary Katharine's husband as an Ideas Man, a comedian and an MSNBC host butt heads, and California experiences a bacon shortage.


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  • 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
  • 11:15 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
  • 11:22 - Covid updates: California reinstates indoor mask mandate, Philadelphia requires vaccines for indoor dining, first Omicron-variant death in the UK
  • 13:12 - CDC director Rochelle Walensky says masks are for now, not forever
  • 16:13 - Dr. Angelique Coetzee, one of the doctors who discovered Omicron,
  • 22:55 - Time magazine names Elon Musk Person of the Year
  • 29:24 - Sarah Silverman butts heads with MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid
  • 33:01 - Bacon shortage in California
  • 38:35 - Tornadoes rock Kentucky



Links for charities helping tornado victims

Samaritan's purse

Mercy Chefs

Relevant Church's Tornado Relief Fund

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NBN Book of the Day - Eike Exner, “Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History” (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Orientalist framework, treating manga as the exotic antithesis to American and European comics. In reality, the history of manga is deeply intertwined with Japan’s avid importation of Western technology and popular culture in the early twentieth century.

Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History (Rutgers UP, 2021) reveals how popular U.S. comics characters like Jiggs and Maggie, the Katzenjammer Kids, Felix the Cat, and Popeye achieved immense fame in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Modern comics had earlier developed in the United States in response to new technologies like motion pictures and sound recording, which revolutionized visual storytelling by prompting the invention of devices like speed lines and speech balloons. As audiovisual entertainment like movies and record players spread through Japan, comics followed suit. Their immediate popularity quickly encouraged Japanese editors and cartoonists to enthusiastically embrace the foreign medium and make it their own, paving the way for manga as we know it today.

By challenging the conventional wisdom that manga evolved from centuries of prior Japanese art and explaining why manga and other comics around the world share the same origin story, Comics and the Origins of Manga offers a new understanding of this increasingly influential artform.

Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing.

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - How Inflation Plays Out in the Next Year (with Jason Furman)

What do gasoline, eggs, used cars, and meat have in common? Inflation has caused the prices on all these items to increase by double digits in the last year. Andy dives into what's happening with inflation with Jason Furman, Harvard economist and former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama. They discuss why it's happening, what can be done to tackle these high prices, and where he thinks the economy will be in a year. Plus, how all of this ties into why so many of your Christmas gifts are backordered.

 

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What A Day - The Human Cost Of Military Pollution In Hawai’i with Kai Kahele

Tens of thousands of military families in O’ahu have been living without clean water for weeks after their water well was contaminated with petroleum. Many people got severely ill and some were even hospitalized for skin rashes, chemical burns, and vomiting. Hawai’i Congressman Kai Kahele joins us to discuss the gravity of the situation and how we got here. 


And in headlines: the Senate voted to raise the debt ceiling, six women sued Tesla for sexual harassment in the workplace, and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was ordered to forfeit the earnings from his book.


Show Notes:

PBS: “Navy’s water contamination flub in Hawaii follows 8 years of warning signs” – https://to.pbs.org/3EYiXLU

Hawai’i Sierra Club’s Red Hill Quick Resources and Actions – https://sierraclubhawaii.org/redhill


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The NewsWorthy - Omicron Spreading Fast, California Deluge & Holiday Shipping Deadline – Wednesday, December 15th, 2021

The news to know for Wednesday, December 15th, 2021!

We're detailing new evidence that found the omicron variant of Covid-19 is different from any other version of the virus.

Also, text messages from former President Trump's inner circle that went out during the Capitol riot.

Plus, deadlines to know about both healthcare and holiday shipping, a cyberattack that could impact a lot of Americans' paychecks, and which popular movies got honored for standing the test of time.

Those stories and more in about 10 minutes! 

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The Daily Signal - On Bill of Rights Day, Hope Isn’t Lost on Next Generation

What if former President Ronald Reagan was right? What if freedom really is never more than “one generation away from extinction,” as the then-governor of California said during his inaugural address in 1967. 


A Purcellville, Virginia-based Christian youth group called Generation Joshua has heeded Reagan’s warning and is working tirelessly to empower and educate teenagers to become future leaders of our nation. 


The organization exists “to teach high school students about their country, where it comes from, why it's free, and how to keep it that way,” Joel Grewe, the director of Generation Joshua, says. 


Through summer camps, local clubs, and other creative events, Generation Joshua has taught thousands of teens how to protect American liberties. 


In celebration of Bill of Rights Day on Dec. 15, Grewe and Jeremiah Lorrig, the organization’s deputy director, join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share stories of the ways Generation Joshua is training and empowering America’s future leaders. 


Follow these links to learn more about Joshua Generation, Constituting America, or the American History and Civics Initiative.


We also cover these stories:

  • President Joe Biden calls on Congress to pass gun-control measures to try and clamp down on gun violence.
  • Wholesale prices rise by 9.6% since last year. 
  • The New Hampshire chapter of the American Federation of Teachers announces it is suing the state to block a law prohibiting teachers from teaching critical race theory in their classrooms.


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Python Bytes - #263 It’s time to stop using Python 3.6

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Why Didn’t Maryland Democrats Go For the Jugular?

Maryland Democrats had a shot at an 8-0 gerrymander this redistricting cycle. To the frustration of the national Democratic party, they stopped just shy of that number. Should Maryland Democrats have just taken the total low road on partisan gerrymandering? 


Guest: Jim Newell, senior politics reporter for Slate. Sign up for his weekly newsletter, The Surge. 

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What Could Go Right? - The Next Wave of Higher Education (Bonus)

Is higher education due for a makeover? The pandemic has only accelerated the trends disrupting the traditional model of higher ed. So it’s an opportune time to look ahead and discuss what's coming next, from closing the gap that has opened between elite schools and the rest to the waning of standardized admissions tests to the rise of online and hybrid learning from the fringe to the center. Along the way, of course, we'll be answering the ever-acute question of what it is all supposed to be for.

Join us for a conversation on the future of higher ed with Sylvia M. Burwell, president of American University, Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University, and Scott Galloway, the founder of Section4, a content platform for accessible business education. Zachary Karabell, founder of The Progress Network, moderates.

This conversation was recorded on April 7, 2021.

What Could Go Right? is produced by The Progress Network and The Podglomerate.

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