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Here are some selected news articles from the week ended 06 March 2021. Part 2 is available here. This is a feature at Global Economic Intersection every Monday evening or Tuesday morning. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Fuel supplies drop most on record as US oil refining collapses, leading to largest ever jump in oil supplies Refinery utilization at an all time low, 10% lower than its ever been; oil refined is least on record; re...

Embed iframe src "https://www.npr.org/player/embed/968710172/968827605" width "100%" height "290" frameborder "0" scrolling "no" title "NPR embedded audio player" Facial recognition researcher Joy Buolamwini stands for a portrait behind a mask she had to use so that software could detect her face. Buolamwinis research has uncovered racial and gender bias in facial analysis tools sold by companies such as Amazon that have a hard time recognizing certain faces, especially darker...

Feb. 15, 1867: Readers of The East Tennessee Union Flag were belatedly reminded about Valentine’s Day. “Yesterday was this worthy Saints Anniversary. The usual compliments were passed among the young people — and we might say the old ones, too.” The East Tennessee Union Flag was a newspaper published in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way in 1867. Feb. 15, 1899: The Chattanooga Daily Times, with a dateline of Johnson City, reported on a recent earthquake, as well as fre...

Warmer weather is on the way after a sunny, yet cold weekend. Expect a bit more rain though....

Experiment and get to know the cold. Figure out what works for you. What’s your circulation like? Do you need hand warmers in your gloves? Two pairs of socks? Sam’s recommendations for how to dress are really just encouragement that you can get outside when it’s really cold and wintery, and once you experiment with it, you’ll see that it’s possible. Getting a little chilly is not the end of the world. Yes, there’s a limit to this, but it’s empowering to learn the way your body wo...

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"Up First" co-host David Greene Allison Shelley/NPR NPR and Spotify have been cozy since 2018, when the public radio and content powerhouse signed a deal to make select shows available through the music service. That agreement only covered the US though, so today the two partners are announcing a new pact. As part of a new distribution deal, NPR podcasts will be available to stream globally outside of the United States. Spotify didn’t offer a specific list of regions, but it did say that th...

Spotify to stream NPR podcasts around the world UPI News Service, 12/16/2020  Spotify announced Wednesday it has signed a deal to distribute NPR podcasts to its 320 million subscribers around the world. ADVERTISEMENT The deal expands a 2018 agreement that distributed NPR content to Spotify users in the United States. These shows will now be available Spotify worldwide: Wow in the World, 1A, Ask Me Another, Believed, The Best of Car Talk, Code Switch, Consider This from NPR, Embe...

Nik Sharma toggle caption Nik Sharma Brown sugar granules under a microscope, taken at the Biological Imaging Facility at the University of California, Berkeley. Nik Sharma For cookbook author and recipe developer Nik Sharma, flavor is a full-body experience — beyond aroma and taste. His new cookbook, Drawing upon his background in molecular biology, Nik brings scientific inquiry to his cooking. As he develops recipes, he consults research papers and m...

People to know youve done that, the stress level was very high. very high. during the course of the search we found a number of items related to cuba. a cuban sailing guide, nautical charts related to cuba. a book titled "on becoming cuban." >> and we would call that a clue. >> in and of them schselves non these things were evidence that they were spies, but additionally we found a short wave radio. they actually still had the means to receive short wave radio broadcasts. we found a diary that r...