Month: August 2023

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Slate Books - How To!: Generation Dread: Finding Purpose In an Age of Climate Crisis.

As the massive Caldor fire blazed towards South Lake Tahoe in 2021, Joyce knew she had to get out. “The sky was red. It was like hell on earth,” she remembers. Her family got to safety and her house was miraculously spared. But, even now, it can be jarring to remember the fire. Climate-related extreme weather events are on the rise and another disaster is seemingly right around the corner. Especially with freakish flash floods, a scorching heatwave and wildfire smoke blanketing much of the country. On this episode of How To!, guest-host Cheyna Roth brings on Dr. Britt Wray, author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose In an Age of Climate Crisis. Dr. Wray explains why we need to treat climate anxiety differently and how we can create resilience both internally and within our communities as we face climate change, together. 


Resources Mentioned: 

Climate Psychology Alliance

Climate Psychiatry Alliance

Good Grief Network

Climate Awakening

Gen Dread Substack


If you liked this episode, check out: How To Save the Planet (And Still Use a Plastic Straw)


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Judges on the Trump Trials

Who are the judges presiding over Donald Trump’s trials and what can the prosecution—and defense—expect, based on what’s happened already?


Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer covering courts and the law for Slate Magazine


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Pod Save America - Judge May Shush Trump….in America??

Donald Trump threatens witnesses and attacks Jack Smith while his lawyer tests out some novel defense arguments on all five Sunday shows. Mike Pence says he’s open to testifying against Trump. Ron DeSantis finally admits that Joe Biden won the election. Then, Desiree Tims from Innovation Ohio joins to talk about the crucial abortion rights vote happening on Tuesday. And later, Elijah is back for another round of Take Appreciators.

 

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Understanding SRE

Vlad is Head of Research and Development at Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare arm of tech conglomerate Siemens. He wrote about SRE on our blog here.

His book, Establishing SRE Foundations: A Step-by-Step Guide to Introducing Site Reliability Engineering in Software Delivery Organizations, is available now. 

Site reliability engineering (SRE) applies a software engineering approach to IT operations and infrastructure, with the goal of building scalable, reliable systems capable of handling constant updates from dev teams. SRE is closely related to DevOps.

ICYMI, we talked with Chef cofounder Adam Jacob about how he’s creating a new-and-improved approach to infrastructure automation. Listen to that conversation here.

Connect with Vlad on LinkedIn, where you can also read snippets of his book on SRE.

Lifeboat badge winner Abbas Galiyakotwala’s answer to How do I split a comma-separated string? filled a void of ignorance with a little extra knowledge.

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Soil’ weaves together a poet’s experience of gardening, race and community

For poet Camille Dungy, environmental justice, community interdependence and political engagement go hand in hand. She explores those relationships in her new book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden. In it, she details how her experience trying to diversify the species growing in her yard, in a predominantly white town in Colorado, reflects larger themes of how we talk about land and race in the U.S. In today's episode, she tells NPR's Melissa Block about the journey that gardening put her on, and what it's revealed about who gets to write about the environment.
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Read Me a Poem - “The Great Lover” by Rupert Brooke

Amanda Holmes reads Rupert Brooke’s poem “The Great Lover.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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It Could Happen Here - Sudden Cardiac Arrests in Young Athletes

James talks to @glenpyle about sudden cardiac arrests in young athletes, what science can tell us about them, and why they’ve become a hot topic for anti vax conspiracies.

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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO375: Why Are Whales Attacking Rich People Boats?

My guest today is Dr. Heidi Pearson! She's a marine biologist and someone who had no idea I was going to ask about when whales attack rich people boats. But she was more than ready for the question! Her paper on whales and the carbon cycle caught our eye here, and the interview was definitely more about that but let's face it, we all want to know about the boat attacks first and foremost. But after that, we talk about animal intelligence, evolution, climate change, and so much more! Dr. Pearson was a delight, don't miss this interview!   Are you an expert in something and want to be on the show? Apply here! Please please pretty please support the show on patreon! You get ad free episodes, early episodes, and other bonus content!
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CBS News Roundup - 08/07/2023 | World News Round Up Late Edition

Severe weather across the U.S. Former President Trump's lawyers want protective order narrowed. Ex-Minneapolis cop sentenced in killing of George Floyd. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper has tonight's World News Roundup.

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This Machine Kills - Patreon Preview – 273. Checking on Enemies, Old and New

We check in on some enemies of the show to see what’s new with them. Uber has finally posted an operating profit for the first time in history – and it only took more than $31 billion in losses, plus a lot more exploitation and immiseration, to get there. Dan Ariely, a famous behavioral economist, has ironically been caught using fraudulent data for a study about honesty that has been used as the basis for insurance initiatives to combat fraud. Finally, Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, has written an abhorrent essay arguing that we all have moral obligations to embrace the development of AI weapons—or else we will be “punished” for refusing the call of duty. Stuff we reference: ••• Uber makes first operating profit after racking up $31.5bn of losses https://www.ft.com/content/dae2b90e-1ba0-4e8f-aabc-34aae4ca05d7 ••• Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you? https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-francesca-gino-harvard-dishonesty-fabricated-data ••• Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)