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How to Remove Toxins from our Foods, Products, and Bodies
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In today’s episode, I talk with Ken Cook, Dr. Elizabeth Boham, and Maggie Ward about toxin exposures all around us and how to remove toxins from our bodies.
Ken Cook is the president and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group (EWG). He is widely recognized as one of the environmental community’s most prominent and influential critics of industrial agriculture and the nation’s broken approach to protecting families and children from toxic substances. Under Cook’s leadership, the EWG has pioneered the use of digital technologies to empower American families with easy-to-use, science-driven tools to help reduce their exposure to potentially harmful ingredients in food, drinking water, cosmetics, and other household products. Capitol Hill’s closely read newspaper The Hill regularly lists Cook in its annual roster of Washington’s top lobbyists, writing that Cook’s “influence spans the country” and calling EWG “the tip of the green movement’s spear.”
Dr. Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices Functional Medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing.
Maggie Ward, MS, RD, LDN, is the Nutrition Director at The UltraWellness Center. Maggie holds a master’s degree in Nutrition from Bastyr University which focuses on using whole foods for holistic Nutrition Therapy. In addition, she completed her requirements to become a registered dietitian at Westchester Medical Center in NY. Prior to joining The UltraWellness Center team in 2008, Maggie worked at The Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York providing nutrition counseling to children and families dealing with HIV. She also taught at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan and other sites throughout New York City, teaching nutritionally focused cooking classes for children and adults. Much of her focus is on food allergies, digestive disorders, inflammatory conditions, pediatrics, and sports nutrition.
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Israel-Hamas War Enters 60th Day; Kerry & Dalio on Climate
On today's podcast:
1) Israel Grinds War South as US Monitors Gaza Civilian Deaths
2) Dalio Says End of ‘Free Money’ Is Making Climate Fixes Difficult
3) Did Markets Go Too Far, Too Fast Is Debate to Dominate
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Trump’s Broken Promises & Newsom Vs. DeSantis Debate | Bryan Griffin
The circular economy and closing our resource loop
Americans consume a lot of stuff and in turn produce a lot of waste. The average American generated 46 pounds of just e-waste in 2019. But what if there was a way to design an economy that’s less wasteful and more environmentally friendly? On the show today, Callie Babbitt, professor of sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology, breaks down the circular economy, its role in fighting climate change and the challenges that lie ahead in public policy and manufacturing if we hope to achieve circularity. We’ll also hear from a listener with a smart hack for airport pickups during the holidays, and our beloved intern answers the Make Me Smart question.
Here’s everything we talked about:
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- “The right-to-repair movement is just getting started” from The Verge
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- “What is a Circular Economy?” from the Environmental Protection Agency
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- “World’s Oldest Sealed Terrarium by David Latimer” from Nature of Home
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- “Investors See Interest-Rate Cuts Coming Soon, Recession or Not” from The Wall Street Journal
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- “17 top-selling items for Amazon Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2023” from About Amazon
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Warriors, Doomsayers, Reformers: Understanding the Factions in AI
The dementia tax
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Chancellor Says He's OK With A Recession If It Brings Down Inflation
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:
(1) The Chancellor says he's in favour of higher rates even if it causes a recession.
(2) A US debt deal begins to take shape as the Treasury gets down to its last $50bn.
(3) Asset managers attack a plan to force pensions into a UK growth fund.
(4) Cathie Woods's flagship ARKK Fund sold Nvidia stake just before the stock surged.
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Kevin McCarthy wants you to get a job
How to care for the people who take care of us (w/ Ai-jen Poo)
Activist, and MacArthur Genius, Ai-jen Poo believes that caring for others is one of the fundamental acts that make us human. But from nannies to elder-care workers, house cleaners to living assistants, single parents and beyond, globally, caretakers do not earn fair wages or recognition for their essential, life-giving labor. The President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Ai-jen explains how society undervalues domestic work, and provides a framework on how we can start a conversation about the future of care for our loved ones – and ourselves. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts
Best Of: Who Wins — and Who Loses — in the A.I. Revolution?
This past year, we’ve witnessed considerable progress in the development of artificial intelligence, from the release of the image generators like DALL-E 2 to chat bots like ChatGPT and Cicero to a flurry of self-driving cars. So this week, we’re revisiting some of our favorite conversations about the rise of A.I. and what it means for the world.
Today’s conversation is with Sam Altman. He’s the C.E.O. of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. When I talked to him in June 2021, ChatGPT was still over a year away from being available to the public for testing. But the A.I. developments since then have only increased the salience of the questions Altman raised in his 2021 essay “Moore’s Law for Everything.”
Altman’ argument is this: Since the 1970s, computers have gotten exponentially better even as they’re gotten cheaper, a phenomenon known as Moore’s Law. Altman believes that A.I. could get us closer to Moore’s Law for everything: it could make everything better even as it makes it cheaper. Housing, health care, education, you name it.
But what struck me about his essay is that last clause: “if we as a society manage it responsibly.” Because, as Altman also admits, if he is right then A.I. will generate phenomenal wealth largely by destroying countless jobs — that’s a big part of how everything gets cheaper — and shifting huge amounts of wealth from labor to capital. And whether that world becomes a post-scarcity utopia or a feudal dystopia hinges on how wealth, power and dignity are then distributed — it hinges, in other words, on politics.
Mentioned:
“Moore’s Law for Everything” by Sam Altman
Recommendations:
Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler
“Meditations on Moloch” by Scott Alexander
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Confessions Of A Math Convert
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103. Should Toilets Be Free?
Why do Americans tip so much? What happened when Angie eliminated grading in a college course? And why did almost every pay toilet in the U.S.A. vanish between 1970 and 1980?
Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Ep. 384 Update)
As the Supreme Court considers overturning Roe v. Wade, we look back at Steve Levitt’s controversial research on an unintended consequence of the 1973 ruling.
Crypto Advocacy Panel
This is the Crypto Advocacy & Education Summit, which we're hosting to go along with the Ethereum Foundation's $500,000 donation to the Gitcoin Round 12 matching round for the ‘Crypto Advocacy’ track.
Gitcoin does these ‘quadratic matching’ rounds 4 times a year, where many entities donate large sums of funds, and the community rallies and donates to many causes and projects across the crypto space. The ‘matching rounds’ are exponentially matched towards the grants that received the most numbers of individual humans who donated to them.
The EF has specifically allocated 500k to go towards effects that advocate for crypto in our government offices.
Bankless and Gitcoin are hosting a 2-panel ’summit’ livestream in order to drum up excitement and donations for the various organizations that help advocate for crypto!
✨ GITCOIN GRANTS ✨
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Panel #1: Why does crypto advocacy and education matter?
Kristin Smith | Blockchain Association
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Brian Quintenz | Former CFTC Chair
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Tomicah Tillemann | a16z
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Panel #2: How do crypto stakeholders support crypto advocacy + education?
Sarah Roth-Gaudette | Fight for the Future
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Jerry Brito | Coin Center
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Jake Chervinsky | Blockchain Association
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472. This Is Your Brain on Pollution
Air pollution is estimated to cause 7 million deaths a year and cost the global economy nearly $3 trillion. But is the true cost even higher? Stephen Dubner explores the links between pollution and cognitive function, and enlists two fellow Freakonomics Radio Network hosts in a homegrown experiment.
How to replace everything in the industrialized world
Best of: Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress
443. A Sneak Peek at Biden’s Top Economist
The incoming president argues that the economy and the environment are deeply connected. This is reflected in his choice for National Economic Council director — Brian Deese, a climate-policy wonk and veteran of the no-drama-Obama era. But don’t mistake Deese’s lack of drama for a lack of intensity.