Month: April 2024

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Tech Won't Save Us - How Sports Betting Is Fueling Gambling Addiction w/ Alex Shephard

Paris Marx is joined by Alex Shephard to discuss the legalization of sports betting in the United States, the growing influence of gambling in professional sports, and its negative impact on the lives of sports fans.

Alex Shephard is a senior editor at The New Republic.

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

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The Best One Yet - 🍍 “High Class Pineapple” — The Designer Fruits trend. Tesla’s election for Elon’s paycheck. China vs America: Trade War II.

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June 13th will be Elon Musk’s most awkward day ever — Tesla Shareholders are voting “yes” or “no” on whether Elon should get a $56 Billion paycheck.

The wildest new product in the grocery store is “Designer Fruit” — Turns out, sticking a logo on an Apple makes it worth more, because adjectives are more valuable than nouns.

And President Biden just announced he’s tripling tariffs on Chinese steel — That means America and China just entered what we call Trade War II.

Plus, the hot new vacation trend is… living forever — Hotels are trading saunas for Vitamin-B-oxygen-enriched IV infusions, because “life extension” is all the rage.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Is It Too Late to Escape “Forever Chemicals”?

Man-made per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, are found in all sorts of industrial and consumer products, including carpets, rain jackets, and makeup. They’re also in our drinking water—and in our blood.


The EPA has recently announced plans to regulate the amount of certain PFAS in our water supply. But will these rules do enough to control chemicals for which there is no safe level of exposure?


Guest: Esmé E. Deprez, independent investigative journalist.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Anxious Generation’ analyzes the harmful effects of growing up online

While screens have become a totally normalized part of kids' development today, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the negative effects might outweigh the benefits. His new book, The Anxious Generation, details the correlation between an increasingly online social life and rising mental health concerns amongst young people. In today's episode, NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Haidt about how boys and girls experience socialization on the Internet, and how some of these behaviors might be curbed to get kids playing offline.

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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO440: Elon Musk’s Neuralink – Real or Just Hype?

We've got an expert to take us through it! Dr. Jenessa Seymour is a former neuroscientist currently working in disability rights and she has looked through the history of neural implant efforts to investigate Elon's Neuralink claims. Just how full of it is he? And how in the world does any of this even work? What is clear is that the brain is insanely amazing.

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It Could Happen Here - Law & Order vs Nazi Fight Clubs

Gare and Molly discuss how modern media portrays political extremism.

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CBS News Roundup - 04/17/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

Senate tosses out impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas. Power struggle among emergency authorities in Hawaii and communication breakdown led to poor response during deadly Maui wildfire. Boeing whistleblower testifies on Capitol Hill. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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Consider This from NPR - What happened when the threat of danger became Salman Rushdie’s reality?

Salman Rushdie is probably most closely associated with his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, a book inspired by the life of the prophet Muhummad. The book was notorious not just for its contents but because of the intense backlash, and the threat it posed to his safety and wellbeing.

While Rushdie saw it as an exploration of Islamic culture, some Muslims saw it as blasphemous. The year after it published, Iran's supreme leader issued a fatwa, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie.

Rushdie moved to New York in 2000, and was able to resume the public life of a popular author, but that all changed on August 12th, 2022 when a young man charged at Rushdie while he was on stage at an event, stabbing him at least a dozen times.

After two years, he has chronicled his brush with death, and the aftermath in his new memoir 'KNIFE'.

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