Month: January 2024

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the memory palace - Episode 211: Cutting and Ned

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Music

  • Je ne pas si c’est tout le monde - Theme Comedie from Vincent Delerm’s score to the film of the same, long name.

  • Forbin’s Hi Fi from Michel Colombier’s score to Colossus: The Forbin Project

  • Boo’s Lullaby by Maria Chiara Agriro and Jamie Leeming

  • Helle (Ballade) from the great Phillipe Sarde score to that picture.

  • L’Espagne pour memoire from Michel Portal’s score to Un et a la garoupe

  • The Rain Never Stops on Venus by Michael Wollney

  • Je t’ai meme pas dit by Vincent Delerm.

  • From a Dream by Oregon

  • A version of Narcisus for Clarinet and Electronics as played by Thea Musgrave.

Notes

  • Good sources if you want to know more are Peter Manseau’s book about spirit photography and the spiritualist age (Cutting intersects interestingly with that crea), The Apparitionists, as well as this article by Jerry Ryan about the history of aquariums in Boston.
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Motley Fool Money - Wharton Professor on Risk and Returns

Ricky Mulvey caught up with Jules van Binsbergen, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, to talk about market sentiment, savings goals, and how to prepare for periods with lower rates of return. They also discuss: 

  • Disconnects between the real economy and financial markets,
  • Whether the US stock market is merely a “lucky survivor,”
  • And the dangers of institutional thinking – in investing and academia.


Tickers discussed: NOK, BTC


Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Jules van Binsbergen

Producer: Mary Long

Engineer: Rick Engdahl

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NBN Book of the Day - Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma, “Addressing Modern Slavery” (UNSW Press, 2019)

Before you left your house this morning, chances are that you used products and consumed goods that were produced by modern slavery. From the coffee you drink, to the clothes and shoes that you wear, to the phone that you use, modern slavery is a pervasive global problem that encroaches into the daily lives of all of us. 

In Addressing Modern Slavery (UNSW Press, 2019), Professor Justine Nolan and Associate Professor Martijn Boersma provide a comprehensive and accessible account of the role of businesses, governments and consumers in the proliferation of modern slavery. They address both the gaps in protection of workers in the global supply chain, and what more can be done to protect the dignity and human rights who are denied the chance to earn a decent living. In today's conversation, we spoke about the emergence of corporate social conscience, the work that laws can do, the role that civil society can play, and a need for better enforcement mechanisms which will adequately address modern slavery. This is a really important book about a global phenomenon that is unsustainable. A must read for businesses, governments and consumers. 

Professor Justine Nolan is the Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute and a Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. Her research focuses on the intersection of business and human rights, in particular, supply chain responsibility for human rights and modern slavery.

Dr. Martijn Boersma is an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame Australia and an Adjunct Fellow at the University of Technology Business School. His research focuses on the intersection of business and society, and includes areas such as labour standards in supply chains; corporate governance and social responsibility; gender diversity in corporate leadership; modern slavery; and employment and industrial relations.

Jane Richards is a Lecturer in Law at York Law School, UK.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Swiss Mercenaries (Encore)

When most people think of Switzerland, they think of a small country embedded in the Alps that makes fine chocolates and is the home of the cuckoo clock.

They have been neutral in European conflicts for almost 500 years, and they serve as the headquarters for several international organizations. 

Yet, it was the Swiss who, during the Renaissance, were some of the most feared and in-demand mercenary fighters in Europe. 

Learn more about Swiss mercenaries and how they instilled fear into Europeans on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Is Your Car Tracking You?

Covered in cameras, full of microphones, and always eager to use location data, our vehicles are “smartphones on wheels”—and privacy nightmares.


Guest: Kashmir Hill, technology and privacy reporter for the New York Times.


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The Gist - BEST OF THE GIST: Chaos Edition

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, Mike’s 2016 interview with Tim Hartford, author of the book Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives. Also, Mike’s Tuesday Spiel about nanoplastics and whether or not they are more dangerous to our bodies or our anxiety levels. 

 

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Motley Fool Money - Liz Ann Sonders on the Rolling Recession

Well capitalized companies are taking higher interest rates in stride.The zombies will have more trouble standing up.


Liz Ann Sonders is the Chief Investment Strategist at Charles Schwab. Deidre Woollard caught up with Sonders to discuss:


- Why investors should pay attention to the S&P 600.

- Cracks in consumer spending.

- The year of efficiency, part two.

- A major tailwind for the economy.


Host: Deidre Woollard

Guest: Liz Ann Sonders

Producer: Ricky Mulvey

Engineers: Tim Sparks, Chace Przylepa

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