Adam Tow Leaders at Facebook, Verizon Media, Condé Nast, and more join us this week. Recode’s annual Code Media conference kicks off on Monday, November 18, in Los Angeles. Senior Media Correspondent Peter Kafka will be hosting two days of hard-hitting, unscripted interviews with: Carolyn Everson, Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions at Facebook GuruContinue reading “How to follow (and listen to) Recode’s Code Media conference in Los Angeles”
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The Walmart shooting is part of a typical week for America
Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images There are a lot of shootings in America. Last week, a shooter at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, killed two people and injured three others. Over the weekend, a shooter at a party in Fresno, California, killed four and wounded six more. Today, a shooting at a WalmartContinue reading “The Walmart shooting is part of a typical week for America”
We read all 25 National Book Award finalists for 2019. Here’s what we thought.
Amanda Northrop/Vox The Vox staff reviewed all the finalists in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature. Every year, the National Book Foundation nominates 25 books — five fiction, five nonfiction, five poetry, five translated, five young adult — for the National Book Award, which celebrates the best ofContinue reading “We read all 25 National Book Award finalists for 2019. Here’s what we thought.”
Adolescent drinking increases anxiety, alcohol abuse later in life
Adolescent binge drinking modifies gene expression in a fashion that increases susceptibility to anxiety and alcohol use disorders in adulthood, according to research in rats recently published in eNeuro. Targeting the microRNAs responsible could be a new route for undoing the damage of alcohol use caused during adolescence. from Addiction news https://ift.tt/33ZeMwO
16 great documentaries from this year and how to watch them
Pahokee and Sing Me a Song are among the fascinating nonfiction films that started touring the festival circuit in 2019. | Sundance / Participant Media From con artists to cults, nonfiction cinema is rich right now. A “documentary” is never just one thing. It might be a memoir, a polemic, a comedy, a thriller, aContinue reading “16 great documentaries from this year and how to watch them”
Trump’s controversial vaping flavor ban is now dead
A demonstrator vapes during a rally outside of the White House to protest the proposed vaping flavor ban in Washington DC on November 9, 2019. | Photo by JOSE LUIS MAGANA/AFP via Getty Images Angry vapers and vaping companies convinced the president to kill his flavored vape ban. Back in September, the White House organizedContinue reading “Trump’s controversial vaping flavor ban is now dead”
Money spent on beer ads linked to underage drinking
Advertising budgets and strategies used by beer companies appear to influence underage drinking, according to new research from Iowa State University. from Addiction news https://ift.tt/330ZQwO
The questions surrounding Trump’s trip to Walter Reed hospital, briefly explained
Trump during an event at the White House on Friday. | Getty Images The White House’s credibility crisis fueled speculation about Trump’s seemingly unplanned trip to the hospital. President Donald Trump made a trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, as White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham put it, to “beginContinue reading “The questions surrounding Trump’s trip to Walter Reed hospital, briefly explained”
Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help.
Dave Eggers attends the 2018 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards on September 20, 2018, in Louisville, Kentucky. | Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images David Eggers and I discuss satire, the Trump presidency, and the importance of disconnecting on The Ezra Klein Show. I’ve wanted to have Dave Eggers on the show for a while now. Eggers hasContinue reading “Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help. “
A new study finds immigrants aren’t drawn to states that offer them health insurance
A physician’s assistant checks the heart rate of an immigrant farm worker from Mexico during mobile clinic visit to a farm on April 30, 2013, in Brighton, Colorado. | John Moore/Getty Images It pushes back on the idea that health insurance is a “welfare magnet” for immigrants. A new study finds that low-income, legal immigrantsContinue reading “A new study finds immigrants aren’t drawn to states that offer them health insurance”
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