Month: September 2022

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Bay Curious - Prop 1: Abortion and Reproductive Rights

Prop Fest 2022 breaks down all the statewide propositions on your ballot. Proposition 1 would solidify abortion and reproductive rights into the state constitution. If you thought abortion was already protected in California, you’re not wrong. But today we’ll learn why the California lawmakers who placed this on our ballot want to take things a step further, and we’ll dig into the details that have opponents concerned.


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The Intelligence from The Economist - Lula loop: meeting Brazil’s presidential front-runner

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, looks well-placed to win a third term. But which Lula would Brazil get—the fiscal conservative or the populist spendthrift? Germany has an earned reputation as an industrial powerhouse, but its dependence on Russian gas and Chinese demand are hobbling it. And why the propaganda-spewing loudspeakers in Vietnam’s capital are firing up again.

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The Best One Yet - 🎢 “Influencer World” — Dude Perfect’s theme park. Biogen’s Alzheimer’s assassin. Lyft’s acquisition whispers.

Our TBOY Survey: https://u0d3uxj78l0.typeform.com/tboypod Lyft’s stock has dropped so much, it may be thinking about the A-Word: Acquisition (“Lyft and General Motors, sitting in a tree, M-E-R-G-I-N-G”). Dude Perfect is a team of YouTube stars online, but they’re now opening the first ever Influencer Amusement Park in real life. And Biogen’s stock gained $11B of value in one day because it’s latest drug is a huge hope for Alzheimer's sufferers. $LYFT $GM $BIIB $GOOG Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Want a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form Got the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that too Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 9.29.22

Alabama

  • Governor Ivey's office issues statement of assistance to hurricane damaged FL
  • Senator Tuberville defends Alabama Eagle Forum re: DOJ subpoena for docs
  • Brassfield & Gorrie chairman has house vandalized over contract in GA
  • Judge in Montgomery eliminates bond payment for certain crimes
  • Undercover drug sting in Mobile results in 4 arrests and search for 3 others
  • Talladega Superspeedway to open campsites for FL storm evacuees

National

  • Hurricane Ian traveling through central Florida after pummeling Tampa area
  • Bill to curtail challenges to electoral college votes likely to pass Senate
  • Nord Stream 1 pipeline damage called sabotage, some point finger at Biden
  • Trump says pipeline sabotage no small thing and could escalate to war
  • More from British Cardiologist now calling for halt to Covid vaccines
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer

Born in 1815, Ada Byron was the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord Byron. 

Unlike her famous father, Ada did not pursue a literary career. Guided by her mother, she took a diametrically different path studying math and logic.

At the age of 17, she had a chance encounter with Charles Babbage, who was designing the world’s first mechanical computer. It was the beginning of a groundbreaking collaboration that would only be understood over a century later.

Learn more about Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Ian’s Historic Power, RIP Coolio & NBA Stars Join Pickleball – Thursday, September 29th, 2022

The news to know for Thursday, September 29th, 2022!

We’ll tell you about the impact so far from one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the state of Florida.

Also, the leaks in two major pipelines are now being called an unprecedented climate disaster. We’ll explain why.

Plus: rapper Coolio passed away, veteran journalist Katie Couric made an announcement about her health, and NBA stars get into pickleball.

We'll even tell you about Amazon’s newest gadgets and much more news in about 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes for sources and to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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NBN Book of the Day - Michael Leese, “Making Money in Ancient Athens” (U Michigan Press, 2021)

Given their cultural, intellectual, and scientific achievements, surely the Greeks were able to approach their economic affairs in a rational manner like modern individuals? Since the nineteenth century, many scholars have argued that premodern people did not behave like modern businesspeople, and that the "stagnation" that characterized the economy prior to the Industrial Revolution can be explained by a prevailing noneconomic mentality throughout premodern (and nonwestern) societies. This view, which simultaneously extols the "sophistication" of the modern West, relegates all other civilizations to the status of economic backwardness.

But the evidence from ancient Athens, which is one of the best-documented societies in the premodern world, tells a very different story: one of progress, innovation, and rational economic strategies. Making Money in Ancient Athens (U Michigan Press, 2021) examines in the most comprehensive manner possible the voluminous source material that has survived from Athens in inscriptions, private lawsuit speeches, and the works of philosophers like Aristotle and Plato. Inheritance cases that detail estate composition and investment choices, and maritime trade deals gone wrong, provide unparalleled glimpses into the specific factors that influenced Athenians at the level of the economic decision-making process itself, and the motivations that guided the specific economic transactions attested in the source material. Armed with some of the most thoroughly documented case studies and the richest variety of source material from the ancient Greek world, Michael Leese argues that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that ancient Athenians achieved the type of long-term profit and wealth maximization and continuous reinvestment of profits into additional productive enterprise that have been argued as unique to (and therefore responsible for) the modern industrial-capitalist system.

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Curious City - Dunning Asylum A ‘Tomb For The Living’

For a long time, Chicagoans were scared of Dunning. The very name “Dunning” gave them chills. People were afraid they would end up in that place. Today, the Chicago neighborhood, out on the city’s Far Northwest Side, looks like a middle-class suburb. You’d never know there was once an asylum there. On this episode we revisit the history of the Cook County Infirmary, later known as Chicago State Hospital but to most, simply “Dunning.”