Month: June 2024

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 6.14.24

Alabama

  • VP potential for Trump holds fundraiser in Mountain Brook home
  • AL congressman disappointed in SCOTUS ruling re: Mifepristone
  • Settlement with Johnson & Johnson to bring $13M to state
  • SPLC lays off 60 employees despite  $1B in reserves
  • Jefferson county allocates 1K acres for industrial park near I-65
  • SBC resolution on IVF directly connected to AL Supreme Court case

National

  • SCOTUS rules in favor of FDA/mifepristone based on standing
  • TX obtains injunction to stop Biden transgender policy in schools
  • Biden is at G7 summit, wandering around looking vacant and lost
  • Trump speaks to GOP in Capitol , well received and applauded
  • Sports court rules against "Lia" Thomas swimming in Olympics
  • Bill Gates throwing $ around at developing Digital IDs, what could go wrong?
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Unexpected Elements - An unexpected burger

Could a scientific burger compete against the fast food giants? We fear not!

You will need: • Meat - A tick capable of inducing alpha gal syndrome, a disease that makes you allergic to red meat. • Garnish - Lettuce grown in space. (WARNING: it is more susceptible to bacterial infection than that grown on Earth). • Buns - A short but thick guide to the human buttocks with Heather Radke. Why do we humans have such large behinds? • Something sweet - We chose the humble baobab seed. An unusual tree indigenous to Madagascar, the subject of an incredibly successful conservation project. • Fries - Of course! The humble potato is threatened by climate change, what is being done to futureproof it?

Instructions: • Who are we kidding! There is no scientific method! • Bang it all together and feast your ears on this week’s show!

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Panellists: Candice Bailey and Affelia Wibisono Producers: Harrison Lewis, Julia Ravey, Ben Motley and Noa Dowling

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Getting Hammered - Cracking Down On Missing Guns

Watch this episode on YouTube. In today's episode, we discuss Hunter Biden's guilty verdict, the controversy over a Pride flag with skid marks, Columbia University administrators mocking students, and the USA's recent cricket victory. Tune in for all the details!


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9:12 Hunter Biden

20:39 Pride Flag

24:47 Columbia University

32:56 SCOTUS

41:13 Border Security

44:29 Russia Subs

47:37 Cricket

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NBN Book of the Day - Benjamin Breen, “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science” (Grand Central, 2024)

Today I talked to Benjamin Breen about his book Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand Central, 2024).

The generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth.

At the centre of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists - and star-crossed lovers - Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their life's mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Bateson's partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists and the founders of the Information Age.

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The NewsWorthy - Abortion Pill Ruling, Ex-Rivals Embrace Trump & Musk’s Record Payday- Friday, June 14, 2024

The news to know for Friday, June 14, 2024!

We're telling you about the Supreme Court's ruling over the abortion pill and what comes next.

Also, former President Trump came face-to-face with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for the first time since McConnell blamed Trump for the Capitol riot.

Plus, more rain is expected for flooded cities in Florida; a new multi-billion-dollar pay package was approved for the world's richest person, and Americans are celebrating Father's Day this weekend. 

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Wu Zetian: China’s Only Female Emperor (Encore)

In the very long history of China, it has had exactly one female ruler. 

She was a woman who managed, against all odds, to inch her way closer to power over a period of years until she reached a point where she could claim power for herself. 

By all accounts, she was beautiful, brilliant, cunning, and absolutely ruthless. 

Learn more about Wu Zetian, China’s only female emperor, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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What A Day - SCOTUS Maintains Access to Abortion Drug…For Now

In a unanimous decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court preserved broad access to the abortion drug mifepristone — at least for now. The justices dismissed the case on a technicality, ruling that the anti-abortion groups and doctors who brought it didn't have a legal right to sue. But the court's decision isn't a solid win for abortion access. The justices didn't weigh in on the substance of the case, meaning it could end up back in front of the court. Already, three Republican-led states are trying to make that happen. Julia Kaye, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project, explains the ruling and what's next.

And in headlines: President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders agreed to finance a $50 billion loan to Ukraine to help pay for its war against Russia and rebuild the country's infrastructure, former president Donald Trump schmoozed with House and Senate Republicans during his first visit to Capitol Hill since the Jan. 6 insurrection, and the ACLU and immigrant rights groups sued the Biden administration over the president's executive order severely limiting asylum claims at the southern border.

 

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Pod Save America - Trump Returns to the Scene of the Crime

Trump returns to the Capitol for the first time since January 6th and receives a hero’s welcome from House and Senate Republicans—where he calls Milwaukee a “horrible city,” refers to the Justice Department as “dirty bastards,” and complains about Taylor Swift not endorsing him. Meanwhile, the same Republicans attempting to overturn Trump’s conviction are instead trying to prosecute Attorney General Merrick Garland. Plus, SCOTUS affirms legal access to abortion medication, Biden takes voters’ cost of living concerns head on, and Trump tries to woo CEOs with more tax cuts.

 

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