Remember pagers? They were huge in the 80s — these little devices that could receive short messages. Sir Mix-A-Lot even had a song about them! But then cell phones came along, and pagers more or less became obsolete.
Except there's one group of people who still carry pagers: medical doctors. At a surprisingly large number of hospitals, the pager remains the backbone of communication. Need to ask a doctor a question? Page them. Need to summon a doctor to an emergency? Page them. And then... wait for them to call you back.
Almost everyone agrees that pagers are a clunky and error-prone way for doctors to communicate. So why do so many hospitals still rely on them?On today's show: A story about two doctors who hatched a plan to finally rid their hospital of pagers. And the surprising lessons they learned about why some obsolete technologies can be so hard to replace.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - AI creates, transforms and destroys… jobs
We often talk about the jobs lost due to artificial intelligence. But what about the ones created or even transformed? From the gig work of training AI on good and bad answers through to designing new AI models, AI jobs are popping up like mushrooms.
Today on the Indicator, we talk to people in these new roles and consider what the bots mean for the labor market.
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Today on the Indicator, we talk to people in these new roles and consider what the bots mean for the labor market.
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Is AI a job-killer or an up-skiller? (Apple Podcasts/Spotify)
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Dec. 8, 2023
Governor Pritzker halts construction on a migrant tent camp in Brighton Park, while criticism grows over new protocols for seating the public at City Council meetings. Reset breaks down these stories and much more with executive producer of City Cast Chicago Simone Alicea, Block Club Chicago reporter Quinn Myers and WBEZ Politics & Government editor Angela Rozas O'Toole.
Consider This from NPR - 65 Years After Release, A Rockin’ Christmas Classic Hits Number One
Brenda Lee was just 13 years old when she recorded "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" in 1958. It's a true Christmas classic, a bouncy earworm — and pretty much everyone knows the lyrics. But it's never made it to number one on Billboard's Hot 100 — until now.
NPR's Scott Detrow spoke with the 78-year-old about her long career and how she feels now that her iconic holiday tune is finally at the top of the charts.
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Consider This from NPR - 65 Years After Release, A Rockin’ Christmas Classic Hits Number One
Brenda Lee was just 13 years old when she recorded "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" in 1958. It's a true Christmas classic, a bouncy earworm — and pretty much everyone knows the lyrics. But it's never made it to number one on Billboard's Hot 100 — until now.
NPR's Scott Detrow spoke with the 78-year-old about her long career and how she feels now that her iconic holiday tune is finally at the top of the charts.
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Consider This from NPR - 65 Years After Release, A Rockin’ Christmas Classic Hits Number One
Brenda Lee was just 13 years old when she recorded "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" in 1958. It's a true Christmas classic, a bouncy earworm — and pretty much everyone knows the lyrics. But it's never made it to number one on Billboard's Hot 100 — until now.
NPR's Scott Detrow spoke with the 78-year-old about her long career and how she feels now that her iconic holiday tune is finally at the top of the charts.
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The Gist - Untangling The News
Isaac Saul, a former writer for Vox, The Huffington Post, and Time Magazine, was frustrated with news bias and often slanted coverage. So he founded Tangle News, a politics newsletter which summarizes the best arguments from across the political spectrum on the news of the day. Plus, Mike addresses listeners who say, "We want more Israel criticism, or just less Israel overall."
Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara
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State of the World from NPR - Can the UK Send Undocumented Migrants to Rwanda?
The British government is pushing forward with a controversial plan to deport undocumented migrants, no matter where they've come from, to the central African country of Rwanda.
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CBS News Roundup - 12/08/23 Israel & Gaza, UNLV Mass Shooting, Democrats & Black voters
On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup," host Allison Keyes gets the latest as the world marks three months of Israel's war with Hamas amid the deteriorating situation in Gaza. We'll hear from CBS's Omar Villafranca about a deadly attack on a college campus, this time in the same city where 60 people were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U-S history. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, pundits are worrying whether President Biden and the Democratic party has a Black problem.
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The Daily Signal - Hunter Biden Indicted, Harvard President Issues Apology, Administration’s Proposed NDAA Backs Abortion Funding | Dec. 8
TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
- Hunter Biden has been indicted in California on nine tax charges.
- The President of Harvard University has issued an apology after testifying before Congress earlier this week.
- The Biden administration’s proposed National Defense Authorization Act includes funding for abortion and sex changes as well as to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the military.
- Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance is calling out The Washington Post for publishing a story that he says suggested an “open rebellion” against America.
Relevant Links
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/
https://thehill.com/media/4349581-jd-vance-washington-post-op-ed-rebellion/
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