Month: August 2022

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Aug 19, 2022

Hundreds of thousands of local students prepare to return to school, while politicians head to Springfield for the Illinois State Fair. Reset goes behind the week’s headlines with Heather Cherone, Chicago politics reporter for WTTW News, Ray Long, Chicago Tribune investigative reporter, and Sarah Karp, WBEZ education reporter.
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Consider This from NPR - $4 Trillion: How The Biden Administration’s Legislative Successes Became Reality

President Biden had the narrowest possible Democratic Majority in the Senate when he took office. Yet the Biden administration's legislative successes continue to pile up.

He signed the American Rescue Plan just a couple months after taking office, followed by a major infrastructure bill last fall. Most recently, Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. These three legislative packages total up to around $4 trillion.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with journalist Michael Grunwald, author of the book, "The New New Deal", about what it all means for the country.

In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.

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CrowdScience - What is white?

Have you ever wondered why waterfalls appear white when still water is transparent? Why clouds, or snow, appear white when they too are essentially just water molecules in different states? What makes something white, opaque or transparent? These are the questions CrowdScience listener Gerardo has been pondering ever since taking in the beauty of fallen water on a hiking trail in his home of Cantabria, Northern Spain. Presenter Marnie Chesterton, sets off on a quest to find out the answers to all of those questions and more. What even is white? Is it a colour, the absence of colour or all the colours of the rainbow combined? Is black really the opposite of white? And what colours do we mix to make white or black paint?

Image: White paint in pots and a paintbrush. Credit: Getty Images

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Focus on Africa - Arrests made in Nigeria over mummified bodies

Police in Nigeria have arrested three people in connection with the discovery of 20 mummified bodies near Benin City.

Also, we examine the track record of Angola's third post independence president as elections draw near.

And a right royal battle is raging for the Zulu throne in South Africa.  We'll hear the latest from the Kingdom of Kwazulu.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Is there a real “truth serum”?

We've all seen truth serum in any number of big screen thrillers, or read about it in fanciful crime novels. A spy, a terrorist, even a high-ranking politician gets shot up with a mysterious substance that has them, despite all their efforts, revealing top-secret information: the location of a hidden treasure, the codes to a nuclear weapon, the true identity of a mysterious mob kingpin. But is there a real truth serum -- a genuine chemical that could make you conspire against yourself? In this episode, Ben and Matt find out. 

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Cato Daily Podcast - The 1619 Project Deserves Consideration and Criticism

The 1619 Project aims to deepen our understand of American slavery, while also attempting to reframe current debate about it. Despite its laudable goal to elucidate the complexities of that institution, it fails on a number of fronts according to Phil Magness, author of The 1619 Project: A Critique.

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