In which a national hysteria erupts over the Satanists controlling your children's role-playing games, and Ken is just a big thimble. Certificate #38501.
The Best One Yet - 🍪 “The Toll House Cookie Effect” — SpaceX’s “genuine risk”. Grammarly’s $13B tYpo. And the winner of Black Friday is…
We’re ready to crown the winner of Black Friday and Cyber Monday — and it all comes down to chocolate chip cookie dough. SpaceX is on the brink of the space exploration, but now Elon says it’s on the brink of bankruptcy. Adn Grammarly h!t $13 billloin becase off you’re tYpos.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Banana Republics
The term “banana republic” is often used pejoratively to describe small, poor, unstable developing countries. Being called a banana republic is never a good thing. However, that term has a very real origin which involved actual bananas, mercenaries, corporate money, and the American government. Learn more about Banana Republics, where the name comes from, and the history behind them, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NBN Book of the Day - Susan Wolf, “Meaningfulness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Meaningfulness is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Susan Wolf, the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This fascinating conversation explores what it is to live an ethical, meaningful life in keeping with her book, Meaning in Life and Why It Matters, the role that love, fulfillment, self-interest and happiness play in giving meaning to one’s life, and how meaningful activities occur when “subjective attraction meets objective attractiveness”.
Howard Burton is the founder of the Ideas Roadshow, Ideas on Film and host of the Ideas Roadshow Podcast. He can be reached at howard@ideasroadshow.com.
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The NewsWorthy - First U.S. Omicron Case, MLB Lockout & People of the Year – Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
The news to know for Thursday, December 2nd, 2021!
What to know about the first confirmed case of the Omicron variant in the United States, including the patient's travel history and vaccination status.
Also, actor Alec Baldwin says he never pulled the trigger in the deadly shooting on a movie set. So what happened?Â
Plus, Major League Baseball's first work stoppage in more than 26 years, which politician is running for a position she famously lost already, and 2021's "People of the Year."
All that and more in around 10 minutes...
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What A Day - Supply Chain Reaction with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh
The Supreme Court heard a case yesterday that could ultimately reverse the constitutional right to an abortion. And it looks like the justices were leaning towards upholding a Mississippi law that bars abortion after 15 weeks.
The first confirmed case of the omicron variant has been identified in the U.S. President Biden urged people to not panic and encouraged more vaccinations and boosters. U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh joins us to discuss how the variant could impact the supply chain and what the administration is doing to loosen bottlenecks.
And in headlines: a 15-year-old boy was charged with murder and terrorism in Tuesday's school shooting in Michigan, Stacey Abrams announced that she will run for Georgia governor in 2022, and El Salvador will pay damages to a woman who died in prison while serving time for an abortion conviction.
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The Daily Signal - Why It’s Likely That Supreme Court Will Overturn Roe v. Wade
The days of abortion on demand could be numbered. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case in which the high court could overturn its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade and send power back to the states to determine their own abortion laws.Â
"I feel like the Supreme Court right now has a very clear, intellectually honest blueprint to overturn Roe v. Wade, restore the Constitution to its proper meaning and understanding, and return the issue of abortion back to the people of America," says Denise Harle, a senior attorney at the Christian legal aid group Alliance Defending Freedom.Â
The case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization stems from a Mississippi law, passed in 2018 but not in effect, which aims to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Mississippi’s only remaining abortion clinic immediately challenged the a lawsuit. Now, the Supreme Court again is considering the constitutionality of abortion.Â
Harle, who directs Alliance Defending Freedom's Center for Life, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to break down the oral arguments heard by the nine justices and predict what the future holds for Roe v. Wade.Â
We also cover these stories:
- The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a major abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
- The House Freedom Caucus urges Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to refuse to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open if that measure funds President Biden’s vaccine mandate for private employers.
- CNN host Chris Cuomo expresses embarrassment on his Sirius XM radio show after his indefinite suspension Tuesday from the cable news outlet.Â
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Tech Won't Save Us - Who Inspired Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ Space Visions? w/ Fred Scharmen
Paris Marx is joined by Fred Scharmen to discuss Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ visions for space colonization, the inspiration they draw from the work of Wernher von Braun and Gerard O’Neill, and what’s wrong with basing our future on those ideas.
Fred Scharmen is the author of Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space. He teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Planning and is the co-founder of the Working Group on Adaptive Systems. Follow Fred on Twitter at @sevensixfive.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris wrote about the billionaire space race and Jeff Bezos’ vision for space colonization.
- Wernher von Braun was a Nazi before becoming chief architect of NASA’s Saturn V rocket. He appeared in a 1955 Disney program about space flight, but his past was also criticized, including in a song by Tom Lehrer.
- Elon Musk has cited Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” as an inspiration and Jeff Bezos saved The Expanse when it was cancelled.
- Jeff Bezos’ ideas about space colonization come directly from Gerard O’Neill’s vision of space colonies floating in space.
- Adam Mann asked in the New Yorker whether Mars was really ours for the taking.
- The Just Space Alliance presents an alternative to the billionaire framing of space.
What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Why No One Told Chris Cuomo No
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was recently placed on indefinite leave by the network for his involvement in the damage control operations of his brother, former NY governor Andrew Cuomo, over the last year. A trove of documents revealed that Chris had overstepped ethical lines to help protect Andrew while he was under fire for allegations of sexual harassment.Â
Why did the younger Cuomo wade into the political muck, putting his job at risk? And will CNN hold him accountable?
Guest: Erik Wemple, media critic for the Washington Post.
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Short Wave - No sperm? No problem.
Scientists have discovered that some female condors don't need males to reproduce. This phenomenon is known as parthenogenesis, and it's been observed in other animals too. The Atlantic's Sarah Zhang explains how it was found in California condors and its implications for these endangered birds.
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