Ranked choice voting has become the latest political change touted as a way to strengthen democracy.
Instead of choosing one candidate, in ranked choice voting a voter picks a favorite candidate, a second favorite and so on.
According to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll conducted after the midterm elections, more than 8 in 10 Americans feel there is a serious threat to Democracy in the U.S.
NPR's Miles Parks reports on whether ranked choice will live up to the hype as a cure-all for the country's deep partisan divides.
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Though navigating the internet involves spraying your data pretty indiscriminately, you actually have more control over it than you think—it’s just a pain to rein it in.
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It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club: The Plastic People by Tobias Buckell
In this episode of the Cool Zone Media Book Club, Margaret reads Gare a story about making fun of rich people in space.
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We discuss Chapter 6 — Capitalism and Difference — and get deeper into the relations between the social logic of capital and social structures of difference like gender, examining how they manifest in the “necessary outside” of social reproduction and the feminization of that labor. Mau gets us to think at different levels of abstraction about the nature, causes, and effects of these relations that are so integral to capitalism as it exists, but do not stem from capital.
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The Gist - BEST OF THE GIST: Misused Political Slogan Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we explore a few catchy political slogans that turned out to be deceptive, confusing, or just kind of dumb. First we listen to Tuesday’s spiel about the expression “From the river to the sea,” and then we listen back to Mike’s June 5, 2020 spiel about the slogan “Defund the police.”
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Motley Fool Money - Geek Out!
The rules of business are changing. And those rules are being written by some … unlikely characters.
Andrew McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of a number of books, including The Geek Way. Mary Long caught up with McAfee to discuss how culture shapes companies – and brings about impressive returns along the way. They discuss:
- The power of “geekiness”
- How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
- And why Amazon *wants* to see billion-dollar failures.
Tickers discussed: AMZN, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, META
Host: Mary Long
Guest: Andrew McAfee
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Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #960 – Dec 2 2023
News Items: Internet Use and Mental Health, Methane Capture, Bitter Revenge, Underground Microbes, PopSci Magazine Closes; Quickie with Steve: LK-99 Debunked; Who's That Noisy, Question and E-mails: Dr. GPT; Science or Fiction
The Intelligence from The Economist - The Weekend Intelligence: A nation on a knife’s edge
The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and our Russia and Eastern Europe editor, Arkady Ostrovsky, return to Kyiv to to find out if cracks are beginning to emerge in the iron shield of Ukrainian unity and to ask how the war with Russia is reshaping a nation living on a knife’s edge.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: CoinDesk Market Index Week in Review
CoinDesk Indices presents six notable market movement highlights from last week.
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NBN Book of the Day - J. Christopher Edwards, “Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus” (Fortress Press, 2023)
In his book Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus (Fortress Press, 2023), J. Christopher Edwards explores the early Christian teachings regarding who actually killed Jesus. Historians of early Christianity unanimously agree that Jesus was executed by Roman soldiers. This consensus extends to members of the general population who have seen a Jesus movie or an Easter play and remember Roman soldiers hammering the nails. However, for early Christians, the detail that Jesus was crucified by Roman soldiers under the direction of a Roman governor threatened their desire for a stable existence in the Roman world. Beginning with the writings found in the New Testament, early Christians sought to rewrite their history and shift the blame for Jesus's crucifixion away from Pilate and his soldiers and onto Jews. During the second century, a narrative of the crucifixion with Jewish executioners predominated. During the fourth century, this narrative functioned to encourage anti-Judaism within the newly established Christian empire. Yet, in the modern world, there exists a significant degree of ignorance regarding the pervasiveness--or sometimes even the existence!--of the claim among ancient Christians that Jesus was executed by Jews.
J. Christopher Edwards is professor of religious studies at St. Francis College, Brooklyn.
Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com.
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