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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S10 Bonus: Shaunak Roy, Yellowdig (Replay)
Shaunak Roy spent 10 years in the tech industry before deciding to be a tech entrepreneur. In undergraduate, he studied mechanical engineering and eventually came to the states for his masters. Outside of running a company, he has 2 daughters and enjoys playing games and observing their patterns of learning, which applies to his current venture.
Throughout his life, Shaunak has always been fascinated by learning. When looking into building his own startup, he noticed that there wasn't a learning platform built around the mechanics of social media, and community.
This is the creation story of Yellowdig.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Legally bombed: Trump cases dropped
Donald Trump had been facing a swathe of lawsuits this year. Now he has won a second term in office, the cases against him are falling away. Why wellness trends may be contributing to iodine deficiency (8:02). And the secrets of elevator etiquette (13:58).
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 11.26.24
Alabama
- AG Marshall signs onto letter urging no new negotiations by Biden admin
- Bill is prefiled to make tax exemptions on overtime pay a permanent law
- State rep. Matt Woods to run for state senate seat held by Greg Reed
- Birmingham mayor announces memoir book release in January of 2025
- FL Doctor surrenders medical license after death of AL man during surgery
- Huntsville International airport to offer non stop flights to NYC in 2025
National
- Special counsel Jack Smith to dismiss cases filed against Trump
- Haitians in Springfield OH plan to move to sanctuary cities after inauguration
- Axios CEO whines about the X platform providing news to Americans
- Ukraine fires newly obtained US long range missiles into Russian territory
- Joe Biden says he will be attending the inauguration ceremony for Trump
Honestly with Bari Weiss - How to Save America with Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan does what we try to do every day at The Free Press: tell the truth, make sense of things plainly and without pretension, frame the news in a way that helps the reader make sense of things, and put things in a historical context that gives the day-to-day depth and meaning.
The very annoying thing about Peggy Noonan is that she makes the thing that we know is so very hard look so very easy. And she does it week after week after week in The Wall Street Journal—which adds up to more than 400 columns over the last 25 years.
In her newest—and ninth—book, A Certain Idea of America, she collects 80 of her best columns published over the last eight years. Now, the idea that old newspaper columns might be good fodder for a book sort of seems like a weird idea, given that newspapers are most famous for being the next day’s fish wrapper. But somehow this book feels urgent and timeless. Which means that Peggy Noonan’s old columns are better than most people’s brand-new ones.
That’s probably because she knows a thing or two about rhetoric and American politics. She was a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. She helped President George H.W. Bush get elected. She consulted for the TV show The West Wing.
In today’s conversation, we talk about how Peggy understands Trump’s win and the political revolution that we’re living through, what it feels like to lose in a values war, and what it feels like to defend things like civility and decency in 2024. We also talk about Trump’s appointments so far, Peggy’s first meeting with Trump, and how, despite our troubles, America remains a good and great country—and why it’s so important for young people to know that.
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NBN Book of the Day - Nina Valbousquet, “Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah” (La Découverte, 2024)
The exceptional opening of the archives of the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958) in 2020 did not end the controversies surrounding the silence of the pope in the face of Nazi atrocities. But, beyond the controversies, what do these new sources reveal? What do they contribute to our understanding of the Shoah, the Second World War and religious power? Do they allow us to grasp more finely the deep ambivalences of the Vatican, between charity and prejudice, in the face of anti-Jewish persecution?
Based on three years of examining these considerable funds in Rome, Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah (La Découverte, 2024) probes the motivations and dilemmas of the people involved in this story, their voices but also their silences. Going beyond a classic approach focused on the pope and diplomacy, this work sheds light on the political, humanitarian, religious and cultural issues of the Holy See's choices. The book raises this question in the long duration of relations between the Church and the Jews in order to evaluate the weight of a centuries-old culture of hostility in the Vatican's responses to anti-Semitic persecutions, before and during the war, but also after the Shoah. Has this unprecedented level of violence against a minority shaken the old bedrock of Christian anti-Judaism?
Finally, by making the voices of those on the ground and the persecuted heard, in particular those of mixed Judeo-Christian families, this book questions more broadly the resilience of religion in the face of genocide and the capacity of our civil societies to respond to mass violence.
This book was originally published in French as Les âmes tièdes: Le Vatican face à la Shoah (La Découverte, 2024)
Geraldine Gudefin is a French-born modern Jewish historian researching Jewish family life, legal pluralism, and the migration experiences of Jews in France and the United States. She is currently a research fellow at the Hebrew University’s Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and is completing a book titled An Impossible Divorce? East European Jews and the Limits of Legal Pluralism in France, 1900-1939.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Fermat’s Last Theorem
For more than 350 years, a single problem stumped the world of mathematics.
The problem was extremely simple to state, yet it proved fiendishly difficult to prove.
For several centuries, bounties were placed on finding a solution, and many failed to prove it.
Finally, in 1994, seemingly out of nowhere, a proof was offered, but it was far cry from the initial promise of being simple.
Learn more about Fermat’s Last Theorem and its legacy in the world of mathematics on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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What A Day - Trump’s Cabinet, A Hodge-Podge Of Loyalists
It’s been just three weeks since the election, and President-elect Donald Trump has already named most of his cabinet picks, including all of the big ones to head executive departments. They are, in a word, eclectic. A mix of traditional Republican establishment types, MAGA diehard and… former Democrats? It’s an open question whether Trump’s picks will find common cause beyond just wanting a seat at Trump’s table. Burgess Everett, Congressional bureau chief for Semafor, talks about how Trump Administration 2.0 could work.
And in headlines: Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped both of his criminal cases against Trump, California says it found bird flu in raw milk that’s available in stores, and Drake uses the courts to get petty.
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Pod Save America - Exclusive: The Harris Campaign On What Went Wrong
In this candid interview, the leaders of the Harris-Walz Campaign speak for the first time about the challenges they faced and why they made the decisions they did. Dan sits down with Jen O'Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks, and Stephanie Cutter to talk about the campaign's roadmap, their approach to nontraditional media outlets like Joe Rogan, the voters they most needed to win over, why they fell short in the end, and what Democrats should do differently next time.
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The NewsWorthy - Trump’s Tariffs Plan, Record Holiday Travel & Rap Feud Turns Legal – Tuesday, November 26, 2024
The news to know for Tuesday, November 26, 2024!
What to know about President-elect Trump’s latest promise for day one: he’s laying out his plan for tariffs on America’s biggest trading partners.
And why Canada is expecting a surge of people crossing the border from the U.S. once Trump takes office.
Plus, specific advice for travelers as the Thanksgiving rush begins, the latest – and biggest – company to rein in its D-E-I programs, and what’s turning rap music’s biggest feud into a legal battle.
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