Autism has a long history of misinformation that continues to today. The Trump administration has perpetuated some of this misinformation in the last year. Among other things, officials have claimed certain groups of people don’t get the condition and that taking Tylenol while pregnant causes autism to later develop in children. Today, NPR Science Correspondent Jon Hamilton sets the record straight with host Emily Kwong on what scientists do and don’t know about autism.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3349: Inhuman Distances
Episode: 3349 The Inhuman Distances of the Speed of Light. Today, inhuman distances.
Global News Podcast - India and US strike major trade deal
President Trump says India has agreed to stop buying Russian oil as part of a trade deal with the United States. In return, Washington will lower tariffs on Indian goods to 18%. Mr Trump said Delhi has pledged to buy more oil from the US and, potentially, from Venezuela. Also: Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify in Congress about Jeffrey Epstein. Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norway's crown princess is due to go on trial in Oslo on 38 charges, including the rape of four women. BBC Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg takes part in a new documentary on the challenges of reporting from inside the country. NASA is hit by fuel leaks during a practice countdown for the Artemis II crewed mission round the moon. And a boy swims four hours through rough seas to save his mother and younger siblings off Western Australia.
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This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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It Could Happen Here - Panama 1989 to Venezuela 2026: What History Can Teach Us feat. Andrew
Andrew and James discuss what happened in Panama in 1989 and why people are comparing these events to what is happening in Venezuela.
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Emperors In the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama by John Lindsay-Poland
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Inception researches and builds diffusion language models for faster and more efficient AI.
Roomie is a robotics and enterprise AI company with an ROI-first platform that tracks how well their AI solutions are actually working.
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The World in Brief from The Economist - Donald Trump announces tariff deal with India; America-Iran talks planned, and more
Donald Trump said that America will lower its tariffs on Indian imports after Narendra Modi, the prime minister, agreed to stop buying Russian oil and purchase more from America.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Deep State Wants to Stop Elections, ICE Hunts Children, Weird Shrooms, Iran and More
ICE hires hunt children, Ben warns the Deep State is aiming to halt midterm elections in the United States, weird shrooms make people see tiny figures, the guys explore events in Iran. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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For the first time in more than a year and a half, Gaza has a border open to the outside world. But Monday's reopening of the Rafah crossing with Egypt was limited, and comes after a deadly weekend in Gaza. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy