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The Indicator from Planet Money - Greetings from: Our favorite public goods

Freedom of the Seas. GPS. The Large Hadron Collider. These are all public goods that make our world more prosperous, accurate, and knowledgeable. But we don’t always give them the attention they deserve. 

Today on the show, the Planet Money book’s main author Alex Mayyasi joins us to take an audio world tour of spectacular public goods, one whimsical postcard at a time. 

These postcards are gorgeously illustrated in the Planet Money book. 

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Lighthouses, Autopsies And The Federal Budget 
The highs and lows of US rents 

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NPR's Book of the Day - Keith O’Brien on ‘Heartland,’ Larry Bird and the basketball career that almost wasn’t

Larry Bird – one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA – once gave up his college basketball career to return to his hometown, French Lick, Indiana. But soon after, an assistant coach went searching for Bird and brought him back to Indiana State. Bird’s return to basketball and subsequent rise is the subject of a new book by Keith O’Brien, Heartland: A Forgotten Place, An Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird. In today’s episode, O’Brien talks with NPR’s Scott Simon about Bird’s origin story, his distaste for reporters, and how a matchup vs. Magic Johnson changed basketball.

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Tech Won't Save Us - Why Iran is Attacking Data Centers w/ Sam Biddle

Paris Marx is joined by Sam Biddle to discuss what it means for data centers to become targets in a war, and how Silicon Valley is aiding the US war against Iran.

Sam Biddle is a technology journalist at The Intercept.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

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The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.

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  • Send your questions to mailbag [at] techwontsave [dot] us!

  • Sam wrote about Iran’s attacks on data centers and its legality.

  • Here is Sam’s most recent piece about Palantir and NYC public hospitals.

  • The Intercept is also covering the role of social media in the US-Iranian war.

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The Best One Yet - 💰 “UFO” — SpaceX’s Unique Financial Offering. Allbirds’ fallbirds. Alex Cooper’s Reality Games. +Typos for titans

SpaceX filed to go public… But this IPO will be a Unique Financial Offering.

Allbirds sold for 99% off, from $4B to $40M… the big lesson is an inconvenient truth.l

Alex Cooper is launching a reality TV competition… because reality is a Profit Puppy.

Plus, secret new career hack… Typos (billionaires love ‘em)


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Trump Went to Court—But Left Early

Even with Trump in attendance, it didn’t look like the Supreme Court was buying his administration’s attack on the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship. But how the justices decide the case could leave the door open for another, savvier attempt to overturn birthright citizenship in the future.


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Global News Podcast - Reach for the Moon

Nasa has said it's back in the business of sending astronauts to the moon, after the Artemis II mission successfully blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It said there had been a temporary loss of communications but all was now well, and the four astronauts on board were safe, secure and in great spirits. The spacecraft is expected to circle the far side of the Moon and eventually return to earth. In other news, in a TV address President Trump has said the US is close to meeting its objectives in the war against Iran. And police in the Chinese city of Wuhan are investigating a malfunction which led to at least 100 self-driving cars stopping in the middle of the road.

The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk

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It Could Happen Here - Slouching Towards Gallipoli: How The U.S. Might Be Losing To Iran

Robert breaks down exactly what's happening in the gulf and how Iran may have trapped the U.S. in an unwinnable disaster.

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Planet Money - Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment

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For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic strategies: leaning on friendly communist and socialist countries, and flirting with capitalism. And right now it seems the US is making both strategies impossible.

Since January, the U.S. has been preventing almost all oil from reaching the island. Doctors can’t get to the hospitals where they work, many buses aren’t running, trucks can’t deliver food and medicine where they’re needed. And there have been frequent blackouts. On more than one occasion over the last few weeks, the entire country has lacked power. 

It’s hard for people to even talk on the phone because they can’t always charge them or get cell service. So we asked them to send us voice notes describing this moment in Cuba’s history. 

We also wanted to know: How did Cuba get here? On today’s episode: a brief history of Cuba’s communist-capitalist experiment. 

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