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The Intelligence from The Economist - Shock and thaw: Syria’s frozen war resumes
The country’s civil war never ended—it became a fragile stalemate that fell out of the news. A surprise rebel advance reveals how the war’s international players are busy facing their own challenges. Our correspondent found it so difficult to disappear from the internet that she gave up (10:30). And who were the stockmarket winners as “Trump trades” fired up again (16:54)?
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Start the Week - The story of British art – from cave paintings to landscapes
While the great Italian renaissance painters and the Dutch masters are world famous, why are there so few British artists from this period leading the way? It’s one of the questions the art historian Bendor Grosvenor examines in his new history, The Invention of British Art. From prehistoric bone carvings to the landscapes of John Constable, Grosvenor reassesses the contribution British artists have made at home and abroad.
The writer and former curator at the V&A Susan Owens wants to turn our attention to drawing. It is a simpler, more democratic form of art-making, she argues in The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art. And one that is a fundamental part of the creative process. She reveals what can be learnt by looking again at the sketches made by Gainsborough, William Blake and Tacita Dean.
The artist Lucinda Rogers specialises in urban landscapes. She immerses herself in her environment and records straight from eye to paper. Her intimate street views explore the changing nature of cities, from London to New York. During the US Presidential election she travelled to different locations as a reportage illustrator. A reproduction of her first sketchbook, New York Winter 1988, has just been re-released.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.2.24
Alabama
- 3 AL congressmen denounce recent threats to Trump Transition Team
- AL Redistricting case will go to trial on February 10th of 2025
- Biden admin. wants SCOTUS to review AL's ban on transgenderism for minors
- AL judge calls articles about his leniency on crime as "disinformation"
- Locust Fork man builds 2 bridges in NC and calls out FEMA for neglect
National
- Joe Biden pardons his son for decades of crime, despite promise not to
- Trump nominates Kash Patel to become next FBI director, ousting Wray
- Trump plans to dismantle Biden's student loan forgiveness programs
- Rudy Guiliani of NYC continues with law fare cases against him for his association with Trump and revelation of Hunter Biden laptop contents
Social Science Bites - Joshua Greene on Effective Charities
Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Tea (Encore)
Sometimes over 3000 years ago, somewhere in Southwestern China, a leaf from the Camellia sinensis plant may have accidentally found its way into a pot of boiling water.
Noticing that the leaf had turned the water a different color, some person unknown to history drank the concoction and found that it was good.
That was the start of something that is today a globe-spanning multi-billion dollar industry that millions of people indulge in every day.
Learn more about tea, its origins, and how it spread around the world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Strict Scrutiny - Gender-Affirming Care in the Court’s Crosshairs
After touching on some shenanigans from the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention and Chuck Schumer’s lousy deal on judicial appointments, Leah, Kate, and Melissa preview December’s upcoming Supreme Court cases. The Justices will hear arguments in cases about gender-affirming care for minors, the FDA’s denial of authorization to flavored e-cigarettes, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
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Opening Arguments - Please Stop Spreading Panic About Denaturalization
OA1094 - Denaturalization and an executive order revoking birthright citizenship for children of undocumented parents have both been in the news a lot recently, and Matt would like everyone to take a breath and do some realistic risk assessment. We review what it actually takes to denaturalize someone under our current system, and what it would take for a majority of even this Supreme Court to say that the Fourteenth Amendment doesn’t say exactly what it says.
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Departure Statement of Wong Kim Ark, National Archives San Francisco
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Trump announcement on birthright citizenship executive order, Agenda 47 (2024)
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Birthright Citizens: a History of Race and Rights in Antebellum History, Martha Jones (2018)
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The NewsWorthy - Hunter Biden Pardoned, Wintry Weather & Movie Theater Etiquette – Monday, December 2, 2024
The news to know for Monday, December 2, 2024!
We’ll tell you about how President Biden is pardoning his son, despite promising not to, and which family friends President-elect Trump has chosen for his next administration.
Also, what Americans bought on Black Friday, and what deals are out there this Cyber Monday.
Plus, a major snowstorm impacting several states, the world’s first social media ban for high schoolers, and should you be allowed to use your phone in a movie theater? A new release is stirring an old debate.
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Short Wave - Why Your Brain Loves Sales
This Cyber Monday, a meditation on holiday sales. A quick trip to pick up presents can turn into an hours-long shopping spree thanks to all the ways stores use research from fields like consumer neuroscience and neuromarketing to entice you. Retailers create urgency and scarcity to push you to give into the emotional part of your brain, motivated by the release of dopamine.
But with the help of NPR business correspondent Alina Selyukh, we get into the psychology of sales and discounts: Why it's SO hard to resist the tricks stores use — and some tips to outsmart them.
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But with the help of NPR business correspondent Alina Selyukh, we get into the psychology of sales and discounts: Why it's SO hard to resist the tricks stores use — and some tips to outsmart them.
Read Alina's full story here.
Questions about the science driving the world around you? Email us at shortwave@npr.org.
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