Name: When The Next Plague Hits - The Atlantic - Ed Yong by TheAtlantic in The Atlantic
Duration: 59 min 20 s
Description: The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risk of pandemics continues to multiply. Much worse is coming. Is Donald Trump ready?

The Atlantic

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Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work. Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-silicon-valley-so-awful-to-women/517788/

Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women? - The Atlantic -  Liza Mundy

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/05/02/rosanne-cash-adrienne-rich-marie-curie/

Recorded at "The Universe in Verse," April 24, 2017: https://www.brainpickings.org/the-universe-in-verse/

Photograph of Rosanne Cash by Molly Walsh / Academy of American Poets

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Rosanne Cash Reads "Power" by Adrienne Rich

In the past decade, liberals have emphasized diversity over unity, and avoided inconvenient truths about immigration. It's time to address Americans' yearning for social cohesion.

Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-democrats-immigration-mistake/528678/

The Democrats' Immigration Mistake - The Atlantic - Peter Beinart

In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.

The Coddling of the American Mind - The Atlantic - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

Assertions about how trauma physiologically impedes the ability to resist or coherently remember assault have greatly undermined defense against assault allegations. But science offers little support for these claims.

This is the second story in a three-part series examining how the rules governing sexual-assault adjudication have changed in recent years, and why some of those changes are problematic. Listen to the first installment here: https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-campus-rape-policy-the-atlantic-emily-yoffe

The Bad Science Behind Campus Response to Sexual Assault - The Atlantic - Emily Yoffe

Trump’s supporters backed a time-honored American political tradition, disavowing racism while promising to enact a broad agenda of discrimination.

The Nationalist's Delusion - The Atlantic - Adam Serwer

The story of the Russian mob in Spain—and the detectives who spent years trying to bring them down.

Gangsters of the Mediterranean - The Atlantic - Sebastian Rotella

Decades before he ran the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for the corruption of Washington.

Paul Manafort, American Hustler - The Atlantic - Franklin Foer

Summary:  "I suggested that he ask Greg," John says, "to which he replied, 'Who?'," and Greg pushes back from the table, exasperated. "I then made the mistake of suggesting his brother, to which Sherlock enumerated twenty-three reasons that that was a terrible idea."

(John's best man speech at Sherlock's wedding).
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A prominent evangelical writer explains how his movement lost its way and fell hard for Donald Trump.

The Last Temptation - Michael Gerson - The Atlantic

The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risk of pandemics continues to multiply. Much worse is coming. Is Donald Trump ready?

When The Next Plague Hits - The Atlantic - Ed Yong

A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.

How ICE Went Rogue - The Atlantic - Franklin Foer

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Dive into the Waves

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Space might seem an empty, vast expanse, but satellites in Earth's orbit face the constant risk of collision - with other satellites and rockets, dead or alive, or with fragments of their debris.

It is now routine for operators of spacecraft in busy highways to divert their mission out of harms way. In fact at ESA, each mission flown performs on average two 'collision avoidance manoeuvres' per year.

In this podcast, episode #3 in the ESA-UN space debris series, Benjamin Bastida Virgili and Hazuki Mori discuss the cost of these manoeuvres and what can be done.

While you listen, check out the corresponding ESA-UN infographic that illustrates this topic: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/02/The_cost_of_avoiding_collision

When The Next Plague Hits - The Atlantic - Ed Yong

TheAtlantic

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