For centuries the Holy Grail has been a metaphor for ultimate achievement. The quest for the Holy Grail is likewise considered a metaphor for an unobtainable goal.
However, the Holy Grail might be more than a metaphor. It might really exist and you can go see it yourself.
Learn more about the Holy Grail, what it is, and what it isn’t, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
AstraZeneca and University of Oxford release third positive COVID-19 vaccine trial data
Trump administration ratchets up pressure on China
Another DCEP lottery trial coming
Our main discussion: a narrative shift, growing attention and a bitcoin shortage.
What happens when demand exceeds supply and supply is being gobbled up aggressively by new market actors? That’s the question posed by Pantera’s recent investor letter and today’s Breakdown episode.
NLW also looks at
The reappearance of bitcoin in mainstream media, like today’s Wall Street Journal
The rise of celebrities coming out as HODLers
BlackRock’s CIO suggests bitcoin could replace gold for many
Humans may soon be able to control lightning, pointing it at targets. Voter fraud (but not the vote you're thinking of). Russian President Vladimir Putin is giving himself lifetime legal immunity from, well... anything. All this and more in this week's Strange News.
Our podcast crew wonders at the disintegration of the Trump case and the dissolution of the Trump legal team and asks whether it is comic or tragic and what the fallout will be. And then we take up the incoming Biden foreign policy team and how woke or not-so-woke it will be. Give a listen.
Holiday travel in a pandemic. Promise for a third potential vaccine. Joe Biden's cabinet taking shape. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
The tone of America’s president-elect on China changed markedly through the campaign; his policies, at least at the outset, may differ little from those of his predecessor. We examine the stark racial disparities in covid-19 outcomes around the world. And the clever use of a waste product to make a better takeaway coffee cup.
Sarah tells Mike about media history, labor organizing, century-old moral panics — and the unlikely Disney musical that introduced her to all three. Digressions include Sting, "The Princess Bride" and 19th century graphic design. Both co-hosts recount their extremely millennial work histories.
Circle the calendar (again) for December 25th: It’s the new Streaming-palooza, courtesy of Wonder Woman and HBO. Wish is IPO’ing because Amazon doesn’t feel enough like a TV gameshow. And Affirm is also going public because you hate credit cards.
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Leah and Melissa and Kate are joined by Meera Deo, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation, and author of Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia (Stanford U Press 2019).
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