Month: March 2023

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Motley Fool Money - Michael Lewis on Stock Market Overconfidence and Revisiting Moneyball

One sign of a true expert is they often say “I don’t know”.

Best-selling author Michael Lewis wrote classics like The Big Short, Liar's Poker, and Moneyball. He also hosts the podcast Against The Rules. Chris Hill talked with Lewis last year for an episode we published on May 20, 2022. Due to time constraints we had to leave some parts of the conversation out of that episode, so we're bringing them to you now! Hill and Lewis discuss: - Unintended consequences of Moneyball - Why single men fare worse in the stock market - How Iceland responded to the Great Recession - How to spot true experts

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Host: Chris Hill Guest: Michael Lewis Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Dan Boyd

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Unexpected Elements - Human genome editing: Promise and Peril

We meet experts at the Human Genome Editing Summit in London, seeking to cure genetic disease and ensure that it is safe and available to all.

Roland Pease hears from Victoria Gray, the first person to be cured of the debilitating and life-shortening disease sickle cell anaemia by gene editing, and from the scientists making it possible.

Also, the prospect of work to attempt gene rescue in fetuses before they are born. But the technology is expensive and complex. The question troubling the participants is to ensure people across the world can benefit from it, not just the rich and privileged.

And what are the limitations of gene editing? Can it be made more effective, safer? And what of gene edits that will be inherited by future generations?

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: We Pushed Semiconductors Offshore; Are We Doing the Same to Crypto?

Now, decades later, we're reviving semiconductor manufacturing with hundreds of millions of dollars.

On this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads:

Semiconductors: A Cautionary Tale by Sheila Warren

The SEC’s Other Option by TuongVy Le 

SEC Bitcoin ETF Dissent - Commissioner Hester Peirce and Commissioner Mark Uyeda

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Panama Canal

Every since the lands of the New World were mapped, people dreamt of creating a canal through Central America to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 

For almost 500 years, that dream was just that. A dream. Creating such a canal would require one of the greatest engineering projects in human history. 

It was finally achieved in the early 20th century with an enormous amount of machinery, money, human lives, and a whole lot of political arm-twisting. 

Learn more about the Panama Canal and how it came to be on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, “The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left” (Hurst, 2023)

During the first months of the pandemic, governments worldwide agreed that ‘following the science’ with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the best way to preserve life. But evidence is mounting that ‘the science’ was all politics and time reveals the horrific human and economic cost of these policies.

The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left (Hurst, 2023) provides an internationalist-left perspective on the world’s Covid-19 response, which has had devastating consequences for democratic rights and the poor worldwide. As the fortunes of the richest soared, nationwide shutdowns devastated small businesses, the working classes, and the Global South’s informal economies.

Toby Green and Thomas Fazi argue that these policies grossly exacerbated existing trends of inequality, mediatisation and surveillance, with grave implications for the future. Rich in human detail, The Covid Consensus tackles head-on the refusal of the global political class and mainstream media to report the true extent of the erosion of democratic processes and the socioeconomic assault on the poor.

Toby Green and Thomas Fazi speak to Pierre d’Alancaisez about the emergence of a global consensus, the abject failure of the left to hold power to account, and the sometimes fine line between critique and conspiracy theorising.

Richard Seymour’s critique of the book on Politics, Theory, Other.

Toby Green is Professor of African History at King’s College London, and author of A Fistful of Shells and The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa.

Thomas Fazi is the author and co-author of several books on economic and political issues, including Reclaiming the State. His article with Toby Green for UnHerd, The Left’s Covid Failure, was translated into ten languages. He is a regular contributor to Compact.

Pierre d’Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional.

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CBS News Roundup - Celebrating the World News Roundup’s 85th Anniversary

The very first broadcast of World News Roundup, on March 13, 1938, was hosted by legendary CBS newsman Robert Trout and featured the radio debut of Edward R. Murrow. The program would go on to revolutionize radio reporting and this year, will celebrate its 85th year on air. When it launched on March 13, 1938, "World News Roundup" changed broadcasting forever by being the first program to feature correspondents stationed around the globe reporting for one live broadcast. The first broadcast was anchored by Robert Trout and featured reporting by Edward R. Murrow, then a CBS executive, making his debut reporting on the show from Vienna. Hitler's German army was invading Austria....and becoming a growing threat to all of Europe. This was the first comprehensive broadcast that linked America with a world careening toward war.

Experience the first World News Roundup with a special podcast presentation featuring an introduction from CBS News Radio correspondent Steve Kathan. 

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Would You Let A.I. Date For You?

The online dating world can be brutal and repetitive—just the kind of thing you might want to automate. But, in one tech writer’s experience, artificial intelligence isn’t ready to make real connections—at least, not without a lot of help.


Guest: Heather Tal Murphy, covers business and technology at Slate


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Consider This from NPR - Adding Racial Equity To The Business Of Legal Weed

In about the last 10 years, the legalized cannabis industry has grown into a $32 billion business. Today, in 21 states, and the District of Columbia, you can legally purchase recreational marijuana if you are 21 or older. And 37 states have legalized medical marijuana programs.

While it's easy to feel that cannabis has come a long way from the scare tactics of Reefer Madness, since 1970's Controlled Substance Act, marijuana has been classified as a drug on par with cocaine and heroin - dramatically increasing penalties for possession, sale, and distribution. Those penalties were enforced in ways that continue to disproportionately target people of color, especially black people.

While the same states that once prosecuted the sale of weed are now regulating and taxing it, will those most affected by the punitive frameworks of the past be able to profit too?

Host Michel Martin speaks with Devin Alexander, owner of the cannabis delivery business, Rolling Releaf, based in Newton Massachusetts. And we hear from Tauhid Chappell, President of the Philadelphia CannaBusiness Association.




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