The Tanzanian opposition leader, Tundu Lissu is back in the country from self-imposed exile. Tanzanians are happy he's back... but will he be allowed to operate freely?
A thousand cholera deaths in Malawi makes it the worst outbreak in its history. Three other countries are struggling to contain the illness as well. We'll hear what efforts are being made.
Also: a new report on justice for Africa's children as ever more of them are forced from the playground and into a gruelling labour market.
Those stories and more in this podcast with Audrey Brown.
Voices! Singing! Anxiety busters! Breathing! The absolutely magnetic, charismatic Laryngologist and surgeon Dr. Ronda Alexander makes her long-awaited Ologies debut to chat about why we sound the way we do, hormones and voices, Elvis accents, opera singing, kid voices, turning back time vocally, coughing, sleep apnea, acid reflux, vocal fry, Mariah and more in this stellar two-parter. Come back next week when we answer so many burning questions.
In this installment of Reset’s on-going series “What’s That Building?” the show learns about a mini-architecture district in Hammond, Indiana, just over the border from Illinois. Reset hears from its architectural sleuth, Dennis Rodkin, about the First Baptist Church in Hammond, and how it came to preserve so much building history.
Nominations for this year‘s Academy Awards were released this week, with the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” leading the pack with 11 nominations. Meanwhile, critically-acclaimed films like “The Woman King,” “Till” and “Nope” were shut out of Hollywood’s biggest night of the year. Reset talks with a pop culture writer Michi Trota and a cinematic superfan, Jeremy Marder from the Music Box Theatre, for their takes on this year’s nominees.
An emergent turf war over who gets to prescribe medication means delaying mental health care. Claudia Mosier is a prescribing psychologist in two states and believes what she's offering could help many Americans secure their own mental health.
Investors are paying up for stability, as big tech growth slows down. (0:15) Dylan Lewis and Motley Fool Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross discuss:
- Microsoft's quarter, and lower growth expectations for its cloud business. - What long-term investors can expect from Microsoft. - The Department of Justice's suit against Alphabet, and a shifting regulatory environment. - Kimberly Clark's "less than stellar" quarter.
Plus, (16:25) Motley Fool Canada's Jim Gillies joins Ricky Mulvey to give the bull case for one of the most heavily shorted stocks of 2022.
Companies discussed: MSFT, GOOG, GOOGL, TTD, KMB, BIG
Host: Dylan Lewis Guests: Andy Cross, Jim Gillies Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Tim Sparks
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Veronique de Rugy, the George Gibbs Chair in political economy and senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to explain the ins and outs of the national debt crisis and discuss what Republicans and Democrats get wrong about the debt, deficits, and spending.
The first U.S.-based, nuclear-powered bitcoin mining facility is opening in Pennsylvania in 2023.
Today is a mining day on “The Breakdown” as NLW looks at:
News of nuclear-powered bitcoin-mining coming to the U.S.
A new report on the state of mining from Galaxy Digital
The impact of Kazakhstan’s miner exodus on the global bitcoin energy mix
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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 sponsor today is “Swoon” by Falls. Image credit: Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
