Month: March 2024

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The Economics of Everyday Things - 40. Prosthetic Limbs

More and more Americans rely on prostheses. They’re custom-fitted, highly personal, and extremely expensive. Zachary Crockett investigates.

 

 

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Motley Fool Money - As Luck Would Have It

In investing, you’re always searching for a pot of gold. But sometimes, “luck” has other plans.


Nick Sciple, Jim Gillies, and Emily Flippen got together on an episode of our members-only livestream for a conversation about the role of luck in investing. In this selection from that conversation, they discuss:

  • Being early to trends, and lucky to sell 
  • The importance of journaling
  • Time horizons, and what it means for stocks to be “up for sale every day.” 


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Host: Nick Sciple

Guests: Jim Gillies, Emily Flippen

Producer: Mac Greer

Engineers: Rick Engdahl


Companies discussed: BCE, RY, NFLX, GPRO, AMZN


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Global News Podcast - What keeps China’s president up at night?

A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. What keeps China’s president up at night? The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC, with Katya Adler. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

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NBN Book of the Day - Anna Kornbluh, “Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism” (Verso, 2024)

What is the status of art and culture in a world dominated by apps, algorithms, and influencers? Anna Kornbluh’s newest book Immediacy, Or the Style of Too Late Capitalism (Verso, 2023) analyzes a swath of cultural forms from auto-fiction to Netflix binges and immersive art installations. For Kornbluh, neoliberalism’s economic disintermediation manifests itself in a new dominant cultural style that renounces complex forms of representation, abstraction, and mediation in favor of instantaneity, memoir, and literalism. An ambitious and far-reaching intervention into politics and aesthetics, Immediacy is ultimately an impassioned defense of the power of art to reflect, critique, and transform the world.

Anna Kornbluh is Professor of English and a member of the United Faculty bargaining team at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where her research and teaching center on literature, film, and Marxist cultural theory. She is the author of The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space, and Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club, and Realizing Capital.

David Maruzzella is a writer, editor, and translator specializing in philosophy and contemporary art currently based in Chicago. He received his PhD in philosophy from DePaul University.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Election of 1860 (Encore)

In 1860, the United States was as divided as it ever had been. The issue of slavery had been growing more and more contentious over the decades and by 1860, things were nearing a breaking point. 

The presidential election of 1860 literally would determine the future of the country, or if there would continue to even be a country. 

Learn more about the presidential election of 1860, the most important presidential election in American history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Up First from NPR - The Sunday Story: Losing the Gaza They Knew

The Israeli government currently prohibits foreign journalists from entering Gaza. NPR's Leila Fadel found another way of reporting from inside the territory.

This week on The Sunday Story, we bring you an episode from NPR's Embedded podcast. Fadel speaks with host Kelly McEvers about voice memos she's been receiving from a Palestinian college student trying to survive as bombs fall around her in Gaza. And we hear from a Palestinian American family that escaped the war–only to find that it has followed them home.

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