The Biden administration’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2021/03/20/a-hostile-meeting-sets-the-tone-for-us-china-relations?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">early moves</a> suggest no “reset” in relations; we recall a time when the game of ping-pong brought the countries back to the table. Although economics has transformed in the past quarter-century, the way it is taught has not; we examine <a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/03/20/efforts-to-modernise-economics-teaching-are-gathering-steam?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">efforts</a> to rewrite the textbooks. And a forgotten <a href="https://www.economist.com/prospero/2021/02/26/disco-se-aagay-fused-synth-pop-and-the-sounds-of-the-subcontinent?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">album</a> by British-Pakistani teenagers gets another lease of life. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffe</a> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

He said, Xi said: America-China ructions

Lion Dance. When the lion says dance, you dance.

One Synth Challenge number 146, with Nusofting's forthcoming synth Sinmad.

Talking drum effect created using feedback. No crates were dug during the making of this track.

DAW: Ableton Live 11
Sinmad x25

Ableton effects
EQ8-Compressor-Limiter-Spectrum racks x20

plus EQ8x2
EQ3 x1
Vinyl Distortion x2

Valhalla Supermassive x1

Youlean Loudness meter x1

Lufs = -14.4

Lion Dance - OSC146 (1st)

Denis Staunton talks to Hugh about the results of last Friday's local and regional elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The results have thrown up many stories, including how Labour's leader Keir Starmer contrived to turn a setback into a leadership crisis, and how pro-independence politicians increase their dominance of the Scottish parliament.

UK election special: Labour's leadership crisis and Scotland's referendum mandate

I dagens Gruppetto-afsnit har Rasmus Byriel og Mathias Norsgaard inviteret Mathias' lillesøster med ind til en snak om hendes vej til verdenstoppen i cykelsporten. Gruppettoen reflekterer over de forskelle, Mathias og Emma har mødt på deres vej som professionelle cykelryttere - blandt andet sexisme på kvindesiden og massere af familieanekdoter fra søskendeparret. Det er en rejse, som byder på store opture, men også enkelte nedture, som har lært Emma rigtig meget.&nbsp; &nbsp; Gruppettoen på Forhjulslir er ikke en del af støtten på 10er.dk. &nbsp;  Medvirkende: Rasmus Byriel Iversen (Herning CK- Elite), Mathias Norsgaard Jørgensen (Movistar) &amp; Emma Norsgaard Jørgensen (Movistar) &nbsp; Produceret af: Anders Mielke (Forhjulslir)

#10 Gruppettoen på Forhjulslir: Emma Norsgaard-special

A 20 second recording of a fictional insect. The two core sounds were recorded in multiple variations from the modular, then sequenced and randomized on the computer.

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More on this 494th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Insect Menagerie (The Assignment: Record a 20-second clip of the sounds of an insect that you yourself have invented) – at: https://disquiet.com/0494/

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Insect Menagerie (disquiet0494)

By chance I had left my microphones in just the right place. In the early hours of the morning, a large male Orangutan starting calling from the rainforest canopy above.

Orangutan calling, Danum Valley

License

Orangutan calling, Danum Valley, Borneo

In this week's Inside Politics podcast Hugh Linehan discusses the status of the IRA. He is joined by Mary Minihan, Gerry Moriarty and Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley. 

Inside Politics is a weekly politics podcast. It is produced by Sinead O'Shea and presented by Hugh Linehan. 

Are the Provos still here?

Night Rain (Naviarhaiku 323)

Commissioned and performed by the ensemble Metamorphosis

Plucked. for harpsichord and strings(2019)

After months of deadlock, a covid-19 relief package <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/12/27/donald-trump-relents-and-signs-an-economic-relief-bill?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">has passed</a>, but the battles continue. We ask how things got so dire and what President-elect Joe Biden will inherit. A deadly shootout in London more than a century ago <a href="https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2020/12/19/a-stand-off-in-londons-east-end-in-1911-still-echoes-today?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">still resonates</a> today; we examine one of the world’s first breaking-news stories. And the colour black reaches <a href="https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/11/07/for-centuries-the-colour-black-has-tested-artists-ingenuity?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">new depths</a> in art.&nbsp;For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Cheques, imbalances: America’s fraught stimulus

U Dont Need To Ask me

The best analysis of the Irish political scene featuring Irish Times journalists, political thinkers and the occasional politician. Hosted by Arts & Culture Editor Hugh Linehan.

Are the Provos still here?

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