Didactic Synapse
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It’s been a long time, but hopefully the new show is worth the wait. Fecal transplants, Yahoo! profits, and lots of yelling. Enjoy!
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Top 3 Links
- An amazing mea culpa from the IMF’s chief economist on austerity
- Canada kills pennies, issues glow in the dark dinosaur quarter
- Fecal transplants cure serious infections
Current Events
- Davey D on Christopher Dorner’s accusations of the LAPD
- John Brennan and the truth about drones
- Bill Moyers: Drones and Democracy
- Hydrofracking safe, says New York health dept. analysis
- DemocracyNow debate: Is Fracking Safe?
- Harvard School of Public Health: More Guns = More Homicide
- Georgia man guns down immigrant after GPS sends him to wrong driveway
Economics
- Jack Lew oversaw Citigroup unit that shorted housing market
- Ending corporate tax dodging would cut the deficit twice as much as hiking Medicare age
- Yahoo, Dell swell Netherlands tax haven
Education
Killer Robots, Etc
- North Dakota glows in the dark
- Wife of Chinese Premier hires body double?
- The world’s new second fastest robot is a tiny cardboard cockroach
- British soldiers flying nano helicopters in Afghanistan
- Sarah Palin’s FoxNews contract not renewed
Hip-Hop
- ICP is dumb
Jasiri X has done a lot of good work making hip-hop about important issues. Here’s a new track from him about the most powerful gangsters in the world today:
Guess what, UK listeners? Fracking is coming your way. Get ready!
Didactic Action: Tell Obama to support the Robin Hood Tax to fight AIDS
Top 3 Links of the Week
- Fracking in the UK
- HMA hospital chain defrauding Medicare and Medicaid for the sake of profits
- When ‘grading’ is degrading
Current Events
- Factory fire in Bangladesh kills 120 workers
- Wyoming professor fatally wounded by arrow helped students to escape
- RIP Liviu Librescu
- Jovan Belcher murder-suicide
- Police say handcuffed high school student shoots self
- 10 Outrageous tactics the police are using
- Former Florida GOP leaders say voter suppression was motive behind voter fraud law
- The case for governing by lottery
Economics
- Did Sandy save Occupy?
- Geithner: No deal without higher tax rates on the rich
- A racial legacy of the subprime crisis: damaged credit scores
- NLRB issues ruling against Palermo’s Pizza
Education
Killer Robots, Etc
Hip-Hop
dan le sac vs. scroobius pip
I finally did a new episode. You’re welcome. Listen to me talk about Obama’s re-election (just a little), Hurricane Sandy, Israel and Gaza, and some other stuff.
Top 3 Links of the Week
- Naomi Klein on Bill Moyers: capitalism and climate change
- Tavis Smiley and Cornel West on Obama’s re-election
- North Carolina teacher: I quit.
Current Events
- Was Hurricane Sandy Caused by Global Warming?
- The best defense against extreme weather: Live in a rich country
- Israel army leaflet warns Gazans to leave homes
- Karachi factories safety standards appalling
- Voter fraud, Republican style
- PBS protests
- Kucinich: Obama administration must account to Congress for targeted assassinations
- Synesthesia on To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Economics
- Hungry for income, banks flirt with payday lending
- Wal-Mart on Strike
- What really happens when a city makes its transit system free?
- Rolling Jubilee: OWS campaigners buy debt to abolish it
Education
Killer Robots, Etc
- DemocracyNow: Killer robots! (feat. Jody WIlliams)
- Anti-computer-virus pioneer John McAfee wanted for murder
- Artificial muscles created from carbon yarn
Hip-Hop
X-Clan: “Weapon X”
Without even realizing it, I’ve done 75 shows! If you’ve ever wondered about the pre-reboot shows, check out the archive. There’s even some vidcasts there (QuickTime format, alas — this was pre-YouTube). They’re mostly collections of cool music, but there’s some other stuff too. Have a look around.
Anyway, on this week’s show we look at a strike at Foxconn, criminal cell phones (and criminal cops), and the dangers of listening to this show while you drive. How meta! Enjoy.
Top 3 Links of the Week
- Beware the Trans-Pacific Partnership!
- The Exhaustion of the American Teacher
- Today’s lesson: charters do not outperform unionized schools
Current Events
- Unusual Dallas earthquakes linked to fracking, expert says
- Intelligence “fusion†centers yield “useless†info
- PB&J: NYPD officers shoot and kill unarmed driver
Economics
- Strike at Foxconn
- Smiley and West: Lori Wallach from Tradewatch
- TPP on Wikipedia
- ESP: Global Economics 101
- Jeffrey Sachs: What if the “ideal economy†existed?
- Mobile payments: A new frontier for criminals
Education
- Fighting for the right to fire bad teachers — and good ones, too
- Michigan professor strips naked, shouts ‘there is no f—ing God’
Killer Robots, Etc
- Philosophy Bites: Richard Sorabji
- G4TV: Robot News
- Batman charged with obstructing a police investigation
Hip-Hop
3rd Bass: Steppin to the AM
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