Month: July 2024

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Science In Action - Cleaner mining, cleaner batteries

Science in Action is at the UK's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, hunting for dark matter, melting ancient ice, cleaning up disused mines and looking for the batteries of the future.

Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield Production Coordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

(Image: Pile of used batteries ready for recycling. Credit: Mindful Media via Getty Images)

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Consider This from NPR - Wildfires are getting more extreme. And so is the need for more firefighters

Extreme wildfires doubled worldwide over the last two decades, according to a new study of NASA satellite data.

You'd think, if the wildfire crisis is getting worse, there'd be more and more firefighters in place to meet that demand. But at agencies like the U.S. Forest Service, adequate staffing has been a huge challenge.

But as organizations like the Forest Service raise alarm about firefighter shortages, there's also a whole group of people who are trained to fight fires and are struggling to get jobs in the field: formerly incarcerated people.

We hear from Royal Ramey, a formerly incarcerated firefighter who started an organization to help others build firefighting careers once they're released from prison.

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Consider This from NPR - Wildfires are getting more extreme. And so is the need for more firefighters

Extreme wildfires doubled worldwide over the last two decades, according to a new study of NASA satellite data.

You'd think, if the wildfire crisis is getting worse, there'd be more and more firefighters in place to meet that demand. But at agencies like the U.S. Forest Service, adequate staffing has been a huge challenge.

But as organizations like the Forest Service raise alarm about firefighter shortages, there's also a whole group of people who are trained to fight fires and are struggling to get jobs in the field: formerly incarcerated people.

We hear from Royal Ramey, a formerly incarcerated firefighter who started an organization to help others build firefighting careers once they're released from prison.

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The Bulwark Podcast - Clint Smith: A Reckoning with History

Author, poet, and native New Orleanian Clint Smith grew up in the city that was the heart of the domestic slave trade, but realized his understanding of the history within himself and his country was inadequate. So he set out to write the type of book he should have had in high school. On this Independence Day, we pulled a special selection from the Tim Miller Bulwark archive. Plus, love for the Crescent City, and dads getting too much credit for pulling their weight.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: Drones and Insurance, Philly Bombed Civilians, Ozempic Off-label and A Warning about Sandwiches

Cabeza de Vaca prompts a conversation about private drones and home insurance. Skippy shares terrifying first-hand experience with the consequences of 'off-label' drug use. In an email about Philadelphia bombing civilians, Ryan inspires future episodes on the abuse of state power. Ben, Matt and Noel receive an official warning against their discourse on the nature of sandwiches. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.

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Focus on Africa - Can South Sudan hold its first post-independence elections this year?

Africa's youngest nation, South Sudan will head to the polls this December, but critics say they are disappointed with the government’s lack of preparedness.  These elections will be the first ever conducted in the country since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011.  However, several conditions listed in a peace agreement, drawn up in September 2018, have not yet been met.  Is the country ready?

Also, what's causing the Gen Z inspired protests in Kenya to continue, despite some concessions by the president?

And we learn more about the allegations that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) is defending senior officials accused of corruption.

Presenter: Audrey Brown Producers Kaine Pieri,  Bella Hassan, Joseph Keen and Sunita Nahar in London and Charles Gitonga in Nairobi. Senior Producer Paul Bakibinga Technical Producer: Craig Kingham. Editors: Alice Muthengi and Andre Lombard.

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Federalist Radio Hour - Exploring The Life And Legacy Of George Washington

On this Independence Day edition of "The Federalist Radio Hour," John Berlau, a senior fellow and director of finance policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to look back on George Washington's life, explore the Founding Father's business pursuits, and explain the legacy the first president of the United States left behind.

You can find Berlau's book George Washington, Entrepreneur: How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World here.

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CBS News Roundup - 07/04/2024 | World News Roundup

Democratic governors stand by President Biden amid calls for him to drop his re-election bid. Hurricane Beryl lashes Jamaica. Election day in Britain. CBS News Correspondent Peter King has today's World News Roundup.

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