Month: January 2024

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Slate Books - How To!: The Lost Art Of Connecting

Small talk has a bad reputation. It’s boring, shallow, and awkward. Who really wants to talk about the weather, again? But, when done right, it can be a cornerstone of connection. In this episode, Carvell Wallace is joined by Susan McPherson, the author of The Lost Art of Connecting. Susan is going to help our listener, Bee, navigate the uncomfortable small talk that she endures everyday at school pickup. Along the way, we’ll learn what questions to have in our back pocket, how to turn small talk into big talk, and even how to extract ourselves from conversations that are going on too long. 


If you liked this episode, check out: How To Talk to Strangers and How To Make Humor Your Superpower


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The Best One Yet - 🏗️“Let ‘em Build” — Minneapolis’ renter solution. Economics of the largest cruise ship. Coach Nick Saban’s football ROI.

American renters spend a record 30% of their paychecks on average on rent — But we’ll tell you how Minneapolis became a renters’ heaven.

Royal Caribbean just received the biggest cruise ship ever: It’s 5x the size of the Titanic — So we’re looking at the Cruisenomics of how (and when) it actually makes money.

And Nick Saban is done at the University of Alabama after 6 national championships there — What you don’t realize is the huge economic impact he had on Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Trump Just Won Iowa. Where’s Biden?

Biden’s poll numbers have been bad pretty much his whole presidency, but going into an election year, he looks especially weak where his party is usually strongest: young voters, Black voters, and Latino voters. What messaging unlocks some—any—enthusiasm for voting for Joe Biden again? 


Guest: Alexander Sammon, politics writer for Slate. 


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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Letting algorithms guide our path to the next great invention

Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered assistant you can keep in your pocket (but it’s not a phone).

How will AI impact scientific research? A new collaboration between Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is focused on energy storage solutions.

A US Senate hearing questions whether tech companies should be allowed to train their AI models on content produced by journalists without paying licensing fees.

Learn how to build a mechanical computer from Legos.

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Read Me a Poem - “Justice Denied in Massachusetts” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Amanda Holmes reads Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Justice Denied in Massachusetts.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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It Could Happen Here - The Worst AI Products Coming This Year

Tech journalist Ed Zitron joins Robert, Garrison, and Tavia to discuss the AI branded products that dominated the Consumer Electronics Show.

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Good Bad Billionaire - El Chapo: Cocaine kingpin

The story of Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo, the leader of one of the world’s most prolific, violent and powerful drug cartels.

BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng follow El Chapo from childhood in the Mexican mountain region of Sinaloa to the very top of the drug business, and into the New York prison cell where he now resides.

Simon and Zing reveal how El Chapo innovated with tunnels along the US-Mexican border, escaped prison twice, and used extreme violence to gain power. Then they are given the simple task of deciding if he's good, bad, or just another billionaire.

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Chapo Trap House - 798 – Iowa Carcass feat. @ettingermentum (1/15/24)

Well, here we are, Iowa Caucus day 2024. Considering we all took several points of permanent sanity damage this time 4 years ago, what’s insane this year is how on rails this whole thing is. Nonetheless, our elections correspondent Josh (@ettingermentum) returns to update us on the state of the races for 2024. We look at how Biden’s long-term hyper-commitment to Israel affects his chances, Trump’s advantages and disadvantages in his ‘24 campaign, the RFK Jr. of it all, and the race for #2 between the rest of the GOP candidates.. Find Josh’s newsletter here: https://www.ettingermentum.news/ Tickets to Talking Simpsons at SF Sketchfest on 1/24 here: https://sfsketchfest2024.sched.com/event/1VUtV/talking-simpsons
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CBS News Roundup - 01/15/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

Iowa Caucus preview. Frigid temperatures across the country. The latest on Defense Secretary Austin Lloyd. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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Consider This from NPR - How AI Is Transforming National Security

Artificial Intelligence is front of mind these days. Many of us are spending a lot of time pondering how AI can make our lives easier.

Or on the flip side — whether it's going to put us out of a job. But how would you be thinking about AI... if you were in charge of a major US intelligence agency?

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly spoke to FBI Director Chris Wray and National Security Agency Director Paul Nakasone about Artificial Intelligence as a national security threat.

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