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New York Mets | Brief Information From Wikipedia #Shorts – Oakland News Now

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The week in audio: Life Sentence; A Mother Tongue; dot com: The Wikipedia Story and more – The Guardian

Life Sentence (Mags Creative) | apple.comA Mother Tongue (Radio 4) | BBC Soundsdot com: The Wikipedia Story (Crowd Network) | acast.comSupergreat Kids Stories (Wardour Studios) | apple.comStorybooth Daily (Parcast for Spotify Originals) | SpotifySweet Bobby (Tortoise Media)

Life Sentence is a new podcast that explores the climate crisis in a different way. Its a drama, sort of, and a soundscape, sort of, and a call to action (as all climate crisis shows are). Written by the acclaimed young playwright Tabitha Mortiboy, it features characters, but they arent who you expect. In the first episode, Rainforest, we hear from Mo (Jordan Stephens), a benevolent, exasperated god/creator of the universe, who teases us humans about our general idiocy: You are less than halfway to understanding the true frenetic beauty of foundational creation. After a while, the Amazonian rainforest, played by Jade Anouka, speaks too. You wont be surprised to hear that shes feeling upset at her current treatment. Later on theres a human couple, Will Mellor and Stacy Abalogun, who use their Alexa-like device to switch on rainforest sounds so they can sleep (their stagey banter is this episodes least successful element).

Does this read like a tricky listen? Its absolutely not. Its beautifully produced, a rich headphone experience, with sounds, music and words playing off and interweaving around each other. In fact, its production reminds me of Have You Heard Georges Podcast?, especially because Stephenss words keep threatening to turn into rhyme, a la George.

The episode is 78 minutes long, representing the 78 years the Amazon rainforest will survive, if we continue to raze it to make space to farm cattle and grow palms for palm oil. The drama is over in 20 minutes and the rest of the programme is given over to an amazing rainforest soundscape. Later instalments also use this technique, each shows length reflecting how long the subject will last before extinction, using minutes rather than years. So, Ocean is just 29 minutes long it will take 29 years at todays rate of overfishing and extinction for the worlds oceans to be entirely empty of fish. I could make a joke about my kids not having left home by then, but Im too depressed to do so. Life Sentence is an admirable attempt to drive home specific climate crisis points in an artistic, memorable manner.

Equally lovely on the ears was A Mother Tongue on Radio 4. Made by the brilliant audio producer (and creative director of sound for Guardian podcasts) Axel Kacouti, it used interviews and atmospherics to explore the idea of how talking in different languages affects the speaker. (The same topic was explored, more prosaically, in The Flipside With Paris Lees.) A Swedish and English speaker describes how her queer identity is more easily expressed in English; a Spanish and English speaker says his playfulness comes out far more when he speaks Spanish. Some of the most interesting contributions come from a man who uses sign language. Kacouti himself speaks both French and English: You know English because your parents pointed at a map and said, Here we will settle You know French because you and your family were born in a land where the French pointed on a map and said, Here we will settle. He uses sound in a textual and textural way weaving recorded chatter from his infant son or his grannys attempt to teach him Anyi to express the emotional gap between identity and language. Wonderful.

Some of that texture and nuance would have been useful in dot com: The Wikipedia Story. Dot Com is a new podcast series about the people of the web, and this is a deep dive (five episodes already!) into Wikipedia, the search engine thats among the most visited websites in the world. Host Katie Puckrik is excellent as always: wry, insightful and a great interviewer. But the production needs more vim. Many of her interviewees are nerds (the natural character of the Wikipedia editor) and they speak well, but not always dynamically. Though Puckrik does her witty best, the show needs more varied sound dynamics a sense of location and time. When, in last weeks episode, she visited Wikimania, a festival for all things Wiki, it would have been nice if shed delivered lines such as Its big and its bananas! on the spot, rather than them being slotted in later. This is a dense, interesting show, given levity, if not purpose, by its presenter.

A few short shows to end: Supergreat Kids Stories is a sweet, old-fashioned storytelling podcast aimed at younger children (from five to 105 apparently. Argh!). It tells traditional tales from around the world, so we get not only The Three Little Pigs (a sanitised version where the wolf doesnt come down the chimney to land in a cooking pot and the first two little pigs survive), but also The Magic Orange Tree from Haiti and a Norse tale of Loki. Its a nice 20-minute bedtime listen for little uns. For older children, Spotify Originals has just launched Storybooth Daily, a spin-off from those weird animated, real-life stories on YouTube beloved by tweens and teens. Here, unidentified young people describe particular crises theyve been through, from toxic friends to smoking weed. The tone is too American for me, and some stories upsetting, but this has the potential to help many young people feel less alone.

Finally, like many, Ive been hoovering up Tortoises catfishing doc Sweet Bobby, but I fear weve hit the fade-out part of the tale. True crime podcasts tend to sustain momentum for just a few episodes, and unless the fraudulent villain talks (which I am sure it wont), then Im afraid we may well be doomed to a couple of episodes of expert opinion before this fascinating firework of a story fizzles and dies.

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Women Innovators in Aviation and Space: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon – National Air and Space Museum

Throughout history and into present day (and the future!), women have accomplished great things in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. Yet their stories and accomplishments may not be known in fact, women in STEM are underrepresented on Wikipedia. To help close this gap, we are collaborating with Wikipedia to improve and create articles about women in aviation and space.

Tune in to this live program as we introduce you to inspiring women in STEM, talk about the importance of representation online, and check in on the progress of the edit-a-thon as as the Wikipedians add information to the onlineencyclopedia. Watch live onYouTube.

Are you a Wikipedia editor or want to learn? Sign up to participate in that part of the event.

This program is in conjunction with the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, a multiyear undertaking to document, research, collect, display, and share the history of women in the United States.

This program is made possible through the generous support of Boeing.

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Newcastle in Erling Haaland transfer hunt as cheeky fans already change Dortmund stars current club on W… – The US Sun

NEWCASTLE are considering a transfer move for Borussia Dortmund star Erling Haaland, according to reports.

Haaland, 21, is perhaps the most highly sought-after player in the market with several Premier League clubs, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain all interested.

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But now Newcastle have emerged as an unlikely destination thanks to their newfound ability to pay his 64million release clause.

It is believed Newcastle could make a bid to sign him, according to Spanish outlet AS.

The report fails to outline Haaland's thoughts on the matter, or that of his agent Mino Raiola.

The pair have chosen not to fuel any transfer speculation with Haaland concentrating on his football - he has scored 13 goals in nine games this season.

But that has not stopped some excited Newcastle fans getting a bit carried away.

In response to the transfer rumours Haaland's Wikipedia page has been changed to say his current club is Newcastle.

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The Magpies have been linked with a number of signings in January as well as several candidates to take over as manager.

Jose Mourinho has ruled himself out of contention but his compatriot Paulo Fonseca has emerged as a potential successor to Steve Bruce.

On the player front, Newcastle have been heavily linked with moves for Burnley's James Tarkowski and Manchester United star Jesse Lingard.

Newcastle will reportedly have a transfer budget of 50m in the summer but there are reserves of a further 150m if needed - so Haaland is not too expensive.

Read our Football news live blog for the very latest rumours, gossip and done deals

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Vandalised Wikipedia page refers to Arvind Kejriwal as Lavnasur: All you need to know about how the AAP chief got the moniker – OpIndia

The Wikipedia page of the list of Chief Ministers of Delhi was earlier vandalised today. The vandalised page addressed incumbent Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as Lavanasur. Since then, the page has been rectified and Lavnasur can no longer be found on the page.

Amusingly enough, when one Googles Lavnasur, photographs of Kejriwal pop up in search images.

Lavanasura is actually a character from the Ramayana, a demon was killed by Shri Rams brother Shatrughan, the youngest of Ramas brothers. Lavanasura was a tormentor of the innocent and his notoriety was widespread. As a child, he used to kill his play mates and eat them. He used to disrupt the sacrifices of Sages and unleash terror across the land.

Not many people know it, but Arvind Kejriwal was awarded the Lavnasur moniker by a popular Twitter user. The user, who goes by the username @Being_Humor on Twitter, spoke to OpIndia regarding why he gave that particular name to the Delhi Chief Minister.

According to @Being_Humor, Kejriwal, like Lavanasura, torments people with his antics and generally gives people a hard time. The fact that the name sounds funny and sounds like a slang in general also convinced him to gift the AAP supremo the moniker.

When he threw the name at him initially, it was well received by the masses on social media. And since then, it has stuck. And before long, when someone googled Lavnasur on Google, Kejriwals photograph began to pop up due to the nature of algorithms.

Questioned regarding if Arvind Kejriwal really deserved the Lavnasur tag, he responded, Yes, because it is the truth.

The nickname has also led to endless memes on social media.

And it has culminated with the vandalism of the page on Wikipedia. Arvind Kejriwal is also famous for his U-Turns which has also made him the subject of much mockery online.

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