Month: September 2023

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Time To Say Goodbye - Testing our politics through K-fine dining and “The Retrievals”

Hello from British Columbia! 

This week, [4:15] we start with the latest concerning video of Mitch McConnell and whether the conversation around fitness for office can (and should) cut across party lines. [21:45] Next, we talk about the Korean fine-dining wave in NYC, the effect of soft power, and why you won’t see us at Naro anytime soon. [45:05] In our final segment, we discuss the Serial podcast “The Retrievals,” which explores questions of gendered pain and corrupt healthcare through the true stories of women deprived of pain medication during IVF. Jay takes us BTS of this caliber of narrative podcast. 

In this episode, we ask: 

Is it reasonable to expect basic verbal competency from our elected officials?

If you’re a leftist, are there some luxuries (like dining at $$$$$ restaurants) that should be off-limits? Or is that a needlessly moralistic stance? 

Why is women’s pain continually dismissed, and what’s the right punishment for the infliction of non-lethal harm? 

For more, see: 

* The older and more recent videos of Mitch McConnell, and some doctors’ hypotheses about the cause

* Pete Wells’s article about How Korean Restaurants Remade Fine Dining in New York 

* The Times investigation into A Deadly Epidural, Delivered by a Doctor With a History of Mistakes 

* Books on pain and how it’s addressed: Sick: A Memoir, by Porochista Khakpour, and The Body in Pain, by Elaine Scarry

* Past TTSG episodes we refer to: 

* A recent discussion on Asian food trends in the U.S., from June

* Lux magazine and lockdowns with Sarah Leonard, from December 2020

We’ll be off next week as our hosts attend to other business (their full-time jobs), but watch out for a non-audio note! 

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Show and sell: Amazon v Hollywood

The retail behemoth is splashing tremendous amounts of cash on streaming content; critics are unimpressed with the outcomes. But Amazon may have the best business model going. Statisticians in Britain appear to have found about 2% of GDP hiding in their data—we ask how it got lost (8:24). And how the pocket calculator ushered in the digital age (15:52).


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Money Girl - How Many Retirement Accounts Can You Have?

Contributing to more tax-advantaged retirement accounts can help you create a secure financial future—but how many can you have? Laura reviews the rules for qualifying and contributing to multiple retirement accounts.

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The Best One Yet - 🎸 “Eras Tour: The Movie” — T-Swift’s windowing strategy. Airbnb’s NYC crackdown. Credit Cards’ swipe tax.

Taylor Swift is turning her concert into a movie and it already broke a pre-sale ticket record — But every medium requires a different methodology.

Airbnb was just effectively banned in NYC — We’ll tell you why New York is enforcing its Anti-Airbnb position.

And credit card companies are about to raise a secret fee charged every time you swipe — Technically the stores pay it, but in reality we all do: So we call it the “Swipe Tax.”

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 9.6.23

Alabama

  • Response of AL leadership to judges' rejection of new congressional map
  • AG Marshall talks to Newsmax about DOJ blocking access to discovery
  • Governor asking questions of AL public library service re: book controversy
  • State lawmaker Dubose calls out AL Library association for being "woke"
  • Firefighters arrive in Hoover today for 2023 Challenge Championship

National

  • Congress returns to DC, GOP already beating the drum on impeachment
  • House Oversight subpoenas docs within DHS and S.S. over Hunter Biden case
  • Donald Trump responds to question over Covid vaccine injuries
  • TX state legislature proceeds with impeaching their AG Ken Paxton
  • FL Senator releases report on US men dropping out of labor force


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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly’s World Cup penalty

Covid related deaths are rising in England and Wales - but what do the figures really tell us? Also the UK's GDP during the pandemic has been revised upwards. Tim Harford and team ask why and discuss what it tells us about the UK's economic performance compared to other countries. Is North Sea gas really four times cleaner than gas from abroad? It's a claim recently made by the government. And we ask whether Chloe Kelly's penalty shot at the World Cup was really faster than the Premier League's fastest goal last season.

Presenter: Tim Harford Series Producer: Jon Bithrey Reporters: Nathan Gower, Natasha Fernandes Editor: Richard Vadon Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele

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NBN Book of the Day - Stephen Ramsay, “On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations” (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Stephen Ramsey's On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) is a witty and incisive exploration of the philosophical conundrums that animate the digital humanities. Since its inception, the digital humanities has been repeatedly attacked as a threat to the humanities: warnings from literary and cultural theorists of technology overtaking English departments and the mechanization of teaching have peppered popular media. 

Stephen Ramsay’s On the Digital Humanities, a collection of essays spanning the personal to the polemic, is a spirited defense of the field of digital humanities. A founding figure in what was once known as “humanities computing,” Ramsay has a well-known and contentious relationship with what is now called the digital humanities (DH). Here Ramsay collects and updates his most influential and notorious essays and speeches from the past fifteen years, considering DH from an array of practical and theoretical perspectives. 

The essays pursue a broad variety of themes, including the nature of data and its place in more conventional notions of text and interpretation, the relationship between the constraints of computation and the more open-ended nature of the humanities, the positioning of practical skills and infrastructures in both research and pedagogical contexts, the status of DH as a program for political and social action, and personal reflections on the author’s journey into the field as both a theorist and a technologist. These wide-ranging essays all center around one idea: that DH not forsake its connection to the humanities. While “digital humanities” may sound like an entirely new form of engagement with the artifacts of human culture, Ramsay argues that the field well reveals what is most essential to humanistic inquiry.

Hallel Yadin is an archivist and special projects manager at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Questions and Answers: Volume 10

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Stay tuned for questions and answers volume 10 on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Next Hurricane?, United Airlines Grounded & Tech IDs Autism – Wednesday, September 6, 2023

The news to know for Wednesday, September 6, 2023!

We're talking about lawmakers' to-do list as the Senate returns to Capitol Hill and how long they have to make a deal before a government shutdown.

Also, a newly-formed tropical storm could be the next major hurricane to hit the U.S. We'll tell you what we know so far.

Plus, all United Airlines flights were temporarily grounded, promising new tech could spot autism, and more women with young kids are working now than ever before.

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