As I do every month, I went to the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus to meet with the Augurs. I met an old priest, and I asked him, “Quo die est felicissimum?”
He looked at a flock of birds that appeared to be flying in a circle. He saw a cloud float past the sun, and he noticed that the sacred chickens had paused in their eating.
Having read the signs, he turned to me and said, “Primo Saturni in Augusta.”
As getting advice from chickens and clouds can’t possibly be wrong, stay tuned for Questions & Answers: Volume 9 on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Heat is the top weather-related killer in the U.S. each year, and our heat waves are getting both hotter and longer. I’m chatting with Dr. Ashley Ward, the director of Duke University’s Heat Policy Innovation Hub, about what can be done about it.
This week on the CBS News Weekend Roundup with host Stacy Lyn, former President Trump was in court for his third indictment. CBS's Natalie Brand has the details and our Scott MacFarlane gives us a look inside the courtroom. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti has the latest on a woman who was abducted and locked up in a makeshift cinderblock cell in a garage in Oregon. And in the Kaleidoscope, Stacy Lyn talks about the rise in HIV cases among black women with Dr. Toyin Nwafor, the Senior Medical Director for HIV Prevention at ViiV Healthcare,
Now that the Supreme Court has tossed his original plan, President Biden plans different routes to forgives billions in student debt. Cato's Neal McCluskey discusses the plans.
Reports on heatwaves across the globe have dominated our newsfeeds over the last few weeks, with temperatures said to have soared over the 40C mark in many parts of Europe. But across social media, not everyone is buying it. A trickle of scepticism swelled to a tidal surge, with people questioning whether temperatures are being hyped up by the wider media to drive fear and scare-monger.
In this programme, we unpick allegations made about how these temperatures are recorded - and if they are accurate. We hear from Samantha Burgess at the Copernicus Climate Change Service; Alessandro Delitala from the Sardinia Environmental Protection Agency; and Sean Buchan from Climate Action Against Disinformation.
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Hospitals scramble after cyber attack, and a record setting heat wave has created new norms like late shopping in Arizona and little league baseball is now an early morning sport in Texas.
Predicting the future of the economy is always a dicey proposition. That is especially true after more than three years of pandemic-related economic weirdness. No one quite knows what will happen next.
Will the Fed be able to pull off a soft landing and bring down inflation without causing either a recession or a big jump in unemployment? Or will we end up with a hard landing, in which inflation comes down, but at the price of the country's economic health? Or, a third possibility, will the Fed not successfully bring inflation down at all?
On today's show, three economic experts explain what they look for when trying to make predictions about what might come next for the U.S. economy. And how those indicators lead them to very different conclusions. We will also consult a tarot card reader...to see if her reading of the future can help us know which outcome is the most likely.
This episode was hosted by Keith Romer, Sarah Gonzalez, and Jeff Guo. It was produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler and edited by Jess Jiang. It was engineered by Kwesi Lee with help from Maggie Luthar and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. Alex Goldmark is our Executive Producer.
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