Walmart has produced a 23-episode TV show for the holidays â But this Rom-Com is really Rom-Commerce, because every product on the set is for sale.
Grand Theft Auto finally published the trailer for GTA 6 â But modern video games donât make money, they collect taxes.
And how much money do you need to be happy? Millennials say $500K/year⌠which is 3x more than any other generation â So we jumped in TBOY-style to find out why.
The Sacklers were set to pay $6 billion in exchange for immunity from any future lawsuits over their role in the opioid crisis. But the Supreme Court will now decide whether bankruptcy law can be wielded in this manner to protect the very wealthyâand trump the very-American right to sue for damages.Â
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Will the green transition happen, and how far do we have to go? Jigar Shah, the director of the Loan Programs Office in the US Department of Energy, shares his insights into the current landscape, future potential, and challenges for the successful commercial deployment of critical clean energy technologies.
The New Naturals follows a couple's journey from grieving their infant daughter to an underground utopia. In today's episode, literature professor Gabriel Bump tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe how his own personal loss led to the emotional stream of consciousness and acceptance of societal change in the novel.
There is no shortage of tributes to the just passed Justice Sandra Day OâConnor, and rightly so, and this first female Justice richly deserves praise and memory. We aim to offer a tribute by taking her seriously as a Justice of ideas as well as the frequently mentioned deeply human remarkable woman she was. Fortunately, Akhilâs career has been intertwined with Justice OâConnorâs in a remarkable back-and-forth of ideas, cases, refinement, and legal innovation, so our perspective is a deeply informative one. Among other things, we look at the 10 most significant areas of jurisprudential impact in this remarkable but somehow underestimated to the end titan. CLE credit available after listening from podcast.njsba.com.
Heâs the guy pointing to a NASA launch behind him, in the most legendary shot in television history. Heâs a science historian and Apollo Program correspondent. Heâs the creator, host, and writer of the long-running program âConnections.â He is a science communication hero to millions and a global treasure. He is James Burke, and he chats about how connected historical events are, and how connection between humans is vital. We also talk about Napoleonâs toothpick, dog pee, shipworms, writer's block, TV shoots, and his new Connections season on Curiosity Stream. Also: (surprise!) they gave me a spinoff called âQuick Connections.âÂ
Terror threat concerns. Senator Tuberville drops his hold on military promotions. SAG-AFTRA vote on tentative deal that ended strike. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.
Most of us recognize the presence of ritual, whether in a religious observance, an athleteâs weird pre-competition tics, or even the cadence of our own morning ablutions. In general, most of these rituals are seen as harmless and probably a little unnecessary (or even silly). But according to cognitive anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas, ritual often serves a positive purpose for individuals â synchronizing them with their communities or relieving their stress.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Xygalatas defines for host David Edmonds what his research considers ritual, citing two important characteristics of ritual: causal opacity (such as rain dances not actually creating precipitation) and that the ritual matters, often greatly, to the participants. What isnât ritual, he notes, is habit â although habits can veer into ritual/
âUtilitarian actions can become ritualized,â Xygalatas says, âand to that extent, they can be considered as rituals. So .. because I am a very avid consumer of coffee, when I get up in the morning, I always have to make a cup of coffee â [and] it always has to be in the same cup.â
Xygalatas then describes fieldwork heâs done on âhigh-intensityâ rituals, ranging from firewalking in Spain or an âexcruciatingâ annual religious procession in Mauritius. These efforts â part ethnography and part lab experiment â have given him unique insight into the results of jointly experienced ritual, much of which he detailed in his recent book, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. (In a blurb, Jane Goodall wrote the book shows âhow and why our most irrational behaviors are a key driver of our success.â)