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The Intelligence from The Economist - Turn up the PA: the last in our swing-state series
Our series concludes with an examination of the state with the most electoral-college votes: Pennsylvania. It is practically a must-win for either candidate—and it is on a knife-edge. As more and more people become influencers, fame is becoming more fickle and the entire economics of influencers is shifting (10:43). And how Gen Z is resurrecting goth culture (17:25).
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Unexpected Elements - The Swing of Things
On this weekend ahead of the US election, we clock the importance of so-called swing states – and swing into action looking into not politics, but the science of swings.
We examine how a pendulum swung by French physicist Foucault demonstrated that the earth is spinning, and hear about how the gibbon became the king of swingers – and what current-day elite climbers can learn from them.
We also hear from educator Francis Mavhunga at the University of Eswatini who has regularly used swings in his physics classes, and now shows a new generation of teachers how to integrate children’s lived experiences into the classroom.
Plus, how science has revealed new secrets about the ancient silk road, and what your brain can see when your eyes can’t. And, just to swing back to the beginning, presenter Marnie Chesterton digs into the archives to find out if science and tech can provide a foolproof voting system, and how astronauts vote.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton with Chhavi Sachdev and Godfred Boafo Producer: Harrison Lewis with Florian Bohr, Julia Ravey, Dan Welsh and Imaan Moin Sound Engineer: Gareth Tyrrell
The Journal. - Red, White and Who? An Electoral College Blowout?
Rachel Humphreys and Molly Ball share dispatches from two major campaign events with Ryan Knutson. Molly analyzes the closing arguments and outlines what to expect on election day. Plus, we finally answer listeners’ most asked question: What’s up with the electoral college?
Further Listening:
- Red, White and Who? Playlist
- Red, White and Who? The Undecided Voters Who Could Decide The Election
- Red, White and Who? The Desperation Stage
Further Reading:
- America Is Having a Panic Attack Over the Election
- Pennsylvania Has Already Become Ground Zero for Election-Fraud Claims
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Money Girl - Should I Create a Roth IRA Conversion Ladder?
Laura answers a listener question about the Roth IRA conversation strategy and how it could be used to retire early.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 11.1.24
Alabama
- Congressmen Moore and Strong call Biden/Harris policies "garbage"
- Congressman Moore expresses confidence in a Trump victory for president
- Gov. Ivey permanently appoints Azzie Oliver as Montgomery district attorney
- Attorney for Kent Davis files lawsuit re: his firing from ADVA by the governor
- 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson talks about Governor's "supreme" powers
National
- Another Harris surrogate, Mark Cuban, insults all female Trump supporters
- RFK Jr. tasked to clean up government corruption if Trump wins White House
- House oversight wants answers from FBI on severely revised crime stats
- Federal lawsuit filed in WI against DOT for providing data to outside groups
- MI SoS getting letter from congresswoman about illegals registered to vote
- JD Vance sits down with Joe Rogan Experience for 3 hour interview
The Daily Signal - Michigan Is a Road to the White House, Rep. Huizenga Says
Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., said he has seen a political shift in the swing state of Michigan.
“It's interesting to see how Michigan has just grown in importance, and as a crossroads,” Huizenga told The Daily Signal, “quite literally the road to the White House, the road to the Senate [Republican] majority, and the road to our own majority in the House of Representatives, I think runs right through Michigan.”
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Getting Hammered - Childlike Wonder
Watch this episode on YouTube. In this special episode, we're taste-testing Halloween candy and tackling the latest garbage discourse. Tune in!
Time Stamps:
10:36 | Candy
19:56 | Election Countdown
Opening Arguments - When Elon Musk Violates Immigration Law It’s Fine Though
OA1082 - Donald Trump recently promised that he and House speaker Mike Johnson have a “little secret” about how they are going to win next week’s election. Is he just trolling, or have Republicans identified real vulnerabilities in our federal election system? We assess the legal realities surrounding one particularly doomerist prediction in The Nation to try to understand just how concerned we really should be.
The Washington Post has just revealed that Elon Musk has his own little secret: his numerous past violations of federal immigration law. How much does this matter, and what would happen if ICE received this information about someone who didn’t happen to be the world’s wealthiest person?
Finally, for our dessert course Matt has the scoop on a tasty footnote from this week’s news about how the Librarian of Congress just helped to fix the ice cream machine at your local McDonald’s.
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“That “Little Secret” Between Trump and Johnson? Here’s What It Could Mean,” Elie Mistal The Nation (10/29/2024)
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“Election certification under threat,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (8/12/2024)
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“Melania Trump modeled in US prior to getting work visa,” AP News (11/4/2016)
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“They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War,” Andy Greenberg WIRED (4/20/2021)
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“Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies,” U.S. Copyright Office Docket No. 2023-5 (10/28/2024)
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NBN Book of the Day - Nicholas Spencer, “Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion” (Oneworld, 2024)
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.
The true history of science and religion is a human one. It's about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It's about the sincere but eccentric faith and the quiet, creeping doubts of the most brilliant scientists in history - Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein. Above all it's about the question of what it means to be human and who gets to say - a question that is more urgent in the twenty-first century than ever before.
From eighth-century Baghdad to the frontiers of AI today, via Song dynasty China, medieval Europe and Soviet Russia, Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion (Oneworld, 2024) sheds new light on this complex historical landscape. Rejecting the thesis that science and religion are inevitably at war, Nicholas Spencer illuminates a compelling and troubled relationship that has definitively shaped human history.
Nicholas Spencer is Senior Fellow at Theos, a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion and a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of a number of books including Darwin and God, The Evolution of the West and Atheists. He has presented a BBC Radio 4 series on The Secret History of Science and Religion, and has written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, New Statesman, Prospect and more. He lives in London.
Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter.
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