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Strict Scrutiny - Comeback Kid
Our boy Steve is retiring. Here are our thoughts on the timing, his legacy, and potential successors.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Congress and School Choice
According to the Constitution, the federal government has no role in education. So how can Congress best get out of the way of education reforms underway in several states? John Moolenaar is a Republican member of Congress from Michigan and is a member of the “School Choice Caucus.”
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Motley Fool Money - Betting on the Winter Olympics, Exploring Global FinTech
Viewership on Peacock is not as high as Comcast would like, so they're doubling their investment in 2022. Maria Gallagher analyzes the streaming landscape and the role the Winter Olympics plays in Comcast's plans. She also discusses how McDonald's, one of the largest employers in the U.S., is dealing with rising costs and why Levi Strauss is optimistic about 2022. Plus, Emily Flippen and Asit Sharma take a closer look at Wise, a financial tech company aiming to make global currency transactions cheaper.
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Science In Action - The roots of Long Covid
There are now a number of biological indicators for the potential development of long covid. Immunologist Onur Boyman of Zurich University Hospital and Claire Steves, Clinical Senior Lecturer at King’s College London strives to tell us how pinpointing these factors is now helping in the development of strategies to predict the syndrome and prepare treatment.
The James Webb telescope has reached its final orbit. The years of planning, preparation and rehearsal seem to have paid off. The telescope is now ready to begin its mission of looking back into the early universe. BBC Science correspondent Jonathan Amos has followed the mission.
The widely held view that human development was propelled by our ancestors developing a taste for meat is being questioned by a new analysis of the fossil record. Paleoanthropologist Andrew Barr of George Washington University suggests part of the reason for this assumption is the sampling method, actively looking for evidence to support the hypothesis.
And Michael Boudoin of Lille University has led a team of physicists who have produced the longest-lasting soap bubble ever – they managed to prevent the bubble from popping for well over a year.
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Federalist Radio Hour - The Parent Revolution Is Spreading
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Gabe Kaminsky, an investigative reporting intern at The Daily Wire, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how the parent revolution in education is spreading. Read Kaminsky's investigation exposing how Hollywood-funded progressives in a historically red Oregon town ignored directives from the local school board to keep […]
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: A Crypto Industry Poison Pill Hidden in the America COMPETES Act?
It’s not the first time an expansion of the Bank Secrecy Act has made its way into an unrelated bill.
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Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at a topic that has seized the attention of the crypto policy community. Hidden in the America COMPETES Act is a change to the Bank Secrecy Act that would allow the secretary of the treasury to compel financial institutions to conduct extraordinary surveillance or even prohibit financial activity entirely on accounts they suspect of money laundering without any public notice or checks and balances. NLW breaks down the proposed change, the response and what it says about the state of the crypto lobby.
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First Things Podcast - How Journalism Became Elite Employment
On this episode, Batya Ungar-Sargon joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss her new book, "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy."
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: Secrets of Predictive Analytics, Train Robberies and Havana Syndrome
Listeners respond to an earlier episode exploring the controversy of the Havana syndrome. Organized crime rings are robbing Union Pacific trains with apparent impunity. An anonymous listener writes in with proven, detailed, and deeply disturbing information about predictive analysis in the world of child services and the justice system.
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