Month: September 2022

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Motley Fool Money - Amazon’s Big Bet on the NFL

Another rough week for the stock market coincides with Amazon's exclusive start to Thursday Night Football.

(0:30) Emily Flippen and Ron Gross discuss: - FedEx shares having a historically bad day amid talk of a recession - Adobe spending $20 billion for a start-up software design firm - Optimism around Starbucks after an impressive (and detailed) investor day - Twilio laying off 11% of employees - Two business leaders and their legacies

(19:45) John Ourand from the Sports Business Journal discusses Amazon's investments in NFL programming, Disney's thinking about ESPN, college football playoff expansion, and story lines for the MLB playoffs.

(35:30) Ron and Emily share two stocks on their radar: Union Pacific and Costco.

Stocks discussed on the show: FDX, ADBE, SBUX, TWLO, AMZN, DIS, AAPL, UNP, COST

Host: Chris Hill Guests: Emily Flippen, Ron Gross, John Ourand Engineer: Dan BoydGenetically edited humans are already here. Gene editing has massive implications for treating chronic illnesses and even the food we eat. So what does this mean for your investments and, y'know, possibly humanity? Ricky Mulvey talks with Motley Fool Advisor Karl Thiel about: - How CRISPR works - Some of the possibilities for CRISPR, from sickle cell cures to drought-resistant crops - How investors can approach investing in gene therapies - Biotech metrics to watch.

Companies mentioned: BLUE, CRSP, GILD, EDIT, VRTX, NTLA

Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Karl Theil Engineers: Tim Sparks, Dan Boyd

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CrowdScience - Is there a language of laughter?

Laugh and the world laughs with you, or so you might think. But watch any good comedian on TV by yourself and chances are you’ll laugh a lot less than if you were sat in a lively comedy crowd watching the same comedian in the flesh.

But why is that? Do people from different cultures and corners of the world all laugh at the same things? These are questions raised by CrowdScience listener Samuel in Ghana who wonders why he’s always cracking up more easily than those around him. Presenter Caroline Steel digs into whether it’s our personality, the people around us, or the atmosphere of the room that determines how much we giggle, following neuroscience and psychology on a global trail in search of a good laugh.

Producer: Richard Walker Presenter: Caroline Steel

[Image: Two Women laughing. Credit: Getty Images]

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Ethereum Already Showing Signs of Increased Centralization; El Salvador’s Debt Rating Downgraded

The most valuable crypto stories for Friday, Sept. 16, 2022.

"The Hash" hosts talk about the long-awaited Ethereum Merge on Thursday, where over 40% of the network’s blocks were added by just two entities: Coinbase and Lido. Plus, seven months after lowering El Salvador's long-term foreign currency issuer default rating (IDR), Fitch Ratings has downgraded it again.


See also:

How the Ethereum Merge Could Lead to Improved On-Chain Privacy

Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Merge Cut Global Energy Usage by 0.2%, One of Biggest Decarbonization Events Ever

El Salvador's Debt Rating Cut to CC by Fitch

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Federalist Radio Hour - Where Americans Stand On Tech

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Taylor Barkley, the technology and innovation director at The Center for Growth and Opportunity, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss Americans' perceptions of Big Tech, what role technology plays in the free speech debate, and how social media companies should be regulated. 

You can find The Center for Growth and Opportunity's recent technology poll here: https://www.thecgo.org/research/tech-poll/
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Calvine UFO Photograph

Imagine you're hiking through the Scottish countryside, and hear a low, long hum. You look up to see -- something. You take photos, and send them to the local newspaper. The newspaper, strangely, never publishes the story. And that's only the beginning of the Calvine UFO saga. They don’t want you to read our book. They don’t want you to see us on tour.

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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Headlines From The Times - Back to the moon — and beyond?

Sometime soon, NASA plans to launch a powerful new rocket. The launch is part of an ambitious quest to get people back to the moon for the first time in half a century — and just maybe, even further.

Today, why the U.S. and its partners are determined to go back to the moon and the role politics plays when we reach for the stars. Read the full transcript here.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times business reporter Samantha Masunaga

More reading:

NASA’s return to the moon is delayed again after scrub because of fuel leak

Column One: 50 years after Apollo 11, the moon’s allure still resonates

Readers remember the Apollo 11 moon landing, 50 years later

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 09/16

Special master appointed in the Trump documents case. Mass grave with hundreds of bodies found in Ukraine. Queen's viewing line maxes out. CBS News Correspondent Peter King has today's World News Roundup.

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This Machine Kills - 192. Why the Trains Don’t Run on Time (ft. Justin Roczniak)

We are joined by Justin Roczniak—of the excellent engineering disasters podcast, Well There’s Your Problem—to talk about the potential freight rail strike that has been brewing for a long time and near-future scenarios for the supply chain. We discuss the horrid labor conditions in the industry and the scourge of Precision Scheduled Railroading, a system of management that has transformed the entire railroad sector so it serves one god: The Operating Ratio. follow Justin: https://twitter.com/who_shot_jgr Well There’s Your Problem: https://linktr.ee/wtyppod Some stuff we reference: ••• SMART-TD, BLET joint statement on rail embargo https://smart-union.org/smart-td-blet-joint-statement-on-rail-embargo/ ••• A Nationwide Freight Railroad Shutdown Could Cost $2 Billion a Day https://www.aar.org/economic-impact-of-railroad-shutdown# ••• ‘It’s Going to End Up Like Boeing’: How Freight Rail Is Courting Catastrophe https://www.vice.com/en/article/3angy3/freight-rail-train-disaster-avoidable-boeing ••• Rail Strike Threatens to Slow US Supply-Chain Recovery https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-09-12/supply-chain-latest-us-railroad-strike-threatens-supply-chain-recovery ••• Rail Unions Are Bargaining Over a Good Job Made Miserable https://www.labornotes.org/2022/02/rail-negotiations-are-about-good-job-made-miserable Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab TMK gear: www.bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MONEY REIMAGINED: The Solution to Climate Change Demands Web3 Technology

This episode is sponsored by Circle and Near.

A climate change edition from Lisbon Portugal at Nearcon2022. 

“Money Reimagined,” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren  are together again at Nearcon2022 to discuss blockchain sustainability and the data needed to combat the concerns of climate change. This topic is “near and dear to their hearts” because Michael and Sheila co-founded CISA, the Crypto Impact Sustainability Accelerator, at The World Economic Forum precisely to focus on topics such as this and the use cases for crypto and blockchain. 

On this episode they speak with guests Marc Johnson, an environmental solutions architect for  Protocol Labs, and Fred Fournier, CEO of Open Forest Protocol. 


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