Month: July 2023

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Bay Curious - Can Empty Offices Become Homes?

The office vacancy rate in downtown San Francisco is hovering around 30%. Meanwhile, thousands of people are living without shelter on city streets. Bay Curious listener Judith Gottlieb wonders if those empty offices can be converted into housing for people experiencing homelessness. In this episode of Bay Curious, we'll break down what it takes to turn an office into a home, and explore another option for housing people that is gaining more traction.

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Slate Books - How To!: Hack Your Bureaucracy

When Gwen applied for unemployment during the early days of the pandemic, she never thought she’d still be waiting for her benefits years later. Despite hours on the phone, countless emails and even a court appearance, Gwen is haunted by her inability to get the money she was approved for. On this episode of How To!, co-host Amanda Ripley brings in Marina Nitze, author of Hack Your Bureaucracy. Not only does Marina help Gwen find shortcuts in her state’s unemployment system, but she has useful advice for untangling any bureaucratic nightmare. 


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The Best One Yet - ⚰️ “The greatest gift you can give” — Aretha Franklin’s will. Inflation’s best one yet. Domino’s delivery pivot.

Domino’s swore it would never use 3rd party delivery apps — But great business minds are willing to change their mind. We just got the best Inflation report in years — And when you look at the data, the US is the clear #1. And Aretha Franklin passed away 5 years ago, but her will has been stuck in a couch since then — The greatest gift you can give your family is planning for death.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail 7.13.23

Alabama

  • Tuberville afraid Biden will fall down while at NATO summit
  • 2 candidates in Montgomery mayoral race cite crime as big concern
  • Chickasaw city council votes to terminate police chief, reason not known
  • A shooting at Birmingham fire station injures two firefighters
  • Homeowner in Magnolia Springs shoots and kills burglar
  • Blount Cultural Park makes list of US places for marriage proposals

National

  • Heated exchanges during  House hearing with FBI director Wray
  • Strange media reactions re: movie that exposes child sex rings
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Blue Jeans (Encore)

Unquestionably, the most popular clothing innovation of the last 150 years has been blue jeans. 

They can be found all over the world, yet they have become synonymous with American culture. 

While modern blue jeans are definitely American, their origin actually goes back centuries earlier to Europe.

Learn more about the history of blue jeans and how they became so popular on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO369: Stress Increases Alzheimer’s Risk in Women… But Not Men?

Today's guest is Hannah Edwards, a neuroscience grad student at Washington University in St. Louis, and part of the Cirrito Lab, which has released a new study on Alzheimer's and stress in mice. Stress causes the levels of Alzheimer's proteins to rise in females' brains but not males' brains. This difference may shed some light on the greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease that women have. Hannah will take us through the study and also teach us a bit of the basics on Alzheimer's along the way!

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NBN Book of the Day - Marco Grasso, “From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis” (MIT Press, 2022)

In From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis (MIT Press, 2022), Professor Marco Grasso examines the responsibility of the oil and gas industry for the climate crisis and develops a moral framework that lays out its duties of reparation and decarbonization to allay the harm it has done. By framing climate change as a moral issue and outlining the industry's obligation to tackle it, Grasso shows that Big Oil is a central, yet overlooked, agent of climate ethics and policy.

Isobel Akerman is a History PhD student at the University of Cambridge studying biodiversity and botanic gardens.

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