Month: April 2023

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Opening Arguments - OA719: Serial’s Adnan Syed & the Elected Prosecutor: A Match Made in Baltimore

On the cusp of Former President Donald Trump's arraignment, Liz and Andrew break down the recent Maryland Appellate Court's decision in Lee v. Maryland concerning Adnan Syed and the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office decision to petition to vacate his conviction and drop all charges against him. What's really going on? Why have so many media outlets gotten this wrong?? Listen and find out!

Notes OA 107 https://openargs.com/oa107-adnan-syed-obviously-also-can-learn-patents/

OA 633 https://openargs.com/oa633-why-adnan-was-released/

Lee v. Maryland https://www.mdcourts.gov/data/opinions/cosa/2023/1291s22.pdf

Md. Code, Crim. Pro. Art., § 8-301.1 https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/2021/criminal-procedure/title-8/subtitle-3/section-8-301-1/

Md. Code, Crim. Proc. § 11-102 https://casetext.com/statute/code-of-maryland/article-criminal-procedure/title-11-victims-and-witnesses/subtitle-1-general-provisions/part-i-definitions-rights-available-throughout-proceedings/section-11-102-victims-right-to-attend-proceedings

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The NewsWorthy - Trump’s Day in Court, Next Moon Crew & UConn Dominates- Tuesday, April 4, 2023

The news to know for Tuesday, April 4, 2023!

We have updates about the largest city in the U.S. bracing for an unprecedented chapter in American history. Former President Trump is turning himself in to face criminal charges. 

Also, where the most severe storms are expected today, and who's going on NASA's first crewed mission in 50 years.

Plus, insurance companies may soon cover a popular but pricey baby product, a new deal brings two of the biggest sports entertainment brands together, and do you know the answer to today's trivia question? 

Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!

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What A Day - It’s Arraigning Men

Former President Donald Trump will make his first court appearance in Manhattan today, to answer to criminal charges handed down by a grand jury on Thursday. He’s expected to face dozens of charges related to hush money he paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Starbucks is facing more scrutiny, after former CEO Howard Schultz was grilled by Senate lawmakers last week over the company’s labor practices and allegations of union-busting. Michelle Eisen, who helped form the chain’s first-ever bargaining unit in Buffalo, New York, joins us to discuss where things stand for Starbucks Workers United.

And in headlines: Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin conceded defeat to the country's right-wing National Coalition Party, a federal judge temporarily blocked Tennessee’s anti-drag law, and NASA named the crew for its first lunar mission in 50 years.

Show Notes:

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | What Finland Joining NATO Means for Russia, War In Ukraine, and How It Benefits America , National Security Expert Explains

Finland is joining NATO, and Victoria Coates says Russia is less than pleased. 


Leaders in Moscow are “thoroughly outraged about this and claiming it causes some kind of intolerable threat to Russian security,” says Coates, a senior research fellow in international affairs and national security at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) 


Finland will become the 31st NATO member on Tuesday, a move that Coates says is likely an embarrassment to Russia because counties in the region appear to “not [be] interested in joining with Russia" in the war against Ukraine.


Coates joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain the significance of Finland entering NATO and what it could mean for the ongoing war in Ukraine. 


Coates also shares what we know about the imprisonment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and how the Biden administration should be handling the situation. 


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Pod Save America - “Trump Surrenders.”

Donald Trump finally gets his day in court as his first indictment is unsealed. Former Mueller investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissmann  joins to break down the Trump charges as well as the latest developments in the Fox News defamation trial. And we bring you the best of this week's worst political coverage in another round of Take Appreciator.

 

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - From Smalltalk to smart contracts, reflecting on 50 years of programming

Smart contracts aren’t actually new. Computer scientist, legal scholar, and cryptographer Nick Szabo coined the term in 1994 (possibly earlier, depending on who you ask). 

Old problems seem to keep coming back. Bret Victor gave a talk in 2013 called “The Future of Programming,” where he talked about problems from 1973 that were still relevant. 

To learn more about the Agoric blockchain, check out their homepage. 

If you’d rather shape how the blockchain itself operates, much of Agoric’s code is open source. 

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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Bad Cree,’ a horror mystery unfolds in the aftermath of loss and colonialism

Jessica Johns' thriller, Bad Cree, opens with a startling image: a severed crow's head in someone's hand. In today's episode, Johns tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe she hoped that image would set the tone for the winding mystery within her new novel. It follows a young Cree woman who returns to a home and culture she left behind in hopes of helping her cope with grief. Much of Mackenzie's story involves her dreams, and Johns explains why she felt it was so important to honor that world – especially after a professor told her otherwise.
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Read Me a Poem - “The Flower-School” by Rabindranath Tagore

Amanda Holmes reads Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “The Flower-School.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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It Could Happen Here - How Scared Should You Be About AI?

Robert sits down with Noah Giansiracusa, math professor at Bentley University, to talk about the reasonable and unreasonable fears people have over AI.

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