Air quality in the Los Angeles region has plummeted due to smoke from the ongoing wildfires. With all that smoke comes possible risks to human health. So what actually is smoke and why is it so harmful? Jessica Gilman, an atmospheric chemist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, explains what smoke is made of, how it behaves in the atmosphere and smoke's role in climate change. Plus, tips for how to lessen your exposure.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship?
How could Donald Trump make good on his vow to end birthright citizenship, currently a constitutional right? It starts with a willing judiciary.
Guest: Isabela Dias, immigration reporter for Mother Jones.
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Chapo Trap House - 899 – Nut Up feat. Yasha Levine & Rowan Wernham (1/13/25)
We’re joined by journalist Yasha Levine & filmmaker Rowan Wernham of the new documentary “Pistachio Wars” join us to look at water in the state of California in light of last week’s L.A. wildfires. We discuss California’s water history, the network of real estate developers and agribusiness concerns that effectively control California’s water, the Resnick family and their Nut Empire, 21st century company towns, and how California water politics affect the Iran Nuclear deal.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of our Ingenuity 2544: Face Recognition
Episode: 2544 How humans and computers recognize faces. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić recognizes your face.
The Stack Overflow Podcast - Robots building robots in a robotic factory
Postman is an API development platform that lets developers prototype, document, test, and demo all their APIs in one place.
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Read Me a Poem - “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Amanda Holmes reads Robinson Jeffers’s “The Purse-Seine.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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It Could Happen Here - CES 2025: AI Toys Are Coming For Your Kids
Robert and Garrison round up all the horrifying childcare products with AI jammed in them from CES 2025.
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One of the most devastating disasters that has afflicted humanity are famines.
Unlike other natural disasters, famines do not have a single cause. They have happened all over the world for a wide variety of reasons; some of them have natural causes, and others are man-made.
Famines are typically much worse than natural disasters and are rivaled only by pandemics and wars.
Learn more about famines, their causes, and how they devastated humanity throughout history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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CBS News Roundup - 01/13/2025 | World News Roundup Late Edition
Strong winds continue around the Los Angeles area fires as the death toll grows. President Biden delivers final foreign policy speech. Judge clears the way for the release of the special counsel's report on January 6th. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.
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Tech Won't Save Us - Patreon Preview: How Big Tech Made the Cloud w/ Dwayne Monroe
Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldn’t go to waste. We’re releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Here’s a preview of this week’s premium episode with Dwayne Monroe, a senior cloud architect and longtime consultant these kinds of projects. For the full interview, support the show on Patreon.