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The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea: Our choices are grim
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-california-coast-sea-choices-grim.html
...The city has little money to build bigger seawalls, no money for sand replenishment, no money to compensate homeowners for the loss of their property. So he reasoned that Pacifica had a better shot of getting outside funding by showing... (from No Agenda Episode 1162 - "Thank You Comrade")
The collapse of the industrial livestock industry is coming - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/health/livestock-disruption/
...We can build nutrients ourselves, programming complex molecules using precision fermentation (PF). In the biological sense, food is simply packages of nutrients, such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals. Of these, proteins '-- the large molecules that are needed by... (from No Agenda Episode 1435 - "Batu")
VIDEO - Heckling, drama mark House hearing on slavery reparations as top Dem asks, 'Why not now?' | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-hearing-slavery-reparations
...government," he asked whether "our desire to fix the past compromises our ability to fix the present." "Black people don't need another apology, we need safer neighborhoods and better schools, we need a less punitive criminal justice system, we... (from No Agenda Episode 1148 - "Twitter Rattling")
VIDEO - Alleged Russian agent's infiltration of GOP circles anything but subtle - CNNPolitics
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/08/02/politics/maria-butina-republican-circles/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
...That was only after her efforts with Torshin to establish back channel communications between candidate Trump and Putin fell short. By June of 2016, a Russian lawyer met with Trump Jr. and other top Trump campaign officials for the now... (from No Agenda Episode 1057 - "Heckler's Veto")
Institute for New Economic Thinking
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/americas-chilling-experiment-in-human-sacrifice
...We sense illth accumulating in the comments of Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman, who, in her eagerness to get the casinos back in business, told an astonished Anderson Cooper on CNN that she would offer up the city's workers... (from No Agenda Episode 1243 - "Obamable")
JLENS-Billion Dollar Surveillance Blimp to Launch over Maryland - The Intercept
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/17/billion-dollar-surveillance-blimp-launch-maryland/
...Well, any civilian vehicles.'' A DEFLATED PROGRAM Back in 2005, the Army planned to have Raytheon build 32 blimps at a cost of about $180 million each. But growing doubts and hemorrhaging costs, along with the destruction of one blimp... (from No Agenda Episode 680 - Sir Thomas Nussbaum presents "Sponsored Content")
US House of Representatives: who's who in the new leadership? | House of Representatives | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/03/us-house-of-representatives-new-leadership-republicans-democrats
...Michael McCoy/ReutersCongressman Kevin McCarthy of California, Republican nominee for speaker of the House McCarthy, 57, has been plotting his path to the speakership for the better part of a decade. Whether he will finally win the top job remains... (from No Agenda Episode 1518 - "Q-Yoga")
Senators want a US ''Health Force'' to tackle the coronavirus crisis'--and more '' DNyuz
https://dnyuz.com/2020/05/09/senators-want-a-us-health-force-to-tackle-the-coronavirus-crisis-and-more/
...build a database of health conditions (coronavirus, and beyond) and medical records, to track epidemics. This would be a way into the creation of the universal electronic medical record system, which the US has long tried to implement. Better monitoring... (from No Agenda Episode 1241 - "Curtain Wranglers")
Historically racist housing policies exacerbating climate change effects in low-income Portland neighborhoods - oregonlive.com
https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/01/historically-racist-housing-policies-exacerbating-climate-change-effects-in-low-income-portland-neighborhoods.html
...Now, a new study from Portland State University is showing, for the first time, that areas prone to excessive heat are disproportionately populated by low-income communities and people of color due to racist housing policies that stretch back more... (from No Agenda Episode 1210 - "Pain of Imprisonment")
Why I Won't Review or Write for Elsevier and Other Commercial Scientific Journals - The Wire Science
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/why-i-wont-review-or-write-for-elsevier-and-other-commercial-scientific-journals/
...One can ask whether the huge profits made by the publishers under the guise of ''efficiency'' or ''scale'' are not better ploughed back into scientific societies (and nonprofits that support science) rather than to the pockets of wealthy companies and... (from No Agenda Episode 1338 - "Forever Wars")
VIDEO - Clearview AI could change privacy as we know it - Marketplace
https://www.marketplace.org/2023/09/19/facial-recognition-startup-clearview-ai-could-change-privacy-as-we-know-it/
...Give Clearview a photo of a random per­son on the street, and it would spit back all the places on the internet where it had spotted their face, potentially revealing not just their name but other personal details about... (from No Agenda Episode 1592 - "Vermox")
Alex Blumberg's podcast revolution is just beginning. NPR: this is your warning
http://feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/663840/s/4b50c257/sc/38/l/0L0Stheguardian0N0Ctv0Eand0Eradio0C20A150Cnov0C0A70Calex0Eblumberg0Epodcast0Erevolution0Ejust0Ebeginning/story01.htm
...The last one, about the origins of a Welcome Back Kotter lunch box, was posted on July 30. Before that there hadn't been an episode since June 18. So when I interviewed Alex Blumberg, the co-founder of Gimlet... (from No Agenda Episode 772 - "Grim Math")
How Google is slowing innovation | The JotForm Blog
https://www.jotform.com/blog/how-google-is-slowing-innovation/
...to build a monopoly. The quest for dominationMicrosoft famously coined the phrase ''embrace, extend, extinguish'' to describe their strategy for dominating markets where competitors benefited from open standards. Here's an example of how it played out. Back in the... (from No Agenda Episode 1086 - "Shark Hole")
America First Committee - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee
...The United States must build an impregnable defense for America.No foreign power, nor group of powers, can successfully attack a prepared America.American democracy can be preserved only by keeping out of the European war."Aid short of war... (from No Agenda Episode 897 - "Douchebag Disneyland")
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) | Johns Hopkins Medicine
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/postural-orthostatic-tachycardia-syndrome-pots
...This leads to better blood flow to the heart and brain. Once the brain is receiving enough blood and oxygen, these nervous system responses settle back to normal. In people with POTS, for unclear reasons that may differ from person... (from No Agenda Episode 1512 - "Cash is Criminal")
Executive Order -- Climate-Resilient International Development
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/23/executive-order-climate-resilient-international-development
...Executive departments and agencies (agencies) with international development programs must now build upon the recent progress made pursuant to these orders by systematically factoring climate-resilience considerations into international development strategies, planning, programming, investments, and related funding decisions, including the... (from No Agenda Episode 655 - "Network of Death")
We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned : All Tech Considered : NPR
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs
...back to your question, there's hundreds of people that will work with me. What can be done about fake news? Some of this has to fall on the readers themselves. The consumers of content have to be better at... (from No Agenda Episode 881 - "Ant Wars")
VIDEO - Data Stolen in Microsoft Exchange Hack May Have Helped Feed China's AI Project : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1013501080/chinas-microsoft-hack-may-have-had-a-bigger-purpose-than-just-spying
...Now they believe China vacuumed up reams of information in a bid to develop better artificial intelligence, or AI. Matt Chinworth for NPR Steven Adair hunts hackers for a living. Back in January, in a corner-of-his-eye, peripheral... (from No Agenda Episode 1379 - "Afghaniscam")
$1.5 Trillion Omnibus Bill Would Fund Climate, Energy, Water
https://ens-newswire.com/1-5-trillion-omnibus-bill-would-fund-climate-energy-water/
...Funding for the Corps will be used to build projects that reduce the risk of storm damage, improve the efficiency of U.S. ports, harbors, and inland waterways, and restore aquatic environments. The bill also includes $1.924 billion for... (from No Agenda Episode 1432 - "Dry Holes)
Welcome Back to the Office. Your Every Move Will Be Watched. - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/lockdown-reopen-office-coronavirus-privacy-11588689725?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=16
...Tracking employeesBuilding owners said the systems'--similar to measures used in China that helped slow the spread of the virus'--promote health and safety, so that employers can better monitor and enforce separation between workers, and quickly determine which employees... (from No Agenda Episode 1240 - "Meat Must Flow")