Month: December 2021

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The Best One Yet - 🐤 “Eucalyptus pulp shoes” — Allbirds’ carbon counting. Facebook’s un-Giphy-ing. Coal’s Santa nemesis.

Allbirds just reported its first earnings report since the shoe company IPO’d… now the challenge is to get consumers to care about carbon like they care about calories. Facebook was just told by the UK to cancel its acquisition of Gif-platform Giphy, but it may not comply. And just in time for Santa, coal prices are spiking to 10 year highs - just as coal faces a shocking new nemesis. $BIRD $BTU $FB Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Allbirds just reported its first earnings report since the shoe company IPO’d… now the challenge is to get consumers to care about carbon like they care about calories. Facebook was just told by the UK to cancel its acquisition of Gif-platform Giphy, but it may not comply. And just in time for Santa, coal prices are spiking to 10 year highs - just as coal faces a shocking new nemesis. $BIRD $BTU $FB Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Everything We (Don’t) Know About Omicron

In November, South Africa alerted the world to Omicron, a new strain of COVID-19. Then, as cases began to pop up worldwide, the World Health Organization labeled it a “variant of concern.” What do we know about Omicron, and just how worried should we be?


Guest: Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, assistant professor with the School of Public Health at UTHealth and author of Your Local Epidemiologist on Substack.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Vasa

The Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus oversaw the rise of Sweden as one of the great powers in Europe. In 1626, he ordered the construction of a warship that would be the most powerful floating platform in Northern Europe. Its maiden voyage in 1628 was one of the most memorable of any ship in history. Learn more about the Vasa, its incredible maiden voyage, and its status today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Getting Hammered - Censored

Mary Katharine and Vic have recovered from their Thanksgiving feasts and they're back to discuss Disney's decision to censor an episode of the Simpsons, as well as the new covid variant, fact-checkers, and some very unlucky pub dwellers in England

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  • 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
  • 11:24 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
  • 11:26 - The new coronavirus variant, Omicron
  • 24:52 - Journalists and Harvard academics work to identify misinformation in the news
  • 31:44 - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey steps down
  • 35:19 - Disney censors Simpsons episode with Tiananmen Square reference in Hong Kong
  • 39:48 - Matthew McConaughey announces he will not run for governor of Texas
  • 43:00 - England revelers stuck in pub for three days after snowstorm
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NBN Book of the Day - Shawn F. McHale, “The First Vietnam War: Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945-1956” (Cambridge UP, 2021)

When people think of the “Vietnam War” they usually think of the hugely devastating and divisive conflict between North Vietnam and a United States-backed South Vietnam that finally ended in 1975. We know much less about the earlier conflict, often referred to as the “First Indochina War”, from 1946 to 1954, which ended almost a century of French colonial rule and brought about the division of the country into North and South Vietnam. In his new book, The First Vietnam War: Sovereignty and the Fracture of the South, 1945-1956 (Cambridge UP, 2021), Shawn McHale examines this earlier conflict, focussing on the complex and diverse society of south Vietnam. The book begins with a provocative question: why did the communist-led resistance against French colonial rule in Vietnam fail in the south? This is an exhaustively researched book which does a lot to change our understanding of how south Vietnam became independent, and helps explain what came after the end of the “first Vietnam War”.

Patrick Jory teaches Southeast Asian History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. He can be reached at: p.jory@uq.edu.au.

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - Omicron

Andy breaks down everything you need to know about the Omicron variant with epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina. They cover what we know about Omicron's transmissibility, the severity of illness it causes, and how it impacts immunity – whether from vaccination or prior infection. They discuss why Omicron worries scientists, how quickly the mRNA vaccines could be tailored to fight Omicron if needed, and what the emergence of this new variant says about global vaccine equity.

 

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What A Day - A SCOTUS Case That Could Overturn Roe

Today, the Supreme Court hears what is likely the most consequential reproductive health case in decades. The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, will decide whether or not Mississippi can prohibit abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. And the worst case scenario is that the high court uses the case to completely overturn Roe v. Wade. We lay out what listeners should watch for.


Dutch health officials reported that the Omicron variant was actually in Europe prior to South African scientists discovering it and alerting the World Health Organization. This adds a new wrinkle to the question of where it originated from unanswered.


And in headlines: A school shooting in Michigan left 3 students dead, Dr. Oz announced that he’s running for Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican, and CNN suspended Chris Cuomo from the network indefinitely.


Show Notes:

New York Times: “How 2 Flights to Europe May Have Spurred Spread of New Variant” – https://nyti.ms/2ZKZije


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The NewsWorthy - School Shooting, Historic Abortion Case & Rihanna’s Hero Status – Wednesday, December 1st, 2021

The news to know for Wednesday, December 1st, 2021!

We'll explain a terrifying day at a Michigan high school.

And what to know about a historic case in front of the Supreme Court that could decide the future of abortion in the U.S.

Also, one popular TV personality is suspended over a scandal; another is getting into politics.

Plus, where most Americans are quitting their jobs and why, the reason Meta may be forced to sell one of its platforms, and which performers are being hailed as heroes this week.

Those stories and more in about 10 minutes! 

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Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College - S2 | Ep 13: The Farmer’s Granddaughter

Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York, New York. Spring of 1986 to Fall of 1994. The Secret History is published. Plus, “The Purge” comes to Bennington.

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