Month: August 2024

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Home Field Advantage

In almost all sports, people will refer to what is known as having a home-field advantage.

Home-field advantage is a simple concept. It implies that teams playing in their home stadium, arena, or field have a slight advantage over the visiting team.

But is home-field advantage a real thing? And if it is, what are the reasons for it, and which teams and which leagues have the largest home-field advantages?

Learn more about home-field advantage and if it is, in fact, a real thing on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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What A Day - Who Will Silicon Valley Support In 2024?

Silicon Valley leaders have been weighing in loudly on the upcoming presidential race. Over four hundred venture capitalists and other tech executives recently signed a pledge to support Vice President Kamala Harris, while some prominent holdouts like Tesla CEO Elon Musk are backing former President Donald Trump. To learn more about the tech figures getting involved in this election and precisely what's at stake for them in the 2024 election, we spoke with New York Times business journalist Erin Griffith.

And in headlines: the United States and Russia complete a major prisoner swap, Israel says it killed the head of the Hamas military in July, the Senate blocks a bill that would've expanded the child tax credit, and an incredible comeback from Team USA's Simone Biles.

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The NewsWorthy - Historic Prisoner Swap, Get Ready for Debby & Ice Bucket is Back- Friday, August 2, 2024

The news to know for Friday, August 2, 2024

We'll tell you about a historic deal to bring Americans home from Russian prisons and what the U.S. and its allies had to give up in return.

Also, what could be bringing border crossings down, and where could a tropical storm hit this weekend? 

Plus, controversial new school rules went into effect; a new proposal hopes to solve a travel problem for parents, and remember the ice bucket challenge? It's still making an impact a decade later. 

Those stories and more news to know in about 10 minutes!

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The Best One Yet - 🦏 “Dude Where’s My Horn?” — Economics saves Rhinos. Big Tech’s AI FOMO. CapCut’s crazy speed.

In South Africa they’re preemptively de-horning rhinos to save them from poachers… Economics is saving the rhino.

Big Tech is being driven by AI FOMO… and Wall Street is analyzing their AI spending receipts. 

There is 1 app more powerful than TikTok… It’s called CapCut and it’s crushing Adobe/Canva.

Plus, how much are Olympians paid for winning a gold medal? Poland gives them an apartment, Malaysia gives $1K for life, and Hong Kong gives $768K.


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Short Wave - What Makes Simone Biles The GOAT, Scientifically

Another Olympics, another set of stellar performances by the U.S. women's artistic gymnastics team. Thursday, the team won two medals in the women's all-around final: a gold for Simone Biles and a bronze for Sunisa Lee. The medals add to the team's overall count, which also includes a gold for the women's team final. Simone and Suni are expected to lead the team to more medals in the coming days. Each day the gymnasts compete, we are left to pick our jaws off the floor and wonder: How do they do that? So we called up one of our favorite science communicators, Frederic Bertley, to explain just that. He's the CEO of the Center of Science and Industry and our gymnastics physics guide for the day.

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A previous version of this episode suggested that at the top of a gymnast's jump, they are moving with zero acceleration. In fact, there they have zero velocity, but still have the same acceleration. Also, gravity is constant as a person performs gymnastics tricks on Earth. A previous version of this episode also did not make clear that conservation of angular momentum happens as gymnasts move through the air in uneven bars — as opposed to when the gymnasts are on the bars themselves and the gymnasts are subject to additional forces.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Why Are More Young People Getting Cancer?

The age when you need to start being screened for cancers may need to be updated, as rates among younger people are on the rise. New testing methods could make the process a lot easier than, say, a colonoscopy - but they’re not perfect. 


Guest: Dylan Scott, senior correspondent and editor for Vox.


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The Daily Signal - Sen. Marshall: Google Is ‘Using Algorithms to Campaign Against’ Trump

Sen. Roger Marshall says he will launch an investigation into Google after the search engine suppressed content related to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. 


Google is “no longer functioning as a search engine that just assimilates” information, says Marshall, R-Kan., “but now they're using algorithms to campaign against President Trump.” 


Initiating a Google search of “assassination attempt on president,” quickly reveals that Trump’s name is not within the autofill of suggested searches, although former Presidents Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan are. 


Google enjoys legal protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Those protections shield Google and other platforms, such as Facebook and X, from civil liability for the content users of the platform generate. But if Google wants to act as a publisher, like a news outlet, they should not enjoy Section 230 protections, Marshall says. 


The Kansas Republican is calling on Google to explain what he regards as content suppression, but says he thinks that “if we had a strong commander in chief, that they would be intervening already.”


Marshall joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the investigation into what he asserts is Google’s content suppression. 


Marshall also weighs in on the plea deal reached with three terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, described as the mastermind of the attacks. The deal takes the death penalty off the table for the terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for them pleading guilty to a number of charges, including the murders of nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001.


The Kansas lawmaker explains why he thinks the deal is a “slap in the face” to the men and women who lost their lives on 9/11, their families, and all who still suffer from physical injuries because of the terrorist attacks. 


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Pod Save America - Trump Revives Birtherism

Donald Trump doubles down on the racism and birtherism he unleashed onstage at the NABJ convention—repeating his attacks in social media posts and even a rally backdrop. Jon and Dan talk about what Trump's strategy might be, whether he's feeling buyer's remorse about JD Vance, and the latest on Kamala Harris's VP short list. Then, Project 2025 says it's winding down policy operations. Will it live on in Democrats' campaigns?

 

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What Could Go Right? - The Progress Report: Olympic Strides Forward

In this episode, Zachary and Emma discuss various news stories related to the Olympics. They talk about the opening ceremonies, the inclusion of new sports like breakdancing and kiteboarding, gender parity in the games, the introduction of a nursery in the Olympic Village, and the impact of technology on shooting scores. They also reflect on the significance of the Olympics as a peaceful global event.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Novels by Claire Lombardo and Catherine Newman explore different stages of motherhood

Today's episode highlights two books that deal with what it means to be a mom, a wife and a multi-faceted, complicated woman. First, NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Claire Lombardo about her novel Same As It Ever Was, which jumps through different phases of protagonist Julia's life to understand her relationship with her son, her husband and an ex-best friend. Then, Danielle Kurtzleben asks Catherine Newman about Sandwich, which takes place during a family's summer vacation in Cape Cod and follows the main character Rocky finding her place between her adult children and her aging parents.

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