Month: March 2024

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Bay Curious - Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe at SLAC

On Interstate 280, just south of the Sand Hill Road exit, near Stanford, there is this overpass that crosses over a long, skinny building. Bay Curious listener Eric Nelson has wondered what that building is for years. Turns out, scientists are unraveling the mysteries of the universe inside SLAC. We take you on a tour.

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The Daily - It Sucks to Be 33

Jeanna Smialek, who covers the U.S. economy for The Times, will be 33 in a few weeks; she is part of a cohort born in 1990 and 1991 that makes up the peak of America’s population.

At every life stage, that microgeneration has stretched a system that was often too small to accommodate it, leaving its members — so-called peak millennials — with outsize economic power but also a fight to get ahead.

Guest: Jeanna Smialek, a U.S. economy correspondent for The New York Times.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - FIRST MOVER: Burnt Banksy Sets Himself on Fire, Launches Layer 1 for ‘Regular People’

XION core contributor Burnt Banksy joins "First Mover" to discuss the launch of XION blockchain and why he set himself on fire for it.

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XION core contributor Burnt Banksy joins "First Mover" to discuss why he set himself on fire for the launch of the XION blockchain and the burning of a Banksy artwork back in 2021. Plus, how user-friendly products could simplify mainstream adoption of crypto technologies.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 3.14.24

Alabama

  • Sen. Britt is cosponsoring the Laken Riley Act within the US Senate
  • Congressman Moore is sole AL vote against the ban of Tik Tok app
  • SoS Wes Allen reveals that US citizenship is not verifiable with vote registration
  • MS SoS calls on DOJ to stop the effort by federal agencies to register prison votes
  • Sylacauga native Jessie Holmes finishes 3rd in Alaska's Iditarod races

National

  • Chaos in Haiti means opportunity for Biden to allow US invasion by land AND sea
  • GA Judge dismisses 6 indictments against Trump from DA Fani Willis
  • Hunter Biden rejects invitation for public hearing at House Oversight committee
  • 15 states warn of legal action if Maine pursues bill to aid transgender minors


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NBN Book of the Day - Foster Care, Family, and Social Class: A Conversation with Rob Henderson

Robert Kim Henderson, a recently-minted psychology PhD from Cambridge and prominent essayist, had a troubled childhood. A victim of child abuse, he was shuffled through the foster care system, then finally settled in a family in a working-class California town, only to become a child of divorce. At 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Airforce, and went on to earn his BA from Yale and become a Gates Scholar at Cambridge. 

His debut book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (Gallery Books, 2024), delves into his unstable childhood and the ways in which elite Americans misunderstand the nature and challenges of class differences. In this conversation, Rob digs into his book and its implications, discussing the nature and history of American poverty, the prominence of "luxury beliefs," a term he coined to describe counter-productive beliefs on sex and politics meant to showcase affluence, and why his message has been so poorly received in elite circles, including a discussion of why and how it was excluded from the New York Times best-seller list. Along the way, he delves into pop culture, gives reading recommendations, and more.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Pi Day (Encore)

Every year on March 14, the world celebrates one of the most important mathematical constants: pi. 

It is a number which appears all over nature, even in places you wouldn’t expect it. It is also a number that has been known, or at least had been approximated, by civilizations for thousands of years. 

Today there are still more we are discovering about this number with the help of supercomputers. 

Learn more about pi and how our knowledge of it has advanced over time on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO434: Biden Is Failing On Israel-Palestine. So What Do We Do?

It feels like this comes up precisely every 4 years, but once again I find myself having to point out that the way to make things better isn't to make them worse. That math just doesn't work. But what should we do? A campaign to vote "Uncommitted" for the Democratic Primary Election went viral. Lydia Smith from Where There's Woke joins as we discuss what this movement is, what kind of impact it could have, and whether or not a vote can be a "message".  

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The NewsWorthy - TikTok’s Future, World’s First AI Law & Houses Before Spouses- Thursday, March 14, 2024

The news to know for Thursday, March 14, 2024!

We're talking about the newly passed bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S. and what needs to happen next.

Also, there was a surprise ruling in former President Trump's criminal case out of Georgia, and another big question hanging over the case is set to be decided this week.

Plus, we'll get into the details of the world's first artificial intelligence law, why a Grammy-winning musician decided to end his boycott of Spotify, and where to take advantage of deals and discounts this Pi Day.

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What A Day - The Fight For Reparations Gains Real Momentum

Americans have considered the idea of reparations for more than a century, but there’s real momentum around the movement to make it happen right now. Multiple states and localities have launched studies into doing it and California has even introduced legislation. We’ll talk to Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist Trymaine Lee whose podcast “Uncounted Millions” looks at ways reparations could reshape the lives of the descendants of formerly enslaved people.

And in headlines: The House overwhelmingly passed a bill to ban TikTok from U.S. app stores unless it splits from its China-based owner, a Georgia judge tossed six charges in Trump’s election interference case, and New Orleans rats are breaking into police headquarters to munch down on confiscated weed.

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