Month: November 2024

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 11.13.24

Alabama

  • Sen. Tuberville all on board with Trump's plan to dissolve US Dept. of Ed.
  • Alabamians bombard Tuberville re: vote on senate majority leader
  • AL Dept. of Agriculture using grant $ to build up state's food supply chain
  • Poarch Creek Indians hire lobbying firm to push gambling interests in 2025
  • TVA to reinforce dam in Muscle Shoals after disaster in NC from hurricane
  • Mobile called friendliest city in US by Conde Naste luxury travel magazine

National

  • Republicans to control WH, US House and Senate following elections
  • House Speaker calls on federal agencies to preserve all records and docs
  • Calls increase for delaying leadership vote in senate scheduled for today
  • Trump names John Ratcliffe to direct the CIA
  • Trump names Mike Huckabee as US Ambassador to Israel
  • Trump names Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense
  • PA Senator Bob Casey refuses to concede race to GOP challenger
  • Fired FEMA employee says orders to avoid Trump supporters came from high ups




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NBN Book of the Day - David Shoemaker, “Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life” (U Chicago Press, 2024)

What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good conversation and indeed a good life, jokes have never seemed more morally problematic than they do now. How can we then evaluate quips, gibes, pranks, teasing, light mockery, sarcasm when they can all too often be mean, deceitful, disrespectful, humiliating, cruel? And how is a moral philosopher to evaluate such dilemmas without taking himself and morality too seriously or too lightly? 

In Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life (University of Chicago Press, 2024), David W. Shoemaker considers the interplay between humor and morality. With wit and evident joy, Shoemaker considers how "wisecracks" between family and friends are of ethical value despite how morally suspect they may appear. In arguing for the moral status of a wisecrack or a joke as partly resting on the wisecracker's intentions and motives, Shoemaker goes on to show just how complicated and sometimes unwarranted the moral complaints against humor are, despite what many may think. Wisecracks may remain, at the book's end, far from benign or an unalloyed good, but unlike in Plato's ideal republic, Shoemaker is convinced we need to keep them coming. 

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Bone Wars

The 19th century was a period of rapid advancement. New technologies such as the railroad and the telegraph radically changed civilization. 

Scientific advancements were almost constant as we took great strides in understanding our universe. 

One such scientific field that saw incredible advances was paleontology. The field was advanced by two researchers who found an incredible number of fossils…..and who totally hated each other. 

Learn more about the Bone Wars and how two paleontologists advanced the science while destroying each other on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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What A Day - Tech Bros Tasked With Gutting Government

President-elect Donald Trump announced more appointments on Tuesday, giving us a fuller picture of what his incoming administration is going to look like (tl;dr: It's bad). One cabinet spot that’s still open, though: Secretary of Education. Whoever gets the job, they’ll likely be tasked with implementing Trump's campaign promise to close the Department of Education, a long-time GOP goal that dates back to the Reagan Era. Erica Meltzer, national editor at Chalkbeat, explains why keeping that promise will be pretty difficult.

And in headlines: Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego is headed to the Senate, the New York judge overseeing Trump’s hush money trial delayed a decision on dismissing the president-elect’s conviction, and the chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil says the incoming Trump administration should avoid drastic changes to American climate policy.

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The NewsWorthy - Biden Hosting Trump, Snowstorms Hit West & Loneliness at Work – Wednesday, November 13, 2024

The news to know for Wednesday, November 13, 2024!

What to know about a meeting today between President Biden and President-elect Trump.

And Trump’s latest picks for some top jobs, including the surprising pick for defense secretary, and a newly-created role for Elon Musk.

Also, an update about that ultimatum the U.S. made to Israel to increase aid to Gaza – or lose military support. We’ll tell you where things stand now that the deadline has passed.

Plus, why a new law for Louisiana schools is now blocked, which states are already dealing with feet of snow, and a college course all about… Beyoncé.

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

 

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The Best One Yet - 📒 “Don’t Open My Notes” — Apple Notes’ trust strategy. ExxonMobil’s climate shocker. Curse of the Michelin Star.

Apple’s Notes is used by ~700 million people (it's Chappell Roan’s favorite app)… so we found its secret.

ExxonMobil asked Trump to stay in the Paris Climate Agreement… because voters like change, but investors like consistency.

The Michelin Star is the greatest award in the restaurant industry… but it’s also a curse.

Plus, if an engagement breaks up, who gets the ring?... The Massachusetts Supreme Court just decided.


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Short Wave - Should Humans Live On Mars?

As global warming continues and space technology improves, there is more and more talk about the growing possibility of a sci-fi future in which humans become a multiplanetary species. Specifically, that we could live on Mars. Biologist Kelly Weinersmith and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith have spent the last four years researching what this would look like if we did this anytime soon. In their new book A City On Mars, they get into all sorts of questions: How would we have babies in space? How would we have enough food? They join host Regina G. Barber and explain why it might be best to stay on Earth.

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's book A City On Mars is out now.

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Planet Money - The strange way the world’s fastest microchips are made

This is the story behind one of the most valuable — and perhaps, most improbable — technologies humanity has ever created. It's a breakthrough called extreme ultraviolet lithography, and it's how the most advanced microchips in the world are made. The kind of chips powering the latest AI models. The kind of chips that the U.S. is desperately trying to keep out of the hands of China.

For years, few thought this technology was even possible. It still sounds like science fiction: A laser strong enough to blast holes in a bank vault hits a droplet of molten tin. The droplet explodes into a burst of extreme ultraviolet light. That precious light is funneled onto a wafer of silicon, where it etches circuits as fine as a strand of DNA. Only one company in the world that can make these advanced microchip etching machines: a Dutch firm called ASML.

Today on the show, how this breakthrough in advanced chipmaking happened — and how it almost didn't. How the long-shot idea was incubated in U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and nurtured by U.S. tech giants. And, why a Dutch company now controls it.

This episode was hosted by Jeff Guo and Sally Helm. It was produced by Willa Rubin and edited by Jess Jiang. It was fact-checked by Dania Suleman, and engineered by Patrick Murray. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Why the government’s flood insurance program is underwater

Major flooding events are increasingly common across the U.S., but homeowners looking for flood insurance will find few choices. The main providers of flood insurance is the U.S. government through the National Flood Insurance Program, or NFIP. But even though the NFIP is one of the only flood insurance games in town, it's drowning in debt. On today's episode, the NFIP's struggle to stay afloat.

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Hazard maps: The curse of knowledge (Apple / Spotify)
When insurers can't get insurance
Flood money

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