Month: March 2024

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Up First from NPR - The Sunday Story: How to Save the Everglades

Why is it so complicated to save the Everglades?

The Everglades is home to the largest mangrove ecosystem in the western hemisphere and a sanctuary for over three dozen endangered and threatened species. It also provides fresh water, flood control, and a buffer against hurricanes and rising seas for about 9 million Floridians.

But climate change, pollution, agriculture and rapid development are causing potentially irreversible damage.

In 2000, the state of Florida and the federal government struck an extraordinary deal to save the Everglades. The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan was the largest ecosystem restoration project in the world.

But from the moment it was signed into law, things got complicated.

Now almost 25 years later, the Everglades is as endangered as ever, and the problems have become even more difficult—and expensive—to solve.

Today on The Sunday Story, Ayesha Rascoe talks with WLRN's Jenny Staletovich. Jenny has a new podcast series out called Bright Lit Place that tells the dramatic story of the Everglades, what's been done to the ecosystem, and what needs to happen to save it.

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Slate Books - Working: How to Make a “Fair” Crossword Puzzle

This week, host June Thomas talks to Anna Shechtman, a crossword puzzle creator whose new book is called The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle. In the interview, Anna talks about her experience writing crossword puzzles as a teenager and then going on to work with New York Times puzzle maker Will Shortz. She also discusses the subjectivity of “common knowledge” and recalls debates with Shortz about which words and phrases were puzzle-worthy. 


After the interview, June and co-host Ronald Young Jr. talk more about crosswords and the ever-expanding pool of “common knowledge.” 


In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Anna shares how much crossword puzzle creators get paid. She also discusses a more sensitive topic: her struggle with anorexia, which coincided with her early interest in crossword puzzles.


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Podcast production by Cameron Drews.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Google’s Scam Obituary Problem

Why scam obituaries are edging out earnest ones, with the help of artificial intelligence and an adept Google game.


Guest: Mia Sato, reporter for The Verge.


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It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club: An excerpt from “An RVer’s Guide to the American West” by Carrot Quinn

Margaret reads Robert a post-apocalyptic story of a woman and her dog surviving in the mountains.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - The Weekend Intelligence: Life and fate

A year on from our series Next Year in Moscow, Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, is dead. Hope for the “beautiful Russia of the future” he imagined from his prison cell in Siberia is all but extinguished. The Economist’s Russia editor Arkady Ostrovsky finds out how Russians who oppose Vladimir Putin’s war are enduring these dark times


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The Gist - BEST OF THE GIST: Fast-Food Innovation Edition

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we tackle the important topic of poor-quality, quick-heating food innovations. From the archive, we listen back to Mike’s 2022 interview with Nathan Allebach, brand consultant and the twitter voice of Steak-umm brand meats for many years. As such he engaged with gaseous comedians and angsty millennials and has some theories as to why it all worked. Then, from the past week, Mike’s spiel about Wendy’s surge pricing strategy. 

 

Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara 

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Motley Fool Money - The Small Cap Show

With small caps, come great thrills. What about great rewards? 

Ricky Mulvey caught up with Bill Mann, a lead analyst at the Fool and our Director of Small-Cap Research, for a primer on small-cap investing. They check in on a handful of different small caps and discuss:

  • If the disappearance of “the small-cap premium” is a win for investors.  
  • How to navigate environments with limited feedback.
  • The value (or lack thereof) of book value. 


Tickers discussed: WINA, COST, DDS, BOC, FVRR, ASR, BRK.A, BRK.B

Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Bill Mann

Producer: Mary Long

Engineers: Rick Engdahl


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Up First from NPR - U.S. Politics, Oregon Drug Law, Iran Elections

The latest in U.S. politics, from presidential border visits to an averted government shutdown. Oregon's state legislature votes to recriminalize drug possession, overhauling what may be the U.S.'s most progressive drug policy yet. Thousands vied for a seat in Iran's parliament on Friday, but voter turnout was low.

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