Month: November 2022

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Red fights and blue: America’s midterm elections

America’s midterm elections, which will determine control of both chambers of Congress, end on Tuesday. For the past three months our correspondents have been travelling across the country, reporting on the trends and concerns shaping the race. This compilation episode highlights the best of their work. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer




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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 58

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

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Planet Money - Planet Money tries election polling

Polling is facing an existential crisis. Few people are answering the phone, and fewer people want to answer surveys. On today's show, we pick up the phones ourselves to find out how polling got to this place, and what the future of the poll looks like.

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The Gist - Democrats Hispanic Panic

Rick Sanchez, news veteran and host of the eponymous Rick Sanchez Podcast, says that the Latino vote confounds not just Democrats but a media who have no idea about how to analyze or conceptualize it, such as it is. Plus, when good economic news and bad economic news both make us feel bad something is weird. And Tom Barrack is NOT a foreign agent.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: How the Fashion Industry Connects With Crypto – Explained by Spatial Labs Founder

The most valuable crypto stories for Friday, Nov. 4,  2022.


'The Hash' hosts discuss recent criticism of Aptos' "fair" token distribution following a wave of criticism from the project's community. In addition, Bloomberg reports that South Korean prosecutors suspect Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, may be in Europe. And also an interview with Founder and technologist Iddris Sandu as he explains how Spatial LABS connects the fashion industry with crypto.


See also:

Aptos CEO Defends 'Fair' Tokenomics That Prompted Community Backlash

Terra's Do Kwon May Be in Europe: Report

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Consider This from NPR - What Happens When The Mighty Mississippi Becomes The Measly Mississippi

The extremes of climate change are wreaking havoc on the Mississippi.

Over the past two months, this critical waterway has seen below average rainfall. In some places, water levels haven't been this low for more than 30 years.

NPR's Debbie Elliot explains how that is helping the salty waters of the Gulf of Mexico push upriver, threatening municipal and commercial water supplies.

Then Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco and Eva Tesfaye, of The Mississippi River Basin Ag and Water Desk, show us how life on the river can be just as hard when climate change produces too much water.

In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.

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CrowdScience - How long before all the ice melts?

We know the Earth's atmosphere is warming and it's thanks to us and our taste for fossil fuels. But how quickly is this melting the ice sheets, ice caps, and glaciers that remain on our planet? That's what listener David wants to know. With the help of a team of climate scientists in Greenland, Marnie Chesterton goes to find the answer, in an icy landscape that's ground zero in the story of thawing. She discovers how Greenland’s ice sheet is sliding faster off land, and sees that the tiniest of creatures are darkening the ice surface and accelerating its melt. CrowdScience explores what we're in store for when it comes to melting ice. In the lead-up to yet another UN climate conference, we unpack what is contributing to sea level rise – from ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, to melting mountain glaciers and warming oceans. There's a lot of ice at the poles. The question is: how much of it will still be there in the future? Research Professor and climate scientist Jason Box from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland shows us how much ice Greenland we've already committed ourselves to losing, even if we stopped burning all fossil fuels today. His team, including Jakob Jakobsen, show us how these scientists collect all this data that helps feed climate models and helps us all to understand how quickly the seas might rise.

Professor Martyn Trantor from Aarhus University helps us understand why a darkening Greenland ice sheet would only add to the problem of melting. And climate scientist Ruth Mottram from the Danish Meteorological Institute breaks down how the ice is breaking down in Antarctica and other glaciers around the world.

Presented by Marnie Chesterton and produced by Sam Baker for the BBC World Service

Image: Greenland ice sheets. Credit: Getty Images

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The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS | Kyrie Irving Suspended, House GOP Report on DOJ, FBI, | Nov. 4

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:


  • A House GOP report on the politicization of the FBI and the Justice Department
  • Two Haitian politicians are facing U.S. sanctions over allegations of narcotics trafficking. 
  • The Heritage Foundation’s latest report, “The Blue City Murder Problem”
  • NBA player Kyrie Irving suspended at least five games 



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