Election day is less than three weeks away, and Democrats are trying desperately to hold on to their slim majority in Congress by focusing on abortion rights. But Republicans are betting that the economy and inflation are the most pressing issues for voters.
So how is the focus on abortion working out for the Democrats? We discuss that with NPR Political Correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben and NPR Senior Editor and Correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
The most valuable crypto stories for Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022.
Prominent Bitcoin community member Hodlonaut won a lawsuit against Craig Wright on Thursday, a Norwegian judge ruled. The pseudonymous website editor had sued Wright in Norway to try and preempt a defamation suit Wright planned to bring against him in the U.K. Plus, Warner Bros. gears up to sell "Lord Of The Rings" non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
This episode has been edited by Nia Freeman.. Our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Neon Beach.”
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Does the President have unilateral authority to spend billions of dollars to provide college students a bailout? The Cato Institute has filed suit to stop the mass debt cancellation undertaken by the Biden Administration. Clark Neily comments.
The Great Poll Freakout of 2022 has begun, as Democrats give their closing message to voters. Congressman Tim Ryan stops by to talk about his Ohio Senate race. And Jon and Dan look back at the recent debates in a game that demands they say something nice!
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On today’s episode, NLW looks at the short, fitful reign of the U.K.’s shortest-serving Prime Minister, Liz Truss. He argues that the problems with her time in office were not just about British politics, but serve as a reminder of how every global politician is forced to react to forces much larger than their domestic situation.
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and research by Scott Hill. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. Music behind our sponsors today is “War” by Enoch Yang and “The Life We Had” by Moments. Image credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
Despite mixed 3rd-quarter results Elon Musk is ever-optimistic about Tesla's future.
(0:21) Bill Mann discusses: - Economic takeaways from England's sudden need for a new Prime Minister - Questions about Tesla's accounting - Why he believes that, despite falling in 2022, Tesla's stock is still pretty expensive.
(10:11) Buck Hartzell talks with Boston Omaha co-CEOs Adam Peterson and Alex Rozek about the nuts and bolts of their business, and how they're handling short-term pain. If you're a member of any Motley Fool service you can access the full Boston Omaha interview here: https://www.fool.com/premium/live/video/4056/coverage/2022/10/19/interview-alex-rozek-adam-peterson-boston-omaha/
Companies discussed: TSLA, BOC
Host: Chris Hill Guest: Bill Mann, Buck Hartzell, Adam Peterson, Alex Rozek Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd
It’s been an unusual week for astronomers, with telescopes swivelled off course to observe GRB221009A, the brightest gamma ray burst ever recorded. Gamma ray bursts aren’t unusual, the by-product of some supernovae are recorded weekly. Whilst the afterglow of these bursts usually lasts hours or days, the aftermath of, what has been dubbed ‘BOAT’, brightest of all time, is expected to linger for years to come. Harvard University’s Edo Berger and Yvette Cendas believe there’s lots to be learnt in the coming months.
Back in the primordial oceans, tiny, wriggling worms and shimmering jellyfish invented ever better ways to strip resources from their environment deep in the murky depths. The ability to efficiently take up oxygen from a marine environment acted as a gateway for a dramatic explosion in species diversity. But according to Michael Sackville, Postdoctoral Fellow University of Cambridge and Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, when the gills first appeared they may have carried out a rather different function.
Plastics litter our oceans, and after time return to the shores. In order to predict and better understand where these plastic hotspots are, Professor Bhavani Narayanaswamy, Benthic Ecologist for Scottish Association for Marine Science, travels all over the globe to gather data and model these plastic hotspots.
In the future, this plastic waste could be broken down by a biological organisms. Chemical biologist Dr Federica Bertocchini at the University of Cantabria has identified enzymes responsible for munching through resilient polymers in waxworms.
(Image: Gamma Rays in Galactic Nuclei. Credit: Getty Images)
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:23) – Prime number maze
(33:35) – Government
(49:51) – The Network State
(59:55) – Pseudonymous economy
(1:23:41) – Exit
(1:38:23) – Building a network state
(2:26:09) – Wikipedia
(3:03:40) – Fixing science
(3:30:08) – Fixing the FDA
(5:01:16) – Longevity
(5:20:14) – Donald Trump’s ban from social media
(5:49:32) – War
(5:56:41) – Censorship
(6:10:40) – Social media
(6:26:56) – Wokeism and communism
(6:45:44) – Cryptocurrency
(7:03:17) – AI, AR, and VR
(7:15:15) – Advice for young people
(7:48:10) – Regulating logic