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Podcast: Throughline (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: A Story Of Us?
Pub date: 2022-02-03
We've been seeing a lot of debate recently about how history should be taught. For example, some believe that the Civil War was about state rights while some argue that slavery played a large role in it. But what if we could all agree on one shared history? The past, as we know it, is a collection of billions of smaller stories that coalesce into the stories of families, communities, nations, and entire cultures. According to Tamim Ansary, narrative is the way we invent the past and the key to understanding history is understanding the stories we tell ourselves about three key areas: technology, environment, and language. With a world seemingly more connected than ever and still volatile with a constant sense of fracturing identities, Tamim contends that our shared history is a story we must invent. And the future of our species depends on our ability to develop a story we can all see ourselves in.
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Podcast: This Week in Virology (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: TWiV 837: COVID-19 clinical update #91 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Pub date: 2021-12-04In COVID-19 clinical update #91, Dr. Griffin discusses final results of molnupiravir trial, Omicron variant of concern, outcomes in B-cell depleted patients, recovery in T-cell depleted macaques, peptide for induction of T cell immunity, high respiratory viral RNA loads in infants, IgA and T cells transferred to breast milk after vaccination, sensitivity and specificity of ID NOW, post-acute sequelae at 12 months, disease in low and middle income countries.
Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello
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Links for this episode Update on Molnupiravir results (Merck) Omicron (Wikipedia) P681H and IFN resistance (bioRxiv) Synthetic DMARDS and disease severity (Ann Rheum Dis) Recovery in T cell depleted macaques (mBio) T-cell inducing peptide (Nature) Respiratory viral RNA load in infants (J Inf Dis) IgA and T cells in breast milk (Cell Rep) ID NOW specificity and sensitivity (J Clinical Viral) Risk prediction algorithm (Thorax) PASC in adults at 12 months (Front Med) Letters read on TWiV 837 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to [email protected]
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Podcast: The World (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Taliban takes over provincial Afghan capitals at an alarming pace
Pub date: 2021-08-13The Taliban continues to take over provincial capitals in the north with stunning speed. The US is preparing for a rapid evacuation of personnel, and the Biden administration is dispatching 3,000 troops to help. US officials warn that Kabul could fall within 30 days. And a Hazara family tries to flee Afghanistan. Also, the US may soon open up to more foreign travelers, but require proof of vaccination. Here's a thorny question, though: Which vaccines will count? And in Algeria, wildfires that have been raging this week remain largely out of control.
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Podcast: Unexpected Elements (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Methane - a climate solution?
Pub date: 2021-08-15
The latest IPCC assessment raised alarm about the rate at which manmade emissions are contributing to climate change. Much of the focus for action is on reducing levels of carbon dioxide, however there is a more potent greenhouse gas, methane, produced by natural and industrial processes which, as Roland Pease tells Drew Shindell of Duke University and lead author on the Global Methane Assessment, is relatively easy to target for reduction.Gut microbes and behaviourRoland speaks to neuroscientist John Cryan of University College, Cork in Ireland who is interested in the effects our gut microbes can have on our behaviour. It’s an unusual connection and one which he’s been experimenting on in mice. By feeding the faeces of younger mice to older ones he has found that the older ones’ took on some of the younger ones’ behaviour.Ball lightningBall lightning is the stuff of legend and the supernatural. And yet there are many reported sightings of this phenomenon. Texas State University's Karl Stephan explains to Roland that he is keen to uncover the science behind these observations. He’s running a crowd sourcing project encouraging people to contribute video recordings of any ball lightening events they might observe.Chile mummiesAnd Chile is home to the oldest known mummies in the World. UNESCO world heritage status has been given to a collection of around 300 mummies from Chile’s northern deserts. The mummies of babies, children and adults are thought to have been created in response to arsenic poisoning in the region around 7,000 years ago.How can smart tech tackle climate change?Humans are responsible for emitting over 40 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year – and we all know that we need to reduce that figure to prevent devastating climate change. Listener Saugat wonders whether smart technology and artificial intelligence can help us do this more quickly?Green energy will go a long way to tackling the problem, but integrating wind and solar into our current electricity grid is complicated. Marnie Chesterton hears how AI is being used at a wind farm on the island of Orkney to predict periods of high winds, so that excess energy can be turned into hydrogen and stored, then converted back to electricity when there’s greater demand.Digital mirrors are also playing a major role in optimising performance, and scientists say cloud-based “twins” of physical assets like turbines can improve yield by up to 20%, allowing engineers to identify problems via computer without ever having to be on site.Marnie visits an intelligent building in London’s financial district where sensors control everything from air-conditioning to lighting, and machine learning means the building knows which staff will be on which floor at any given time, switching off lifts that are not in use and adjusting ventilation to save on power. Its designer says incorporating this kind of digital technology will help companies achieve net zero more quickly.And in India, more than half the population are involved in agriculture, but the sector is plagued by inefficiency and waste. Tech start-ups have realised there’s potential for growth, and are using drones to monitor crop production and spraying, giving farmers apps which help them decide when and where to fertilise their fields.Image: Livestock farm in BrazilCredit: Photo by Igor Do Vale/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesPresenters: Roland Pease and Marnie ChestertonProducers: Julian Siddle and Marijke Peters
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Podcast: This Week in Virology (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: TWiV 794: PAMS spray SARS-CoV-2
Pub date: 2021-08-15TWiV summarizes cases of arbovirus disease during 2019 in the US, and explains a study that estimates infectiousness throughout the SARS-CoV-2 course of infection.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode Vaccine Town Halls (ASV) Arboviral illness, US, 2019 (MMWR) Estimating SARS-CoV-2 infectiousness (Science) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly PicksDickson – Climate Reports | United Nations Brianne – Astronomy Picture of the Day: A Perfect Spiral Rich – COVID-19 false dichotomies Alan – Fixing broken machines Vincent – MKBHD Studio Tour 2021
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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 472. This Is Your Brain on Pollution
Pub date: 2021-08-12Air pollution is estimated to cause 7 million deaths a year and cost the global economy nearly $3 trillion. But is the true cost even higher? Stephen Dubner explores the links between pollution and cognitive function, and enlists two fellow Freakonomics Radio Network hosts in a homegrown experiment.
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Podcast: This Week in Virology (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: TWiV 792: Transmission with Jeffrey Shaman
Pub date: 2021-08-12Jeffrey Shaman returns to TWiV to explain how epidemiologists measure SARS-CoV-2 movement among humans, including calculation of the reproductive index, secondary transmission, and what factors affect transmission.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
Guest: Jeffrey Shaman
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Links for this episode A guide to R (Nature) Epidemiology of three SARS-CoV-2 VOC (medRxiv) Impact of delta variant in India (medRxiv) Letters read on TWiV 792 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly PicksBrianne – The Social Lives of Giraffes Kathy – Saturn’s Iapetus, moon in 3-D Vincent – Arkansas Governor Wants To Reverse A Law That Forbids Schools To Require Masks
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]
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Podcast: Left, Right & Center (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Mind your own business
Pub date: 2021-08-06The vaccine mandates are coming. In New York, you’ll now need to prove you’re vaccinated to go to a restaurant, bar, gym or entertainment venue. Other American cities are considering similar rules. In the last week, more businesses are announcing rules about vaccines. How would it actually work to enforce these rules at millions of businesses?
Also: If you have a smartphone, listen up. This week, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) joins the panel to discuss how a high-profile member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was outed by a small publication that obtained commercially available data from his phone to figure out where he was using Grindr. Should you actually start reading those terms of service now? Should the government protect and regulate how our data is collected, bought and sold, or is it best left up to consumers and the companies themselves? Senator Wyden walks us through his ideas for that and an amendment to the infrastructure package that would impose new rules on cryptocurrency transactions. Tens of billions of dollars (an important revenue stream for the infrastructure bill) are at stake.
Then: the panel catches up on the nationwide eviction moratorium, this week’s damning report on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and why we really need to stop stanning our elected officials (looking at you, “Cuomosexuals”...).
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Podcast: This Week in Virology (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: TWiV 791: A mad virologists' T party
Pub date: 2021-08-08TWiV reviews SARS-CoV-2 infection of wild white-tailed deer in the US, mRNA vaccine-mediated protection by spike-specific T cells before detection of neutralizing antibodies, and recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection in T-cell depleted rhesus macaques.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode SARS-CoV-2 in wild deer (bioRxiv) Rapid T cell induction by mRNA vaccine (Nature) T cell depleted macaques recover from SARS-CoV-2 infection (mBio) Letters read on TWiV 791 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly PicksDickson – Virgin Hyperloop shows off the future Brianne – BioNumbers Rich – Advice will evolve as COVID situation changes Alan – Mars Perseverance-themed geocaching swag Vincent – Mattel’s Barbie Turns Women Of Science, Including COVID Vaccine Developer, Into Dolls
Listener PicksNancy – Vaccines at a Party Jeff – How to Survive a Plague, Part 2
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Podcast: Pod Save America (LS 87 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: “No Climate, No Deal.”
Pub date: 2021-08-09Donald Trump fails to stop Republicans from supporting the bipartisan infrastructure deal, Joe Biden and the Democrats look to budget reconciliation as their last best chance to fight climate change, Crooked Media Political Director Shaniqua McClendon joins to talk about Vote Save America’s No Off Years campaign, and New York Times tech reporter Sheera Frankel talks to Jon Lovett about her new book about Facebook, “An Ugly Truth."
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Podcast: The Energy Gang (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: As Profits Rise, Oil Majors Face New Pressures
Pub date: 2021-08-10We started the Covid pandemic at negative oil prices. Today, benchmark prices are above $70. And top oil companies are reporting billions of dollars in profits.
And now there is more scrutiny than ever on how they’re going to spend that money.
Activist shareholders are starting to get climate champions on oil major board seats -- most notably, climate tech investor and former wind executive Andy Karsner on Exxon Mobil’s board.
A dutch court is now forcing Shell to reduce the emissions from its products by 45%, after a successful lawsuit from environmental groups. Oil executives now have their lawyers on speed dial.
And big asset managers, like BlackRock, which lend to many of the world’s energy giants, are scrutinizing their climate plans.
So what does it all amount to as oil markets rebound?
Ed Crooks, the vice chair of Americas at Wood Mackenzie, joins us this week to discuss.
Plus, we’ll talk about a new report card on America’s infrastructure. It’s a slight improvement, but the grade is still pretty awful.
And, carbon offsets are going up in flames. Literally. What comes next for forestry offsets?
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Podcast: Post Reports (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The fall of Andrew Cuomo
Pub date: 2021-08-10
The resignation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. And, as American troops withdraw, the U.S. response to a surge of Taliban control in Afghanistan.
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Today, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation after a state investigation found he sexually harassed 11 women and oversaw an unlawful attempt to exact retribution against one of his accusers. Reporter Michael Scherer on what this means for New York politics and the women at the center of the accusations.
The Taliban is gaining more ground in Afghanistan, as U.S. troops withdraw from the country after two decades. Missy Ryan and Susannah George report on the regional capitals that have fallen to Taliban control and America’s role in Afghanistan’s uncertain future.
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Podcast: The Journal. (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Resigns
Pub date: 2021-08-10
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned today, following the release of a report that alleged he sexually harassed several women. Cuomo will depart office in 14 days and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul will take his place for the remainder of his term. WSJ's James Fanelli details the allegations against Cuomo and describes the woman who will be replacing him.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 452- The Lows of High Tech
Pub date: 2021-07-27Britt Young is a geographer and tech writer based in the Bay Area. She also has what's called a "congenital upper limb deficiency." In other words, she was born without the part of her arm just below her left elbow. She's used different sorts of prosthetic devices her whole life, and in 2018, she celebrated the arrival of a brand new, multi-articulating prosthetic hand. This prosthetic hand has a sleek carbon fiber casing, with specific pre-programmed grips that she can control just by flexing the muscles in her residual limb. She can use a precision pinch to pick a hairpin off of the table, or a Hulk-style power fist to squeeze objects. This kind of assistive technology has been life-changing for a lot of people who have limb differences. But for Britt, in particular, it hasn't been life-changing at all. In fact, her cutting-edge bionic arm has been a pretty major disappointment. "It's just not what you imagine. It's not like I'm like everyone else now, it's something different."
The Lows of High Tech
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Podcast: New Scientist Podcasts (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #78: Will covid evolve to evade vaccines?; the oldest animal fossils ever found; predicting climate change’s extreme weather
Pub date: 2021-07-29
More than a week since England lifted its covid restrictions, infection numbers in the UK are very high. The team examines how the country has set up the perfect circumstances for the evolution of “escape variants” - forms of the virus that may be able to evade our immune systems and vaccines. The team also learns of the discovery of the earliest fossil animals ever found - sponges that are 350 million years older than anything we’ve seen before. They explain how a 14-legged single-cell organism is able to walk without a brain. They also discover what would happen if two superfast stars smashed into each other, and find out why many climate models weren’t able to predict the severity of recent extreme weather. On the pod are Penny Sarchet, Timothy Revell, Leah Crane and Michael Marshall. To read about these stories and much more, subscribe at newscientist.com/podcasts.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Podcast: Bloomberg Intelligence Weekend (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Variable Vaccine Efficacy & Delta's Investment Effect
Pub date: 2021-07-30In this week's broadcast featuring Bloomberg Intelligence analysts and their research, Sam Fazeli examines why the efficacy of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine varies wildly from Israel to the U.K. and Gina Martin Adams discusses how surging delta-variant cases could change investment strategies. Damian Sassower sheds light on the role emerging markets will play on global equities, Mike McGlone addresses the question of whether commodities have peaked, and Ira Jersey breaks down the Fed's FOMC meeting.
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Podcast: This Week in Virology (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: TWiV 788: neuroCOVID with Kiran Thakur, MD
Pub date: 2021-08-01Kiran joins TWiV to discuss the findings of a team at Columbia University Medical Center on COVID-19 neuropathology, and the conclusion that SARS-CoV-2 does not reproduce in the central nervous system.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker
Guest: Kiran Thakur
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Links for this episode COVID-19 neuropathology (Brain) Infections in vaccinated people (MMWR) Infections in vaccinated people (NEJM) Letters read on TWiV 788 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly PicksDickson – Simone Biles and Suni Lee Brianne – How Speed and Distance Dictate the Way Olympians Run Rich – CDC reversal on indoor masking prompts experts to ask, ‘Where’s the data?’ Vincent – Paul and the Mosquitos
Listener PickLin – Your Vaccinated Immune System is Ready For Breakthroughs
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Podcast: 1 big thing (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: A reality check on the Delta variant
Pub date: 2021-08-02You may have seen the very scary headlines this weekend about the COVID-19 Delta variant. One of those was out of Florida, which hit the highest number of new COVID cases since the pandemic began. And last Wednesday Texas reported more than 10,000 new COVID cases, its highest total for a single day since February. In D.C., the indoor mask mandate for those vaccinated went back into effect, as it did for many other parts of the country.
Plus, the Biden administration’s messy COVID messaging.And, why the pandemic means less long-distance romance.Guests: Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News' Chief Washington Correspondent and host of What the Health podcast, and Axios' Erica Pandey.
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Podcast: The Daily (LS 90 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: A New Chapter of the Coronavirus
Pub date: 2021-08-02Recent data from the C.D.C. has found that not only can vaccinated people get infected with the Delta variant of the coronavirus, though instances are rare, but they also can potentially spread the virus just as much as an unvaccinated person.
What are the practical implications of this new information?
Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter for The New York Times.
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A recent report from the C.D.C. strongly suggested that fully immunized people with so-called breakthrough infections of the Delta variant can spread the virus to others just as readily as unvaccinated people.According to an internal C.D.C. presentation, the Delta variant is much more contagious, more likely to break through protections afforded by the vaccines and may cause more severe disease than other known versions of the virus.For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
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Podcast: Economist Podcasts (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: No-sanctuary cities: the Taliban’s latest surge
Pub date: 2021-08-02Sweeping rural gains made as American forces have slipped out are now giving way to bids for urban areas; an enormous, symbolic victory for the insurgents looms. Singapore has enjoyed relative racial harmony for decades, but shocking recent events have revealed persistent inequalities. And why chewing gum has lost its cool.
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