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All the news to know for Monday, August 6th, 2018!
Today, we're talking the NRA, a race to space and an assassination attempt. Plus: facebook dating, Demi Lovato and a new game show.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes.
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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This month the team discusses Eric saying he loves Laracon and then proceeding to lose his shit why he doesn't like Laracon.
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Eric discusses this year's Laracon
John talks about why it's a bad idea to run XDebug in production and exposed to the internet. His pain is your lesson
John posted his credentials to social media
Stupid Router Purchase
We find out why downtown became the go-to destination for Chicago’s tallest buildings, and whether that might change in the future.
This month’s World Book Club broadcasts from the Man Booker 50 Festival at the Southbank Centre, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the renowned prize. In the World Book Club chair is the double-Booker prize-winning British writer Hilary Mantel discussing the second volume in her acclaimed series of novels about Thomas Cromwell. Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history and the downfall of Queen Anne Boleyn whom King Henry VIII had battled for seven years to marry.
Sarah tells Mike that animal behavior is an imperfect template for human society. Digressions include rabbits, Bob’s Burgers and online dating. Mike makes an awkward observation about locker rooms.
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Amicus’ summer of exploring great legal writing continues this week with Jeff Rosen, whose biography of William Howard Taft reveals a president who was scrupulous in observing constitutional boundaries, and much happier on the bench than in the White House.
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On The Gist, guest host Jeffrey Lewis fills in for Mike and talks about trying to solve big problems.
Regulating space is tough because it surrounds the whole world, and people can’t even agree where the Earth’s atmosphere stops and space begins. Jonathan McDowell, astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, thinks he has the definitive answer to where that line is. McDowell recently published “The Edge of Space: Revisiting the Karman Line” in Acta Astronautica.
In the Spiel, North Korea and nuclear weapons.
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The New York Stock Exchange’s parent company plans to launch a digital assets platform and a bitcoin futures product.
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Setting sun? It turns out that US dollars are dominating the bitcoin trading, not Japanese yen.
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A group of Mt Gox’s creditors are ready to claim for bitcoin and bitcoin cash repayments.
Recorded August 3, 2018 in New Paltz, NY.
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