Month: March 2025

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The Best One Yet - 🧱 “MEGOs” — Mattel’s LEGO dupe. Utah’s online bouncer. Pizza’s stuffed crust strategy.

Mattel is launching their own version of LEGO bricks… What will win, brand or price?

Utah will make you show an ID to download Instagram… It’s a Social Media Bouncer (aka “The McLovin Rule”).

The economics of stuffed crust pizza are wild… so why’d Domino’s take 30 years to make one?

Plus, we’re dropping a Snooze Pod… We read 1 shareholder letter to help you fall asleep for Daylight Savings.


$PZZA $DOM $MAT $META


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Short Wave - Stone Age To Bone Age?

Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery out this week in Nature suggests early humans in eastern Africa were also using animal bones – one million years earlier than researchers previously thought. The finding suggests that these early humans were intentionally shaping animal materials – like elephant and hippopotamus bones – to make tools and that it could indicate advancements in early human cognition.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Picture book biographies introduce children to Toni Morrison and Ruby Bridges

Two biographical picture books introduce children to the life stories of writer Toni Morrison and civil rights activist Ruby Bridges. First, Andrea Davis Pinkney initially encountered Morrison's work as a child. But later, she became the editor of Morrison's children's books. Now, Pinkney is out with And She Was Loved, a picture book about Morrison's life. In today's episode, the author talks with Here & Now's Lisa Mullins about her decision to write the book in the form of a poem and love letter, Morrison's upbringing in the oral tradition, and how Pinkney approached her editing role. Then, Ruby Bridges tells her own story in an autobiographical picture book. In I Am Ruby Bridges, she recounts her experience as the first Black child to desegregate an all white school in 1960. In today's episode, she joins NPR's Mary Louise Kelly for a conversation about the book. They discuss what that first day of school looked like through a six-year-old's eyes – and the way white parents responded.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | From 4Chan to Charlottesville to DOGE

To understand the second Trump administration, you have to understand the internet culture that gave birth to it.


Guest: Elle Reeve, CNN correspondent who reported on the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA for Vice News.


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Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College - Introducing: Campus Files

College holds a mythic place in American culture, but behind the polished campus tours and glossy brochures lies a far more complicated reality. Each episode of Campus Files uncovers a new story that rocked a college or university. Consider this your unofficial campus tour.

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It Could Happen Here - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6

War on three fronts! The gang talks about Volodymyr Zelenskyy's public humiliation ritual, military deployment at the southern border, and Trump's flip-flopping global trade war.

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https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4086787/pentagon-deploys-stryker-brigade-aviation-battalion-to-southern-border/

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4086539/dod-statement-on-deployment-of-stryker-brigade-combat-team-to-help-secure-our-s/

https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/4086531/additional-troops-to-enhance-border-security-operations/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-ukraine-minerals-deal-trump-zelenskyy/

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-643086a6dc7ff716d876b3c83e3255b0

https://apnews.com/article/trudeau-trump-canada-tariffs-us-5d5ef8bd41c4567926d543a9526b2e84

https://www.mining.com/web/copper-prices-surge-as-trump-signals-25-tariff-on-imports/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-live-updates-china-says-its-ready-to-fight-any-type-of-war-us-wants-till-the-end.html

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-lutnick-2b269614084027a4894aa14f3dc16227

https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/wipp-in-carlsbad-under-doge-cuts/

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CBS News Roundup - 03/06/2025 | World News Roundup Late Edition

President Trump has again pulled back on tariffs he imposed on Canada and Mexico. Veterans groups are scrambling, after an internal memo called for 80-thousand job cuts at the VA. The House votes to censure Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas for disrupting President Trump during his address to a joint session of Congress. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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State of the World from NPR - The European Union Decides to Rearm

Leaders of the European Union have voted to approve a plan to dramatically increase defense spending. The move is a reaction to the U.S. reducing its support for Ukraine in the war against Russia's invasion. We go to Brussels to understand the ramifications.

And we hear what the series of recent developments in the relationship between the U.S. and Ukraine could mean for peace talks with Russia.

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