Month: February 2023

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Feb. 24, 2023

The race for Chicago’s next mayor is in its final stretch. Who is in the lead, and what did voters this week say is the top issue on their minds? Also: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visits Chicago and a favorite local show gets the ax. Reset breaks down these stories and much more with Jacoby Cochran, City Cast Chicago host, Tiffany Walden, editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Triibe, and Rachel Hinton, enterprise reporter for Illinois Answers Project with Better Government Association.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Class-Action Lawsuit Accusing Digital Basketball Cards of Being Securities Allowed to Proceed

NBA Top Shot from Dapper Labs is the latest digital asset to face security scrutiny.

On today’s episode, NLW covers the ruling of a federal judge in New York allowing a class-action lawsuit to proceed against Dapper Labs for allegedly offering unregistered securities. He also covers a new slate of charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, disgraced founder of FTX. 

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“The Breakdown” is written, produced and narrated by Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Michele Musso 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 “Foothill Blvd” by Sam Barsh. Image credit: Westend61/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. 

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Consider This from NPR - A Ukrainian City Marks A Year Of Loss—And Resistance

Kherson was the the first major Ukrainian city to fall to Russian troops. With deep historical ties to Russia, it was not expected to be a center of resistance.

But an army of citizen spies defied Moscow's expectations, and helped Ukrainian forces liberate the city last November.

A year after Russia launched its invasion, NPR's Joanna Kakissis has the story of Kherson's partisans: teachers and accountants and landscape designers, who became eyes and ears for the Ukrainian military.

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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The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS | New Sanctions Against Russia, Disappointing Inflation Report, Iran-Russia Alliance Appears to Strengthen | Feb. 24

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


  • The Biden administration marks the one year anniversary of the war in Ukraine by announcing new sanctions against Russia.
  • Russia may be moving to provide Iran with fighter jets. 
  • Prices are up and the stock market is down. 
  • A library in Virginia has added three Clarence Thomas books to its recommended Black History Month reading list, but only after The Daily Signal questioned the library. 



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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Outlining the Global Standards for Crypto; Reaction After Coinbase Starts Layer 2 Network Base

The most valuable crypto stories for Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. 

"The Hash" team weighs in on today's top stories, including the Financial Action Task Force agreeing on an action plan to drive the "timely implementation" of its global standards for crypto. Plus, Base Protocol’s BASE tokens jumped, then dumped, in the past 24 hours following an announcement by crypto exchange Coinbase about the launch of its layer 2 blockchain Base.

See also:

FATF Agrees on Action Plan to Drive Implementation of Global Crypto Norms

Unrelated BASE Token Jumped 250% After Coinbase Starts Layer 2 Network Base

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Motley Fool Money - Surprising Earnings, Conservative Management

There's a lot to analyze in this episode, including revenue to the upside, CEOs waving the caution flag, and Hobbits. 

(0:21) Emily Flippen and Jason Moser discuss: - Nvidia's results and place in the AI universe - Block surprising Wall Street with strong 4th-quarter revenue - Mercadolibre's enviable free cash flow - The latest from Walmart, Home Depot, Booking Holdings, Etsy, and Wayfair

(19:11) Emily and Jason continue the earnings analysis and discuss: - Warner Bros. Discovery growing subscribers and cutting costs   - The latest from Intuit, Teladoc Health, Domino's Pizza, and Shake Shack  - Their most recent stock purchases - Two stocks on their radar: Adobe and ANSYS

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Stocks discussed: NVDA, WMT, SQ, HD, BKNG, ETSY, MELI, W, INTU, TDOC, WBD, DPZ, TWLO, SPOT, NKE, SHAK, ADBE, ANSS

Host: Chris Hill Guests: Jason Moser, Emily Flippen Engineer: Rick Engdahl

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CrowdScience - Where does our fat go when we exercise?

If, like this week’s Crowdscience listener Lili, you’re an avid gymgoer, you may well have wondered where your fat disappears to when you exercise?

Well, the short answer is that we convert it to energy that powers a whole range of physical processes, from breathing to walking as well as lying down and doing nothing. But the science behind energy expenditure is a little more complicated than that.

Presenter Anand Jagatia pops on an exercise bike to have his metabolism measured, and learns that he may be relying on an entirely different source of fuel as he works up a sweat. But is all that hard work worth the effort it involves? Recent research suggests there's a limit to the number of calories us humans can burn, and that doing physical activity isn’t a sure-fire way to keep trim.

Even hunter-gatherers who walk 13,000 steps a day have the same metabolic rate as the average American. So if working out isn't the best way to lose weight, how about harnessing our own fat to tackle the complications of obesity? It used to be thought brown fat was exclusive to babies (and bears) but we now know adults have some of it too, and it seems to play a vital role in combatting a range of chronic diseases including hypertension and diabetes.

Presenter: Anand Jagatia Producer: Marijke Peters