Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death

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Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death

3/5/21 by Pushkin Industries

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Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/119969553
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Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played by her distant cousin Helena Bonham Carter) is a hero of modern medicine – but her greatest contribution to combating disease and death resulted from the vivid graphs she made to back her public health campaigns. Her charts convinced the great and the good that deaths due to filth and poor sanitation could be averted – saving countless lives. But did Nightingale open Pandora’s Box, showing that graphs persuade, whether or not they depict reality? Read more about Tim’s work at http://timharford.com/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Coeymans Hollow

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Driving through Coeymans Hollow earlier today reminded me of the deep hollows I have driven through in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The small, rural hamlets off the beaten track, the wood smoke, the cows in the muddy and rocky pasture.

Not sure if I’d ever want to live in a hollows with the flood risk, the nuisance of smoke and odors, the noise of passing cars bouncing off hollow walls, the nearby neighbors. But it’s beautiful to be surrounded by mountains and the long shadows that dominate life most of the days in the hollows, especially during the winter.

NPR

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For The First Time In 56 Years, A ‘Bloody Sunday’ Without John Lewis : NPR

This weekend marks 56 years since civil rights marchers were attacked by Alabama state troopers on a day now known as "Bloody Sunday." The annual commemoration will be different this year — there's a pandemic, a new president and perhaps most notably, one missing voice.

On March, 7 1965, the late John Lewis and other civil rights leaders led a march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate for voting rights. While crossing onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the peaceful demonstrators, including Lewis, were brutally beaten by police.

Carbon Markets, Choppers and Charm

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We’re Back: Carbon Markets, Choppers and Charm

3/3/21 by Field Work

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/119915044
Episode: https://play.podtrac.com/APM_Fieldwork/play.publicradio.org/itunes/o/the_water_main/field_work/2021/03/03/fieldwork_20210303_s03e01_128.mp3

President Joe Biden has said he wants to pay farmers to grow cover crops and put land into conservation. How will that work? He also has big plans to reduce and capture carbon emissions, which could spell opportunities for farmers. But the science is still tenuous and the math would have to pencil out. Zach and Mitchell tap Farm Journal News Director John Herath for an overview of how the Biden administration is addressing sustainable ag and who farmers need to pay attention to. Then former USDA Undersecretary Bill Northey discusses his takeaways after serving as the first head of Farm Programs and Conservation, where he brought FSA, RMA and NRCS together under one mission area. Read more: Five things to keep an eye on in the Biden administration

I really enjoy listening to the Field Work podcast. Zach of Millennial Farmer Youtube is a really good and informative podcast.

Unavoidable consumption of non-renewable resources

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Unavoidable consumption of non-renewable resources… That God damn flipped statement in nearly every environmental impact statement. While a true statement, it always annoys me how flipped the language comes across when they use it. Environmental analysts might just be covering their asses but it’s an obnoxious statement on its face, especially if the document doesn’t propose any mitigation towards stopping to push our planet off the cliff, expanding more of our lands into dumping grounds, fouling the air and paving over our farms and forests.