Month: August 2022

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Short Wave - Searching The Ocean’s Depths For Future Medicines

Plunge into the ocean off the west coast of Ireland...and then keep plunging, down to where there's no light and the temperature is just above freezing. That's where underwater chemist Sam Afoullouss sends a deep sea robot to carefully collect samples of marine organisms. The goal? To search for unique chemistry that may one day inspire a medicine.

Sam talks giant sponges, dumbo octopuses and bubblegum coral with host Emily Kwong – how to use them as a source for drug discovery while also protecting their wild, intricate ecosystems.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Putin on the fritz: Six months of war in Ukraine

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin expected to seize Ukraine easily. Instead he met fierce resistance. Ukraine has fought bravely, Russia poorly. We reflect on lessons learned in the past six months. Angola’s presidential election today is the most competitive since the country gained independence in 1975. And the Edinburgh Festival Fringe turns 75 this year. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S7 Bonus: Arjun Bhatnagar, Cloaked

Arjun Bhatnager has been coding since he was 10 years old, and in general, his family is full of entrepreneurs, running their own businesses. In fact, his brother is his co-founder in his current business. He loves to read, write, and play tennis in his spare time, along with playing music. In fact, playing music was a large part of his life, starting out playing the trumpet. In general, he is passionate about creating, and was inspired early on by the Inkheart series of books.

Arjun decided to build a prototype system, which integrated all the data from every aspect of his life. What he figured out was that he didn't trust other companies to handle the data from these systems - and he needed a way to "cloak" his true credentials from those he utilized on other platforms.

This is the creation story of Cloaked.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.24.22

Alabama

  • 13 state lawsuit gets favorable ruling from Louisiana judge re: oil and gas leasing
  • Daily Detail & 1819's Will Blakeley discuss ESG policy in AL companies
  • AL Board of Education may change High school graduation requirements in state
  • CA man flees his state and laundromat business  due to crime, starts over in AL
  • No bond for suspect in I-85 shootings that put one victim in critical condition
  • West AL ten year old bags the largest gator of the hunting season in that region

National

  • National Archivist's memo confirms: White House knew of FBI raid on Trump's home
  • Trump's lawyers filed motion in federal court to stop FBI from reviewing the documents
  • Washington DC mayor's request for National Guard to handle illegals bussed in, denied
  • Paul Pelosi pleads guilty to DUI in CA but will get only probation, no jail time
  • MI jury finds two men guilty of conspiracy to kidnap governor Gretchen Whitmer
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Slate Books - ICYMI Encore: How a Harry Potter Fanfic Took Over the Internet

The realm of fan fiction is a wild, magical place to be, especially if that fan fiction is set at Hogwarts. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison talk about All the Young Dudes, an extensive Harry Potter fan fiction that has inspired a fandom all its own, and just how that fandom came to be. But first, they chat about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and spend time listening to the first line of some listeners’ NaNoWriMo novels.

Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis, Daniel Schroeder, and Derek John.

This episode originally ran on November 20, 2021.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.24.22

Alabama

  • 13 state lawsuit gets favorable ruling from Louisiana judge re: oil and gas leasing
  • Daily Detail & 1819's Will Blakeley discuss ESG policy in AL companies
  • AL Board of Education may change High school graduation requirements in state
  • CA man flees his state and laundromat business  due to crime, starts over in AL
  • No bond for suspect in I-85 shootings that put one victim in critical condition
  • West AL ten year old bags the largest gator of the hunting season in that region

National

  • National Archivist's memo confirms: White House knew of FBI raid on Trump's home
  • Trump's lawyers filed motion in federal court to stop FBI from reviewing the documents
  • Washington DC mayor's request for National Guard to handle illegals bussed in, denied
  • Paul Pelosi pleads guilty to DUI in CA but will get only probation, no jail time
  • MI jury finds two men guilty of conspiracy to kidnap governor Gretchen Whitmer
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Where Did Mathematical Symbols Come From? (Encore)

One of the simplest mathematical statements possible is 2+2=4.

While the concept is very easy to understand, when you write it down, you have to use mathematical symbols, historically a relatively recent invention. 

At one point, mathematicians were doing reasonably complicated work without the benefit of symbols at all. Something which is unthinkable today.

Learn more about mathematical symbols, where they came from, and why they exist on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. 


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NBN Book of the Day - Alfie Bown, “Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships” (Pluto Press, 2022)

We are in the middle of a 'desirevolution' - a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always, new technologies - with their associated and inherited political biases - are organising and mapping the future. What we don’t seem to notice is that the primary way in which our lives are being transformed is through the manipulation and control of desire itself.

Our very impulses, drives and urges are 'gamified' to suit particular economic and political agendas, changing the way we relate to everything from lovers and friends to food and politicians. Digital technologies are transforming the subject at the deepest level of desire – re-mapping its libidinal economy - in ways never before imagined possible. From sexbots to smart condoms, fitbits to VR simulators and AI to dating algorithms, the 'love industries' are at the heart of the future smart city and the social fabric of everyday life.

Alfie Bown's Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships (Pluto Press, 2022) considers these emergent technologies and what they mean for the future of love, desire, work and capitalism.

Rudolf Inderst is a professor of Game Design with a focus on Digital Game Studies at the IU International University of Applied Science.

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