Month: September 2024

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Slate Books - ICYMI: We May Have A New Bad Art Friend With Haley Jakobson’s Old Enough

Candice Lim is joined by Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe to break down the BookTok drama surrounding Old Enough by Haley Jakobson. Last year, Old Enough hit the shelves as a queer, coming-of-age novel about a sophomore in college named Sav and her ex-best friend, Izzie. A year later, a guest of Lucie Fink’s podcast The Real Stuff claimed she was allegedly the basis for Izzie and that her childhood was “plagarized” for the novel — from her experience with sexual assault to sensitive details about her family. On today’s episode, ICYMI asks how this BookTok drama became the “Bad Art Friend” of 2024 and where the lines should be drawn when it comes to using the trauma of others to sell a book.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

Do illegal migrants receive more in benefits than pensioners? Was Energy Secretary Ed Miliband right to celebrate a ?record breaking? renewable energy auction? Is one divided by zero infinity? Why don?t we spend more on evidence that government spending works? And how long does it actually take to turn around an oil tanker?

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news.

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NBN Book of the Day - Melissa Osborne, “Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility” (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Why do people go to college? In Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility (U Chicago Press, 2024), Melissa Osborne, an associate professor at Western Washington University, explores the experiences of students from low income and first-generation backgrounds who attend elite universities in the USA. The book offers a vital intervention for our understanding of the role of higher education and its connection to a range of social inequalities. It captures the sometimes difficult and ambivalent experiences of students from outside the traditional demographics for elite institutions. The analysis offers a nuanced understanding of the process of social mobility, showing the struggles of students and institutions, and the limits of individually-focused approaches to social change. Rich with ethnographic and qualitative data, as well as a powerful set of ideas for elite institutional change, the book is essential reading for educators everywhere.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Imperial Units of Measure

Almost every country in the world uses the metric system…..almost.

There are still a few stragglers, like the United States, who use units handed down to them from the British. These are known as Imperial Units.

These units often confuse those living in countries that use the metric system….as well as those who live in countries that use Imperial Units. 

They don’t often make sense. They don’t have any consistency between units, and their histories are quite murky.

Learn more about imperial units and how they were developed on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO458: How Eye Color Reveals the Complexity of Genetics

Dr. Eric Jaffe is back! This time, he's going to teach us about CRISPR. But, in order to do that, he first needs to lay a foundation about genetics more broadly, and how complex it actually is. Why is it that mapping the human genome didn't instantly give us the ability to change whatever we want about ourselves?

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What A Day - Harris Makes Lasting First Impression On Trump

On Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off in their first and currently only scheduled presidential debate. The candidates went back and forth on the biggest issues in the election, including reproductive rights, the economy, immigration, and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. But while VP Harris largely stayed on message, Trump often descended into conspiracy theories and lies. Tommy Vietor, host of Pod Save America and Pod Save the World, joins to give his post-debate analysis.

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The NewsWorthy - Harris-Trump Debate Highlights, Hurricane Francine & MTV VMAs – Wednesday, September 11, 2024

The news to know for Wednesday, September 11, 2024!

We're recapping last night's high-stakes presidential debate, from key moments and arguments to the post-debate reaction, and we’ll tell you which candidate is already calling for debate number two.

Also, we’ll share the candidates’ plans to commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks as America remembers.

Plus, when Hurricane Francine is set to make landfall on Louisiana’s coast, why time is crucial for a historic (and risky) space mission now underway, and what to expect at tonight’s 40th anniversary of the MTV VMAs.

Those stories and even more news to know in just over 10 minutes! 

 

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The Best One Yet - 🌭 “Sausage Fest” — Meat economics in the debate. Hindus’ 1st religion app. Ford’s in-car commercials.

The 1 piece of data that should’ve been debated last night?... Sausage Meat Economics.

The fastest-growing religious app right now is Hindu… because Sri Mandir digitized a diaspora.

Ford just filed the freakiest patent yet… Prepare for commercials in your cars run by Ford.


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Short Wave - Solutions Week: Reinventing Chocolate

Climate change is contributing to erratic weather where cocoa beans are grown and threatening the global chocolate supply. Record rainfall last year led to fungal infections among cacao trees and dwindled supply of cocoa beans. Heat is also making it more difficult for cocoa beans to thrive. So, for day three of Climate Solutions Week, we look at one innovation in the food industry: chocolate substitutes.

As big chocolate manufacturers rush to stockpile cocoa beans, some companies like Planet A Foods are looking for a more sustainable solution: an alternative that looks like chocolate, tastes like chocolate and feels like chocolate... without chocolate.

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The Daily Signal - Threat of Another Terrorist Attack ‘Is Higher Now’ Than in Months Before 9/11, Expert Says

It was 23 years ago Wednesday that terrorists hijacked four U.S. commercial airline flights, turned the planes into weapons, crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, and in the process killed nearly 3,000 people. Today, America is at risk of another equally as deadly terrorist attack, a national security expert says.

The threat of another 9/11-type terrorist attack on America “is higher now than it was in the months and years preceding 9/11 for a couple of reasons,” says Robert Greenway, director of the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation. 

First, Greenway says the terrorist threat level against the U.S. is high because of “our posture abroad, our approach to our adversaries, … [and] our neglected military capacity and capability and focus.” 

But America’s greatest vulnerability to another terrorist attack, he says, is “the fact that we've invited terrorist organizations to exploit our open borders, and now they are really hiding within our own population and enjoying the benefits and concealing themselves in their activities inside of our own borders.” 

Greenway deployed in support of Operation Relentless Pursuit and Operation Enduring Freedom in October 2001 in the war on terrorism. He also served as a senior intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and then on the National Security Council. 

Listen to our interview with Greenway marking the anniversary of 9/11 on today’s edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast."

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