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A tartalmat a Stephen Jackson and Brandon R. Reynolds, Stephen Jackson, and Brandon R. Reynolds biztosítja. Az összes podcast-tartalmat, beleértve az epizódokat, grafikákat és podcast-leírásokat, közvetlenül a Stephen Jackson and Brandon R. Reynolds, Stephen Jackson, and Brandon R. Reynolds vagy a podcast platform partnere tölti fel és biztosítja. Ha úgy gondolja, hogy valaki az Ön engedélye nélkül használja fel a szerzői joggal védett művét, kövesse az itt leírt folyamatot https://hu.player.fm/legal.
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A tartalmat a Stephen Jackson and Brandon R. Reynolds, Stephen Jackson, and Brandon R. Reynolds biztosítja. Az összes podcast-tartalmat, beleértve az epizódokat, grafikákat és podcast-leírásokat, közvetlenül a Stephen Jackson and Brandon R. Reynolds, Stephen Jackson, and Brandon R. Reynolds vagy a podcast platform partnere tölti fel és biztosítja. Ha úgy gondolja, hogy valaki az Ön engedélye nélkül használja fel a szerzői joggal védett művét, kövesse az itt leírt folyamatot https://hu.player.fm/legal.
A stream-of-consciousness news podcast exploring the big, little, and unexpected stories that shape our absurd world.
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A tartalmat a Stephen Jackson and Brandon R. Reynolds, Stephen Jackson, and Brandon R. Reynolds biztosítja. Az összes podcast-tartalmat, beleértve az epizódokat, grafikákat és podcast-leírásokat, közvetlenül a Stephen Jackson and Brandon R. Reynolds, Stephen Jackson, and Brandon R. Reynolds vagy a podcast platform partnere tölti fel és biztosítja. Ha úgy gondolja, hogy valaki az Ön engedélye nélkül használja fel a szerzői joggal védett művét, kövesse az itt leírt folyamatot https://hu.player.fm/legal.
A stream-of-consciousness news podcast exploring the big, little, and unexpected stories that shape our absurd world.
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×We did our first live show! It was a bold evening of truths revealed and improvised scenes conjured as if by magic from the rude materials of current news. We thank our friends Mark Gagliardi, Hal Lublin, Annie Savage, and Janet Varney, and all the folks at the Elysian Theater. JOURNOS plans to do it again soon. You cannot want to miss it. And so — in this episode, Brandon and Stephen talk about the Olympics and its obsession with all the hot young new sports , including ... drugs? Then it's on to Iraq, where militias are waging war on the United States through ... KFC . Finally, we look to the near future, where Japanese scientists promise we will soon be able to grow new teeth , perhaps with the help of robots with living human skin . The future is very ... bodily. But the present! The present is all about breakdancing, fried chicken, and other matters of geopolitical importance. NOTES Breakdancing rules // Pole-dancing? // Drugs Olympics!!! // KFC attacks // Fast food in the Middle East // Thomas Friedman's McDonald's theory ... // ... And why it's a dumb theory // Whataburger to the rescue in Texas // Find a location near you // The Waffle House Index // Even FEMA trusts it // Robo-skin science // An army of Chinese robots ... to help us…
Big news! JOURNOS is doing its first live show! If you're in the LA area, come out and see us Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Elysian Theater! We'll be taking the stage to make the dumb news smart and the smart news dumb. And we won't be alone, because we'll be joined by some improviser friends — Mark Gagliardi, Hal Lublin , Annie Savage, and Janet Varney ! to create scenes out of our Live Journalism. News leads to improv, which in turn inspires the next news story. It'll be a true stream-of-consciousness experience! Check out all the details and buy tickets here! Do not delay! We'll see you in July! In this episode, we dive into a story about panda bear diplomacy and how the US almost lost one of our cutest assets . Then we genuflect about the possibility of having our first Millennial saint , a young man who built a website for miracles practically in the Web 1.0 days and who, after his death, may well have inspired some miracles himself. We dig deep into issues of faith and geopolitical animal husbandry. Prepare yourself by praying (or voting) for whatever lights your candle.…
For years, rear view mirrors have urged us to be aware that "objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear." And if you think about it, that's a pretty heady statement for a piece of automotive equipment -- reminding drivers that nothing in reality is exactly what it seems. That was certainly the case for a bunch of despondent youngsters and their families in Glasgow, Scotland, upon entering what was billed to be an interactive, mind-bending, immersive Willy Wonka experience. Instead, the tots and weary parents were faced with something much more reminiscent of a meth lab. A wonka-style Fyre Fest? You better believe the comparison was drawn . Around the same time, across the pond, a larger discussion of business liability was discussed in the Supreme Court. The subject? Section 230 , a "sword and shield" sort of law that protects companies like Facebook and others from liability based on what people say on their platforms, and provides them with the right to boot folks off of their platforms at their discretion. But perhaps what's most interesting about this story is its inability to be neatly placed in either a red or blue box, politically speaking. Either way, experts are saying that the Internet as we know it hinges upon the sanctity of this law. So hop on in this haunted gondola ride to the twisted chocolate factory that is this episode of JOURNOS, decide for yourself if this section 230 thing should go the way of a greedy child turned into a blueberry (rolled back) or protected, like a whimsical chocolatier in a funny hat. NOTES E! News Clip on Wonka Fest // Fyre Fest Clip // NYT on 230 // NPR on 230 // Solid Primer on 230 // Biden and 230 // HBR on 230 // ScotusBlog on 230 // NYT on 230...in '96! // FOSTA-SESTA…
It's a new year, and at least one of us at JOURNOS is celebrating Dry January. But what is this strange holiday? What are its origins? And how are booze brands evolving to adapt to the selfish preferences of those who forswear drinking for an entire month? The hard seltzer White Claw offers some answers here, as it unleashes a zero-alcohol product, turning its seltzer into ... seltzer. It is an absurd miracle of form following function. ... Much like the second story we tackled, about how the lifeforms in the emoji kingdom don't match the biodiversity of the actual world . Is this a problem for our understanding of the natural world? An impediment to modern communication? Or should we leave ecology out of emoji and just stick to the ever-useful eggplant? We get into these topics with a surplus of sobriety. In this episode, we promise less slurring ... plus, the ability to legally drive anywhere! NOTES Where Dry January came from // More people gettin' dry // Who's drinking worldwide? // Is Dry January good for us? // White Claw is very proud of White Claw // The Washington Post considers the value of zero-alcohol booze // The emoji biodiversity research // Extinct emoji and endangered emoji // Emojination // What's the most popular emoji?…
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1 ”What Is Consciousness?” with Janet Varney 1:13:27
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We're introducing a new feature here on JOURNOS: a sort of journalism detective agency. You've got a question, we do journalism on it and find the answer. (I should say that the term "do journalism on it" has had a mixed reception.) Our first question comes from friend and guinea pig of the show, Janet Varney, who asks a pretty simple little question: "What is consciousness?" Brandon & Stephen hunted far and wide and interviewed a couple of experts about theories of consciousness, the hard and soft problems, whether you can communicate with people in vegetative states, and more. And then we talked to Janet about it and got deep on how these theories affect our view of ourselves, our world, and shine some light on what version of reality we'd all prefer. Get ready to think about how we talk about thinking, and what we think we're talking about when we talk about what we're thinking about. It's a trip from the neurons to the stars. NOTES Timothy Bayne weighs in on when consciousness starts and name-calling in the field Martin Monti talks mind-reading , vegetative states , and cloning consciousness Finding consciousness in the brain The juices & jolts of consciousness Anil Seth says we create our reality ... And takes a stab at defining consciousness ... Which may be a fight against entropy The current academic-type theories The recent catfight over one theory of consciousness Some history of panpsychism ... And a little more history of panpsychism ... And more on whether consciousness might be everywhere Orchestrated Objective Reduction Theory ... Is wet enough for quantum You're never far from Buddhism…
Suggested new phrase for the confusing pace of modern life: "It's like having chopsticks stuck in your brain." Not, of course, the song (we would never be so basic). No — literal chopsticks, but lodged in such a way that you can still go about your business ... just, everything just seems a lot harder. One man unwittingly has become the symbol for this new symbol, a man who got chopsticks lodged in his brain ... and didn't even know it. So begins our exploration of weird stories about bodily invasion by foreign objects, from houseflies to, ahem, "a whole coconut." Which of course led to the biggest invasion story of our time: artificial intelligence. In this episode, Brandon and Stephen survey the state of AI by looking at what it's doing to journalism, from clickbait to personalized news. Will we leave it to machines to tackle the essential chopstick stories of our time? Will that free us up to work on real stuff that's not about a whole coconut that somehow found its way into somebody's ass ? Will AI really be a trusty sidekick for our biggest stories? And will Angela Lansbury be the voice of the movement? Most importantly: Why are mummies part of like the third-grade curriculum? As one chopstick said to another, "We're really getting up to something now!" NOTES Complex’s combo chopsticks/housefly story // AI usage hype // The Sports Illustrated AI shitshow , and the weird fake author profiles // What people were reading on CNN in 2022 // A big-picture look at AI and journalism // AI and media predictions // One possible model for AI journalism // Our conversation with cartoonist Ted Rall from March…
Is the universe a simulation? If so, is there someone twisting the dials or is the universe a big computer running itself, a program that includes things like the coati and those sneakers with wheels in them? It's a big question (the biggest, really), and in this episode we dig into it with Dr. Melvin Vopson . Melvin is an Associate Professor of Physics at the UK's University of Portsmouth, and he's made news for his work studying the nature of information and entropy. His conclusion? The way things work — from electrons on up to stars — looks suspiciously like how a computer might run things. It's a fascinating and controversial idea. Is information the base layer of the universe ? And does this mean there's a planet full of popular, well-known fantasy characters out there somewhere? We expel a little heat energy into the void to figure out how real Melvin Vopson's theories might be. (And how real we ourselves might be.) NOTES More on the simulation idea // Melvin's Second Law of Infodynamics // The implications for genetics // The Information Physics Institute…
This Spooky Season, two twisted tales ... In the first fearsome fable, an old monster returns: drugs in the Halloween candy . Fear not, because while there are terrifying candy-looking drugs out there, they're not aimed at kids . But the familiar holiday myth is a reliable zombie , dumb yet unkillable. To address the misnformation, we dress as wet, sexy vampires and go in search of truth ... or treats. In the second sinister story, a terrifying force develops a taste for wine: we learn that climate change will actually improve the taste of Bordeaux . (But at a ghastly cost: the taste of beer will get worse .) In this episode, we confront the uncomfortable: that some myths retain their power no matter how much debunking goes on, and that some truths are so scary we don't want to face the nuance. Pour yourself a glass of the future and bite down on some razor-sharp apples with us in this Very Journos Halloween ... (Mwah ha ha ha hah!) NOTES Judy Klemensrud's NYT Op-Ed More on the fentanyl fear Spooky Halloween spending numbers here and here NatGeo and Agence France-Presse have a similar take on the Bordeaux news “The weather isn’t climate change” “The good news on climate” “Why climate change is good for the world” Farmers may benefit from climate change Get ready to cruise the Northwest Passage…
It's mankind versus nonhuman invaders in this episode of Journos! Stephen's big talk about pant legs gets Brandon thinking about a Washington Post story on rat-hunting that reads like a newspaper version of a snuff film ... only with rats. What's with WaPo's obsession with the city's rats? Our sleuths dig into the last few years of coverage to sort out whether the city's paper of record really really loves rats, or really really hates them. (Seems like a cross-species frenemy situation.) All this talk of invasion inspires Stephen to ruminate on Mexico's space alien problem. The problem turns out not to be the aliens, though, because the aliens are fake. The problem is the fabulist who somehow got into Mexico's Congress to talk about fake aliens. And the bigger problem, as we unpack here, is that the news media is only too happy to push the "alien" part of the story without spending too much time on the "fake" part. So, prepare your terrier for battle. This episode goes for blood. NOTES Washingtonian Magazine gets to the dog story first! // WaPo's rat obsession includes playing rats , video game rats , ratcatcher tips , rat czars , rat panic , heroic rats , and car-eating rats // Orkin reveals the rattiest cities in America // Reuters and NPR report on aliens in Mexico (but wait: here's the original Reuters and original NPR versions!) // WIRED, not having it // El Pais gives us Avi Loeb's support // Loeb is no joke, astronomically speaking // Harvard goes all in on Loeb's alien hunt…
After some discussion of one of the lesser-known markers of climate change (sticky leather seats), we kick off this episode by introducing you to a new guest host: Hondo! Then it's on to the question of how we endure crises. First, the unfortunate recent diarrhea incident that forced a Delta plane to turn around . Then, we talk about a recent study in the journal Science that posits the human population went through a bottleneck such that we were down to fewer than 1,300 people . That the modern human is the product of pretty serious inbreeding guides us straight into a new segment: a game show! Stephen runs the gauntlet of "Journos in the Hot Seat" to learn all about how, after the success of "Barbie," the toy company Mattel is itself trying to evolve its products into 45 upcoming movies . (Some creative inbreeding seems inevitable.) Join Stephen (and Hondo) in ... the Hot Seat!…
In this episode — stories of small towns, starting with a moral quandary for Stephen in the smallest town of all: the open ocean(?) What would he do if a rogue otter tried to steal his surfboard ? From there we get territorial on two country songs that are topping the charts of the culture war: Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town" and Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond." Both songs are big conservative talking points, but while Aldean's traffics in big-city stereotypes, Anthony's is a folky class commentary, even if its policy positions are a little wonky. Which leads us down a two-lane road to a real exploration of power in small towns: the saga of the Marion County Record , a Kansas newspaper raided by local police for reasons that sound more personal than professional . While the cops had to return what they snatched , the tale shows how small-town stories can have international implications. Stow your surfboard, pull up a stump, and let's jam a bit about class, press freedom, and greedy sea mammals.…
It's the season of unions, and we've found a union story that's nearly mythic. In February, performers at the Buena Park, CA, location of the Spanish-chivalry-dinner-theater-experience Medieval Times went on strike. They claim dangerous working conditions, low pay, sexual harassment, and unacceptable treatment of the horses all contribute to a work environment that is (might as well just say it) medieval. In this episode, we talk to union organizer and strike captain Jake Bowman about living out the modern metaphor of a peasants' revolt, joining a union with The Rockettes, and why it's still cool to be a knight even if life and limb hang in the balance. Forsooth it is verily an episode about the state of labor in Ye Olde United States!…
The news media is a pretty literal biz. It regularly reports on only two metaphors: One is what that groundhog does every February. The other is what the Doomsday Clock does every January . The Doomsday Clock is that thing that has been ticking intermittently toward (and sometimes away from) midnight (AKA the end of the world) since it was created in 1947 by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , a publication launched by Albert Einstein and some scientist chums after WWII to keep people informed on the risk of man-made apocalypse. (The Bulletin has since added some categories, like climate change, biosecurity, and artificial intelligence.) In January, The Bulletin set the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight , the closest it's been to apocalypse (per the scientists calculating such things). It's because of Russia, of course. Who would run such a grim-sounding publication? And are they extremely emo? In this episode, we talk to The Bulletin 's editor-in-chief, John Mecklin , about the dangers of nuclear weapons, the power of metaphor, how AI complicates everything, and whether editing The Bulletin is the gloomiest job in journalism ... or the best. Get ready for the only conversation about existential risk that asks the tough questions, like whether heaven exists as a dimension beyond time itself. Oh yeah, we go there. NOTES A very short statement on AI risk // ... And The Bulletin 's take on that statement // Here's OpenAI's Sam Altman talking to Congress . Can you tell if he's really asking for help ... or just trying to distract some easily confused politicians?…
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1 Elon Musk’s Neuralink Broke a Lot of Animals to Get Ready for Human Trials, w/Valerie Demicheva 26:02
(UPDATE: Here's Valerie's story .) Hold on to your brain stems: Elon's in the news again. This time, it's because the FDA approved Musk's company Neuralink to begin human trials for its brain implants , which he's claimed will do everything from curing paralysis and autism to turning us into web-surfin' cyborgs . But on this episode, our second-time guest, Valerie Demicheva , takes us through Neuralink's history of animal-welfare violations, which have led to investigations by the USDA and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine . We talk with Valerie about the promise of brain-implants, the questionable effectiveness of animal testing, and Musk's amazing ability to bend media coverage to his will ... perhaps through the invasive implantation of Twitter. Meanwhile, with this episode, let us implant ideas that may enable you to move your own opinions ... with your mind .…
Used to be, we had forest spirits and talking animals and whatnot. But those days are long over, and now the closest to a mythology we moderns have is celebrities — those magical sprites that materialize in a puff of self-regard and vanish in a flash of cameras. It's not Grimm, but it is grim. The Great American Fairy Tale added a new chapter recently when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were involved in a post-gala paparazzi pursuit that the royals' PR called "near catastrophic." Since nothing seemed to have happened, it suggests that just being in the neighborhood of catastrophe might be kind of boring . Still, the event inspired Brandon & Stephen to think about celebs in the media, and that took them to another figure of myth and legend: Florida Man . Where does he come from? Why is he always getting into trouble? And what does it have to do with the state's Sunshine Laws ? But what's a fairy tale without a twist? In this case, it's how laws designed for government transparency can be used to ruin the lives of regular citizens . If our story has a villain, it's gotta be Gov. Ron DeSantis, "the Florida Man Who Would Be King" ... if he can just manage to shut down anyone trying to tell stories about him . In this episode, we tell a tale of swamps and snakes, haunted reputations, the power of sunshine, and a kitten trying to get into a strip club. Gather, children! NOTES The Royal Press Agent speaks! // Some Florida Man memes courtesy the NY Post // And USA Today , and here and here // The police like Florida Man stories too // The problem with mugshot tabloids , also here // Louisiana's bill to put juvenile arrest records online // China loves a good shaming! // The DeSantis administration dims Florda's Sunshine Laws , also here and here and here CLIPS The Royal Chase on "The Today Show" "Good Morning America" has a Florida Man story with a happy ending…
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