Month: August 2022

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The Gist - Disagreeing On De-policing

Policing in America has no easy answers, but my guest Rafael A. Mangual suggests we aren’t even asking the right questions. He’s of the opinion that many beliefs critical of police are misplaced, while other real reforms go un pursued. His book is Criminal (In)Justice: What The Push For Decarceration And Depolicing Gets Wrong And Who It Hurts Most. Plus, charging the cops who really were responsible for the death of Breonna Taylor. And the Kansas abortion vote doesn’t mean everything has changed for November, but it does mean the Republicans face an issue that really puts them at odds with voters.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Exploring Illness Under Capitalism In ‘The Viral Underclass’

In his new book, Northwestern University professor Steven Thrasher shows the inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and how systems of oppression keep people sick. Reset learns more about 'The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide.'
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Coinbase Shares Soar Amid BlackRock Partnership News, and Robinhood CEO Shuts Down FTX Merger Chatter

The most valuable crypto stories for Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022.

"The Hash" team unpacks asset management giant BlackRock's (BLK) partnership with crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) and the Robinhood (HOOD) CEO's response to FTX acquisition rumors.

See also: BlackRock to Offer Crypto for Institutional Investors Through Coinbase Prime

Robinhood CEO Shuts Down FTX M&A Chatter, Says He Has Money to Do His Own Deals

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Consider This from NPR - The National Security Advisor’s Very Busy Week

With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the U.S. airstrike that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, there's a lot to talk about with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan these days.

He weighs in on all three in a sit-down interview with NPR.

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Chapo Trap House - 651 Teaser – Demon Killing Sword

Subscribe today for access to all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse Matt discusses the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a rebel state that existed in China from 1851-1864. The rebellion was organized around the landless Hakka people by Hong Xiuquan who, after failing his bureaucratic entrance exams, had a nervous breakdown that led him to believe he was the brother of Jesus Christ. Matt tracks the rise and fall of the kingdom, and how it fits in other proto-socialist movements, and the resonances with the Mormon history he laid out on the last two episodes of the Inebriated Past.
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Pod Save America - “A Kansas of Whoop-Ass.”

Kansas voters deliver a victory for abortion rights, Arizona voters deliver a victory for MAGA extremists, Missouri voters deliver a victory for just one Eric, and the host of Positively Dreadful, Crooked’s Editor-in-Chief, Brian Beutler joins in studio for a special Take Appreciator.

 

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Motley Fool Money - Time to Buy Industrial REITs?

Global travel, comfortable footwear, and industrial REITs are on the menu. Pull up a chair!

(0:25) Maria Gallagher discusses: - Mixed 2nd-quarter results from Booking Holdings - Why CEO Glenn Fogel's declaration about upcoming record revenue may be grounded in reality - Crocs struggling with gross margin pressure and inventory management - Whether buying the Hey Dude line of footwear was a good use of capital

(10:41) Amazon's decision to sub-lease warehouse space caused some industrial REITs to fall. Deidre Woollard and Matt Argersinger discuss the potential for buying opportunities in this group.

Stocks mentioned: BKNG, ABNB, CROX, WMT, TGT, STAG, EGP, PLD, RHP, PEB

Host: Chris Hill Guest: Maria Gallagher, Deidre Woollard, Matt Argersinger Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl

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Science In Action - Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts

This week two research groups announced that they have made synthetic mouse embryos that developed brains and beating hearts in the test tube, starting only with embryonic stem cells. No sperm and eggs were involved. Previously, embryos created this way have never got beyond the stage of being a tiny ball of cells. These embryos grew and developed organs through 8 days – more than a third of the way through the gestation period for a mouse. Roland Pease talks to the leader of one of the teams, developmental biologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz of Cambridge University and Caltech about how and why they did this, and the ethical issues around this research.

Also in the programme: the latest research on how we spread the SARS-CoV-2 virus when we breathe. Infectious disease researcher Kristen Coleman of the University of Maryland tells us about her experiments that have measured the amounts of virus in the tiny aerosol particles emanating from the airways of recently infected people. The results underscore the value of mask-wearing and effective ventilation in buildings.

We also hear about new approaches to vaccines against the virus – Kevin Ng of the Crick Institute in London talks about the possibility of a universal coronavirus vaccine based on his research, and immunologist Akiko Iwasaki of Yale University extolls the advantages of nasal vaccines against SARS-CoV-2.

(Image: Stem cell built mouse embryo at 8 days. Credit: Zernicka-Goetz Lab)

Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker