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90 days, 1,000 miles, 3 countries, 2 rivers, 31 adventurers, 100% open data. Listen to field recordings, interviews and more from the beating heart of our planet - The Okavango. #Okavango15 is a National Geographic supported expedition to explore the Okavango River system from source to sand. Join us in real-time as we explore one of the world's last pristine river systems.
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Let's be honest: building a company from nothing is incredibly hard. It has been for me. I started my entrepreneurial journey at age 8. Yep, you read that right....8! Since then, I've started, run and sold multiple businesses with no partners and no funding. All my life I've had to build something from nothing, and that's what I've gotten really great at - tenacious, creative and extremely smart strategy coupled with hard work. Welcome to The Do What Is Necessary podcast—I’m your host, Andre ...
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Three Mile Island Nearly Killed Nuclear. Now It's Coming Back.
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Is a nuclear renaissance about to begin on the very site of the public relations catastrophe that practically destroyed the industry 45 years ago? Constellation Energy recently announced a deal with Microsoft to restore a retired reactor on Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island. Microsoft has agreed to purchase energy from the plant for 20 years to powe…
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Ditch the Data Silos 🌪️🌪️! Integrate Like a Pro and Watch Your Business Boom 💥
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🚀 Ready to blast off from the dark ages of data chaos? 🌪️ Welcome to Step 6 of our 9-step Framework for crafting a Calm Business that's smoother than your morning latte! ☕️ In today's epic adventure, "Ditch the Data Silos! Integrate Like a Pro and Watch Your Business Boom," we're tearing down those pesky data walls brick by brick. 🧱💥 Imagine all yo…
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👋🏻 Say Goodbye to Binders 📒 ➝ How Digital SOPs Will Revolutionize Your Business!
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🚀 Ready to launch your biz into the stratosphere of efficiency? 🌟 Say adios to those clunky binders and hello to sleek, digital SOPs! In this game-changing episode, we're diving into Step 5 of our 9-step Framework for crafting a Calm Business. 🧘♂️💼 Wave goodbye to the chaos of inconsistency and embrace the zen of predictable results. 🌊➡️🏞️ We'll s…
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Get It Outta Your Brain // The Game-Changing Move for Underdog Entrepreneurs!
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🚀 Are you an underdog entrepreneur with big dreams but your wheels are just spinning in the mud? 🤯 It's time to SHIFT gears with "Get It Outta Your Brain // The Game-Changing Move for Underdog Entrepreneurs!" 🧠💥 Step 4 of our 9-step Framework is here to turbocharge your journey from stuck-in-the-mud to full-speed-ahead! 🏎️💨 We're talking about a ca…
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Stop Spinning Your Wheels 🚗! Get Traction, Not Distractions // Mastering Choice Control for Your Business
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🔥 Are you tired of your business spinning like a hamster wheel on ice? 🐹❄️ It's time to stop the skid and start the climb! 🧗♂️ Welcome to Step 3 of our 9-step Framework for building a Calm Business that doesn't drive you bananas! 🍌 In "Stop Spinning Your Wheels! Get Traction, Not Distractions // Mastering Choice Control for Your Business," we're d…
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Underdogs Unite! Transform 'I'm Swamped' into 'I've Got This' with Time Control 🦸♂️
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🚀 Are you drowning in a sea of tasks? Feel like there's never enough time? 🕒 Well, buckle up, busy bees, because we're about to turn that "I'm swamped" into "I've Got This" with some epic Time Control powers! 💥 In this MUST-WATCH video, we dive into Step 2 of our 9-step Framework for crafting a Calm Business. 🧘♂️ Say goodbye to the chaos and hello…
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A New Law Is Making It Even Harder To Find Day Care in D.C.
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Average toddler day care costs in Washington, D.C., exceed $24,000 a year, outstripping expenses in cities like New York and San Francisco. Despite the steep prices, parents such as Megan McCune and Tom Shonosky, who live in a suburban D.C. neighborhood with their children John and Lizzy, believe day care is still worth it. "They're doing these ama…
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Stop the Mental Madness! A Calm Mind Equals a Thriving Business!
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🚀 Are you riding the entrepreneur rollercoaster, juggling tasks like a circus clown on espresso? 🎪☕️ It's time to STOP the mental madness! 🛑 Introducing Step 1 of our life-changing 9-step Framework for crafting a business that's as calm as a Zen master in a nap pod. 🧘♂️💤 In this video, "Stop the Mental Madness! A Calm Mind Equals a Thriving Busine…
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Academics Use Imaginary Data in Their Research
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After surviving a disastrous congressional hearing, Claudine Gay was forced to resign as the president of Harvard for repeatedly copying and pasting language used by other scholars and passing it off as her own. She's hardly alone among elite academics, and plagiarism has become a roiling scandal in academia. There's another common practice among p…
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Entrepreneurs, Say Bye 👋🏻 to Burnout ➝ Be a Chillpreneur 🏝️ instead!
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🚀 Are you hustling so hard that your coffee needs a coffee ☕️? Say "NOPE 👎🏻" to burnout and "YEP 👍🏻" to chill vibes with our latest vid: "Entrepreneurs, Say Bye to Burnout ➝ Be a Chillpreneur instead!" 🌴 I'm dishing out a 9-step Framework that's like a spa day for your biz. Transform from chaos-captain to calm-collector without sacrificing success.…
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The Bad Science Behind Jonathan Haidt's Call to Regulate Social Media
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In his 1996 book, The Vision of the Anointed, economist Thomas Sowell sketched out a pattern that many of the "crusading movements" of the 20th century have followed. First, they identify a "great danger" to society, followed by an "urgent need" for government action "to avert impending catastrophe." A new book by psychologist and author Jonathan H…
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Once upon a time, America embraced nuclear power as the future of energy. Today it accounts for a mere 18 percent of the nation's electricity generation, while fossil fuels remain dominant at 60 percent. Why did nuclear fail to take off? From 1967 to 1972, the nuclear sector experienced significant growth, and 48 new nuclear plants were built. But …
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David Stockman on Why Trump Can't Fix the Debt: 'This Guy Is Part of the Swamp'
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As Ronald Reagan's first budget director, former Michigan congressman David Stockman led the charge to cut the size, scope, and spending of the federal government in the early 1980s. He made enemies among Democrats by pushing hard for cuts to welfare programs—and he ultimately made enemies among his fellow Republicans by pushing equally hard to sla…
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After enacting sweeping reforms in Argentina, President Javier Milei faced a major protest. Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets, hundreds of flights were grounded, and schools and businesses closed in protests to Milei's attempt to fix the troubled South American country. Milei is the first self-described libertarian head of sta…
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Why We Went Crazy During COVID Lockdowns
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If we all went a little nuts during the COVID-19 lockdowns, it's absolutely true that some of us—including many of our country's leaders and people in the media—went absolutely batshit crazy, often with disastrous results. Exactly why that happened is the subject of author Jon Ronson's latest season of Things Fell Apart, a podcast that explores the…
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"If the problem with campus speech codes is the selectivity with which universities penalize various forms of bigotry," wrote James Kirchick recently in The New York Times, "the solution is not to expand the university's power to punish expression. It's to abolish speech codes entirely." Kirchick was writing about widespread outrage at the nuanced …
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The Real Reasons Africa Is Poor—and Why It Matters
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Did you know that by 2050, fully a quarter of the planet's population will reside in Africa? Yet despite abundant natural resources and a young and ambitious population, the continent remains the poorest of them all. Born in Senegal and now residing in Austin, Texas, Magatte Wade is director of the Center for African Prosperity at the Atlas Network…
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Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Loves Barry Goldwater and Milton Friedman
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During his two terms as governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey managed to pass a flat income tax with a rate of 2.5 percent, reform public sector pensions, universalize important school choice measures, reform occupational licensing rules, turn a budget deficit into a surplus, and substantially shrink the size of the government workforce. He also built a …
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Can the Government Be More Effective?
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William D. Eggers is co-author, with Donald F. Kettl, of Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems. He's now the executive director of Deloitte's Center for Government Insights, but 30 years ago, he ran the privatization center for Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes Reason. Eggers has since worked wi…
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Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman's Legacy
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"Was Milton Friedman the most important libertarian of them all?" Reason's Nick Gillespie asked Stanford historian Jennifer Burns during a live taping of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie podcast in New York City. Burns is the author of the masterful and definitive new biography of the Nobel Prize–winning economist, titled Milton Friedman: T…
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Why We Need To Quit More in Politics, Work, and Life
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Quitting is massively underrated, says Annie Duke, an author, doctor of psychology, and former professional poker player who holds a bracelet from the 2004 World Series of Poker. Her latest book is Quit: The Power of Knowing When To Walk Away. Using examples ranging from Muhammad Ali's refusal to retire from boxing earlier in his career to the over…
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Why Is Nike Stomping On Independent Creators?
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After their invention in the late 1800s, sneakers became a pop-culture staple by the 1970s and '80s with models like the Adidas Superstar, Puma Clyde, and Nike Air Force 1. But it wasn't until the release of the Air Jordan in 1985 that sneaker fandom became an international obsession and evolved into a disruptive shoe market. Resellers all over the…
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Backpage: The Monumental Free Speech Case the Media Ignored
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After a dozen years of legal tussles, seven years in the crosshairs of ambitious prosecutors, and five-and-a-half years fighting a federal case that saw his business forcibly shuttered, his assets seized, and his longtime partner dead by suicide, alt-weekly newspaper impresario Michael Lacey was found guilty Thursday on just one of the 86 criminal …
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"I'm under no illusion that humanity will completely eradicate the racial tribal instinct or racism or bigotry itself. But I feel that colorblindness is the North Star that we should use when making decisions," argues Coleman Hughes during a live taping of The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie podcast in New York City. Hughes is a writer, podcas…
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The Future of Energy? Brooklyn's Bitcoin-Heated Bathhouse
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Behind the scenes of a traditional bathhouse in Brooklyn, something extraordinary is taking place: The pools, heated to 104 degrees, are not warmed by conventional means but by computers mining for bitcoin. A profit-seeking drive for energy efficiency has caused bitcoin miners to pop up in unexpected places, such as Jason Goodman's New York bathhou…
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Capitalism Made Us All Richer. So Why Are We Unhappy?
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Swedish historian Johan Norberg is author of The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World, which caught the eye of Elon Musk, who tweeted, "This book is an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right." Norberg wrote the book to combat a growing belief on the right and the left that l…
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"We've taught young people that any of their missteps or any of their heterodox opinions are grounds to tear them down. That's no way to grow up." That was journalist Rikki Schlott speaking before a sold-out crowd on Monday night at a live taping of The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie podcast in New York City. Schlott, 23, teamed up with Greg …
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The Shady Statistics Behind the War on Painkillers
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About twenty-three years ago, public health officials began to notice increases in what would later be called "deaths of despair," referring to suicides, deaths from alcoholism, and drug overdoses. Public health officials and legislators responded by seeking to limit opioid prescriptions for non-cancer chronic pain. Their tactics included violent r…
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Every year, over 25 million tourists flock to the iconic National Mall in Washington, D.C. Yet as they explore some of the nation's greatest museums and monuments, visitors often find themselves faced with limited dining options, which boil down to either pricey cafes at the Smithsonian museums or food trucks parked along the Mall. The food trucks …
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