Month: April 2024

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It Could Happen Here - Agenda 47: Trump’s Plan for Education

This week we explain Trump’s 2025 policy proposals. Garrison and James start by discussing Trump’s promise to empower parents and fight the communists ruining American schools.

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The Economics of Everyday Things - 43. Top-Level Domains

Those letters at the end of web addresses can mean big bucks — and, for some small countries, a substantial part of the national budget. Zachary Crockett follows the links.

 

  • SOURCES:
    • Vince Cate, technical contact for the .ai domain in Anguilla.
    • Kim Davies, Vice President of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Services and President of Public Technical Identifiers at ICANN.
    • Tianyu Fang, contributing editor at Reboot.

 

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Short Wave - How Climate Change And Physics Affect Baseball

It's baseball season! And when we here at Short Wave think of baseball, we naturally think of physics. To get the inside scoop on the physics of baseball, like how to hit a home run, we talk to Frederic Bertley, CEO and President of the Center of Science and Industry, a science museum in Columbus, Ohio. He also talks to host Regina G. Barber about how climate change is affecting the game.

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Consider This from NPR - Bad Omens Or The Cycle of Nature? How The Ancient World Viewed Eclipses

Tomorrow, the Great American Eclipse will sweep across North America, and millions will experience total darkness.

It's an eerie and mysterious experience even though at this point, we know exactly what's happening: the moon passes in front of the sun, casting a shadow over earth.

But imagine you lived in the ancient world, with no warning that an eclipse was about to happen, as the sun's disk suddenly disappeared and the day fell dark and cool. Unsurprisingly, eclipses were often seen as bad omens.

That was true in Mesopotamia, the region that today includes Iraq, Syria, Kuwait and Turkey. But even then, ancient Mesopotamian astronomers were looking for other explanations.

Watching an eclipse is one of humanity's oldest rituals, and it's been inspiration to scientists since the beginning of time.

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Consider This from NPR - Bad Omens Or The Cycle of Nature? How The Ancient World Viewed Eclipses

Tomorrow, the Great American Eclipse will sweep across North America, and millions will experience total darkness.

It's an eerie and mysterious experience even though at this point, we know exactly what's happening: the moon passes in front of the sun, casting a shadow over earth.

But imagine you lived in the ancient world, with no warning that an eclipse was about to happen, as the sun's disk suddenly disappeared and the day fell dark and cool. Unsurprisingly, eclipses were often seen as bad omens.

That was true in Mesopotamia, the region that today includes Iraq, Syria, Kuwait and Turkey. But even then, ancient Mesopotamian astronomers were looking for other explanations.

Watching an eclipse is one of humanity's oldest rituals, and it's been inspiration to scientists since the beginning of time.

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Consider This from NPR - Bad Omens Or The Cycle of Nature? How The Ancient World Viewed Eclipses

Tomorrow, the Great American Eclipse will sweep across North America, and millions will experience total darkness.

It's an eerie and mysterious experience even though at this point, we know exactly what's happening: the moon passes in front of the sun, casting a shadow over earth.

But imagine you lived in the ancient world, with no warning that an eclipse was about to happen, as the sun's disk suddenly disappeared and the day fell dark and cool. Unsurprisingly, eclipses were often seen as bad omens.

That was true in Mesopotamia, the region that today includes Iraq, Syria, Kuwait and Turkey. But even then, ancient Mesopotamian astronomers were looking for other explanations.

Watching an eclipse is one of humanity's oldest rituals, and it's been inspiration to scientists since the beginning of time.

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Motley Fool Money - Grindr Goes Beyond Dating

How do you grow a business where a customer’s success often means they leave your product?  

George Arison is the CEO of Grindr, a dating app and social media offering for LGBTQ+ individuals. Dylan Lewis caught up with Arison for a conversation about:

  • Grindr’s growth story.
  • Looking beyond dating for platform engagement.
  • What companies can lose in a remote-only environment.


Companies discussed: GRND, MTCH, BMBL, NFLX, SPOT, UBER


Host: Dylan Lewis

Guest: George Arison

Producers: Mary Long, Ricky Mulvey

Engineer: Tim Sparks

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - FIRST MOVER: Some Diversity Initiatives in Crypto Are ‘Optics’: Atlanta Blockchain Center Founder

Atlanta Blockchain Center founder Marlon Williams joins Shown Live founder Shayna Stewart to discuss the significance of diversity and inclusion in crypto.

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Marlon Williams, the mastermind behind the Immutable Founders incubator at Atlanta Blockchain Center, joins Shown Live founder Shayna Stewart on "First Mover" to discuss the initiatives that support women and minority founders in the crypto space. Plus, the significance of advocating for diversity and inclusion in the industry.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “First Mover” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.

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NBN Book of the Day - Jonathan W. Hackett, “Theory of Irregular War” (McFarland, 2024)

From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue operations doomed to fail. And yet, no useful theory exists to explain this common tragedy. All over the world, people and states clash violently outside their established political systems, as unfulfilled demands of control and productivity bend the modern state to a breaking point.

Jonathan W. Hackett's Theory of Irregular War (McFarland, 2023) lays out how dysfunctional governments disrupt social orders, make territory insecure, and interfere with political-economic institutions. These give rise to a form of organized violence against the state known as irregular war. Research reveals why this frequent phenomenon is so poorly understood among conventional forces in those conflicts and the states who send their children to die in them.

Jonathan W. Hackett is a U.S. Marine with two decades of experience. He has held positions at the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Marine Forces Special Operations Command, and the Marine Corps operating forces prior to teaching full spectrum human intelligence operations and security cooperation in Dam Neck, Virginia.

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