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Semiconductors hit the news during the Covid-19 pandemic, as issues with supply chains led to shortages of cars and soaring prices. Since then, geopolitical tensions have impacted the industry. 90% of the world's most advanced chips are made by TSMC in Taiwan. Now, countries all over the world are investing billions of dollars into the industry, so that manufacturing of these chips can happen in more places and alleviate some of the problems supply chains have faced in the last few years. In today's episode, we visit a new semiconductor fabrication plant in the UK - the first to develop a low-cost, flexible semiconductor, as companies, and nations, race to diversity the industry. (Picture: Two workers in PPE inside the Pragmatic semiconductor plant in Durham, England. Credit: Pragmatic)Produced and presented by Hannah Mullane
A lunch break can tell you quite a lot about a country's work culture; ranging from two-hour, luxuriant pauses in some parts of the world, to a couple of minutes, snack-in-hand at a desk, in others. For decades, people have built up camaraderie by meeting informally and in person, but technology and the pandemic have changed that. In this programme, Ruth Alexander goes in search of the meaning and purpose of the lunch break; from power lunches in the heady world of international finance, to a simple snack and a chat with a colleague, and asks, what do we stand to lose if we don't take a proper break? If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk (Picture: Two female colleagues, laughing over a meal. Credit: Getty Images/BBC) Producer: Elisabeth Mahy
This one is a special one for Gerry. We are Joined by star of his favourite film of all time Two Hands Marial Mclorey, also stupid Eric Hutton came along as well.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Good quality nutrition is key to sporting success. But while plenty of research exists on the impact of nutrition on performance, most of it has been done on male athletes. That's despite female athletes now making up nearly 50% of participants in professional sport. In the case of female footballers, research shows they could be consuming only half the carbohydrates they need. Not eating enough – or under-fuelling – as it's known in footballing circles – is thought to be endemic in the women's game. Experts believe much of that is down to a lack of available information. As the Women's Euros 2022 tournament raises the profile of women's football around the world, Ruth Alexander explores what it takes to fuel a female footballer and how focusing on the particular nutritional needs of sportswomen could make a huge difference to performance. She speaks to professional footballer, Ode Fulutudilu, a forward for the South Africa women's national team, Aimee O'Keefe, performance nutritionist at Manchester United Women, Dr José Areta, lecturer in sports nutrition at Liverpool John Moore's University in the UK, and Abbie Smith-Ryan, exercise physiologist and sports nutrition researcher at the University of North Carolina in the US. If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk (Picture: Two women playing football in an arena. Credit: Getty Images/BBC) Producer: Elisabeth Mahy The deadline for nominations for the award referenced at the end of this podcast has been extended to 23:00 GMT on Thursday 18th August 2022. *Page updated 28 July 2022 due to entry window extension.
Learn about the unsettling details of one of the most famous unsolved cases.
This week, Aarav and Arsh recap Week 3 of the NFL Season and Preview Week 4, discuss Richard Sherman signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the MLB Playoff Picture, and make their two picks each for Fantasy Football Must-Starts in Week 4 (Two Brothers - Two Picks)Chapters:0:00 Introduction1:02 NFL Week 3 & Week 48:43 Richard Sherman to Buccaneers14:39 MLB Playoff Picture20:14 Two Brothers - Two PicksBe sure to check us out on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7PxPcRqG3rv6gPMBaSBOUwSupport the show (https://www.twobrothersandtheirsports.com)
Is corporate social responsibility, so called "greenwashing", really changing carbon emitting businesses or just making it look that way? Canadian businessman Tariq Fancy used to work as Blackrock's Chief Investment Officer for sustainable investing. He tells Ed Butler why he thinks CSR isn't a good enough tool to achieve a net zero economy. (Picture: Two climate activists from Extinction Rebellion talk to each other outside the Bank of England during a protest. Credit: Getty Images.).
Simulmatics Corporation pioneered data analytics in the 1960s - raising the same qualms then as fake news and social media manipulation do today. Manuela Saragosa speaks to historian Jill Lepore, whose book "If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future" charts the company's rise, and its role in helping John F Kennedy get elected US President in 1960. At the heart of their work was using mainframe computers - a novelty at the time - to crunch polling, census and electoral data on voters in order to figure out the best targeted messages for their candidate to voice. It foreshadows the far more sophisticated modern use of data to target voters on social media. So what lessons from history are there for us today? (This programme originally aired September 20th, 2020.) (Picture: Two men work at a console in a Univac computer room in 1960; Credit: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)
On the streets of Bucharest a woman unwraps a package of Chinese pepper ... and falls in love. In Portland Oregon, a family finds a new home - in a farmers market. A food writer opens her front door in London and finds a Chinese banquet waiting for her. On a cold winter’s morning, in a city 10,000 kilometres away from her family, a woman stands and waits for a taste of home. As part of the BBC World Service festival exploring how the Coronavirus pandemic is reshaping our social lives, Emily Thomas hears four stories of how food can bring us closer together when we’ve never been more distant from one another. If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk (Picture: Two women sit on a bench talking, Credit: Getty/BBC) Contributors: Albertina Coacci Tse Yin Lee Fuchsia Dunlop Schlifka Collier
In which Mae awakens to a horrifying surprise, and then enjoys a pancake breakfast. In her first full day at the Lavender House, she goes with Laverna and Doubleday to meet the cats--cats who act a bit unsettlingly human. She also meets Stephano--a trans furry artist looking for an escape from his troubles. Content warning for one loud noise (1:05), two mentions of parental transphobia (12:11-12:17 and 12:36-12:55), some strong language, and a long poem about capitalism, which includes a short paragraph about police violence (8:30-8:45). ACAB. Written and edited by Bex Brzostoski, and produced by Aster Podcasting Presents with the University of San Francisco College Players. All rights reserved, 2021. Voice talents as follows: Janelle Malonzo as Mae, Kelsea Villanueva as Cherry, Dylan Vodzak as Laverna, Eli Ramos as Doubleday, Chaitrika Budamagunta as Stephano and Stephano the Cat, V Kornfeld as Karl the cat, Tal Minear as D.B. the cat, Melody Maishman as Harold the cat, and Gabriella Brzostoski as Gary the cat. Attributions for music and sound effects Malevolaughs by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com/ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Jazz Street by FSM Team Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com/ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ At The Kitchen Table by Savfk | https://www.youtube.com/savfkmusic Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com/ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Typewriter sounds: typewriter18.ogg by tams_kp https://freesound.org/people/tams_kp/sounds/43558/?page=1#comment Breakfast ambience: Cooking a pancake.wav by BeeProductive https://freesound.org/people/BeeProductive/sounds/383138/ Book Snap: Book Closing - Various by shorzie https://freesound.org/people/shorzie/sounds/407683/ P.S. To whomever reads all the endnotes… lucky you, you get a secret clue. Look up the names of each individual cat with the word “disappearance.” All except Karl and Gary, that is. They're just for fun. ;)
In this episode Jason from WilkinsonTraining talks about two principles that apply to every aspect of fitness and life. He focuses on the big picture, and how you should apply these two principles to your life
German authorities are expected to extend strict lockdown measures to the end of January. We get reaction from some small businesses that will be affected, and hear about the likely economic impact of the move from Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at ING in Germany. Also in the programme, we examine the run-off Senate elections today in the US state of Georgia, which are set to determine whether Democrats or Republicans are in control of the upper house of Congress. We hear from Anita Kumar, Washington DC correspondent at Politico, Aaron Morrison, who writes about race and ethnicity for the Associated Press, and Alexa Bankert, a political science professor at Georgia University. Plus, Moscow's underground Metro has hired its first female train drivers since the 1980s. The profession had been added to a list of jobs considered too physically demanding or dangerous for women to undertake, as the BBC's Olga Ivshina explains. (Picture: Two women speak outside a closed Berlin department store. Picture credit: Getty Images.)
Todd Wright Fantasy Football Podcast -- For Daily & Season Players
In this edition of The Todd Wright Fantasy Football Podcast, Todd discusses how Nick Chubb paid off for fantasy owners who drafted and stuck with him OR owners who smartly traded for him when he was out injured. Todd also […] The post Podcast Playoff Picture: Two Wrights, A Papa John’s GM & ABC Action News’ Chief Meteorologist Move On appeared first on JoeBucsFan.com.
Simulmatics Corporation pioneered data analytics in the 1960s - raising the same qualms then as fake news and social media manipulation do today. Manuela Saragosa speaks to historian Jill Lepore, whose book "If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future" charts the company's rise, and its role in helping John F Kennedy get elected US President in 1960. At the heart of their work was using mainframe computers - a novelty at the time - to crunch polling, census and electoral data on voters in order to figure out the best targeted messages for their candidate to voice. It foreshadows the far more sophisticated modern use of data to target voters on social media. So what lessons from history are there for us today? (Picture: Two men work at a console in a Univac computer room in 1960; Credit: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)
Why do so many people think they know best? And are they putting dolts in charge of government? Ed Butler speaks to Professor Tom Nichols of the US Naval War College, himself an expert on national security, who wrote a book about why everyone from surgeons to electricians to academics find themselves under attack from novices and ignoramuses who think their opinions should have equal weight. We also hear from Michael Lewis, whose new book The Fifth Risk examines the extent to which President Trump has neglected the US civil service. Is there a risk of something going catastrophically wrong - for example a nuclear waste containment or a natural disaster response - through the sheer inattention and incompetence of the people put in charge? Plus, might the root of the problem be the Dunning-Kruger Effect - a psychological trait whereby the inept are unaware of their own ineptness? We ask Professor David Dunning from the University of Michigan. Producer: Laurence Knight Repeat. First broadcast on 13 November 2018. (Picture: Two-year-old girl plays with carpentry tools; Credit: lisegagne/Getty Images)
Colourism is a more insidious form of racism, and harms the prospects of finding work and love for people with darker skin around the world.Natasha Pizzey reports from Mexico and Daniel Gallas reports from Brazil on the efforts to fight back against the prejudice against skin tone, which often emanates from within the same ethnic community as the victims. Meanwhile, Ed Butler speaks to Sunil Bhatia, a professor of human development at Connecticut College in the US, who has studied the rise of this phenomenon around the world.(Picture: Two young black women with contrasting skin tones; Credit: PeopleImages/Getty Images)
In 1937, Hitler and the Nazi party organised a huge exhibition of modern art in Munich. It was designed to ridicule works of art which they disapproved of - they called it Degenerate Art. It went on to be one of the best attended modern art exhibitions of all time. Picture: Two men prepare to hang German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann's triptych 'Temptation' at the 20th Century German Art Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London. The exhibition includes work by all the German artists pilloried by Adolf Hitler in the 'Degenerate Art' exhibition in Munich of 1937. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
In 1937, Hitler and the Nazi party organised a huge exhibition of modern art in Munich. It was designed to ridicule works of art which they disapproved of - they called it Degenerate Art. It went on to be one of the best attended modern art exhibitions of all time. Picture: Two men prepare to hang German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann's triptych 'Temptation' at the 20th Century German Art Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London. The exhibition includes work by all the German artists pilloried by Adolf Hitler in the 'Degenerate Art' exhibition in Munich of 1937. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)