Month: June 2023

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Two Chicagoans Work To Introduce More Black People To The Outdoors

Almost 70% of visitors to national parks in the U.S. are white, and Black people are the most underrepresented group to visit them. Reset meets Chevon Linear and Kameron Stanton, the Chicago couple working to change that through their popular TikTok account Black People Outside and through meet-up events.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - More Blinken meetings: a diplomatic visit to China

In a first since 2018, America’s secretary of state is visiting China amid escalating tensions between both countries. Can diplomats successfully stabilise the strained relationship? Latin American countries are in a developmental limbo. We explore why this is disproportionately affecting single mothers. And, come with us to a British seaweed farm bubbling with economic potential.
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - The Closer: Toys R Us

I have another special episode of the Code Story podcast today, where I'm sharing another great podcast I've just been made aware of. It's called The Closer, from the team at Project Brazen, hosted by financial journalist Aimee Keane. The show focuses on pulling out the high octane emotion and exponential stakes that underscore todays biggest acquisition or investment headlines.

In the episode I'm sharing today, the host takes you inside the final days of Toys R Us with Lauren Hirsch, the reporter who first revealed the iconic company's impending bankruptcy. You can expect to hear juicy tidbits around what drove the company out of business.

Check out The Closer, and subscribe today, on your favorite podcast catcher.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 6.19.23

Alabama

  • Former VP Mike Pence says Space Command should be in Huntsville
  • Builder Tim James weighs in on Baldwin county bridge issue
  • State senator Chris Eliot decries the LGBTQ luncheon at AL Archives Dept
  • AL congressman Mike Rogers seeks answers on Afghanistan withdrawal
  • Parents arrested in Colbert county for neglect of 9 year old son
  • Juneteenth celebrations start on weekend and carry into today

National

  • AZ congressman Biggs says more documents to come on Biden & Ukraine
  • Harvard/Harris poll  on Trump indictment shows 55% believe its all politics
  • KY senator weighs in on Bill Gates recent visit with Xi Jinping in China
  • More Catholics protested Dodgers stadium than those attending game
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Negro Leagues

In the first half of the 20th century, racial segregation was rampant across much of the United States. Perhaps nowhere was it more evident and public than in the sport of baseball. 

Despite being denied a place in the major leagues for several decades, some of the greatest players of the era could play for the public on black-owned and operated teams. 

Learn more about the Negro Leagues and how some of the greatest baseball players in history were kept out of the majors on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Start the Week - Sums, stories and musical scores

Kirsty Wark celebrates the artistry of numbers with three mathematicians Eugenia Cheng, Sarah Hart and Emily Howard.

Eugenia Cheng asks Is Maths Real? in her new book, which offers a new way to look at the subject by focusing on the questions, rather than the answers. She explores how asking the simplest of questions – ‘why does 1 + 1 = 2?’ – can get to the very heart of the search for mathematical truth.

Sarah Hart wants to break down the perceived barriers between mathematics and the creative arts. In Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature she reveals the geometry lurking in Moby-Dick, George Eliot’s obsession with statistics, and Jurassic Park’s fractal patterns.

Emily Howard has a dual passion for maths and music. In her compositions she plays with mathematical shapes and processes. Her new record Torus, released on NMC Recordings in April, brings together works including sphere and Compass.

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NBN Book of the Day - The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures

Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Meet Me by the Fountain is a history of the American shopping mall from its emergence to recent attempts to reinvent and reconceptualize the shells of “dead” shopping centers. Along the way, it details the mall’s many ironies and contradictions and how it became the center and icon of community and culture, especially youth culture, in the late 20th century. Lange and Vinsel also discuss Lange’s larger career and her work as an architecture and design critic.

Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. He studies human life with technology, with particular focus on the relationship between government, business, and technological change. His first book, Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July 2019.

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