Month: February 2023

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The Tragedy of Lebanon’s Currency Devaluation

While the official exchange rate is down 90%, the black market is still trading at less than 25% of the official rate.

This week, the Lebanese pound (or lira) was devalued from 1,500 lira per U.S. dollar to 15,000 lira per USD. At the same time, the black market price of a dollar is 64,300 lira. In this episode, NLW gives the story behind the headlines and tweets, and explains why the World Bank calls Lebanon one of the worst economic crises in the last 150 years. 

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Everything Everywhere Daily - 536: The Worst Year in History

There have been many really bad years in world history. There have been World Wars, the Black Death, and horrific natural disasters, all of which have made for very bad years. 

However, many historians have come to the conclusion that the worst year in the history of humanity was a year that in and of itself was pretty bad but also ushered in a decade of bad years. 

Moreover, it wasn’t bad for a single region or even continent, it was bad for everyone on the planet.

Learn more about the year 536 and why it very well might have been the worst year in history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate

How useful will nuclear fusion be? In a major breakthrough last year at the National Ignition Facility in California, 192 lasers achieved fusion – and created energy - for the first time. It was clearly an important moment. But might the development of fusion technology come too late? Owen Bennett Jones speaks with Sharon Ann Holgate, author of Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Build a Mini Sun on Earth (Icon Books, 2022).

Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press.

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: 2023 Travel – Prices, Predictions & Passenger Rights

It’s that time of year when many of you may be thinking about your spring break and summer vacations. So we want to help you out with everything from how to get the best deals and book your flights at the right time – to how many flight cancellations to expect in 2023 and what legal rights you have that the airlines might not want you to know.

For all that and more, renowned travel expert Scott Keyes joins me back here on the show. He’s best known as the founder of the popular travel website “Scott’s Cheap Flights,” which recently rebranded under the new name: Going.

Scott and his team help more than two million members travel and experience the world by spotlighting the best flight deals possible. And he’s sharing a ton of helpful and timely travel information with us right now.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

A new study led by Imperial College in London suggests that data from loyalty card spending in supermarkets and pharmacies could be used as a way of detecting ovarian cancer much earlier. Tim Harford discusses the findings with Professor Hannah Fry, who was most recently on the show talking about her own experience with cancer.

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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 69

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Binance-WazirX Tensions Escalate; CZ Publishes ‘Time Management’ Rules

The most valuable crypto stories for Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. 

"The Hash" team discusses today's top stories, including Binance inviting Zanmai Labs, the entity operating the Indian crypto exchange WazirX, to work out arrangements to withdraw any remaining assets held in Binance wallets, according to a blog post on Friday. Separately, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, aka 'CZ,' discusses his time management guidelines in a recent blog post. Plus, Russia's largest bank Sberbank will release a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform by May this year, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.


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Binance-WazirX Dispute Rages as the Indian Crypto Exchange Is Told to Move Funds Out of Binance

Russia's Sberbank Will Introduce DeFi Platform by May: Report

Binance Re-Enters South Korea by Buying Majority Stake in Crypto Exchange GOPAX

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The Gist - Steve Mulroy On Prosecuting Cops Who Kill

Steve Mulroy is the District Attorney of Shelby County, Tennessee, which includes Memphis. Mulroy has been in office for a little over a year and was elected to bring down violent crime, while simultaneously ending the distrust the community has for the police. That’s a tall order. In this extended interview, we ask him if prosecuting the five officers involved in the death of Tyre Nichols will advance that goal? Also, we discuss what lessons he draws from the failures and successes of other progressive prosecutors, and why he thinks Memphis will avoid the fate of Baltimore, Ferguson, and other cities that succumbed to the pattern of police abuse leading to a pull-back in policing which lead to a rise in murders.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Bias Against Bodies: Medical Fatphobia Has Real Consequences

We’re taught from a young age that fatness and weight gain are inherently unhealthy. But research shows being fat is not itself unhealthy, and anti-fat bias is immeasurably harmful to our health. The Health At Every Size framework of care presents solutions. Reset digs into the barriers larger-bodied people face in medicine — and how that impacts every other part of their lives with Dr. Kate Johnson, interim chair of psychiatry at Loyola University, and Mikey Mercedes, writer and doctoral student at Brown University’s school of public health. Then Reset talks to Evette Dionne about her new memoir Weightless and confronting medical fatphobia.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Feb. 3, 2023

We’re only a few weeks away from Chicago’s mayoral election, COVID-19 public health emergency declarations are set to end in May, and Beyoncé is coming to Chicago. Reset breaks down these stories and much more with WBEZ editor Alden Loury; Lorraine Forte, head of the editorial board for the Chicago Sun-Times; and Maxwell Evans, reporter for Block Club Chicago.