Chimpanzees are humans' closest living relatives. But does much of their communication resembles ours? According to a new study published earlier this week in the journal Current Biology, chimpanzees gesture back-and-forth in a similar way to how humans take turns speaking. The research presents an intriguing possibility that this style of communication may have evolved before humans split off from great apes, and tells researchers more about how turn-taking evolved.
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The Daily Signal - Law Firm Defends First Amendment Rights of Child Punished for ‘Any Life’ Matters Drawing
On July 15, the Pacific Legal Foundation asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court ruling in California that said elementary school students have no First Amendment rights. A six year old called B.B. in Capistrano Unified School District in Southern California was introduced to the phrase “Black Lives Matter” in her first-grade class during a lesson about Martin Luther King, Jr. After the lesson, the child drew a picture and wrote “Black Lives Mater (sic),” added “any life,” and gave the picture to her classmate. The school forced B.B. to apologize for her “racist” drawing, banned her from recess for two weeks, and even banned her from drawing pictures for friends. B.B.’s parents were never informed about the incident and found out years later.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Is Silicon Valley Trump-Vance Country?
For years, Silicon Valley has felt like a liberal enclave.. This election, a handful of powerful voices like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are expressing support for the Trump-Vance ticket. Is this a shift in ideologies in Silicon Valley, or just a few of the loudest voices?
Guest: Nitish Pahwa, associate writer for business and tech at Slate.
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NPR's Book of the Day - Riley Sager and Johanna Copeland set thrillers in suburbia
Today's episode features two page-turners full of suspense. First, NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Todd Ritter – who publishes as Riley Sager – about Middle of the Night, a coming-of-age meets ghost story in which protagonist Ethan Marsh returns to his childhood home and is faced with the decades-old disappearance of his best friend. Then, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks Johanna Copeland about Our Kind of Game, and how real-life neighborhood gossip about domestic violence sparked the dark novel about power imbalances in relationships.
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Opening Arguments - Setting the Record Straight on Kamala’s Record
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As the Democratic Party comes together around presumptive nominee Kamala Harris after Joe Biden's surprise exit, we take another look at the Vice President”s career and political record. Is she any more of a “cop” than any other career prosecutor? How will history remember this VP? What might we expect from a President Harris that we wouldn't from a second Biden term? And why did Matt just get kicked out of a library in Rhode Island? We take on all of these questions and many more in this rapid response episode, with much more to come as this unprecedented race continues to develop.
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The Stack Overflow Podcast - On the web, data doesn’t define us. It creates us.
Jannis Kallinikos is a coauthor of Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy (MIT Press, 2024) with Cristina Alaimo, which lays out a framework for a new social science focused on the socioeconomic changes driven by data.
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The Government Huddle with Brian Chidester - 151: The One with the Former US Olympic Athlete
Linda Miller, Founder & CEO of Audient Group, Former Deputy Director for Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) and a Member of the US Olympic Rowing Team at the 2000 Sydney Games joins the show to discuss for Olympics experience and how her sports background has shaped her life and career. We also lean into her experience as a fraud SME to discuss the current state of government digital identity and her thoughts on how AI will impact this space moving forward.
It Could Happen Here - The Democrats Turn on Trans People
Minutes before Biden dropped out of the election, Mia talked with trans policy expert Corinne Green about a series of disturbing anti-trans moves by the Biden administration and Democrats in congress.
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Minutes before Biden dropped out of the election, Mia talked with trans policy expert Corinne Green about a series of disturbing anti-trans moves by the Biden administration and Democrats in congress.
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As the dust settles on the end of the term, we look back to examine two of the Court's criminal procedure cases: Smith v. Arizona (applying the Confrontation Clause to expert testimony) and Diaz v. United States (interpreting Federal Rule of Evidence 704(b)) after a brief discussion of AI, political developments, and judicial robes.