Month: February 2022

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The Best One Yet - 🥑 “Guac is extra, extra” — Chipotle’s ROLO economy. Bonny Bitcoin & Crypto Clyde. And the Oscar goes to…

Chipotle’s earnings report is so meaty that it ain’t about the YOLO Economy — it’s about the ROLO Economy. The government just arrested the suspects behind the biggest crypto hack in history: It involves $3.6B of Bitcoin, 2 married influencers, YouTube rappers, and the Crocodile of Wall Street. And the Oscar nominations just came in and the award goes to… Streaming. $CMG $BTC $DIS $AMZN $AAPL 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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Everything Everywhere Daily - How Tides Work

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Every single day, the oceans of the world go through a cycle with two high tides and two low tides. 


For thousands of years, no one knew why the tides rose and fell, and even today, most people only have a vague idea of what drives the tides. 


They dictate the lives of many people who live near the sea, and we might even be able to harness their power in the future.


Learn more about how tides work, and why it is more complicated than you probably think, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Aubrey Clayton, “Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science” (Columbia UP, 2021)

There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a misunderstanding of probability and its role in making inferences from observations.

Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it. He highlights how influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures developed a statistical methodology they claimed was purely objective in order to silence critics of their political agendas, including eugenics.

Clayton provides a clear account of the mathematics and logic of probability, conveying complex concepts accessibly for readers interested in the statistical methods that frame our understanding of the world. He contends that we need to take a Bayesian approach--that is, to incorporate prior knowledge when reasoning with incomplete information--in order to resolve the crisis. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science (Columbia UP, 2021) explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data--and how to fix it.

Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland.

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What A Day - A Slow Descent Into Maskless

Several states announced plans to lift mask mandates this week, but the federal government is taking a more cautious approach, and has communicated that hospitalizations and deaths are still high enough that relaxing guidelines at this point would be premature. Dr. CĂ©line Gounder, a clinical assistant professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at NYU who has been in touch with the White House, joins us to discuss what comes next in this new, slightly less-masked phase of the pandemic.


And in headlines: Top Russian military commanders flew into Belarus for a massive military exercise, families of the victims who died in the Bronx apartment fire last month are suing the building owners, and Russian figure skaters may have their Olympic medals stripped after one of their athletes failed a drug test.


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The NewsWorthy - Europe Evacuation Plan, Mega Media Merger & Team USA Wins Golds- Thursday, February 10th, 2022

The news for Thursday, February 10th, 2022!

What to know about some of the first assignments American troops are getting in Eastern Europe. They're preparing for a mass evacuation.

Also, how anti-mandate protesters are starting to get the response they were hoping for while also starting to hurt the auto industry. And, we'll tell you where new protests are popping up around the world.

Plus, you'll soon see fewer magazines on newsstands, this Super Bowl is set to be the biggest one yet for gamblers, and Team USA is going to be bringing some gold medals home from Beijing: which Olympians are making history.

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The Daily Signal - Meet Doctor Suing Rhode Island Over Vaccine Mandate

Dr. Stephen Skoly's request for a medical exemption to the state's vaccine mandate was denied. Then the Rhode Island Department of Health ordered him to stop his critical surgical care in October. 

Now, represented by the Washington, D.C.- based civil rights group the New Civil Liberties Alliance, he is suing Rhode Island to stop the state from prohibiting him from practicing medicine.  

Skoly shares with "The Daily Signal Podcast" why he asked for a medical exemption to the vaccine mandate, what he hopes to gain through his lawsuit, his views on the vaccines as a medical professional, and more.  "I would think that in most instances a vaccination like this that was authorized under emergency use authorization, you should have some freedom of choice and some freedoms that exist still in America," he says.


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Tech Won't Save Us - The Poorly Paid Workers Powering Automation w/ Phil Jones

Paris Marx is joined by Phil Jones to discuss the hidden microworkers behind supposedly AI-powered automation from major tech companies, how it differs in the Global North and South, and what it means for how we think about the future.

Phil Jones is the author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism and a researcher at Autonomy. Follow Phil on Twitter at @philjones7771.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

  • Phil wrote about digital piecework for The Guardian and had an excerpt about refugee labor in Rest of World.
  • Turkopticon helps workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk gain some information on the contractors offering tasks on the platform.
  • In 2020, Gizmodo did surveys to find out about workers’ experiences on Mechanical Turk. There were a lot of horror stories.
  • In 2014, workers on the platform sent emails to Jeff Bezos to ask for better conditions.

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