Month: December 2022

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NBN Book of the Day - Daniel Immerwahr, “The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars” (2022)

In this episode I got to chat about two of my favorite things: the history of imperialism and Star Wars with Daniel Immerwahr, Professor of History at Northwestern University. Our conversation focused on his recent article “The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars,” in Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories, edited by David Milne and Christopher Nichols (Columbia University Press, 2022). In the piece her uses the film and the figure of George Lucas to explore various aspects of the United States in the Cold War. Were Ewoks the Viet Cong? Was the Death Star a B-52? Was Alderaan Hanoi? Listen and find out.

Daniel Immerwahr earned his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2011 after undergraduate studies at both Columbia and Cambridge. His previous work includes Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development (Harvard, 2015) and the award winning and best-selling How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), which has been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Korean, and Chinese so far. Dr. Immerwahr's writings have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, the Washington Post, The New Republic, The Nation, Dissent, Jacobin, Slate, and elsewhere.

Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018). When he’s not reading or talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California.

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: ‘Tipflation’ – When to Tip & When to Skip

Does it seem like you’re being asked to tip pretty much everywhere you pay for something these days, including places you’ve never thought to tip before? There’s even a term for it now: “tipflation.” Technology has made it easier for more companies to suggest a tip but has it really changed the rules? Also, how much should you tip around the holidays? 

Renowned etiquette expert Lizzie Post is here with us today to provide some answers. She’s the great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post and the co-president of “The Emily Post Institute.” Her latest book is “Emily Post's Etiquette, the Centennial Edition” and she’s the co-host of the “Awesome Etiquette” podcast.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Why are data so important in determining how we live?

Why are good data so important to policymakers ? whether they know it or not ? and what happens when good data is missing? Presenter Tim Harford speaks to Georgina Sturge, a statistician at the House of Commons library in London and the author of Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers.

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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 62

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The Gist - Legends Of Independent Sinema

The Senator from Arizona will no longer be a Democrat. What it means to be an “Independent”? Plus, Philosopher Nick Riggle explores “The Big Question” in his new book This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive. And Mike explains the Twitter Files as if they had been a normal story free of everyone screaming at each other about motives.


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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Dec. 9, 2022

Five mayoral candidates face challenges that could remove them from the ballot. Chicago holds its largest citizenship ceremony on record. Faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago announce a potential strike date. A Chicago-based architect is awarded one of the highest honors in the profession. Meanwhile, details continue to be revealed about plans for Chicago’s casino. Reset goes behind those headlines and more on the Weekly News Recap with Better Government Association reporter Alex Nitkin, WBEZ senior education editor Kate Grossman and WTTW political reporter Heather Cherone.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Coinbase Asks Users to Switch USDT for USDC; More Reported Crypto Layoffs

This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp.

 

The most valuable crypto stories for Friday, Dec. 9,  2022.

"The Hash" hosts interview Forum3 Co-CEO Adam Brotman to discuss connecting one of the world’s most successful retail loyalty programs with Web3.

Also, Coinbase is waiving the conversion fees for users switching to a "trusted stablecoin" in a new campaign that highlights the quality of reserves that back Circle-owned USD Coin (USDC). Meanwhile, crypto trading firm Amber Group is terminating a $25 million sponsorship deal with football club Chelsea F.C. amid new layoffs, according to a Bloomberg report. 


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Crypto Exchange Coinbase Asks Users to Switch USDT for USDC

Crypto Trading Firm Amber Group Ditches $25M Chelsea Sponsorship Deal Amid Layoffs: Report

Starbucks Launches Beta of Web3 'Odyssey' Loyalty Program

Blending the World’s Most Successful Loyalty Program With Web3

The Brains Behind Starbucks Rewards Help Push Coffee Chain Giant Into Web3

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Consider This from NPR - How A Foiled Coup In Germany Came To Be

This week, authorities in Germany arrested more than two dozen suspected far-right extremists over a plot to violently overthrow the government.

The plotters were reportedly inspired by QAnon conspiracy theories.

NPR's Rob Schmitz walks us through the latest.

And German historian and author Katja Hoyer explains why members of Germany's far-right can seem invisible.

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