Month: December 2023

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Smologies #33: SCORPIONS with Lauren Esposito

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Scorpions: the victims of undue shade. A handful of people on planet Earth have a PhD in scorpions and Dr. Lauren Esposito is one of them. She spills the beans on how venom works, what's up with the blacklight glow effect, how dangerous they *really* are, what all the movies get wrong, the best names for scorpions, where she's traveled to look under rocks, where a scorpion's butt is, if scorpions dance (SPOILER: YES), what good mothers they are, and how big they used to be millions of years ago. Get this one in your ears right away.

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Full-length (*not* G-rated) Scorpiology episode + tons of science links

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The Best One Yet - 🍑 “Peach Fuzz of the Year” — Pantone’s color biz. SpaceX’s galactic valuation. Nuuly’s wardrobe test drive.

Pantone named Peach Fuzz the color of the year… for 2024 — So we’re looking at the strategy of PreTRENDing: If you predict a trend, does that make it more likely to become a trend?

Elon Musk’s SpaceX just hit at a $175B valuation — So we’re looking at how America’s most valuable startup found a space with zero competition (literally).

And Rent The Runway was just eclipsed by Urban Outfitters’ clothing rental brand: Nuuly — Because Nuuly turned an outfit test drive into its entire business.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - War in Gaza; Violence in the West Bank

As war rages in Gaza, the Biden administration has begun imposing visa bans on people involved in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where assaults by Israeli settlers against Palestinians have been on the rise since October 7. 


Guest: Dalia Hatuqa, multimedia journalist living in Ramallah, specializing in Israeli-Palestinian affairs.


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Strict Scrutiny - Fake Cases, Fake Facts, Real Implications

Melissa, Kate, and Leah recap arguments in a big tax case, Moore v. United States, and a bankruptcy case involving Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family. Plus, we have a breaking (and heart-breaking) update on an abortion-related case out of Texas.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Author David Wallace-Wells outlines the biggest climate change misunderstandings

As this year's United Nations Climate Summit wraps up, today's episode examines what people often get wrong about climate change. David Wallace-Wells' 2019 book The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming outlines three major misunderstandings: the speed, scope, and severity of climate change. Here, Wallace-Wells speaks with NPR's Rachel Martin back in 2019 about the worst-case scenario for human life in 2050 and the optimistic outcome we could expect if we take immediate action.

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Opening Arguments - OA843: OA Field Trip! (Plus: Hunter Biden’s Taxes) feat. Kel McClanahan

Liz and Andrew welcome back friend of the show Kel McClanahan to tell us about an oral argument at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit that you can and should attend in an effort to get the Senate Intelligence Committee’s full report on torture during the Bush administration released to the public!

Then, Liz and Andrew break down what’s really going on with the Hunter Biden tax indictment.

Notes Hunter Biden tax indictment https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.907805/gov.uscourts.cacd.907805.1.0_1.pdf

IRS Criminal Tax Handbook https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/tax_crimes_handbook.pdf

USSC on tax fraud https://www.ussc.gov/research/quick-facts/tax-fraud

Sentencing Guidelines https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/guidelines-manual/2023/GLMFull.pdf

Musgrave v. Warner (DC Cir.) https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66696476/shawn-musgrave-v-mark-warner/

 

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It Could Happen Here - The Right Wing Palestine Grifters Part 1: The Left Creates a Monster

In the first of three episodes about the right wing grifters exploiting Israel's crimes in Palestine we look at the conditions on the left that made their rise possible

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The Economics of Everyday Things - 28. Horseshoe Crab Blood

How does the blood of a 450-million-year-old arthropod help prevent lethal infections in humans? And could we exhaust the supply?  Zachary Crockett wades in.

 

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