Month: December 2023

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Short Wave - More Plant And Fungi Emojis, Please!

A team of conservation biologists from Italy recently found that current emoji options are sorely lacking when it comes to life outside of vertebrates in the animal kingdom. Sure, there are multiple dog and cat options to choose from. But when it comes to fungi, for example, the choices are limited ... to one. The study was published this week in the journal iScience argues that our emoji lexicon is in dire need of some biodiversity – which could have a real impact on the way people communicate about conservation.

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The Daily Signal - Solving America’s History and Civics Crisis

History and civics education in America is languishing. A troubling number of Americans can't even pass a U.S. citizenship test. 


Pioneer Institute's recent poll findings on the topic are "pretty sobering,” explains Chris Sinacola, the organization's director of communications and media relations. 


The Pioneer Institute, a think tank based in Massachusetts, offers solutions for how schools and educators can ignite a passion for American history and solve the civics crisis facing the country in a new book, “Restoring the City on a Hill: U.S. History & Civics in America's Schools.” 


In Pioneer's poll, Massachusetts residents were asked questions drawn from the citizenship test. 


The questions were about “things that new citizens, or aspiring U.S. citizens, need to know and they need to get 60% to pass,” Sinacola says, adding that “the average score among our citizens was 63%."


"So you can say, 'Yay, we passed, we can all remain citizens,'” he says, but it is a bit of an “indictment” when some Americans don’t know how long a U.S. senator's term is or even how many members the Senate has.


“It's a bit of a warning sign,” Sinacola says. 


Sinacola joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss America’s social studies crisis and how to correct the the course. 


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The Best One Yet - 🎅 “Claus Industries” — Santa’s $11 Trillion biz. Stocks’ record highs. Dating Wrapped’s love philosophy.

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We got the Annual Report from “Klaus Industries” (yeah, Santa’s company), so we jumped into the business — Santa’s got a strong supply chain, diverse market of 2 billion customers, and an $11 trillion opportunity.

The stock market began the year with Recession-worries, but it’s ending with all-time highs — We’re looking at the one force driving Wall Street to record highs for the holidays.

And do you know about Dating Wrapped? — The #1 trend on TikTok is analyzing your year in dating, and it reminds us of a quote from Socrates.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Shein’s Newest Offering? An IPO

Fast-fashion titan Shein is preparing for its initial public offering, even as questions of sustainability and labor practices linger. 


Guest: Jordyn Holman, business reporter covering the retail industry and consumerism for The New York Times


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NPR's Book of the Day - Erica Jong and daughter Molly Jong-Fast reflect on ‘Fear of Flying’

This year, the novel Fear of Flying — which broke all sorts of unwritten rules around marriage, sex, and women's bodily autonomy when first published — turned 50 years old. So for today's episode, we dug up a 1973 interview with author Erica Jong and NPR's Steven Banker where Jong speaks frankly about the constraints women felt at the time about making art, and how their husbands would be perceived as a result. Then, NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Jong's daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, about the legacy of Fear of Flying, second-wave feminism and the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Can an AI get depressed?

Does ChatGPT have seasonal depression?

AIs aren’t building apps on their own, at least not yet—but they are helping developers build them. Read Isaac Lyman’s article about the three types of AI-assisted programmers.

ICYMI: Listen to our interview with linguist Gašper Beguš, director of the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab, about how LLMs and humans acquire language. 

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It Could Happen Here - Biden’s Title 42 Plot to Make the Border Worse

James and Mia discuss Biden's negotiations in the Senate and the plot to bring back Trump's horrific Title 42 to inflict more suffering on immigrants.

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PHPUgly - 363: Day Walkers

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The Indicator from Planet Money - What women want (to invest in)

Women lag behind men when it comes to investing. Combine this with the fact that women tend to earn less than their male peers and live longer, and it can create a waterfall of awful long-term consequences for half of America's population. Today, we speak to an author of an investing study who says he's found a solution.

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