Month: February 2025

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Unexpected Elements - All by myself

French president Emmanuel Macron recently announced that Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa painting will be moved to her very own room at the Louvre, as part of a plan to renovate the iconic museum.

And that got us thinking. Once the crowds have gone home every night, the Mona Lisa will be all by herself, with no other paintings to smile at enigmatically across the room.

So this week, we are talking all things isolation. We start things off by finding out about a key cognitive skill that may have been impacted by COVID-19 lockdowns.

Next, we discover more about the history of loneliness and the impact it can have on your health, before discussing what evolutionary roads isolated island species will go down.

Plus, we’re joined by Professor Jonathan Harrington from the University of Munich. He reveals how our accents can be affected by isolation. That, plus many more Unexpected Elements.

Presenters: Marnie Chesterton, with Christine Yohannes and Affelia Wibisono. Producers: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, with Dan Welsh, William Hornbrook and Imaan Moin.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - It could happen to you: introducing “Scam Inc”

Our new podcast series is a shocking look at transnational organised crime: nearly as big as the illegal-drug trade and far more sophisticated than you might think. Beware. After a week that started with bold tariff moves by the Trump administration, what can be gleaned from how things progressed (09:20)? And a staid, ancient game gets a glitzy modern makeover (16:20).


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The Journal. - Trump 2.0: Less Foreign Aid, More Tariffs

WSJ’s Joel Schectman joins Ryan Knutson and Molly Ball to explore the dismantling of USAID and what it means for America’s future as a global leader. Plus, Trump's tariffs, a Gaza proposal and remaking the CIA.  


Further Listening: 

- Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart 

- Trump’s Tariff Whiplash 


Further Reading:

- How Trump Gutted America’s $40 Billion Aid Agency in Two Weeks 

- CIA Offers Buyout to Entire Workforce as Part of Trump Makeover 

- Democrats Have a New Leader but Haven’t Come to Grips With Failure 


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Money Girl - How to Budget with Irregular Income: 6 Steps for Freelancers & Self-Employed Workers

Laura answers a listener's question about how to manage money and create a budget when you have an irregular income.

Money Girl is hosted by Laura Adams. A transcript is available at Simplecast.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.7.25

Alabama

  • Sen. Tuberville offers bill to eliminate tax of social security benefits for seniors
  • The State of Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier via nitrogen hypoxia
  • State lawmaker offers bill that allows death penalty for child rapists
  • The AL senate passes a bill that recognizes only two genders: male & female
  • A bill offered in state senate allows AL to borrow more money for prison build
  • A bill that bans electronic devices in public school is filed in AL House
  • The South Alabama Veterans Council opposes restructuring bill for AL Dept of Veterans Affairs

National

  • Judge puts hold on Trump buyout option for federal workers due to lawsuit
  • Judge orders DOGE team to not access certain materials within US Treasury
  • Trump says the USAID stole billions of dollars from taxpayers, big scandal
  • Border czar Homan will find out who tipped off gang members of ICE raids
  • House hearing reveals Fauci to be big promoter of cruel animal "research"
  • Katie Hopkins of UK says America winning hard now that Trump is back
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five

In the 1950s and 1960s, the British Intelligence community was shocked by a series of high-profile defections to the Soviet Union. 

These defections proved to be devastating to British intelligence during the Cold War and may have led to the death or imprisonment of hundreds of undercover British operatives. 

These defections changed Western intelligence gathering forever in ways that can still be felt today.

Learn more about the Cambridge Five and how they influenced the Cold War on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Zai Liang. “From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States” (U California Press, 2023)

From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Zai Liang explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial settlement that have relocated many low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York City's Chinatown to new immigrant destinations. Using a mixed-method approach over a decade in Chinatown and six destination states, sociologist Dr. Liang specifically examines how the expansion and growing popularity of Chinese restaurants has shifted settlement to more rural and faraway areas.

Dr. Liang's study demonstrates that key players such as employment agencies, Chinatown buses, and restaurant supply shops facilitate the spatial dispersion of immigrants while simultaneously maintaining vital links between Chinatown in Manhattan and new immigrant destinations.

This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.

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Opening Arguments - It’s Only Been 18 Days, But That’s An Eternity in DOGE Years

OA1122 - We’re not even three weeks into the second Trump administration and already well into our first Constitutional crisis. How was the world’s richest man given access to the nation’s checkbook and the total authority to shut down a $40 billion federal agency with 10,000 employees--and can he be stopped?  After a quick review of some recent good news, we try to understand how Donald Trump and Elon Musk are illegally reshaping the federal government before closing out the news sandwich with a big L for the Proud Boys.

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What A Day - What Will Be Left Of USAID?

The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development continued Thursday. Multiple news outlets reported the Trump administration plans to retain fewer than 300 agency staffers — out of more than 10,000 worldwide. Millions of the world’s poorest people rely on on the foreign aid agency for basic needs like food, medication and water. But that hasn’t stopped Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from trying to feed USAID “into the wood chipper.” Lindsay Branhum, a humanitarian filmmaker who’s worked on USAID-funded conflict resolution programs all over the world, explains what the cuts mean for people on the ground.

And in headlines: DOGE turns to A.I. in its quest to dismantle the federal government, the Justice Department sues the state of Illinois and Chicago over sanctuary city laws, and rapper Kendrick Lamar prepares to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

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