Where the defensive lines really are, the state of Russia’s reserves, battlefield tactics: Kyrylo Budanov is a candid interviewee—but he claims to know nothing about all those drones. Gambling has been illegal in Brazil for decades, but pinched government coffers point to a lifting of the prohibition (10:42). And the passion and the profitability of “BookTok”, the literary end of TikTok (16:51).
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Shirshanka Das grew up on the eastern side of India, near Calcutta. He did well in school, and got into IIT, choosing Computer Science as his major. Post undergrad, he got his PhD at UCLA, eventually working at PayPal and Yahoo on massive architectural systems. Outside of tech, he's married with 2 kids, he's an accomplished Indian vocalist, and has a passion for swimming, which he states is his therapy.
After spending over a decade at LinkedIn, Shirshanka had led the teams supporting all things data. He created a unified approach to data discovery, governance, and observability - while he was at the company. He open sourced the product, called DataHub, and eventually created a managed version.
Laura reviews ten changes to various tax-advantaged accounts starting in 2024. Understanding the updated regulations will help you pay less tax and save more for a secure future.
In the first episode of Coinage’s investigation into SBF’s upcoming defense, we looked at SBF's right-hand woman: Caroline Ellison. She is one of three FTX executives who have pleaded guilty, along with Gary Wang and Nishad Singh. This episode explores SBF’s claim that a fourth conspirator played an even larger role in FTX’s collapse: FTX’s legal partners at major law firms Fenwick & West and Sullivan & Cromwell.
It’s a lofty claim, and no doubt one that will be heavily scrutinized from all sides in the courtroom, but it’s also not without support – even from 18 state regulators and a bipartisan group of senators, who wrote, “given their long standing legal work for FTX, they may well bear a measure of responsibility for the damage wrecked on the company’s victims.”
Sullivan & Cromwell is now leading FTX’s bankruptcy process and is set to rake in nearly $800 million in legal fees over the next two years. SBF claims that money is being drained from customers, but what do they think?
In the year 490 BC, one of the most pivotal battles in world history took place.
Just north of the City of Athens, Persian and Greek forces clashed in what was to be the first of several Persian attempts to invade Greece.
Despite being seriously outnumbered, the Greeks managed to win a decisive victory that had long-lasting ramifications.
Learn more about the Battle of Marathon, its causes, and its outcome on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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It’s almost October, and the Supreme Court readies to hear a new set of cases. The Roberts Court seems defined above all by the Dobbs decision at this point. The opinion, authored by Justice Alito, has been exhaustively dissected, but looking forward, we see various states taking further and more extreme actions. What role will the so-called swing justices, some of whom wrote concurrences in the case, play in the litigation that the new developments will likely spawn? What of the dire predictions of many pundits in the aftermath of the case? And what about Amarica’s Constitution - what did we say, and what say we now? Travel the road with us.
In this episode, we explore the looming federal government shutdown, Senator Menendez's bribery charges, Republicans' preparations for the second debate, and Taylor Swift's new boyfriend.
NHS consultants in England are striking over a pay offer of 6%. We look at whether they are paid an average of ?120,000 a year and examine how much their pay compared to inflation has fallen. Also we fact check some of the claims Rishi Sunak made in his net zero speech, ask whether Britain is really that bad at building infrastructure compared to other countries and investigate the real levels of cancellations at Scotland and the UK's largest ferry company, Calmac.
In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave gynecologists-the majority of whom were men-control over information about women's bodies.
However, while science so often promises clear-cut answers, the reality of pregnancy is often much messier. Pregnancy Test(Bloomsbury, 2023) explores how the pregnancy test has not always lived up to the fantasy that more information equals more knowledge. Karen Weingarten examines the history and cultural representation of the pregnancy test to show how this object radically changed sex and pregnancy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Jana Byars is an independent scholar located in Amsterdam.
This is a special re visit of one of my favorite stories: Pockets. Followed up by a special live interview with Hannah Carlson, author of the book Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close, to see what’s changed since the original episode came out.
To see images of all kinds of pockets and to stay in the loop on articles of interest, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
