By Tomas Tranströmer
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #1029 – Mar 29 2025
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Global News Podcast - The Happy Pod: Football while fasting — Egypt’s Ramadan pastime
Millions gather each year on Egypt's streets for football tournaments during Ramadan. Also: money-saving beavers, one of the UK's largest Iron Age discoveries and darts helping children in South Africa learn maths.
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: Gamestop pulls a Microstrategy
GameStop plans to buy $1.3B in Bitcoin, following MicroStrategy's playbook. How does this connect to GameStop's 2021 meme stock saga, company financials, and can this pivot can save a retailer whose core business is declining.
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We dive into GameStop's surprising announcement to raise $1.3 billion in convertible notes, potentially to buy Bitcoin. The hosts explore how this connects to the 2021 meme stock saga that gave GameStop its massive cash position, Ryan Cohen's relationship with Michael Saylor, and whether this Bitcoin strategy is a life raft for a retail gaming business in decline. With GameStop's revenue dropping from $8.5B to $3.8B over eight years, is this a smart pivot or just vibe investing?
Notes:
- GameStop announces $1.3B convertible note offering
- Revenue declined from $8.5B to $3.8B in 8 years
- Company has $4.76B cash on balance sheet
- Cash position largely from 2021 meme stock frenzy
- Zero debt after paying off all loans
- Saylor posted photo with Ryan Cohen: "Team Bitcoin"
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:28 GameStop enters the chat
02:05 GME be buying
07:58 Roaring Kitty Redux
10:43 Financials
13:25 Arch
13:56 Business evolution
20:14 Volatility trade
25:28 Not a crazy pivot
30:22 BTC makes an honest market or not...
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The Daily Signal - Karoline Leavitt Opens Up About Life Story, Relationship With Donald Trump
In a special episode of "The Signal Sitdown" filmed at the White House, Leavitt opens up about her relationship with President Donald Trump, her political upbringing, and how the president is garnering record support with young voters.
At just 27 years old, Leavitt is tasked with communicating Trump’s priorities to the American people, oftentimes through testy exchanges with the adversarial corporate media in the White House briefing room.
"I don't think anyone could anticipate having this job," Leavitt told The Daily Signal. "Certainly, one may hope for it, but you never really know if it will happen."
These days, Leavitt makes headlines sparring with journalists, but once upon a time, she thought she might become one. "I always was enthralled with the media and news growing up," Leavitt said. "Always thought I wanted to be a reporter, actually on your side of the table, and covering the news."
That started to change, however, when Trump burst on to the political scene. "2016 was the first election I was actually eligible to vote in, and I cast my ballot in the New Hampshire primary for Donald Trump," Leavitt recalled.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Scientific Method
The modern world is built on science. Today, millions of scientists all over the world are doing research in thousands of different fields and specializations.
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It isn’t perfect, but it ushered in a scientific revolution and helped create the modern world we live in.
Learn more about the scientific method, what it is, and how it developed in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NBN Book of the Day - Jason L. Newton, “Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest” (West Virginia UP, 2024)
What happened to the loggers of America’s past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did these communities continue to create value and meaning in these marginal lands? Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest (West Virginia University Press, 2024) by Dr. Jason L. Newton provides a new perspective on the process of industrialization in America through the study of rural workers in a cutover landscape.
Back when resources started running scarce, the environment of the forest and bodies of workers became the natural resources from which mills and landowners extracted. Bodies and cutover landscapes were mobilized in new ways to increase the scale and efficiency of production—a brutal process for workers, human and animal alike. In the Northern Forest, an industrial working class formed in relation to the unique ways that workers' bodies were used to produce value and in relation to the seasonal cycles of the forest environment.
Cutover Capitalism is an innovative historical study that combines methodological approaches from labor history, environmental history, and the new history of capitalism. The book tells a character-driven yet theoretically sophisticated story about what it was like to live through this process of industrialization.
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