Back to school in extreme heat ... as the heat dome shifts to cover more Americans. TX border battle. Alabama woman's kidnapping claim made up. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
Chicago’s $3.8 billion Deep Tunnel flood-control project was seemingly ready to go before the torrential downpours in early July. But as the rain came down, runoff overflowed onto streets and into residents’ homes in what would become a record-setting storm. So why didn't the Deep Tunnel system reduce floods like it’s supposed to?
Reset gets the latest from Chicago Tribune environment and public health reporter Michael Hawthorne.
Indictment Watch(TM) continues as Liz and Andrew update you as to what's new with Bernard Kerik before debunking the false arguments being made in defense of the fake electors who plotted with Trump to try and steal the 2020 election.
If you've ever heard anyone dishonestly suggest that "Hawaii in 1960" justifies generating fake electoral certificates, this is the episode for you!
A seemingly small change to the Supreme Court’s powers to adjudicate “reasonableness” represents a significant risk to the country’s democratic functioning—and 30 weeks of popular protest about it will continue. Our correspondent looks into why Vietnam’s schools produce such excellent students (09:54). And examining the debate on whether cryptocurrency trading conflicts with Islamic strictures (15:15).
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Alex Louisy is 37 years old, and came from a non tech family. In the past, he worked in investment banking, and then a small telco company. But, he was always drawn to tech entrepreneurship and eventually, he stepped into the possibilities in this world. Outside of tech, he is married with two kids, and enjoys being outside, gardening, and hiking through the forest outside of his small house.
Alex spent many years in investment banking, financing large companies. He set out to try to provide B2B lending, and discovered that most people needed to borrow money because they weren't getting paid on time. He and his team decided to focus on this very simple problem, which uncovered huge opportunity.
We asked and you answered: what is your gateway country song? Thanks to everyone who submitted responses. We picked a few of our favorites to share on the podcast. From Townes Van Zandt to Charley Crockett to Billy Ray Cyrus, we got a wide variety of answers!
Also, we discuss the national news being made by Jason Aldean's new pop country-meets-butt rock song, "Try That in a Small Town," which has earned millions of plays after the video was cut from CMT for being racist. (Spoiler: we think Aldean is a pandering phony, and the song and video are terrible for a variety of reasons.)
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Barbie & Oppenheimer enjoyed the 4th best Box Office weekend ever — Because “Barbenheimer” reveals the power of the Positive Sum Game. Elon just erased Twitter from Twitter, it’s now called “X” — Because when you make a mistake, you X it out… literally. And the hottest-selling personal care product right now? It’s deodorant (because it’s hot) — Deodorant is taking more body share (anyone else swiping their thighs?).$MAT $HAS $UL Want merch, a shoutout, or got TheBestFactYet? Go to: www.tboypod.com Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Centuries before the arrival of Europeans, one of the greatest civilizations in the Americas rose and fell.
They left behind them a rich legacy of roads and construction. They had a system of writing as well as a highly developed system of mathematics and astronomy.
However, this advanced civilization suddenly ended. The people who made up the civilization never left, but their cultural and political institutions fell apart, and many of their cities were abandoned.
Learn more about the Maya Civilization, its rise, and its fall on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Vincanne Adams's book Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move (Duke UP, 2023) is part of a broader trend in anthropology that is developing new methods and techniques to study our increasingly polluted and toxic world. Adams takes Glyphosate as a case study and follows this chemical as it moves from the past to the present, from the lab to the dinner table, from outside our bodies, to within our cells to grapple with what it is to live in such an entangled world.
Adams explores the chemical glyphosate—the active ingredient in Roundup and a pervasive agricultural herbicide—as a predicament of contested science and chemically saturated life. Adams traces the history of glyphosate’s invention and its multiple uses as activists, regulators, scientists, clinicians, consumers, and sick people try to determine its safety and harm. Scientific and political debates over glyphosate’s toxicity are agitated into a swirl—a condition in which certainty is continually contested, divided, and multiplied. This movement replicates the chemical’s movement in soils, foods, bodies, archives, labs, and legislative bodies, settling in some places here and in other places there, its potencies changing and altering what it touches with different scales and kinds of impact. The swirl is both an artifact of academic capitalism, activist tactics, and contested scientific facts and a way to capture the complexity of contemporary life with chemicals. Prof. Vincanne Adams, is professor Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Elliott M. Reichardt, MPhil, is a PhD Candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University. Elliott's research interests are in capitalism, colonialism, and socio-ecological health in North America. Elliott also has long standing interests in medical anthropology and the history of science and medicine.