Month: July 2023

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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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You Get A Podcast! - Oprah and Fashion! w/ Avery Trufelman

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This episode, take a look at Oprah Winfrey, style icon. From how the clothes she wore reflected different trends — to how she helped set trends herself, from Uggs to Spanx. Plus: our favorite Oprah fits.

Our guest this episode is the incredible Avery Trufelman, host of our fellow Radiotopia show Articles of Interest.

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The NewsWorthy - Inflation Cools, FBI Director Grilled & Actors on Strike?- Thursday, July 13, 2023

The news to know for Thursday, July 13, 2023!

We're telling you what the latest inflation numbers show and what they could mean for interest rates. 

And the head of the FBI defended himself and his colleagues to lawmakers accusing the bureau of bias. 

Also, midnight was the deadline. We'll update you on what's happening with an actors' strike in Hollywood.

Plus, there's more intense weather forecasted across the country; Elon Musk hopes to rival ChatGPT with his latest venture; and a new report laid out what's being called a "stunning social change."

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What A Day - Two Strikes, We’re Out

160,000 Hollywood actors are poised to strike Thursday, joining WGA members on the picket lines in what could be the first double strike in more than 60 years. This all comes as this year’s coveted Emmy nominations were announced Wednesday morning, further cementing 2023 as a fraught year for the entertainment industry that is already without 11,000 of its writers.


A major heat wave has settled in across the South and Southwestern United States, with temperatures in the triple digits from California to Texas to Florida. Climate scientists have said record temperatures and heat waves will keep happening as this planet continues to get warmer.


And in headlines: Reproductive rights groups are suing Iowa after the state passed a six-week abortion ban, the Justice Department said that Trump can be held liable for comments he made about E. Jean Carroll while acting as president, and the United Auto Workers union said its members are prepared to strike if automakers don’t meet their demands for a new labor agreement.

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | How Proposed EPA Electric Vehicle Rule Would Compromise Auto Safety

A proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that “would limit tailpipe emissions so that in order to comply, auto companies would have to sell 60% of new vehicles as electric by 2030” would adversely affect the safety of cars.

So says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news outlet.)

“Well, since [electric] vehicles are more expensive, people would postpone buying them. So, they would stay with their older cars, and newer cars have more safety features. If they get in an accident, they’re less likely to hurt the passenger,” Furchtgott-Roth says.

“So, because of that, you have increases in injuries and fatalities, if you make new cars more expensive. And that’s if you increase [Corporate Average Fuel Economy] standards for normal gasoline-powered vehicles, or you mandate electric vehicles,” she adds. According to the Department of Transportation, CAFE standards are fleetwide averages that must be achieved by each automaker for its car and truck fleet.

Furchtgott-Roth joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to further discuss the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule and what environmental benefits the EPA is hoping to accomplish in potentially implementing that rule, as well as the role that China plays in producing electric vehicles.


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