Month: August 2023

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Bay Curious - The Rise and Fall of the ‘Harlem of the West’

If you were walking down San Francisco’s Fillmore Street in the 1950s, chances are you might run into Billie Holiday stepping out of a restaurant. Or Ella Fitzgerald trying on hats. Or Thelonious Monk smoking a cigarette. In this episode, originally aired in 2020, reporter Bianca Taylor explores the rise of the Fillmore as a cultural center for jazz, and the "urban renewal" that ultimately changed the identity of the neighborhood, and forced out many of its residents.

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This story was reported by Bianca Taylor. This episode was produced by Katrina Schwartz and Asal Ehsanipour. Audio engineering was by Rob Speight and Christopher Beale. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Amanda Font, and Christopher Beale. Additional support from Cesar Saldana, Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, and Holly Kernan.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Taken too soon: why so many Americans die young

An appalling record compared with much of the rich world is not just down to drugs and guns. We ask what changes, both in policy and philosophy, might reduce the death toll. A heat-transporting ocean current in the Atlantic could soon be on the wane—or switch off altogether (10:08). That would have disastrous consequences. And musing on airborne etiquette for business travelers (18:09).


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The Best One Yet - ☠️ “Portnoy’s pirates” – Barstool’s $1 buyback. WeWork’s worth $0. Cannabis’ beer-quisition.

Dave Portnoy sold Barstool Sports to a gambling company for $550M, but just allegedly got it back for free — Because pirates don’t wear ties. WeWork just warned Wall Street that it might go bankrupt — So we did the math, and WeWork is actually worth $0. And Tilray, the $2B cannabis giant, just randomly bought 8 has-been beer brands from Budweiser — Shocktoberfest came early because weed legalization is late. $WE $PENN $TLRY $BUD $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

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.10.23

Alabama

  • AL Supreme Court upholds wrongful death judgement out of Mobile
  • Hoover city council passes resolution re: false reports to police
  • Judge in Houston county refuses bond for medic charged with theft & drugs
  • Prosecutors to seek death penalty for man accused of killing Auburn officer
  • Gulf Shores firefighter awarded Medal of Valor for rescuing person

National

  • 6 people have died in Hawaii after raging wildfires on 2 of the islands
  • James Comer unleashes more docs on Biden family influence peddling
  • Donald Trump says House select committee has destroyed J6 docs
  • More on MI election scandal from 2020 involving GBI strategies
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Lost Civilization of Atlantis (Encore)

In the Dialogues written by Plato in the year 360 BC, he wrote of a place called Atlantis. Atlantis was a land where the citizens were half-gods and half-men, yet it was destroyed in a cataclysmic event. 

Ever since then people have been speculating about where Atlantis was and who the Atlantians were. 

Learn more about the history of Atlantis and the various theories of where it was and if it even existed on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, “How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms” (Norton, 2023)

From facial recognition―capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents―to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn’t just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search.

In How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms (Norton, 2023), Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones illuminate the ways in which data has long been used as a tool and a weapon in arguing for what is true, as well as a means of rearranging or defending power. They explore how data was created and curated, as well as how new mathematical and computational techniques developed to contend with that data serve to shape people, ideas, society, military operations, and economies. Although technology and mathematics are at its heart, the story of data ultimately concerns an unstable game among states, corporations, and people. How were new technical and scientific capabilities developed; who supported, advanced, or funded these capabilities or transitions; and how did they change who could do what, from what, and to whom?

Wiggins and Jones focus on these questions as they trace data’s historical arc, and look to the future. By understanding the trajectory of data―where it has been and where it might yet go―Wiggins and Jones argue that we can understand how to bend it to ends that we collectively choose, with intentionality and purpose.

Jake Chanenson is a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. Broadly, Jake is interested in topics relating to HCI, privacy, and tech policy. Jake’s work has been published in top venues such as ACM’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO376: What Portal Teaches Us About the Physics of Our Universe

Astrophysicist Dr. Bryan Gillis is back! It's another really fun one as Bryan teaches us some phascinating physics by way of the Portal video game universe. Why do we have conservation of momentum? Energy? But wait do we REALLY have conservation of energy? What if that was just made up by physicists to sell more physics?

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Diabetology (BLOOD SUGAR) Part 1 Encore with Mike Natter

Dr. Mike Natter hosts this encore episode of Ologies (hosted by Alie Ward), it's a classic 2 parter: Diabetology about the happy, moody-, sweaty-, unconscious-, and possibly even homicidal-making sugar in our blood. In this episode, Dr. Mike Natter dishes about how blood sugar works, what insulin does, and how prevalent diabetes is in all of its various forms. Also: keto vs. vegan, hypoglycemia, cyborg organs, owl hoots, gestational diabetes, type 1 vs. type 2 and ... does Gwyneth drink her own pee? Also: the emotional side of the disease and how to help those in your life who are diabetic.

Next week, the doc addresses your questions, from diets to diagnoses to infuriating insulin prices.

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What A Day - Maui Residents Flee Deadly Fires

Raging wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui have killed six people and displaced thousands more. Hundreds of homes and businesses have been destroyed as well, including within the historic town of Lahaina.

Leaders of eight South American countries that share the Amazon rainforest wrapped up a two-day summit in Belem, Brazil yesterday. By the end of the gathering, the group – known as the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, or ACTO – adopted a “new and ambitious shared agenda” to protect the rainforest, but it fell short of demands from some environmentalists and Indigenous groups.

And in headlines: Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated Wednesday, the Biden administration released new rules to restrict U.S. investments in certain high-tech industries in China, and six Idaho college professors and two teachers’ unions sued the state over a law that limits public funds for abortion-related speech.

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