Month: April 2022

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Lost Debate - Ep 40 | Libs of TikTok, Death Penalty, Legacy Admissions, Charter Schools

Ravi, Cory, and Rikki start with the political outrage machine that is Libs of TikTok before turning to South Carolina, where a death row inmate faces execution by firing squad. We talk capital punishment in America. How many libraries does Cory have to donate to get his kid into Yale? We discuss the strange tradition of legacy admissions. And a certain former school principal around here has some thoughts on the Biden administration’s new rules for charter schools and their access to federal grants. 


[1:11] Libs of Tik Tok

[16:47] Legacy Admissions

[23:14] Death Penalty

[33:59] Charter Schools


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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Janelle Monáe Takes Readers Inside Her Queer, Afrofuturistic World In ‘The Memory Librarian’

In her new book The Memory Librarian, Janelle Monáe expands on the afrofuturistic world of her album Dirty Computer. The collection of five short stories center around Black and queer protagonists on a journey of self-love and discovery. Reset talks to Monáe about entering the literary space, afrofuturism and finding joy ahead of her book talk on Friday at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago. Guest: Janelle Monáe, singer-songwriter, actor and author of The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
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Pod Save America - “DeSantis Cancels Disney.”

Ron DeSantis cancels Disney as Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow teaches her party how to win the culture wars, Dr. Bob Wachter joins to talk about the fate of the federal mask mandate and more, and later, it’s time for another round of Take Appreciator, Psaki-Doocy edition.



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Consider This from NPR - California Is A Step Closer To Reparations. Not All Black Residents Will Qualify

California's Reparations Task Force is preparing to release its first report on the impact of racism on African Americans in June. It's the next step for the Task Force, following a narrow vote late last month to exclude some Black residents from being eligible if and when a reparations plan becomes law.

Under the current proposal, only those who can trace their lineage to enslaved or freed Black people before the end of the 19th century will qualify for reparations from the state.

Some Black Californians are fine with that for now. State residents Derika Denell Gibson, Taiwo Kujichagulia-Seitu, and Kaelyn Sabal-Wilson discuss what reparations would mean to them.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Why Crypto Matters for Emerging Markets

A look at which countries are seeing outsized crypto gains relative to GDP.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US. 

Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW covers two topics. First, he looks at a new Chainalysis report on which countries realized the biggest crypto gains in 2021, and specifically how that list differs from the rank of countries by GDP. Second, he looks at new sanctions on mining firm BitRiver and what it means for the geopolitics of bitcoin mining. 

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Motley Fool Money - Beth Kindig on Tech Stocks

As major airline stocks pop, it's reasonable to ask what the long-term prospects are for shareholders. (0:20) Jim Gillies discusses: - American, United, and the other major U.S. carriers - The airline-tangent stock he prefers - AT&T's timing with the spinoff of Warner Media - HBO Max gaining subscribers - Sleep Number's cash flow being better than its stock price would indicate

(19:30) Deidre Woollard talks with Beth Kindig, lead tech analyst for the I/O Fund, about where she's finding opportunities in the recent downturn in tech stocks.

Stocks discussed: AAL, UAL, AER, T, WBD, SNBR, NVDA, ROKU, AMD, MU

Host: Chris Hill Guests: Jim Gillies, Deidre Woolard, Beth Kindig Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Tim Sparks

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Science In Action - Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden

As a series of UN climate reports have warned recently, drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions – a halving over the next decade – are needed if we are to keep global warming down to manageable levels. No sign of that happening.

An emergency measure to buy time that’s sometimes discussed is solar geoengineering – creating an atmospheric sunscreen that reduces incoming solar heat. Sulphate compounds in volcanic gases or in industrial fumes attract water vapour to make a fine haze and have that effect. The difference would be starting a deliberate programme of injecting sulphate particles into the stratosphere.

There are a host of arguments against it, including a revulsion against adding another pollutant to the atmosphere to offset the one, carbon dioxide, that’s giving us problems in the first place. Another objection, outlined this week, is that it could set back the global fight against malaria - a major killer in its own right. University of Cape Town ecologist Chris Trisos tells Roland Pease what his team’s modelling study revealed.

Yale University neurologist Kevin Sheth talks to us about a revolution in medical scanning – small-scale MRI machines that can be wheeled to the patient’s bedside.

According to palaeontologist Maria McNamara, an amazingly preserved pterosaur fossil from Brazil proves that some of these flying reptiles did have feathers similar to those of birds (and some dinosaurs), and that the feathers were of different colours, possibly for mating display.

Primatologist Adrian Barnett has discovered that spider monkeys in one part of the Brazilian Amazon seek out fruit, full of live maggots to eat. Why?

Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker

(Photo: Illustration of a mosquito biting Credit: SCIEPRO/Science Photo Library/Getty Images)