Plus: New York area businesses say they are using artificial intelligence more. And a recent study suggests corporate cybersecurity training is fairly ineffective. Julie Chang hosts.
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Science In Action - Why is Afghanistan so vulnerable to Earthquakes?
Despite the relatively low magnitude, earthquakes in Afghanistan this week have left more than1000 dead. Afghan researcher Zakeria Shnizai from the University of Oxford unpicks some of the main causes of the country’s vulnerability to earthquakes.
Also this week, we talk to the climate scientist who led a 400+ page rebuttal to the US Department of Energy’s report on climate change.
We hear about research which has mapped the activity of over 600,000 neurons in 279 regions of the mouse brain to learn more about how decisions are made.
And we get the latest updates on 3I/ATLAS, the latest interstellar comet streaking its way across our solar system, just before it disappears behind the sun.
Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Ella Hubber Production Coordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
(Image: Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes eastern Afghanistan. Credit: Anadolu via Getty Images).
The Bulwark Podcast - Mark Hertling: Performative and Deadly
The lethal U.S. military strike on a speedboat in the Caribbean was more about putting on a show than countering the drug trade out of South America. And it's not even clear that the people killed on the boat were running drugs, or that any contraband was bound for America. Meanwhile, if senators are truly concerned that local police departments are insufficiently staffed, then they should pass a bill to fund more officers instead of pushing the charade that Guard troops can legally do police work. Plus, Russia is running out of ammunition, Ashli Babbitt was no hero, and a dissection of Trump's fatuous 'seven wars' lie
Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling joins Tim Miller. joins Tim Miller.
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Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling joins Tim Miller. joins Tim Miller.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - CFTC Gives Go-Ahead for Polymarket’s New Exchange | CoinDesk Daily
Could Polymarket make a return to the U.S. with the CFTC's no-action letter to QCX?
The CFTC granted a no-action letter to QCX, Polymarket's new U.S. acquisition, over certain regulatory requirements involving events contracts. Is the prediction market coming back to America? CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie hosts “CoinDesk Daily.”
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Inside Europe - Inside Europe 4 September 2025
GPS jamming: how worried should Europe be?
Pipeline wars: what does the bombing of Russian oil infrastructure mean for Hungary?
Confidence vote in France: will this be the end of Bayrou’s government?
Parliamentary elections in Norway: what’s on the ballot on September 8th?
WSJ Minute Briefing - Justice Department Opens Probe Into Fed Governor Lisa Cook
Plus: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defends his ouster of the CDC’s director during a Senate hearing. And fashion designer Giorgio Armani dies at age 91. Alex Ossola hosts.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: PoodleCrab, The Messenger, and Oz Woman
The Messenger prompts a conversation on video games and divinity. Oz Woman replies to the earlier series on the Anunnaki. Following up on the earlier news about China's artificial womb, PoodleCrab and others walk through the positive -- and negative -- implications. A brief homily on Cracker Barrel. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.
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Economic data rolling out this week has helped paint a snapshot of the economy. We found out yesterday that 5.3 million people were hired and 5.3 million quit or were laid off in July. Fresh data out this morning revealed that the private sector added only 54,000 jobs last month. Today, we'll discuss this slowing job growth. Plus, an illegal sports streaming site is shut down, and Texas is restricting the ability of certain foreign nationals to own property.
Global News Podcast - Xi, Kim and Putin: A new world alliance?
After China's President Xi welcomed North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin to Beijing: we ask what do Western nations make of this show of strength?
In this special edition, Celia Hatton is joined by our correspondents across the globe to discuss the reaction to the military parade. China marked the anniversary of the end of World War Two by showing off its next generation of cutting edge weaponry.
We ask if the alliance between the three nuclear armed leaders poses a real threat to the West?