Month: April 2025

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Bay Curious - Olivia’s Out On Maternity Leave

Olivia Allen-Price will be taking a step back from the show for a few months to give birth to her second child. Bay Curious producer and editor Katrina Schwartz will be stepping into the host role while she's gone. The two are both parents of young children in the Bay Area, so for this bonus hand-off episode they discuss some of the ways living here has changed since becoming mothers, including the high cost of housing in San Francisco and San Mateo.


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The Intelligence from The Economist - A man of the people: Pope Francis has died

He shunned fancy vestments and paid surprise visits to prisons and hospitals: our obituaries editor reflects on the life of a reform-minded pontiff who preferred to be among his flock. High-protein snacks are on an absolute tear, and one explanation is linked to new weight-loss drugs (7:49). And the thorny business of nudging an employee towards resigning (14:31).


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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 4.21.25

Alabama

  • DHS revokes visas for foreign students at Auburn and Troy Universities
  • A bill to make Juneteenth a state holiday passes House heads to senate
  • State lawmaker says his bill to criminalize abortion protects women
  • AL Wildlife Federation to lease the 5 Rivers Delta Resource center
  • Former Lt. Gov. George McMillan dies at the age of 81

National

  • Trump issues "He is Risen" to Christians, "Happy Easter" to leftist lunatics
  • Border czar Homan weighs in on Kilmar Abrego case touted by Democrats
  • CO authorities discover 2 Mexican men with 1K rounds of ammunition
  • MI dentist files lawsuit against state government over "implicit bias training"
  • Iowa has new state law that allows gun ownership age to start at 18


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Battle of Marathon (Encore)

In the year 490 BC, one of the most pivotal battles in world history took place. 


Just north of the City of Athens, Persian and Greek forces clashed in what was to be the first Persian attempt to invade Greece. 


Despite being seriously outnumbered, the Greeks managed to win a decisive victory that had long-lasting ramifications. 


Learn more about the Battle of Marathon, its causes, and its outcome on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Start the Week - Christianity and British society

As congregations age and dwindle, what are we to make of the decline of Christianity in England? Bijan Omrani argues that Christianity has had a profound and ongoing impact on English society, laws and culture. In his new book, God is an Englishman, he makes the case for the things we stand to lose as a nation as Christianity loses its hold on our hearts and minds.

In Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever, Lamorna Ash talks to those bucking the trend: the young people discovering Christianity. She considers various encounters with faith from evangelical festivals to monastic retreats and Quaker meetings. Through interviews she explores what it means to embrace Christianity today.

Dr Helen-Ann Hartley is the Bishop of Newcastle who has led calls for reform, as the Church of England has been mired in safeguarding scandals. She believes that the Anglican church still has a vital role to play supporting communities, offering a lifeline to the lonely, the homeless, those living with mental illness, and welcoming those of all faiths and none. In order to play its full role in the modern world, she wants to see the church modernised and its governance overhauled.

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Talk Python To Me - #502: Django Ledger: Accounting with Python

Do you or your company need accounting software? Well, there are plenty of SaaS products out there that you can give your data to. but maybe you also really like Django and would rather have a foundation to build your own accounting system exactly as you need for your company or your product. On this episode, we're diving into Django Ledger, created by Miguel Sanda, which can do just that.

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Python Bytes - #429 Nitpicking Python

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Brian #2: CVE Foundation formed to take over CVE program from MITRE

  • Back story: CVE, global source of cybersecurity info, was hours from being cut by DHS
    • The 25-year-old CVE program, an essential part of global cybersecurity, is cited in nearly any discussion or response to a computer security issue.
    • CVE was at real risk of closure after its contract was set to expire on April 16.
    • The nonprofit MITRE runs CVE on a contract with the DHS.
    • A letter last Tuesday sent Tuesday by Yosry Barsoum, vice president of MITRE, gave notice of the potential halt to operations.
    • Another possible victim of the current administration.
  • CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program
    • CVE Board members have spent the past year developing a strategy to transition CVE to a dedicated, non-profit foundation. The new CVE Foundation will focus solely on continuing the mission of delivering high-quality vulnerability identification and maintaining the integrity and availability of CVE data for defenders worldwide.
    • Over the coming days, the Foundation will release more information about its structure, transition planning, and opportunities for involvement from the broader community.

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NBN Book of the Day - Saleem H. Ali, “Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction” (Oxford UP, 2024)

The growing concern about global environmental change and human impacts on the planet has led to the emergence of a broad field of study on the 'sustainability' of human societies. The term's common usage can be traced back to the advent of the Earth Summit in 1992 when 'sustainable development' was broadly embraced by the international community as an ostensibly win-win proposition for economic development, social inclusion, and ecological conservation. Yet both the natural science underpinnings and the social implications of a quest for sustainability have been diffuse. There is a need for a coherent

Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2024) begins by introducing the concept of sustainability and how it has developed. The central chapters consider four key concepts crucial to sustainability: a) material and energy flows in consumption and production; b) technological interventions for a sustainable society; c) tipping points, and resilience in natural and social systems; and d) renewability and circularity in the economy. In the concluding chapter, Saleem H. Ali explores political means of managing anthropogenic change for a more sustainable society.

Saleem H. Ali is Chair and Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of Delaware.

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Strict Scrutiny - Are Trump Administration Officials in Criminal Contempt?

Leah, Melissa and Kate join forces to dig through the Trump administration’s latest affronts to the law and the possibility that its officials could be held in criminal contempt. They also react in real time to the Court’s decision to take up the question of birthright citizenship and cheer Harvard’s stand against the administration. Finally, they take a look at what’s in front of SCOTUS this week, including a new opportunity for the conservative majority to use the EPA as a punching bag and its latest foray into the culture wars.

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What A Day - America At A Tipping Point

President Donald Trump still hasn’t hit the 100-day mark of his second term, but it feels like the country is already hitting some kind of inflection point. On Saturday, we saw a second day of mass protests against the Trump administration’s agenda. Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healy compared this moment to the start of the Revolutionary War, saying, ‘Our freedoms are once again under attack.’ Even New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks wrote about how it’s ‘time for a comprehensive national civic uprising.’ Amid all these proverbial alarm bells, it might seem a little perverse for some Democrats to advocate for a return to a kind of New Deal-era of politics, where more centralized power allowed the government to do big things. But that’s exactly the argument made in the new book 'Abundance.' Co-author Derek Thompson joins us to talk about how America can go back to building and inventing new things, and how Democrats can get people to trust the government again.

And in headlines: The Supreme Court issued an emergency decision blocking more flights of alleged Venezuelan gang members to an El Salvador super prison, Vice President JD Vance got an audience with the Pope, and the Israeli military admitted to several “professional failures” when it killed 14 Gaza rescue workers and a U.N. staffer last month.

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