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If you have ever looked at a map of the Caribbean, you might have noticed that the tiny islands in the Lesser Antilles consist of a whole bunch of tiny, independent countries.
All of these countries became independent around the same time, got their independence from the same country: Great Britain.
Given their common history and location, why are they a bunch of separate tiny countries rather than one larger one?
Learn more about the West Indies and their modern history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
The Joe Rogan controversy continues, and Mary Katharine and Vic question whose misinformation will land on the right side of history. We discover who leaked the news of Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement, California officials enjoy an NFL playoff game maskless, and a brawl breaks out in Philadelphia over… Golden Corral steak?
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00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
10:00 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
10:03 - Podcaster Joe Rogan releases statement on Spotify controversy
21:25 - Prince Harry and Meghan Markle threaten to walk away from their Spotify deal over Joe Rogan
27:42 - New Jersey gym owner Ian Smith, who refused to close gym in defiance of pandemic lockdowns, announces run for Congress
32:15 - White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain leaked news of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement
34:37 - Magic Johnson, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, San Francisco mayor London Breed, and California governor Gavin Newsom enjoy NFC championship maskless
39:13 - Mary Katharine tries out a new Girl Scout cookie live on air!
40:55 - Brawl breaks out at a Philadelphia Golden Corral after restaurant runs out of steak
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Mary Katharine's article on the cost of masking children indefinitely
Conservative politicians have taken to the airwaves to tell us to forget the parties, and just look at the economic growth - but is the UK really growing faster than other leading economies?
The Omicron variant has raised the chance that people are re-infected with Covid - how common is that, and should it change the way we read the statistics that are reported each day?
The great statistician Sir David Cox has died; we remember his life and his contribution to the science of counting.
And does comparing the number of food banks to the number of McDonald?s restaurants in the UK tell us anything about food poverty?
America’s community colleges are facing a completion crisis. The college-going experience of too many students is interrupted, lengthening their time to completing a degree―or worse, causing many to drop out altogether. In The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), Robin Isserles contextualizes this crisis by placing blame on the neoliberal policies that have shaped public community colleges over the past thirty years. The Costs of Completion offers a deeper, more complex understanding of who community college students are, why and how they enroll, and what higher education institutions can do to better support them and help them flourish.
Robin Isserles is a professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York.
Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com.
Andy explores what Omicron means for immunity with Harvard epidemiologist Bill Hanage. Andy and Bill tackle what we know about the kind of immunity Omicron may provide against future variants, what role layered immunity will play moving forward, and why we shouldn't count Delta out just yet. While you listen, see if you can catch all the literary and Arsenal F.C. references Bill skillfully slides into the conversation.
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Ransomware attacks have never been so successful. The returns from these attacks are soaring and only becoming easier to conduct. In chapter two of the Microsoft Digital Defense Report, the growing threat of cybercrime is covered in great detail. As we continue to go over the MDDR, it's more apparent than ever that the cybercrime economy and services it provides are stronger and more complex than ever. Cryptocurrency, malware, and adversarial machine learning are just a few of the topics we believe need to be covered in more detail.
In this episode of Security Unlocked, host’s Natalia Godyla and Nic Fillingham are joined by Jason Lyons, principal investigator in the digital crimes unit at Microsoft. Jason is an experienced investigator specializing in computer investigations. He is trained and experienced in hacker methodology/techniques, computer forensics, and incident response. Jason joined the show to discuss Chapter two of the Microsoft Digital Defense Report, which focuses on the state of cybercrime. He also speaks on how cryptocurrency has created new challenges in ransomware, why ransomware continues to grow, and recent trends we are currently seeing in malware.
In This Episode You Will Learn:
How to decide whether to pay the ransomware or not
New ways for security teams to protect against malware
Why we are seeing a rise in cybercrime due to cryptocurrency.
Some Questions We Ask:
What's new in the way the cybercrime economy operates?
Why is ransomware still such a big thing and maybe even getting bigger?
The NAACP is urging the Justice Department to bring federal civil rights charges against Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who murdered 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014. Zooming out, it's not uncommon for people to look to the federal justice system when state courts or local law enforcement decline to hold police officers responsible in cases like these. The same avenues were pursued in the case of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who also was killed by police in 2014, though the DOJ has announced it will not reopen an investigation into that shooting.
Later this week, employees at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama will begin voting on whether to unionize their workplace after the National Labor Relations Board concluded that Amazon’s actions disrupted the process the first time around. To get a sense of where things stand, we hear from Reyn McGuire, an employee at the Bessemer facility that has been actively organizing her coworkers.
And in headlines: Putin publicly addresses the Ukraine crisis, NFL quarterback Tom Brady confirmed his retirement, and Native American tribes reach a settlement with opioid manufactures who precipitated a crisis.
The news to know for Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022!
We'll talk about how Americans are bracing for the latest big winter storm: where flights, classes, and work have already been canceled.
Also, even babies could soon be getting Covid-19 shots: what was found in the data just handed over to the FDA.
Plus, a rough day for the NFL: the league is saying goodbye to a legend and getting sued by a former coach, some Teslas are disobeying stop signs, and Punxatawney Phil is ready for Groundhog Day.
It's no secret nowadays that Hollywood stars and directors slant left. But Hollywood wasn't always so woke. Years ago, actors would star in movies celebrating America. So how did we get here?
Christian Toto has the answer.
Toto is founder of the conservative entertainment site HollywoodInToto.com as well as author of the new book "Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul."
He says Hollywood is just another casualty in the left's dominance of American culture.
"It's the same way the culture went woke and lost its soul," Toto explains. "A few studio executives make a few decisions, a few actors realize if they share some woke virtue signaling on social media, they'll get more attention, more positive press. And it goes from there."
Toto joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to tell the story of Hollywood’s turn to the left and what conservatives are doing to push back.
We also cover these stories:
Russian President Vladimir Putin says America has ignored Russia’s concerns over the West’s position on Ukraine.
Senate Democrats release legislation to amend the law governing the counting of Electoral College votes.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says National Guard troops are required to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
