The Intelligence from The Economist - Once and future: Brazil’s Lula wins again

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, has won again. Even if President Jair Bolsonaro gracefully concedes, his followers and fellow party members will make Lula’s hard job harder. We ask why California’s green-tinged Democratic governor is against a progressive ballot initiative on electric vehicles. And our say on the bread of the day of the dead. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

Start the Week - Building the Body, Opening the Heart

The Pulitzer-winning oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee recalls the thrill of seeing for the first time the extraordinary ‘luminosity’ of a living cell. In his latest work, The Song of the Cell, he explores the history, the present and the future of cellular biology. He tells Adam Rutherford that without understanding cells you can’t understand the human body, medicine, and especially the story of life itself.

‘Once upon a time I fell in love with a cell.’ So recalls the leading cardiologist Sian Harding, when she looked closely at a single heart muscle cell, and she found a ‘deeper beauty’ revealing the ‘perfection of the heart’s construction’. In her book, The Exquisite Machine, she describes how new scientific developments are opening up the mysteries of the heart, and why a ‘broken heart’ might be more than a literary flight of fancy.

The prize-winning science fiction writer Paul McAuley was once a research scientist studying symbiosis, especially single-celled algae inside host cells. He has since used his understanding of science to write books that ask questions about life on earth and outer-space, and about the implications of the latest cutting edge research, from nanotechnology to gene editing. His 2001 novel The Secret of Life, which features the escape of a protean Martian microorganism from a Chinese laboratory, has just been reissued.

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The Best One Yet - 🍫 “The $50B Kiss” — Hershey’s salty strategy. Amazon’s 3 shockers. ExxonMobil’s unsayable word.

Hershey chocolate stock is at an all-time-high right now thanks to 1 thing: The Salty Sweet Strategy. Amazon just told us you’re getting coal for Christmas — we found 3 shockers in their earnings to explain why. And Exxon Mobile refuses to say the word — “Record.” $HSY $AMZN $XOM 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.

The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 10.31.22

Alabama

  • Another state official gets on board with Aniah's Law as Const. amendment
  • AL school superintendent reacts to recent national test scores for the state
  • Horrific crime in Blount county involves girlfriend stabbed and beheaded
  • Tornadic activity in parts of Mobile but no one seriously hurt or killed
  • Largest "no kill" dog shelter in state opens  its doors in Shorter
  • Scottsboro 10 year old lands a 70 pound catfish from Lake Guntersville

National

  • US Pentagon reiterates that China not Russia is real national security threat
  • More details emerge in the at home attack of Nancy Pelosi's husband
  • Verity Vote in PA says 250,000 ballots sent to unverified voters in state
  • Town in Wisconsin backs down from plan to ban all public political signage
  • Twitter employees likely to get lay-offs announced this week by CEO Musk

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Panic of 1893

It was the worst economic depression that the United States had ever seen. 

The stock market crashed. Thousands of businesses went bankrupt. The unemployment rate hit 20% There were soup lines and an army of homeless scattered throughout the country. 

It was not the Great Depression.

Learn more about the Panic of 1893, the forgotten depression which realigned American politics, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - John Stillwell, “The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics” (Princeton UP, 2022)

The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics (Princeton UP, 2022) investigates the evolution of the concept of proof--one of the most significant and defining features of mathematical thought--through critical episodes in its history. From the Pythagorean theorem to modern times, and across all major mathematical disciplines, John Stillwell demonstrates that proof is a mathematically vital concept, inspiring innovation and playing a critical role in generating knowledge.

Stillwell begins with Euclid and his influence on the development of geometry and its methods of proof, followed by algebra, which began as a self-contained discipline but later came to rival geometry in its mathematical impact. In particular, the infinite processes of calculus were at first viewed as "infinitesimal algebra," and calculus became an arena for algebraic, computational proofs rather than axiomatic proofs in the style of Euclid. Stillwell proceeds to the areas of number theory, non-Euclidean geometry, topology, and logic, and peers into the deep chasm between natural number arithmetic and the real numbers. In its depths, Cantor, Gödel, Turing, and others found that the concept of proof is ultimately part of arithmetic. This startling fact imposes fundamental limits on what theorems can be proved and what problems can be solved.

This book could well serve as a history of mathematics, because in developing the evolution of the concept of proof and how it has arisen in the various different mathematical fields. The author essentially traces the important milestones in the development of mathematics. It's an amazing job of collecting and categorizing many of the most important ideas in this area.

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New Books in Native American Studies - Sam W. Haynes, “Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas” (Basic Books, 2022)

The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to free Texas from repressive Mexican rule. In Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas (Basic Books, 2022), historian Sam Haynes reveals the reality beneath this powerful creation myth. He shows how the lives of ordinary people—white Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those of African descent—were upended by extraordinary events over twenty-five years. After the battle of San Jacinto, racial lines snapped taut as a new nation, the Lone Star republic, sought to expel Indians, marginalize Mexicans, and tighten its grip on the enslaved.

This is a revelatory and essential new narrative of a major turning point in the history of North America.

Andrew R. Graybill is professor of history and director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West (Liveright, 2013).

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The NewsWorthy - Paul Pelosi Attacked, Halloween Stampede & $1B Jackpot – Monday, October 31st, 2022

The news to know for Monday, October 31st, 2022

What to know about the attack against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband: from what’s known about the suspect to several lawmakers’ reactions.

Also, we’ll tell you about the two countries each dealing with their own deadly disasters, including a crowd surge at a Halloween party.

Plus: what new data shows about America’s flu season this year, Elon Musk revealed one new plan for Twitter after he took over, and did you notice anything different when you bought Halloween candy this year? How the price and size of those sweet treats have changed…  

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Vampirology (VAMPIRES) Part 2 with Jeff Holdeman

Start with Part 1 for all the folkloric history, superstition, and Dracula basics. And then this Part 2 has vampire finches, fang straws, vegan bloodsuckers, threshold invites, horniness, grain alcohol, garlic breath, psychic vampires and all our questions answered by Dr. Jeff Holdeman, professor and Vampirologist in Indiana University’s Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures department. Also: I think you should write a novel. 

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