Month: April 2022

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Everything Everywhere Daily - All About Algorithms

Whether or not you know it, you use them every day. You were actually trained to use them as a child. Much of the world we live in today is directly or indirectly a result of their use. 


While they are ideally suited for computers, they were actually first developed thousands of years ago. 


Learn more about algorithms, what they are, how they work, and how they impact the world today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Getting Hammered - Musk (Officially) Owns the Libs

And the crowd goes wild! Billionaire Elon Musk buys Twitter, and the libs are up in arms. Mary Katharine talks about her appearance on the Real Time with Bill Maher, American officials visit war-torn Ukraine, and new midterm forecasts give Republicans a(nother) reason to smile.


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  • 00:12 - Segment: Introduction 
  • 21:50 - Segment: The News You Need to Know 
  • 22:19 - Elon Musk sends Twitterverse into a spiral after purchasing the platform for $44 billion
  • 41:43 - American officials visit Ukraine
  • 43:55 - Crystal Ball forecasts bode well for Republicans
  • 48:59 - Actor Chris Pratt response to calls for cancellation


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Supercut of Mary Katharine on Bill Maher, courtesy of the Washington Free Beacon’s Thaleigha Rampersad

Caitlin Flanagan’s work in The Atlantic

Alison Rosen's Your New Best Friend podcast

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NBN Book of the Day - Thomas Aiello, “Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)

From its early days as a sport to build “muscular Christianity” among young men flooding nineteenth-century cities to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. It grew through high school gymnasiums, college pep rallies, and the fits and starts of professionalization. It was a playground game, an urban game, tied to all of the caricatures that were associated with urban culture. It struggled with integration and representations of race. Today, basketball’s influence seeps into film, music, dance, and fashion. Hoops tells the story of the reciprocal relationship between the sport and the society that received it.

In Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021), Thomas Aiello presents the only contemporary cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional mens and womens competition. He argues that the game has existed in a reciprocal relationship with the broader culture, both embodying conflicts over race, class, and gender and serving a s public theater for them. Aiello places cultural icons like Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant in the context of their times and explores how the sport negotiated controversies and scandals. Hoops belongs on the bookshelf of every reader interested in the history of basketball, sports, race, urban life, and pop culture in America.

Paul Knepper used to cover the Knicks for Bleacher Report. His first book, The Knicks of the Nineties: Ewing, Oakley, Starks and the Brawlers That Almost Won It All was published in 2020. You can reach Paul at paulknepper@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @paulieknep.

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - Are We on Our Way to a Game-Changing Flu Vaccine? (with Uwe Schoenbeck)

For decades, the messenger RNA (mRNA) platform was seen as too unstable and expensive to be used in vaccines or therapeutic medicines. That changed when the COVID-19 pandemic sparked enough urgency, resources, and money to bring about a breakthrough. Andy speaks with Uwe Schoenbeck, the chief scientific officer for Pfizer's Emerging Science & Innovation team, about what makes the mRNA platform more nimble than conventional methods and its potential future uses, including a game-changing flu vaccine and gene editing therapeutics for cancers, Alzheimer's, and HIV/AIDS.

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What A Day - Harvard Faces Its Legacy Of Slavery

Harvard University pledged $100 million to redress its ties to slavery. In an email on Tuesday, the school’s president said that the university bore “a moral responsibility to do what we can to address the persistent corrosive effects of those historical practices on individuals, on Harvard, and on our society.”

According to multiple reports, President Biden said that he may be prepared to not only extend a pause on federal student loan debts that is set to end August 31, but to cancel some entirely.

In headlines: Russia accused the West of sabotaging peace talks with Ukraine, the CDC said that a majority of Americans have been infected with COVID at least once, and Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorne was caught with a loaded gun at an airport.

And we chat with Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, about the overturned federal mask mandate for mass transit. We also talked about Delta’s announcement that it will begin paying its flight attendants during boarding time, a move that comes amidst a union drive for the company.


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The NewsWorthy - Majority Had Covid, Bitcoin for Retirement & Reddit Grants – Wednesday, April 27th, 2022

The news to know for Wednesday, April 27th, 2022!

We'll tell you who President Biden decided to let off the hook for crimes that put them in prison.

And new data estimates how many Americans, including kids, have likely had Covid-19.

Also, the nation's oldest and wealthiest college is confronting its racist past. 

Plus, there's a new way to save for retirement in bitcoin, an Olympic champion is taking a mental health break, and a NASA astronaut is set to make history today. 

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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The Daily Signal - From Suicidal to Serving Others: The Story of a Veteran and His Dog

Cole Lyle held a gun in his hand, ready to take his own life, when a friend knocked on his door. 


“I'll be honest with you, in my opinion it is divine intervention because my finger was literally on the trigger,” Lyle, a Marine veteran, says. 


After six years in the military, Lyle was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. He had tried medication and was going to therapy, but none of it worked, he recalls. That’s when he began exploring the option of getting a service dog.


Lyle spent $10,000 of his own money on Kaya, a loving German shepherd, because the Department of Veterans Affairs didn't provide funds for acquiring service dogs. 

Kaya brought needed purpose back to his life, Lyle says, so he became an advocate of veterans getting access to service dogs. 


Today, Lyle is executive director of Mission Roll Call, a nonprofit that brings the needs of veterans directly to members of Congress. 


Lyle joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share his personal story and to explain how all Americans can help veterans who are struggling after their service to America. 


Also on today's show, we cover these stories: 

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin “never imagined that the world would rally behind Ukraine so swiftly and surely” says Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
  • President Joe Biden’s Energy Department announces that it is banning the sale of light bulbs that produce less than 45 lumens per watt.
  • The newest critic of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s recent acquisition of Twitter is the European Union.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Crisis in Special Education

Federal law guarantees that students with disabilities have access to special educators. But widespread teacher shortages mean that these students are often being taught by people without the mandated qualifications – or by no one at all.

Guest: Dylan Peers McCoy is an investigative reporter on WFYI’s education team.

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What Could Go Right? - The Information Horizon with Tyler Cowen

What's coming next? We sit down with a modern renaissance man, economist, and podcaster Tyler Cowen to participate in what he calls his greatest pleasure: information extraction. We pick his brain on everything from mRNA to housing bubbles to literature. "The world," he tells us, "has never been more optimistic than it is now."

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Short Wave - U.S. COVID Case Increases Unlikely To Become A Surge

COVID cases are up due to the Omicron sub-variants and masking is likely to remain optional as the courts wrangle with the transportation mask mandate that a Federal judge struck down last week. NPR correspondent Allison Aubrey talks about both of these issues with host Emily Kwong, and updates listeners on what to expect with children and the vaccine.

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