The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #913 – Jan 7 2023
Psychic Predictions for 2022; News Items: Hydration Myths, Bioplastics, GPS on the Moon, Russia Fears Western Psychics; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Headlines – Top Stories of the Week 01-02-23
A roundup of the week’s most valuable crypto stories for Saturday, Jan. 7, 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:
- Sam Bankman-Fried's Upcoming Court Appearance
- What's Next for Sam Bankman-Fried?
- Silvergate Shares Plummet Amid $8.1B Withdrawals
- Headline Data Shows Huobi Suffers $60M Token Outflows and Announces Major Layoffs
Links to the headlines:
Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads ‘Not Guilty’ to Fraud, Conspiracy Charges
Bahamas-FTX Dispute Heats Up as Bankman-Fried Prepares for Trial
Silvergate shares tumble as crypto bank reveals $8.1bn fall in deposits
Crypto Exchange Huobi Sees $60M Token Outflows in a Day: Nansen
Tron's Price Sinks 8%, USDD Depegs Amid Drama at Justin Sun-Related Huobi Crypto Exchange
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World Book Club - Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North
A Passage North explores the impact of the vicious Sri Lankan civil war between Tamil and Sinhalese which tore Sri Lanka apart for two and a half decades before a fragile ceasefire was finally reached in 2009. When Krishan learns that his grandmother’s former carer Rani has died he makes the long journey north to attend the funeral across a country still traumatised and scarred by its recent past.
Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a poignant memorial for the missing and the dead, and an unsettling meditation on what it means to have observed the war from afar rather than to have been personally caught up in its horrors.
(Picture: Anuk Arudpragasam. Photo credit: Ruvin De Silva.)
World Book Club - Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North
A Passage North explores the impact of the vicious Sri Lankan civil war between Tamil and Sinhalese which tore Sri Lanka apart for two and a half decades before a fragile ceasefire was finally reached in 2009. When Krishan learns that his grandmother’s former carer Rani has died he makes the long journey north to attend the funeral across a country still traumatised and scarred by its recent past.
Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a poignant memorial for the missing and the dead, and an unsettling meditation on what it means to have observed the war from afar rather than to have been personally caught up in its horrors.
(Picture: Anuk Arudpragasam. Photo credit: Ruvin De Silva.)
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What is Adaptive Clothing?
After seeing his grandmother struggle to get dressed in assisted living, the founder of Joe & Bella decided to create an adaptive fashion brand that worked for older adults and was actually fashionable. Reset talks to Ben Graham, vice president of marketing for Joe & Bella, about adaptive apparel and hears from Reyes Witt and Hugo Colin from Columbia College about a recent collaboration with fashion students.
CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE BREAKDOWN: Is Political Gridlock Good for Crypto?
Since the House of Representatives can’t seem to elect a Speaker, can they be expected to pass crypto legislation?
On the first Weekly Recap of 2023, NLW hones in on the political impasse in Washington D.C. and explores whether a divided Congress (and a divided Republican party within Congress) might be good for crypto in a year when politicians are feeling animosity towards the industry.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Carbon: Can’t Live Without It
Every form of life which has ever been discovered, regardless of its size or how it metabolizes energy, has one thing in common.
They are based on the element carbon.
Carbon is the most important building block for life. It holds a unique place on the periodic table, and it can combine with itself and other elements in so many different ways that there is an entire branch of chemistry devoted to it.
Learn more about the element carbon, its importance, and its future on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NBN Book of the Day - Albert Glinsky, “Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution” (Oxford UP, 2022)
The Moog synthesizer ‘bent the course of music forever’ Rolling Stone declared.
Bob Moog, the man who did that bending, was a lovable geek with Einstein hair and pocket protectors. He walked into history in 1964 when his homemade contraption unexpectedly became a sensation---suddenly everyone wanted a Moog. The Beatles, The Doors, The Byrds, and Stevie Wonder discovered his synthesizer, and it came to be featured in seminal film scores including Apocalypse Now and A Clockwork Orange. The Moog's game-changing sounds saturated 60's counterculture and burst into the disco party in the 70's to set off the electronic dance music movement. Bob had singlehandedly founded the synth industry and become a star in the process.
But he was also going broke. Imitators copied his technology, the musicians' union accused him of replacing live players, and Japanese competitors started overtaking his work. He struggled to hang on to his inventions, his business, and his very name. Bob's story upends our notions of success and wealth, showing that the two don't always go together.
In Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution (Oxford UP, 2022), author Albert Glinsky draws on exclusive access to Bob Moog's personal archives and his probing interviews with Bob's family and a multitude of associates, for this first complete biography of the man and his work. Switched On takes the reader on a roller coaster ride at turns triumphant, heart-breaking, and frequently laugh out loud absurd---a nuanced trip through the public and private worlds of this legendary inventor who altered the course of music.”
Nathan Smith is a PhD Student in Music Theory at Yale University. He can be reached at nathan.smith@yale.edu.
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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: From $15K to $600K Net Worth – How “Money with Katie” Did It
New year, new financial goals? A recent survey found more than half of Americans who set New Year’s resolutions are focused on money. Inflation and the risk of a recession are said to be some of the top motivators.
So what does it really take to make a significant shift in your spending, saving, and earning… and ultimately, your net worth? Our guest expert started her money journey with about $15,000 to her name — and increased her net worth to $600,000 in less than five years.
Now, talking money is her full-time job. Katie Gatti Tassin is a blogger and the host of the podcast, “The Money with Katie Show.” Her mission is to help regular people become wealthy.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Can China’s data on covid deaths be trusted?
When the pandemic took hold, the Chinese government imposed a zero-Covid policy that aimed to contain the virus through mass-testing and strict lockdowns.
But early in December, amidst widespread public protests and the spread of the omicron variant to more than 200 cities, those draconian, highly restrictive measures were lifted almost entirely.
For the first time in just under two years, the majority of the country?s near one-and-a-half billion citizens were free to meet, mix and mingle where they pleased, triggering what experts believe is a gargantuan wave of covid infections and related deaths. Some analysts say death rates could be as high as15,000 per day. But the Chinese authorities are reporting five or fewer deaths a day. The numbers don't stack up so More or Less's Paul Connolly speaks to some of the world's leading experts and epidemiologists to work out if China's data on covid deaths can be trusted - and, if not, what the real death toll could be.