Month: December 2021

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 12/29

COVID variants have led to a record number of daily US cases. Pro football loses one of its top ambassadors -- John Madden has died at 85. Longtime Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid dies after battling pancreatic cancer.

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Headlines From The Times - How one mom learned to stop worrying and love video games

Video games had always been a point of division between L.A. Times science reporter Deborah Netburn and her 12-year-old son. Then the pandemic hit, and the gap between them seemed to widen. 

Today, Netburn shares her journey from ignorance to understanding. She did it by playing the games.

An earlier version of this episode was published May 7, 2021. 

More reading: Video games came between me and my son in the pandemic. Could they bring us back together?

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Katherine Wu on What Gets Built Next in Crypto

The Coinbase Ventures investor gives her take on 2021.

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.

On this episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” NLW is joined by Katherine Wu. Katherine invests in early-stage crypto companies with Coinbase Ventures. 

Find our guest on Twitter: @katherineykwu

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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our holiday theme music is “Spike The Eggnog” by Two Dudes. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Dark Crazed Cap” by Isaac Joel. Image credit: Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk.



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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.29.21

Alabama

  • ACLL lawyer Matthew Clark reacts to recent statement by Joe biden
  • State senator updates 1819 News on recent state law for religious exemptions
  • Federal judge orders AL Department of Corrections to hire more staff by 2025
  • There's a 2022 tax credit for those who build a certain storm shelter on property
  • Protective Stadium sells out its tickets for the Birmingham Bowl held this past Tuesday

National

  • The CDC is now surveilling dozens of cruise ships with influx of Covid 19 cases
  • Second Democrat governor announces no mask mandate for his state for Omicron
  • AL Senator Tommy Tuberville says no to transgender athletes competing in girl's sports
  • USA Swimming official goes on Fox News about her resignation in protest of Lia Thomas
  • Rasmusson polls American adults about JK Rowling's  recent statement on genders
  • PA judge rules that Fulton County voting machines can be inspected by state senate
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The Intelligence from The Economist - A few bright spots: our country of the year

Each year The Economist selects its country of the year: a place that has improved the most. Improvement, though, was damnably rare in 2021. We run through our nominations and the shortlist, and take a close look at why the winner won. And we examine what has gone on in South and South-East Asia, which offered no contenders whatsoever.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - “Mad” Jack Churchill (Encore)

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When you think of battles involving broadswords and longbows you are probably thinking back to the time of Braveheart. 

But what if I told you that those weapons were being used much more recently in a modern mechanized war? 

...well, at least one guy was using them in World War II.

Learn more about ‘Mad’ Jack Churchill, the man who brought ancient weapons to a modern war, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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NBN Book of the Day - Isaac A. Kamola, “Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary” (Duke UP, 2019)

Following World War II the American government and philanthropic foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites for producing knowledge about the world as a collection of distinct nation-states. As neoliberal reforms took hold in the 1980s, visions of the world made popular within area studies and international studies found themselves challenged by ideas and educational policies that originated in business schools and international financial institutions. Academics within these institutions reimagined the world instead as a single global market and higher education as a commodity to be bought and sold. By the 1990s, American universities embraced this language of globalization, and globalization eventually became the organizing logic of higher education. 

In Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary (Duke UP, 2019), Isaac A. Kamola examines how the relationships among universities, the American state, philanthropic organizations, and international financial institutions created the conditions that made it possible to imagine the world as global. Examining the Center for International Studies, Harvard Business School, the World Bank, the Social Science Research Council, and NYU, Kamola demonstrates that how we imagine the world is always symptomatic of the material relations within which knowledge is produced.

Dr. Kamola is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science and President of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Sara Katz is a postdoctoral associate in the history department at Duke University.

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