Month: March 2024

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - FIRST MOVER: How Robinhood and Arbitrum Hope to Bring More People On-Chain

Offchain Labs Chief Strategy Officer AJ Warner joins Robinhood Crypto General Manager Johann Kerbrat for a conversation on Layer 2 developments and bringing the next waves of users on-chain.

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Trading platform Robinhood announced recently at ETHDenver that it will allow users of its Robinhood Wallet to access swaps on Arbitrum, a layer-2 blockchain atop Ethereum. AJ Warner, Chief Strategy Officer at Offchain Labs, joins Robinhood Crypto General Manager Johann Kerbrat on "First Mover" to discuss the partnership and their outlook for Layer 2 developments and user onboarding.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 3.7.24

Alabama

  • State constitutional amendment on Tuesday's ballot fails to pass
  • Sen. Tuberville tells Nikki Haley that time is up, Haley does suspend campaign
  • AG Marshall is opposed to the revision bill of the state's Ethics Act
  • The state senate passes a bill that provides new loan program for institutions
  • Both parties head to runoff race in April re: Congressional District 2 candidate
  • Part 3 of discussion with Angela Shepherd over HB 259 - post election audits

National

  • NY governor orders National guardsmen to subways to protect citizens
  • Haley's failed campaign spent $114 M with only one state win
  • Mitch McConnell changes tune on Trump, now endorsing as RNC candidate
  • Trump plans to offer play by play of Joe Biden's SOTU speech tonight
  • Hunter Biden to have his public hearing in House on March 20th
  • RNC to meet this Friday and choose next leader as Ronna McDaniels skedaddles
  • Houghton college president says NO MORE to transgender athletes
  • NC Lt. Governor running for governor and takes on transgender movement
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Unexpected Elements - Unexpected Oscars

As award season reaches its climax in the US, Unexpected Elements holds its own glitzy ceremony.

Which bit of science will win Best Picture? Who will take home the Best Supporting Actor? And will Prof Elaine Chew play us out with her Best Original Music?

The nominations include a particularly noisy tiny fish, a sweating mannequin, and a composition based on a misbehaving heartbeat. All this plus your correspondence and a discussion of how far science infuses the real Academy Awards.

Presented by Marnie Chesterton with Godfred Boafo and Camilla Moto.

Featuring pianist Elaine Chew, Professor of Engineering at Kings College London.

Produced by Alex Mansfield, with Tom Bonnet, Harrison Lewis, Dan Welsh and Katie Tomsett.

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - The Free Press in Israel Part 1: Running Toward Fire

What happens when a country has to ask its citizens the unthinkable: What are you willing to die for? 


It’s a question that feels so outside the current American experience. When was the last time you asked yourself, What would I do if I had to fight for my home, my family, my nation?


When the citizens of Israel were confronted with the worst disaster imaginable, what emerged was a level of civic obligation, duty, and sacrifice that they themselves didn’t think they were capable of.


Today, Part 1 of The Free Press in Israel: Running Toward Fire.

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NBN Book of the Day - Murray Dick, “The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications” (MIT Press, 2020)

Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in our everyday media diet, particularly in news—in print newspapers, on television news, and online. It has been argued that infographics are changing what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century—and even that they harmonize uniquely with human cognition. In this first serious exploration of the subject, Murray Dick traces the cultural evolution of the infographic, examining its use in news—and resistance to its use—from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism. He identifies six historical phases of infographics in popular culture: the proto-infographic, the classical, the improving, the commercial, the ideological, and the professional.

In The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications (MIT Press, 2020), Dick describes the emergence of infographic forms within a wider history of journalism, culture, and communications, focusing his analysis on the UK. He considers their use in the partisan British journalism of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print media; their later deployment as a vehicle for reform and improvement; their mass-market debut in the twentieth century as a means of explanation (and sometimes propaganda); and their use for both ideological and professional purposes in the post–World War II marketized newspaper culture. Finally, he proposes best practices for news infographics and defends infographics and data visualization against a range of criticism. Dick offers not only a history of how the public has experienced and understood the infographic, but also an account of what data visualization can tell us about the past.

Dr Murray Dick. Senior Lecturer In Multimedia Journalism at Newcastle University

Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Senegal and The Gambia

Nestled in the heart of West Africa lie two nations with distinct identities yet tied together by a common geography and history: Senegal and The Gambia.

The landscape of this region wasn’t always as fragmented as it is now. It wasn’t until the 19th century that it was carved into the separate entities we recognize today, a division that has persisted into contemporary times.

Efforts have been made to bridge the divide, but the boundary between these two countries still presents challenges.

Learn more about the fascinating story of Senegal and The Gambia and how their odd borders came to be on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Challengers Drop Out, ‘Rust’ Armorer Guilty & Airport Self-Screening – Thursday, March 7, 2024

The news to know for Thursday, March 7, 2024!

We'll bring you the latest from the campaign trail as the presidential race starts to look a little more familiar and tell you about a surprise endorsement for former President Trump.

Also, there was a guilty verdict in the on-set shooting of a cinematographer, and a storm system could kick off many more like it this spring.

Plus, troops are now patrolling New York City subways, iPhone users are being encouraged to download the latest update, and we'll explain summer travel trends and their catchy slogans. 

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What A Day - Progressives Explain What They Want Out Of Biden’s Big Speech

President Biden delivers his third State of the Union address Thursday night ahead of this November’s election. Part of the challenge for Biden is to show voters that he’s still got the energy for another four year term. But he also has to motivate his base, including progressives who are following his campaign with varying amounts of enthusiasm. Activists and organizers across the country told us about the issues they’re most concerned about, and what they want Biden to say when he steps up to the podium.

And in headlines: Nikki Haley cedes the Republican primary race to Trump, a Russian missile hits near the President of Ukraine, and a Texas company says it’s one step closer to bringing back woolly mammoths.

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  • “Rep. Allred to Host Dr. Austin Dennard at State of the Union” – https://tinyurl.com/24s5646j
  • Listen To Michigan campaign – https://www.listentomichigan.com/
  • United We Dream Action – https://unitedwedreamaction.org/
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The Daily Signal - Whistleblower Exposes Children’s Hospital for Gender Treatments on Minors

Dr. Eithan Haim was completing his surgical training at Texas Children’s Hospital in the spring of 2023. On a Friday morning in June, just before graduation, a knock came on Haim's door. 

“I open it, [and] standing outside there are two federal agents with [the Department of] Health and Human Services,” Haim recalls.


The surgeon says he was told he was under investigation in a case involving medical records. Just one month earlier, Haim had worked with journalist Christopher Rufo to blow the whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston and its gender treatments for minors. 


In 2022, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, took steps to ensure that hospitals in Texas weren't performing such procedures. As a result, the Texas Children’s Hospital announced that it had stopped doing the gender procedures on kids; inside the hospital, Haim says, he was seeing a different story. 


The hospital “took away all the public-facing indications that the program was still active,” Haim says, adding that “the hospital is telling the public this program no longer exists, but within the hospital, they're prioritizing it to the highest level."


"So the directors of the program that supposedly did not exist were speaking at the hospital's most prestigious lecture series seven months after that statement [in which] they said they were shutting it down," the surgeon says.


Haim joins this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why he is so passionate about defending minors from these dangerous medical procedures and standing against what he sees as the federal government's intimidation tactics. 


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Tech Won't Save Us - Plastic Recycling Is a Scam w/ Dharna Noor

Paris Marx is joined by Dharna Noor to discuss widely-held misconceptions about the effectiveness of plastic recycling and how industry lobbies invented them to protect the market for plastic products.

Dharna Noor is the fossil fuels and climate reporter at The Guardian.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • On Friday, March 8, Paris will be speaking with Ed Ongweso Jr. and Brian Merchant about Dune: Part Two and its connection to the growing Luddite movement. Watch it on our YouTube channel at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm GMT.
  • Our conversation was based in part on the Center for Climate Integrity’s new report called “The Fraud of Plastic Recycling.”
  • Dharna reported on that report and has previously written about plastic materials ending up in landfills, fashion’s use of plastic, and the problem with replacing plastics with other disposables.
  • In 2018, Barack Obama said, “That whole ‘suddenly America’s like the biggest oil producer and the biggest gas,’ that was me, people.
  • New research has found microplastics in the placentas of unborn babies. The science isn’t settled on the effects on microplastics on human health, but there’s reason to be concerned.

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