Month: March 2024

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State of the World from NPR - What a Hit Chinese TV Show Tells Us About China Today

"Blossoms Shanghai" is A 30-part TV series directed by acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, set in the 1990's that has become a huge hit in China. Our China correspondent tells us the nostalgia unleashed by the show tells us a lot about how people in China are feeling these days.

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The Gist - Can We Wait To Take The Economic Loss On Weight Loss

The Miracle Weight-Loss Drugs would radically transform the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans. Hundreds of millions. So maybe the Government should foster this human flourishing. There's always a cost. Jonathan Gruber Chairman of the Economics Department at MIT discuss his New York Times opinion piece about how drugs like Ozempic can be afforded. Plus, the My Pillow fellow loses his lease, if not his moxie.


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Consider This from NPR - A new biopic on Shirley Chisolm fills in the picture on a woman who broke barriers

Shirley Chisholm made history in 1968 as the first Black woman ever elected to Congress. Four years later, the New York representative made history again when she ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, the first woman and the first African American to do so. A new Netflix movie, called simply "Shirley," tells her story.

Host Ailsa Chang speaks with Regina King, who plays Shirley Chisholm and the film's director John Ridley.

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Consider This from NPR - A new biopic on Shirley Chisolm fills in the picture on a woman who broke barriers

Shirley Chisholm made history in 1968 as the first Black woman ever elected to Congress. Four years later, the New York representative made history again when she ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, the first woman and the first African American to do so. A new Netflix movie, called simply "Shirley," tells her story.

Host Ailsa Chang speaks with Regina King, who plays Shirley Chisholm and the film's director John Ridley.

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Consider This from NPR - A new biopic on Shirley Chisolm fills in the picture on a woman who broke barriers

Shirley Chisholm made history in 1968 as the first Black woman ever elected to Congress. Four years later, the New York representative made history again when she ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, the first woman and the first African American to do so. A new Netflix movie, called simply "Shirley," tells her story.

Host Ailsa Chang speaks with Regina King, who plays Shirley Chisholm and the film's director John Ridley.

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Big Technology Podcast - SBF Sentenced, OpenAI’s $100 Billion Supercomputer, Neuralink’s Potential

Reed Albergotti is the tech editor at Semafor. He joins Big Technology Podcast to break down the week's news. We cover: 1) SBF's sentencing 2) Is 25 years fair? 3) Is FTX a symptom of crypto or an exception 4) OpenAI and Microsoft may build a $100 billion supercomputer 5) Will the supercomputer help OpenAI get closer to AGI 6) Why the supercomputer project may be OpenAI's big swing to stay ahead 7) Claude surpasses GPT-4 in Chatbot Arena 9) Is voice computing the next AI interaction layer 10) A Hume demo 11) AI for Good 12) Can Demis Hassabis save Google? 13) Why Google is such a fascinating company 14) Challenges to covering AI as a reporter 15) Neuralink and brain computer interfaces 16) Let's hope nobody gets fired right after we post this

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CrowdScience - Could climate change lead to more volcanic eruptions?

We spend a lot of our time thinking about climate change, but listener Paul has a question that isn’t usually part of the conversation. He wants to know whether a hotter atmosphere will affect how often volcanoes erupt, or make them more explosive when they do.

CrowdScience travels to New Zealand to search for answers, exploring volcanic craters and discovering traditional Maori knowledge about volcanoes.

Contributors: Geoff Kilgour, Volcanologist, Geological and Nuclear Sciences Taupo, New Zealand Heather Handley, Volcanologist, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pouroto Ngaropo, Historian and Matauranga Māori expert, Rotorua, New Zealand

Presenter: Caroline Steel Producer: Emily Bird Editor: Cathy Edwards Production Co-Ordinator: Connor Morgans Sound Engineer: Steve Greenwood

(Photo: Icelandic volcano. Credit: KRISTINN MAGNUSSON/Getty Images)

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Lex Fridman Podcast - #422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

Mark Cuban is a businessman, investor, star of TV series Shark Tank, long-time principal owner of Dallas Mavericks, and founder of Cost Plus Drugs. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(11:10) – Entrepreneurship
(26:03) – Shark Tank
(36:29) – How Mark made first billion
(1:02:39) – Dallas Mavericks
(1:08:05) – DEI debate
(1:43:58) – Trump vs Biden
(1:46:20) – Immigration
(1:55:53) – Drugs and Big Pharma
(2:11:53) – AI
(2:16:05) – Advice for young people

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Motley Fool Money - Can a New CEO Fix Boeing?

Boeing CEO David Calhoun is stepping down – who can step in to fix the company’s engineering woes and a culture issues?


(00:21) Emily Flippen and Jason Moser discuss:

- Boeing’s hunt for a new CEO, and the difficulty of shifting company culture.

- Big deals helping Home Depot corner the professionals market and Johnson and Johnson dive deeper into medtech.

- McCormick’s strong earnings, and Amazon’s continued investment in AI.


(19:11) Motley Fool Analyst Sanmeet Deo caught up with Elf Beauty CEO Tarang Amin about the beauty brand’s social strategy and the unconventional ways it’s scooping up market share from older competitors.


(30:39) Jason and Emily break down two stocks on their radar: Masimo and Mastercard.


Stocks discussed: BA, HD, JNJ, MKC, AMZN, ELF, LRLCY, RBLX, AAPL


Host: Dylan Lewis

Guests: Jason Moser, Emily Flippen, Sanmeet Deo, Tarang Amin

Engineers: Dan Boyd

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The Bulwark Podcast - A.B. Stoddard: Liz Cheney Groupie

Cheney makes clear where she comes down on the POTUS rematch and is showing ex-Trumpworld figures how it's done. Plus, the 'Dallas' and 'Dynasty' show at the RNC, Biden's unforced error with anti-Trump Republicans, and 'Genocide Joe' campus activists are not the Dem base. A.B. Stoddard joins Tim Miller for the Easter weekend Bulwark Pod.

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