An earthquake rocks Illinois. Alders approve Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first city budget. More than 100 people are arrested for protesting outside the Israeli Consulate. Reset goes behind those headlines and more in our Weekly News Recap with Axios Chicago’s Carrie Shepherd, David Greising, president of the Better Government Association, and WBEZ investigative reporter Dan Mihalopoulos.
For more on the week’s top stories, check out our catalog of interviews at wbez.org/reset.
There's only one place goods or people are allowed to enter or leave Gaza. Our reporter is in Rafah, Egypt and sees the trickle of aid going into Gaza. Also, in an interview with NPR, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vague on who will govern Gaza when the fighting stops. And comedians and writers on both sides of the conflict use satire to express their anger and grief.
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After boosting the Fed Funds rate 5 percentage points in a year and a half, the central bankers might finally be done with interest rate hikes.
(00:21) Jason Moser and Matt Argersinger discuss:
- Why the market is cheering recent CPI and labor data, and why it might mean we’ve hit the end of rising rates.
- Results from Target, Wal-Mart, and Home Depot and what they say about the state of the consumer.
- Warren Buffett’s latest portfolio moves and why it isn’t surprising that he’s been a net seller of stocks recently.
(19:11) The New Yorker’s Heidi Blake explains the complicated world of carbon offsets and how incentives can get in the way of the environmental and financial impact they’re intended to bring.
Heidi Blake’s New Yorker article The Great Cash Carbon Hustle is available here.
(33:49) Jason and Matt break down two stocks on their radar: Rockwell Automation and Vail Resorts.
Lying is something all humans do. We find it in every culture around the world. It’s in the world of work, in our relationships and online. It’s all pervasive and hard to escape.
Our question this week is from listener Anthony from Cambodia. He asked us to find out why we lie, and wants to know how conscious we are of the lies that we tell?
CrowdScience’s Caroline Steel is in the hot seat, on a journey where she will attempt to untangle the complex story behind lying.
It’s a subject scientists and psychologists have been studying for a long time. It’s also something writers, philosophers and theologists have been interpreting for thousands of years. But we’re only now really starting to get to grips with how it works as a human behaviour.
There are lies in our folklore, lies in the media and also lies in everyday conversation. It’s something we’ve all had to learn to navigate at some point in our lives. In this episode the CrowdScience team unravels the mysteries surrounding the behaviour and the art of lying.
Our journey will take us to meet the world’s ‘second best liar’, an award she picked up at West Virginia’s Liar Contest. We’ll also meet a comedian who’s proud of the down-to-earth plain honesty of Dutch people.
An academic who has studied thousands of children’s brains will explain when we first start learning to lie. And we’ll hear about new research using magnetic resonance imaging, commonly known as MRI scans, which is helping to show how the more we actually lie, the less our brain reacts telling us not to.
Caroline looks at how lying changes from culture to culture. Do we really all lie? And do we lie in the same way?
The surprising and intriguing answer is found in how early it develops in us as a human behaviour.
Contributors:
Prof Kang Lee, Professor in Applied Psychology and Human Development at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Prof Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London
Ian Leslie, journalist and author of ‘Born Liars’
Ariana Kincaid, Champion Liar at West Virginia Liars Contest
Derek Scott Mitchell, actor and comedian | @letsdoubledutch on Instagram
Readings by Kitty O'Sullivan
Presenter: Caroline Steel
Producer: Robbie Wojciechowski
Editor: Richard Collings
Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris
Studio Managers: Emma Harth, Donald MacDonald, Andrew Garratt
(Photo: Young Businessman Interviews for new job. Credit: Andrew Rich/ Getty Images)
Reed Albergotti is the tech editor at Semafor. He joins Big Technology Podcast to break down the week's news. We cover: 1) Xi Jinping’s visit to San Francisco 2) Why the U.S. And China relationship is softening 3) How AI technology is at the center of the thawing 4) How San Francisco cleaned itself up for Xi’s arrival 5) Sideshows 6) Web Summit update 7) Conversation with Chinese media 8) Stability AI audio chief leaves over copyright issues 9) Microsoft’s underwhelming Ignite event 10) Time to be concerned about Google’s Gemini? 11) Github co-pilot is profitable 12) Bin Laden surging on TikTok
In this episode, Robert Boyers joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss his new book “Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner.”
Music by Jack Bauerlein.
Fox launched the Big Lie based on a random email from a woman in Minnesota who heard voices in the supermarket. And its viewers wanted to be told that Trump was robbed of reelection. Brian Stelter has the receipts, and joins Charlie Sykes for our live show in Washington, D.C.
