Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker delivers his budget address. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson unveils a major economic development plan. Chicago closes four migrant shelters. Early voting resumes after a temporary pause. Reset goes behind the headlines of those stories and much more with WBEZ state politics reporter Dave McKinney, Crain’s Chicago Business government and politics reporter Justin Laurence and Brandis Friedman, co-anchor of WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” and host of “Chicago Tonight: Black Voices.” For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has a role to play in managing the multistate movement of energy, but it's not clear the agency will be able to do the job in the near term. Cato’s Travis Fisher explains.
Why do humans have wisdom teeth if so many of them get removed soon after they appear?
Wisdom teeth, the third molars in the back of our mouths, are so called because they normally appear in late teenage, early adulthood – the time in life we supposedly have learned some wisdom. But around 25% of people don’t develop all four. Of those that do emerge, it is not uncommon for them to appear at nasty angles, jutting into the tooth next door causing potentially dangerous infections and pain. Because of this, for decades many people have them surgically removed.
Listener Khaleel was preparing to have his remaining wisdom teeth removed when he wrote to CrowdScience to ask about them. Given that they can seem to cause more harm than good, why has evolution resulted in these troublesome teeth? But many people have perfectly uneventful relationships with their wisdom teeth, so have we perhaps removed more than we needed to over the years?
Anand Jagatia chews it over with the help of surgeons and dentists to try to extract the truth – why DO we have wisdom teeth?
Featuring:
Tanya M Smith, Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University, Australia
Patrick Magennis, Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon at University Hospitals Aintree, Liverpool UK
Verena Toedtling, Dentist and Specialist Oral Surgeon, UK
Presented by Anand Jagatia
Produced by Alex Mansfield
TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
CBS News seizes files and computer of reporter investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Former President Donald Trump compares the criminal indictments he faces to the Biden administration’s targeting of Christians.
New information suggests Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may have been in a relationship with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade before she hired him.
A proposed rule out of the Biden administration would harm pro-life centers, according to former Vice President Mike Pence’s organization.
Anthony Esolen, an author and distinguished professor of humanities at Thales College, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to break down pervasive lies about history, beauty, and literature in our culture.
You can find Esolen's latest book, "The Lies of Our Time," here.
If you care about combatting the corrupt media that continues to inflict devastating damage, please give a gift to help The Federalist do the real journalism that America needs.
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) NVIDIA's stock market surge 2) How NVIDIA software is behind its lock on the market 3) Is the economy saved, now? 4) Reddit's IPO 5) Is Reddit a good ad business? 6) Reddit's AI licensing play 7) Sam Altman role as Reddit's third largest shareholder 8) Was Google Gemini's image generation mess up a product of woke culture or bad AI? 9) Was Gemini's image generation an emergent runaway capability 10) Google testing an end to Google News 11) Why Major League Baseball has see-through pants this season.
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Christian nationalism is not only a threat to democracy, but also to Christianity itself. Prominent evangelicals, like David French and Russell Moore, break it all down in a new documentary, "God & Country." Charlie Sykes is also in the film. Reiner and Partland take it to 11 with Tim Miller today.
Fifteen years after the birth of Bitcoin, the network is now entering an era of remarkable innovation and change, according to Stacks' co-creator Muneeb Ali.
On this episode of Unchained recorded at the Bitcoin Builders conference, Muneeb explores the complexities and advancements within Bitcoin's Layer 1 and Layer 2. He shares his perspectives on what's fueling innovation in Bitcoin's Layer 1 and discusses the implications of Ordinal Inscriptions amid criticism of it by core developers.
He delves into the various scaling solutions within Bitcoin, highlighting how trust assumptions vary among them, and how BitVM could be a 'game changer'. He goes over the advantages of integrating smart contracts on Bitcoin, and why he considers BTC the only true form of monetary asset.
Show highlights:
What's driving innovation in Bitcoin’s L1
How Muneeb feels about Ordinals Inscriptions in Bitcoin, considering the criticism from some core developers
How, in recent years, research and development in crypto happened outside of Bitcoin, and how that's changing now, according to Muneeb
The different types of scaling solutions in Bitcoin and how the trust assumptions differ in each of them
Why he feels like BitVM is a 'game changer' and what it enables
What the Nakamoto upgrade is on Stacks
The advantages of having smart contracts on Bitcoin, according to Muneeb
Why he says that BTC is the only asset that is money
Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC. Distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Michele Musso and Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz.
