Admit it - you've fantasized about what you would do if you hit the lottery and exactly how you would spend your millions - or billions.
Spending a few dollars for a chance at a massive jackpot seems irresistible. Roughly half of all Americans buy at least one lottery ticket per year, despite the nearly impossible odds of winning. But some people take it much further.
Unlike casino games and sports betting, messaging around playing the lottery can make it seem much less like actual gambling and more like a fun way to chase a dream of luxury and wealth.
But some critics feel that the lottery uses predatory practices to disproportionately target low-income communities and people of color.
Host Michel Martin talks to Jonathan D. Cohen, author of For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries In Modern America.
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The Gist - BEST OF THE GIST: Classified Documents Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we are replaying Mike’s Wednesday Spiel about the death of Keenan Anderson while in the custody of the Los Angeles Police Department on January 3, 2023. Then we dig into the Gist archives and listen back to Mike’s 2015 Spiel about the classified-documents scandal of the pre-Trump era. Yes, there was a pre-Trump era.
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Lex Fridman Podcast - #353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
Dennis Whyte is a nuclear scientist at MIT and the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(05:54) – Nuclear fusion
(23:53) – e=mc^2
(38:20) – Fission vs fusion
(43:32) – Nuclear weapons
(47:19) – Plasma
(54:29) – Nuclear fusion reactor
(1:09:50) – 2022 nuclear fusion breakthrough explained
(1:30:27) – Magnetic confinement
(1:49:36) – ITER
(1:54:23) – SPARC
(2:08:23) – Future of fusion power
(2:16:55) – Engineering challenges
(2:35:36) – Nuclear disasters
(2:40:21) – Cold fusion
(2:54:36) – Kardashev scale
(3:04:00) – Advice for young people
Audio Poem of the Day - For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997
Motley Fool Money - Real Estate Trends w/ Opportunity
The broad real estate market underperformed the S&P 500 in 2022, but the upside is investors can find some cheaper opportunities in a cyclical sector. Deidre Woollard and Motley Fool Contributor Matt Frankel discuss: - How REITs differ from stocks - Publicly traded vs. private REITs - One office REIT that's evolving - Ways to spot a yield trap - REITs benefiting from e-commerce trends
Companies/REITs discussed: ESRT, SPG, PLD, GOOG, GOOGL, META, O, SKT, KIM, VNQ, EWRE, IIPR
Host: Deidre Woollard Guest: Matt Frankel Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Rick Engdahl, Tim Sparks
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #915 – Jan 21 2023
News Items: Intermittent Fasting, Tech Devices and Brain Development, Latest Cancer Statistics, Short Sleeper Syndrome, Hungriest Black Hole, Webb's First Exoplanet; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Coffee Pods; Science or Fiction
CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Headlines – Top Stories of the Week 01-17-23
A roundup of the week’s most valuable crypto stories for Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023.
Missed any episodes of “The Hash” this week? Today’s recap episode will get you caught up.
“Hash Headlines” rounds up this week’s headline stories, including:
- FTX Execs Donated Money to 196 Legislators
- FTX Token Surges as New FTX Head Reportedly Says Crypto Exchange Could Be Revived
- The Final Straw for Genesis
Links to the headlines:
Congress' FTX Problem: 1 in 3 Members Got Cash From Crypto Exchange's Bosses
New FTX Head Says Crypto Exchange Could Be Revived: Wall Street Journal
Genesis Owes Over $3.5B to Top 50 Creditors
Crypto Trading Firm Cumberland DRW Disputes Genesis Exposure
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Divided Argument - Soft Target
We're back sooner than expected to talk about the Court's release of the Marshal's report about the investigation of the Dobbs leak!
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: What Davos Thinks of Crypto
A report after the World Economic Forum wraps up.
On this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at the discussions around crypto and blockchain from the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Chicago DJs Celebrate International House Music With ‘Global Currency’
We ALL like to dance. A couple Chicago DJs are proving just that with their party, Global Currency, celebrating international club music inspired by one of Chicago’s musical exports — house music. DJ Mochi and DJ IGGY join Reset to share some tunes from South America, Africa, and more.