Month: December 2021

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Goldman Looking Into Bitcoin-Backed Lending as Jobs Report Disappoints

A look at what happened in crypto this week, from regulation to institutions. 

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.

On this edition of “The Breakdown Weekly Recap,” NLW covers:

  • The latest jobs report and what it means for Fed policy
  • Comments from SEC Chair Gensler and a House crypto hearing next week
  • The latest institutional bitcoin news from Fidelity and Goldman Sachs 

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Internal Combustion Engine

One of the technologies which have helped make the modern world is the internal combustion engine. Without it, the world would be a very different place today. Yet it wasn’t a technology that appeared fully formed. It was developed incrementally over a century. To get it to a point where it was viable for use in vehicles took numerous innovations.

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: Omicron Q&A & Pandemic Predictions

The omicron variant of the coronavirus is now officially here in the United States and spreading around the world. But there are still a lot of questions about it.

Today we hope to help clarify what scientists do, and don’t know, about this variant. I’m talking with infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist Dr. Céline Gounder.

She’s a practicing physician in New York City and has been a trusted voice throughout the pandemic. She’s the host of the “Epidemic” and “American Diagnosis” podcasts and has even advised the White House about COVID-19.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Inside the Arguments in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Julie Rikelman, senior director of litigation at the Center for Reproductive Rights, who argued for reproductive rights and liberty on behalf of Jackson Women’s Health in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health at the Supreme Court this week. Together, they unpack the arguments and discuss the women missing from the narratives in the courtroom that day. 

Then, Dahlia’s joined by Professor Katherine Franke, director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia University and the founder and faculty director of the Law, Rights, and Religion Project at Columbia Law School. Professor Franke helps us examine how the Supreme Court’s conservative majority’s views on religious liberty undergirded Wednesday’s arguments, are set to influence the court’s jurisprudence, and will likely alter your constitutional rights. 

In our Slate Plus segment, Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia for a frank discussion of the liberal justices’ performances in this week’s monumental abortion case, the gaslighting that maybe got us here, and then they look ahead to a big religious-liberty case coming up next week.

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Byzantium And The Crusades - The Fall of Constantinople Episode 13 “The Final Battle”

The Ottoman Sultan, Mehmet II, has decided to launch an all-out attack on the city of Constantinople. But the brave defenders are prepared. They resist wave after wave of Turkish troops until their luck runs out with a cruel twist of fate. 

Please take a look at my website nickholmesauthor.com where you can download a free copy of The Byzantine World War, my book that describes the origins of the First Crusade.

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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 12

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Dec. 3, 2021

Illinois is in the midst of a COVID surge, surpassing 11,000 new cases for the first time this year, while newly released standardized test scores show the impact the pandemic had on learning. Plus, the latest on the criminal trial of actor Jussie Smollet. Reset goes behind the headlines on the Weekly News Recap.
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Consider This from NPR - Omicron Is Here. What That Means For The Winter

It was only a matter of time before cases of the COVID-19 omicron variant started popping up in the U.S., and now, it's here. Although it's too early to tell how this virus strain will spread, the threat it poses has already lit a fire under public health messaging.

President Biden announced a new strategy to avoid a winter surge of cases that involves free at-home testing, a vaccine booster messaging campaign and heightened international travel safeguards.

Meanwhile, the race is on to detect how omicron is already spreading in this country. NPR reporter Will Stone gives us a look into what's happening in labs right now across the country.

And Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, discusses what we know about how effective travel bans are scenarios like this.

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