JETLAG RADIO 198 | BENKYO RADIO 198

  • Daily Sports: A New Mixed-Media Playlist Fans of Any Team Can Root For [Spotify]

  • Apple renames Beats 1, its streaming radio station, Apple Music 1 and launches two new radio stations: Apple Music Hits and Apple Music Country [Apple]

  • 83%: How much the cost of electricity from a solar power plant has fallen in the last decade. [Quartz]

  • What comes after Zoom fatigue - It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing? [Recode]

  • Google Maps just became much more accurate (and colorful) [TheNextWeb]

  • Our Food for the Many Rainy Days Ahead [Eater]

  • Behind the Wild and Sometimes Wacky Facemask Economy [Inc.]

  • Millions are applying for unemployment, but the system is broken by design. Here are their stories - More than 35 million Americans have filed for unemployment since March, and millions are still waiting to receive benefits. Their stories expose a truth that can no longer be ignored: The system is built to fail. [Fast Company]

  • Why Highly Intelligent People Are Miserable [Medium]

  • WTF Do I Eat While I WFH? [Entrepreneur]

  • How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging [WIRED]

  • Ask The Tech Guy 49 - What’s the Purpose of a GPU? [TWIT]

  • Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Review: It Better Be Good! [MKBHD]

  • How to turn Instagram Dark Mode On [Sam Sheffer]

  • YUP: “This is the most frustrating aspect of this debate: Apple consistently acts like a company peeved it is not getting its fair share, somehow ignoring the fact it is worth nearly $2 trillion precisely because the iPhone matters more than anything” [Casey Newton commenting on stratechery article]

  • Something LEGENDARY from OnePlus! [Dave Lee]

  • Sony A7s III Hands on Review! [iJustine]

  • Cyberpunk 2077 Night City Wire [Jessica Chobot]

  • I’m happy to announce an exclusive partnership between Spider-Man and the Game Scoop! podcast. Game Scoop! is now the ONLY podcast you can listen to for reactions to this week’s Marvel’s Avengers news. [Daemon Hatfield]

  • Batman: The Court of Owls Explained [IGN]

  • The Best Board Games To Play In 2020 [GameSpot]

  • Dragon Ball FighterZ’s next DLC fighter is Master Roshi [Polygon]

  • Bill & Ted Face The Music [YouTube]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 198 & BENKYO RADIO 198. Well, this summer is hot! Thankfully it’s almost September! And that means, in just a few short weeks, we should finally get some rain again, even in the places of California where we experience a drought. Hopefully we don’t have to wait too many weeks until rain returns! If you consider a rain dance, may I suggest dancing to the “Dancing is what to do” remix by Krono. Let’s get some rain in California! Firefighters would be forever grateful.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 197 | BENKYO RADIO 197

  • Label of the Month: Sistrum Recordings [beatportal]

  • 9 drum mixing tips to make your rhythm tracks sparkle [Computer Music]

  • How to keep your remix in key [Future Music]

  • The gig-less economy: what could a post-pandemic dance music scene look like? [DJ Mag]

  • Roland celebrates 40th anniversary of TR-808 with documentary and free plug-in [Dancing Austronaut]

  • Joey McCrilley Drops New House Gem ‘Felt This Way’ [YourEDM]

  • How to Balance Patience with Ambition: 3 Lessons From Tea with GaryVee [Gary Vaynerchuk]

  • The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law [MSF]

  • War heroes no longer dominate American politics as they once did [The Economist]

  • Covid-19 is changing lift etiquette [1843 magazine]

  • Equality in the U.S. Starts with Better Jobs [Harvard Business Review]

  • Democrats set for virtual political showpiece [BBC News]

  • Workplace Covid Outbreaks Hit Monorities Much Harder Than Whites [Bloomberg]

  • As Democrats prepare to nominate Joe Biden, widespread fears about unfair election [Reuters]

  • There is still much to be learned about the Beirut explosion - To prevent a tragic repeat, we should not be satisfied with simple, convenient, yet incomplete explanations [AL-Jazeera News]

  • How DeForrest Brown, JR., Centers The Black Body in Techno Music [The New Yorker]

  • Real-Life Advice on Parenting During a Pandemic [The Verge]

  • “This is exactly what we’ve been warning about”: Why some school reopenings have backfired [Vox]

  • Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator was worth the wait [TechCrunch]

  • Remote workers want to re-create those watercooler moments, virtually [MIT Technology Review]

  • Navy SEAL who oversaw bin Laden raid defends the Postal Service and says Trump is undermining every major US institution [Business Insider]

  • ‘Boring and awkward’: students voice concern as colleges plan to reopen - through Minecraft [The Guardian]

  • Michelle Obama, in Searing Speech, Says Trump ‘Cannot Meet This Moment’ [The New York Times]

  • Sanders: Trump Golfs While Rome Burns [Huffington Post]

  • Continent-Size Pressure Waves Are Rippling Through Earth’s Atmosphere [The Atlantic]

  • What Went Down On The First Night Of The Democratic National Convention [FiveThirtyEight]

  • High school students want schools to teach more Black history, include more Black authors [The Washington Post]

  • “Jusqu’a quand va-t-on devoir porter le masque? “ : rentree scholaire par temps de Covid a La Reunion [Le Monde]

  • Everything you thought you knew about ADHD is wrong [Mashable] sharing this article to support a friend of mine who deals with ADHD. #StayStrong

  • Pentagon Announces Task Force to Study UFOs [VICE]

  • This refuge may be the most contested land in the U.S. - The Trump Administration has finalized plans to sell oil leases in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge. Here’s what’s at stake. [National Geographic]

  • Math of the Penguins - Emperor penguins display rigorously geometric spacing and mathematical efficiency when they huddle together for warmth, which may reveal secrets to their overall health [Nautilus]

  • Sanders Calls For ‘Unprecedented Response’ To Defeat Trump [NPR]

  • Extreme Heat And Fire Tornadoes Slow Firefighting Efforts In California [CapRadioNews]

  • Babel jeune et innocente [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Legal Loopholes Leave the U.S. Vulnerable to Election Interference - Report finds Russia, China, and other countries have spent over $300 million to influence the democratic process in countries around the world [Foreign Policy]

  • Women’s Suffrage and the Democratic Peace [Foreign Affairs]

  • Perpetual Silence: Kashmir’s Economy Slumps Under Lockdown [The Diplomat]

  • A Raw Deal for the Palestinians [The Cipher Brief] “Look, the Palestinians live like trapped animals in an Israeli zoo.” we really need a real #TwoStateSolution with 1967 borders.

  • Claudia de Rham showed how theories of “massive gravity” could potentially get rid of the need for dark energy. [Quanta magazine]

  • 1979 : Tatiana Faberge - Travaillant de 1957 a 1995 au CERN, elle l’en est devenue une des figures. Lorsque le departement de physique theorique a ete cree, elle en devient la secretaire principale. Elle est decedee recemment, juste avant d’avoir 90 ans. [CERN_FR]

  • NASA, SpaceX Targeting October for Next Astronaut Launch [NASA]

  • INTERPOL YELLOW NOTICE - Noah De Dominics & Lohan De Dominics [INTERPOL]

  • DARPA’s AI Dogfighting Tournament Sets Stage for Future Autonomy [Air Force Magazine]

  • Ford Stops Kicking Its Aging Horse: Next-Gen Mustang Reportedly Due in 2022 [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 197 & BENKYO RADIO 197! The DNC Convention is taking place right now. You can watch the coverage, but just remember, at the end, you still need to vote. That means voting by mail, by filling out your voting ballot when it comes in the mail, then going to drop-off ballot location. Don’t mail through regular mail, since our beloved President Trump is using his influence to mess with mailboxes. Stay calm, because the FBI is still monitoring the situation (not to be confused with The Situation from MTV’s Jersey Shore), and any attempt to mess with the Election will be punished severely, whether now or later. Bernie Sanders made a great speech. Michelle Obama made a great speech. Barack Obama released a new music playlist. That’s nice. Maybe he could support Medicare For All finally? Or has he been threatened by Big Pharma? Bernie Sanders cannot be the only one on the subject matter.

I’d like to focus this blogpost on THERMAL WORK LIMIT (TWL). As I mentioned in a recent blogpost, it is hot as hell. Well, it’s gonna get hotter and hotter. Therefore, please, if you are a construction project manager, you must put extra effort and make sure all your construction workers have access to water, not just here and there, but for their entire shift. Don’t mess around. Hydration is important. Breaks are important. The same goes for Firefighters, they must stay hydrated. They are working long hours, and need water.

I want to thank USDOT, CalTrans & PG&E for cutting down many trees near Powerlines on the countryside in Folsom, CA. This will prevent wildfires. Good job.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 196 | BENKYO RADIO 196

  • The 10 Best Drum & Bass Acts You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of [beatportal]

  • Mixbucket is a simple and free way for producers and collaborators to share feedback on their music [Computer Music]

  • Native Instruments’ Co-Founder and President step down to make way for “a new generation of leadership” [Future Music]

  • Carl Cox Announces Awesome Soundwave Mix Out This Month [DJ Mag]

  • Madeon officially shares long-awaited ‘Good Faith’ extra, ‘The Prince’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Next Promises Make Debut On Hardwell’s Imprint With “Never Gonna Be The Same” [Revealed Recordings]

  • Are Influencers the new Editors In Chief? [Gary Vee]

  • Diagnostic company Cepheid charging four times more than it should for COVID-19 tests [MSF]

  • What’s an A380 worth? [The Economist]

  • Taking Stock of the Covid-19 Recession [Harvard Business Review]

  • US 2020: Postal service warns of delays in mail-in vote count [BBC News] this is fucked up and must be resolved

  • Obama Says Trump Is Trying to ‘Kneecap’ the Postal Service [Bloomberg]

  • U.S. Postal Service watchdog to probe service woes as worries rise about mail ballots [Reuters]

  • Palestinians unanimously reject UAE-Israel deal [AL-Jazeera News]

  • An Arrest Backfires in Hong Kong [The New Yorker]

  • The Best Chromebooks to Buy in 2020 [The Verge]

  • What the heck is happening with the Postal Service - As November nears, worsening mail delays threaten to impact the election [Vox]

  • NASA and SpaceX target October 23 for first operational astronaut launch [TechCrunch]

  • TikTok made him famous. Now he’s imagining a world without it - Internet creators have never been able to trust the platforms they rely on. [MIT Technology Review]

  • Michael Cohen teases details about Trump and ‘golden showers in a sex club’ in upcoming book [Business Insider]

  • Obama denounces Trump bid to deter voters with attack on post office [The Guardian]

  • Debunking 3 Viral Falsehoods About Kamala Harris [The New York Times]

  • CDC Head: U.S. Faces Its ‘Worst Fall’ In History If COVID-19 Guides Ignored [Huffington Post]

  • American Passports Are Useless Now - I can go just about anywhere with my German passport. But almost no one wants to let in Americans these days. [The Atlantic]

  • How To Vote In The 2020 Election [FiveThirtyEight]

  • More than 90 percent of California students likely to start school online, Newsom says [The Washington Post]

  • Ligue des champions : le Bayern Munich inflige une correction historique au Barca et file en demi-finale [Le Monde]

  • How to cure your pandemic blues with moments of pure joy [Mashable]

  • Scientists Say They Developed a ‘Nanobody’ That Protects Against COVID-19 [VICE]

  • The tumultuous history of the U.S. Postal Service—and its constant fight for survival [NatGeo]

  • We Don’t Have to Despair - Medical research director Eric Topol sees light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel [Nautilus]

  • In Aerial Combat Over Lake Michigan, Eagles: 1; Drones: 0 [NPR]

  • California Largely Support Police Reforms And Their Local PD, Poll Shows [CapRadioNews]

  • Au Cabo Delgado, brouillard de guerre, tambours d’internationalisation [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • A New Comic Exposes Racism Amid the Pandemic in Brazil [Foreign Policy]

  • Present at the Disruption - How Trump Unmade U.S. Foreign Policy [Foreign Affairs]

  • How Japan Talks About Security Threats [The Diplomat]

  • Lebanon’s Government Resigned. What’s Next? [The Cipher Brief]

  • Social Distancing From the Stars [Quanta magazine]

  • Tout comme un nid d’abeille de forme parfaitement hexagonale, ce prototype est un calorimetre a haute granularite (“HGCAL”) pour @CMSExperiment. La geometrie hexagonale maximise l’utilisation de la plaquette circulaire et minimise le rapport entre la peripherie et la surface [CERN_FR]

  • NASA Perseveres Through Pandemic, Looks Ahead in 2020, 2021 [NASA]

  • Online crime in Africa a bigger threat than ever before, INTERPOL report warns [INTERPOL]

  • Bass Becomes First Woman, Asian American to Serve as CMSAF [Air Force Magazine]

  • How to Change the Oil in Your Car, Truck, or SUV [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 196 & BENKYO RADIO 196.

We are approaching a week of 100F temperatures for a week straight. Please be careful. Stay hydrated. Local congressmen and congresswomen tend to post locations where you can stay cool.

Wear a mask, social-distance!

Raise awareness about the importance of voting for Biden/Harris!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 195 | BENKYO RADIO 195

  • Epic Games files an antitrust suit against Apple, arguing the App Store is a monopoly, seeking no damages but just injunctive relief to “allow fair competition” [TechMeme]

  • How to build an anti-racist company [Quartz]

  • How social justice slideshows took over Instagram [Recode]

  • Thunderstorms are difficult to predict — and heatwaves make it even harder [TheNextWeb]

  • The Eater Guide on How to Help During the Crisis [Eater]

  • Even in Tough Times, These Companies Are Set on Reinvention [Inc.]

  • The song of the summer is RZA’s new jingle for Good Humor Ice Cream [Fast Company]

  • The Most Powerful Lessons People Learn Much Too Late in Life [Medium]

  • How to Focus, Be Productive and Maintain Balance During a Crisis [Entrepreneur]

  • Making a Covid Vaccine Is Hard. Making One for Kids Is Harder [WIRED]

  • Hands-On Mac 22 - Folder Actions: Part 1 - Hosted by Leo Laporte [TWIT]

  • Sony WH-1000XM4 Review: The Final Form! [MKBHD]

  • Apple Bans Fortnite from the App Store, Epic Sues [Sam Sheffer]

  • The NEW Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ [Dave2D]

  • And now here’s Facebook going after Apple for its 30 percent fee-grubbing [Casey Newton]

  • Top 5 Mac OS Big Sur Feature! [iJustine]

  • HBO’s Euphoria is two shows in one. One is bad. The other could be good. - It might be about teens, but it’s aimed at parents. [Vox]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 195 & BENKYO RADIO 195!

Stay stafe, wear a mask, use social distancing.

Cohen is releasing a book discussing all of Trump’s bad behavior, which should help voters decide faster to vote for Biden and Kamala Harris.

When I was a kid. I couldn’t afford the Sonic 3 cartridge for my Sega Genesis, but I bought the magazine which had the strategy guide. How i longed to have the game for myself. I would read that magazine over and over again. I want all you teenagers to know that you can play videogames with moderation, but take education seriously. And in due time, you can have your game consoles, and play those games you want. I see to many kids these days, so spoiled, playing Fortnite and yelling at their parents. Show some respect. Watch a show like “Everybody Hates Chris.” Imagine pushing pennies. Study hard, and eventually you can play your games. Growing up, we waited so damn long to play our favorite games. You kids nowadays should reach out to your older siblings and parents about what it was like for them growing up, eagerly waiting for that next release. What it felt like to see Sonic Super Saiyan for the first time. Because we got some stories.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 194 | BENKYO RADIO 194

  • Beatport Announces ‘Together For Beirut’ ReConnect Livestream [beatportal]

  • The beginner’s guide to mixing drums [Computer Music]

  • Behringer’s RD-6 drum machine arrives in an eye-popping range of colour options [Future Music]

  • Tomorrowland’s virtual festival set a new standard for digital events — here’s how they did it [DJ Mag]

  • Proximity partners with Bumble for virtual mental health awareness event, Alone Together Music Festival [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Porter Robinson Drops New Worlds-Era Music In Celebration Of Album’s 6th Anniversary [Your EDM]

  • The GaryVee Content Strategy: How To Grow and Distribute Your Brand’s Social Media Content [Gary Vee]

  • Yazidi community suffers one crisis after another [MSF]

  • Israel and the UAE make their quiet affair public [The Economist] Fuck all of y’all

  • Vanity can be fatal - The long and deadly history of skin foundation [1843 magazine]

  • Recent Grads Are Drowning in Uncertainty. Here’s How to Stay Afloat. [Harvard Business Review]

  • Rise in far-right threats against Justin Trudeau, police warn [BBC News]

  • Forced Isolation May Be the Only Way to Stop Resurgence of Virus [Bloomberg]

  • Apple’s famous ‘1984’ video parodied by Fortnite game maker [Reuters]

  • What does Islam say about climate change and climate action? [AL-Jazeera News]

  • How Suffering Farmers May Determine Trump’s Fate [The New Yorker]

  • You can type ‘how to vote’ into Google now for instant state-by-state voting instructions [The Verge]

  • These Covid-19 vaccine candidates could change the way we make vaccines — if they work [Vox]

  • Oracle and Salesforce hit with GDPR class action lawsuits over cookie tracking consent [TechCrunch]

  • The human cost of a WeChat ban: severing a hundred million ties [MIT Technology Review]

  • Patients are suffering across the board’: A Texas ER doctor said hospitals are getting overwhelmed with patients of varying causes as the state gets battered by coronavirus outbreaks [Business Insider]

  • ‘We’re living like it’s not happening’: Michelle Obama opens up about menopause [The Guardian]

  • Sorry, Europe, but You Really Can’t Enjoy Vacation This Summer - This is our chance to beat back coronavirus before winter comes. Let’s not waste it. [The New York Times]

  • Joe Biden Calls For Nationwide Mask Mandate ‘Immediately’ [Huffington Post]

  • California’s Fast-Moving Lake Fire [The Atlantic]

  • It’s Way Too Soon To Count Trump Out [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Congress has taken a break from dealing with covid-19. The rest of us don’t have that luxury. [The Washington Post]

  • En France, une reglementation stricte pour les plus gros sites stockant du nitrate d’ammonium [Le Monde]

  • Dreadful COVID ordeal is a potent reminder to stay vigilant [Mashable]

  • Uber’s PR push reminds us that Uber’s business model relies on mistreating its drivers, and now it’s threatening to leave California ‘for a while’ if it has to make them employees. [VICE]

  • Arctic summer sea ice could disappear as early as 2035 [National Geographic]

  • How Life Could Continue to Evolve - On the origin of an interstellar species [Nautilus]

  • U.S. Sees Deadly Drug Overdose Spike During Pandemic [NPR]

  • After Beirut, Experts Warn Of ‘Dangerous Gaps’ In U.S. Oversight Of Ammonium Nitrate [CapRadioNews]

  • France Inter, ecoutez leurs preferences [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Why Israel’s Political Odd Couple Could Be Headed for an Early Divorce - Bibidi Netanyahu might be seeing an opportunity to evade his corruption trial by dissolving his coalition and calling yet another election. [Foreign Policy]

  • The Tragedy of Vaccine Nationalism - Only Cooperation Can End the Pandemic [Foreign Affairs]

  • The Tangled History of the ‘Tibet Card’ - It is impossible to understand the transformation of a population into a political “card” without understanding Tibet’s early 20th century [The Diplomat]

  • The Case for Open Source Intelligence [The Cipher Brief]

  • Global Wave Discovery Ends 220-Year Search [Quanta magazine]

  • Hubble Finds That Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst [NASA]

  • Online scams: It might not be too late to get your money back [INTERPOL]

  • Brown Outlines Leadership Style, Expectations as New Chief of Staff [Air Force Magazine]

  • Best Performance Coupes to Buy in 2020 [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 194 & BENKYO RADIO 194. As I picked up the next volumes in my Naruto manga series, I noticed that there was a graphic novel of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. Now this story is extremely important, and in that format can introduce the story to millions of new readers. As the coalition works on the Peace Process in Afghanistan, the Taliban must understand that they can’t return to their old ways. Women and Students and everybody else deserve an education and access to a good life. They deserve a future. Taliban can’t go back to supporting Terrorism. Thanks to the Space Force, which works in collaboration with the Air Force, there is 24/7 monitoring of the entire Afghanistan region. The war must end. It is time. Any attempt to disturb the peace process will be severely punished. Americans want Peace. Afghans want Peace. Make it happen.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 193 | BENKYO RADIO 193

  • Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running-mate [The Economist]

  • Lebanon: a country in free-fall [1843 magazine]

  • Google launches new tools to make developing Android apps on Chrome OS easier, including a new ChromeOS.dev resource website and a native Android Emulator [TechMeme]

  • The UK sank into a deep recession. GDP contracted for the second quarter in row, this time by more than 20%, for the first time since the financial crisis more than a decade ago, which precipitated deep cuts in government spending. But chancellor Rishi Sunak said he sees “promising signs” of recovery amid a falling pound. [Quartz]

  • Kamala Harris is the choice Joe Biden needed to win over Silicon Valley [Recode]

  • GPT-3 writes climate change protest letters to Trump, Xi, and Putin [TheNextWeb]

  • Is It Safe to Eat at Restaurants Yet? [Eater]

  • How Entrepreneurs Are Reducing the Stress of Back-to-School [Inc.]

  • Should you get pregnant in a pandemic? Women are weighing the risks [Fast Company]

  • How to Read a 240-Page Book in 2 Hours [Medium]

  • When Will My Next Stimulus Check Arrive? (Updated) [Entrepreneur]

  • The Iconic Arecibo Telescope Goes Quiet After Major Damage [WIRED]

  • See the full list of TWIT Tech Podcasts [TWIT]

  • Boston Dynamics Robot Dog! [MKBHD]

  • How to Zoom on FaceTime! [Sam Sheffer]

  • My Google Pixel 4a Review! [Dave Lee]

  • It’s time for a regular Amazon daily coronavirus briefing [Casey Newton’s The Interface]

  • Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Unboxing! [iJustine]

  • The only Female Artist to ever break into the Top 10 of DJ magazines Top 100 DJs, Lisa Lashes’ prolific Career in dance music spans 18 years of entertaining clubbers and festival goers across the globe. [DJ Lisa Lashes]

What’s up everybody, here’s JETLAG RADIO 193 & BENKYO RADIO 193. Don’t forget to vote in the Top 100 DJ Mag Poll. Here are my top 5:

  1. Ferry Corsten

  2. Armin van Buuren

  3. Paul van Dyk

  4. Sander van Doorn

  5. Sama Abdulhadi

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 192 | BENKYO RADIO 192

  • Artist of the Month: Amelie Lens [beatportal]

  • How to program MIDI drums that sound like they were played by a real drummer [Computer Music]

  • Could this be the simplest and easiest AI mastering plugin yet? [Future Music]

  • Grassroots action: how Young Urban Arts Foundation are helping young people through creative pursuits [DJ Mag]

  • Pioneer DJ releases documentary on COVID-19’s impact on the electronic music industry [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Mellodees Reveals First Animated Marshmello In New Series Aimed At Young Children [YourEDM]

  • Instagram Reels vs. TikTok: 13 Things You Need to Know [Gary Vaynerchuck]

  • MSF and Sea-Watch announce collaboration to save lives at sea [MSF]

  • Americans should worry less about foreigners and voter fraud | And worry more about long lines at polling booths and problems with vote counting [The Economist]

  • Tear gas, batons…then nothing. The night the Feds left Portland - Black Lives Matter took off in America’s whitest city. Then, after weeks of clashes with federal agents, the officers melted away [1843 magazine]

  • 8 Ways Managers Can Support Employees’ Mental Health [Harvard Business Review]

  • ‘I went from prisoner to PhD’ [BBC Ideas]

  • Covid-19 Is Bringing a Fall Full of Unknowns [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • Fed’s Evans says another coronavirus aid package ‘incredibly important’: interview [Reuters]

  • Peter Beinart and the crisis of liberal Zionism [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Countering Trump’s Attempt to Manipulate the Election and the Census [The New Yorker]

  • Computer scientist Frances Allen, known for her work on compiling, dies at 88 [The Verge]

  • How cities can tackle violent crime without relying on police [Vox]

  • VPN booms as countries around the world mull TikTok bans [TechCrunch]

  • Climate change-fueled heatwaves could kill millions [MIT Technology Review]

  • Previous reports from the FBI, CIA, and NSA concluded that Russia attempted to help Trump win in 2016 — and Vladimir Putin said publicly he wanted Trump to win — but Trump has denied those reports’ accuracy. [Business Insider]

  • Manchester United seal semi-final spot as Bruno Fernandes sinks Copenhagen [The Guardian]

  • How to Ask if Everything Is OK When It’s Clearly Not [The New York Times]

  • Trump’s Order On ‘Unemployment Benefits’ Is A Big Mess - That extra $400 is actually just $300, unless your state feels like kicking in. [Huffington Post]

  • Forest Fires Are Setting Chernobyl’s Radiation Free [The Atlantic]

  • Some Volunteers Want To Be Infected With Coronavirus To Help Find A Vaccine. But It Isn’t That Simple. [FiveThirtyEight]

  • A Biden Administration Will Have to Confront Trump’s Corruption [The Nation]

  • Previously Shelved Season 4 Episode of ‘Black-ish’ Now Available on Hulu [COMPLEX]

  • Kanye West Could Face Election Fraud Investigation [HypeBeast]

  • Van Jones Fights For Civil Rights and Loves Hip-Hop [XXL]

  • A Timeline of The Weeknd’s Career, From Drake’s Co-Sign to ‘After Hours’ Domination [billboard]

  • In 2020, anything’s possible. New government intelligence might prove alien life is, too [USA Today]

  • The world must not let China steamroll Hong Kong [The Washington Post]

  • Brest remplace Copenhague pour le depart du Tour de France 2021 [Le Monde]

  • SNL’s ‘MacGruber’ announces Peacock series in ridiculous, action-packed teaser [Mashable]

  • Mars’ Weird Glowing Atmosphere Pulses Exactly 3 Times a Night, NASA Discovers [VICE]

  • Antarctica is the last continent without COVID-19. Scientists want to keep it that way. [National Geographic]

  • Why We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized [Nautilus]

  • ‘A Homeless Pandemic’ Looms As 30 Million Are At Risk Of Eviction [NPR]

  • California Coronavirus Updates: UC System To Require Flu Shots [CapRadioNews]

  • Bienvenue a Wakaliwood [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Afghan Women Should Be the Centerpiece of the Peace Process [Foreign Policy]

  • The Democratic Renewal - What It Will Take to Fix U.S. Foreign Policy [Foreign Affairs]

  • Climate Change Is a Security Threat to the Asia-Pacific [The Diplomat]

  • What Turning a Blind Eye to the World Will Cost Us [The Cipher Brief]

  • Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health [Quanta magazine]

  • Notre #PhotoDeLaSemaine presente Moya Lee et Rita Perez, ingenieurs au CERN, travaillant sur l’un des collimateurs du LHC. Les collimateurs absorbent les particules parasites avant qu’elles n’entrent en collision, on les appelle souvent les gardes du corps du LHC. [CERN_FR]

  • Four Down, Four to Go: Artemis | Rocket Moves Closer to Hot Fire Test [NASA]

  • 5 reasons non-delivery scams work [INTERPOL]

  • First Space Force Doctrine Lays Foundation for Future Ops [Air Force Magazine]

  • Could the Next BMW M5 Be an 1,000-HP Electric Super Sedan? [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! I’ve just added JETLAG RADIO 192 & BENKYO RADIO 192. It’s back to school in many places! Stay strong, you can do this. I really enjoy the Fast & Furious game so far. I know there are a lot of critics about the gameplay, but that’s not fair because they don’t have a big budget like Gran Turismo Sport or Forza. Plus, if you support this game, it is more likely that there will be more games, with better gameplay.

I am asking the Trump Administration to stop (I think the expression is) Dilly-Dalling around with COVID-19. We need nationwide isolation. We need to do this for 6 weeks straight, then the coronavirus will be contained. We need Medicare For All. If we can’t have that just yet, we need to pass a temporary Medicare For All. We need to reverse-engineer a vaccine by getting all the scientists together from every major country on Earth. There’s no point in every country working out for themselves. The Planet will benefit if the world is healthy. Work together, stop bickering, and listen to Bill Gates, goddamnit.

Dear Iron Man (Elon Musk), I know Mars is important and all that, but if there are no humans left to go on Mars, it might be quite problematic. Could you allocate a few hours each week or at least get a team to work on mapping the coronavirus genome? Peter Parker can even ask Spider-Man to help you.

Wear a mask! Use social-distancing! Do it for yourself, and your loved ones!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 191 | BENKYO RADIO 191

  • Weather experts issue most threatening hurricane forecast yet [CBS News]

  • A.I.’s next big challenge? Playing a quantum version of Go [Digital Trends]

  • Enlist George W. Bush and Al Gore to help us prevent a Trump-Biden nightmare in 2020 [USA Today]

  • Big Ten players submit proposal for protection of college athletes during COVID-19 pandemic [SB Nation]

  • Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir [TechMeme]

  • Cannabis at a crossroads [Quartz]

  • Bill Gates is spending $150 million to try to make a coronavirus vaccine as cheap as $3 [Recode]

  • This startup is fighting air pollution with AI [TheNextWeb]

  • A McDonald’s Employee Reported Unsanitary Conditions. Her Coworkers Retaliated With Harassment [Eater]

  • She Was Rejected by 86 Investors Before Hearing a Single Yes—and It Was From Jay-Z [Inc.]

  • This one small thing can radically impact your productivity [Fast Company]

  • Psychologists Explain How To Stop Overthinking Everything [Medium]

  • Restflix Is Netflix for Getting Better Sleep and It Might Change Your Life [Entrepreneur]

  • ‘Ultima’ Fandom Is Still Going Strong [WIRED]

  • This Week In Google 571 [TWIT]

  • The Last Intel Mac VS The Osborne Effect! [MKBHD]

  • Instagram Reels: How to Use the New IG Reels feature (2020) [Sam Sheffer]

  • Breaking: Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job [The Interface by Casey Newton]

  • New 27in iMac is HERE! [iJustine]

  • How Next-Gen is Reframing the ‘Console Wars’ - Next-Gen Console Watch [IGN]

  • PlayStation State Of Play: Everything We Saw, Including PS5 Games [GameSpot]

  • Ghost of Tsushima guides and walkthroughs [Polygon]

  • New Pixels —and new prices—are here [Google Blog]

  • Google AI Blog: MediaPipe Iris: Real-time Iris Tracking [Google AI]

  • The Sky This Week: The Perseids peak with the Moon on display [Astronomy]

  • AI Is Helping Teams Right Now: Being More Responsive Is Just the Beginning [Salesforce]

  • Lebanon is the very definition of a failing state. So sad as for a long time (until the mid-1970s) it was the most open, dynamic corner of the region, with Beirut the Paris of the Middle East. The explosion seems to be the result of bad governance-a metaphor for the country [Richard Haas]

  • Billionaires need the working class. The working class does not need billionaires. [AOC]

  • Human Trafficking is a serious problem in America. We @strike_source sat down with the Guardian Group, an organization lead by retired Tier 1 Operators who hunt Human Traffickers in the United States. [IGRECON]

What’s up, everybody, here’s JETLAG RADIO 191 & BENKYO RADIO 191. I need to remind those of you who deal with a Mental Health illness like me to reach out to your friends who are also going through this. It’s important to talk and be there for emotional support. As always, please wear a mask and practice social-distancing. The sooner we cut down the spread of the coronavirus, the sooner we can get back to normal. Perform large gatherings at your own risk. They did it in Florida, and they all got infected. Beware.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 190 | BENKYO RADIO 190 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 036

  • Denon DJ Announces Long-Awaited Integration with Beatport LINK [beatportal]

  • Akai MPK mini mk3: “world’s best-selling USB MIDI keyboard controller” now looks slicker and plays better [Computer Music]

  • Here’s what Roland has planned for its 40th anniversary 808 day celebrations [Future Music]

  • Spotify Launch DJ Curated Playlist Series Track ID [DJ Mag]

  • i_o and Raito share fiery techno EP, ‘revolution’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • HARD Summer BackHARD BBQ Is Heating Up Now [Your EDM]

  • The United States Announces $7.5 Million in Additional Humanitarian Assistance to Contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [USAID]

  • MSF supporting Beirut’s health services in wake of massive blast [MSF]

  • Google hits middle age [The Economist]

  • Why sourdough went viral [1843 magazine]

  • Can You Be Too Well Connected [Harvard Business Review]

  • Beirut explosion: Port officials under house arrest as rescue efforts continue [BBC News]

  • If Not a 401(k) Then What? The Alternatives Aren’t Great [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • The scale of the coronavirus deaths [Reuters]

  • Lebanon’s Hezbollah denies storing arms at blast site: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says Beirut port explosion ‘has nothing to do’ with group, calls accountability [AL-Jazeera News] Mossad is likely culprit, and is known to carry attacks in Beirut. Bibidi Netanyahu warned Lebanon one or two days before the attack. it will be tough to prove so, but Interpol is on-site investigating. Due to Trump being in bed with Netanyahu, it is unlikely that there will be enough international pressure to convict Israel for war crimes, yet again. This is sad. Extreme-Right Nationalism must be expelled from the leadership in Israel. People in the streets are protesting Bibidi Netanyahu and demand regime change. He’s facing corruption charges. How is he still standing? Why is the Mafia in Israel so strong? There must be more investigation.

  • “Mr. President, What Are Your Priorities?” Is Not a Tough Question [The New Yorker]

  • VoteByMail makes it easier to request a mail-in ballot ahead of the election [The Verge]

  • How to pick the right Series A investors - When it’s time to start fundraising, here’s how to get started [TechCrunch]

  • Mars may not have been the warm, wet planet we thought it was [MIT Technology Review]

  • An aerospace startup just won a contract to develop an Air Force One jet that can travel at Mach 5. Here’s an early look at the engine that could rocket from New York to Paris in 90 minutes. [Business Insider]

  • Civil death: how millions of Americans lost their right to vote [The Guardian]

  • Russia Continues Interfering in Election to Help Trump, U.S. Intelligence Says [The New York Times]

  • Bill Gates: CDC’s COVID-19 Response Was ‘Muzzled’ By White House [Huffington Post]

  • Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism? [The Atlantic]

  • Trump Wants to Postpone The Election, But Americans Really Don’t [FiveThirtyEight]

  • How Stephen Miller went from teen troll to Trump whisperer [The Washington Post]

  • Ligue des champions : Manchester City elimine le Real Madrid [Le Monde]

  • 11 electric SUVs coming for the Tesla Model Y [Mashable]

  • A DIY Vaccine Can’t Solve the COVID-19 Crisis [VICE]

  • How to take a European road trip without leaving America’s Midwest [NatGeo]

  • The Hard Problem of Breakfast [Nautilus]

  • Tracking The Pandemic: Are Coronavirus Cases Rising Or Falling In Your State? [NPR]

  • ‘Don’t Give Up’: Hiroshima Survivor Remembers Blast, Rescue [CapRadioNews] Nuclear Deterrence is of extreme importance for world peace. We need America to finally apologize to Japan for dropping the atomic bomb twice. It is long overdue.

  • Pour plus de securite sociale dans la culture [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Europe Must Stand Up for Belarus [Foreign Policy]

  • The Pandemic Hasn’t Killed Populism - After Lockdowns, Demagogues Will Likely Resurge [Foreign Affairs]

  • Japan Braces for Looming ‘Second Wave’ Amid Dramatic Spike in COVID-19 Cases [The Diplomat]

  • China’s Arctic Ambitions [The Cipher Brief]

  • COVID-19 Is Raging. How Safe Is Your Backyard Party? [Quanta magazine]

  • Merci a Klaus Barth pour cette photo d’etoiles au-dessus du batiment de @ALICEexperiment. Il est temps de lever les yeux au ciel et d’observer les etoiles ! Vous pouvez peut-etre encore voir #Neowise.. Allez voir le travail de nos amis de l’@ESA : [CERN_FR]

  • NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is One Rehearsal Away from Touching Asteroid Bennu [NASA]

  • INTERPOL deploys response team to site of Beirut explosion [INTERPOL]

  • ULA, SpaceX Win Space Force Launch Provider Competition [Air Force Magazine]

  • 2020 Hyundai Sonata Review: Appealing to Your Emotions [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 190 & BENKYO RADIO 190. I’ve also included LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 036. That’s a lot of music, so enjoy!

Less than 90 days until the Election 2020! As you’ve heard, there is a lot of interference which is trying to prevent Biden from becoming our next President. There’s interference from Russia, and Trump doesn’t want people to vote by mail, even he did vote by mail himself. Voting by mail during a pandemic is crucial. It is safe and secure. We simply cannot let Trump stay in office for 4 more years. The country might turn into something from out of MAD MAX.

Keep wearing a mask! Use social-distancing! Also, it’s flu-season again, so don’t forget to get that flu shot because it’s not worth catching the FLU during a freaking pandemic.

I want to thank Bill Maher for raising awareness on people gaining weight at home during the quarantine. He is right. We are all putting ourselves at risk for diabetes if we are not careful. I’m doing my best to cut down sugar, which is not easy.

If you don’t think an education is important, just imagine being out there during a pandemic. Please take school seriously. Yes, I know it’s ridiculous that some schools are demanding $50K/year just for online learning, which is why Senator Sanders must pass the bill for Free Tuition, and Gavin Newsom’s push for cheaper tuition costs for Community College and CSU colleges in California.

I’m so excited about the Fast & Furious video-game! I can’t believe we have to wait until April of next year to see the new movie! It should be out on Streaming now!

We all remember the alternate universe with Biff from Back to the Future, or the Darkest Timeline from Community. I want everybody to remain calm. Less than 90 days until Biden wins, and brings a broom to clean this fucking mess. I’ve learned patience through Zen buddhism books. I suggest you try that. Super excited about the John Wick 5 announcement! Also, there’s gonna be a Knight Rider movie! Awesome!

Obviously, the fight for BLM Movement is not over. It’s time Kendrick Lamar releases an album. I know you are vexed because you considered yourself a Zionist and Israel teaches American Police officers Police Brutality but it’s time for you to make that olive branch, admit you were wrong, and write some verses. Maybe you could open your eyes to the brutality that Palestinians face every day. Future used to strictly care about “bitches and million dollar watches” but even he straightened up and is creating scholarship funds for disenfranchised black youth.

I just wrote this report. Hopefully I can rest a bit before I need to write the next one. Cheers. Oh before I forget, if you like hip-hop, check out Verzuz, it looks pretty cool. I want to watch the Snoop Dogg And DMX episode. I also need to listen to that new Logic album.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 189 | BENKYO RADIO 189

  • Black Voices Scholarship [beatportal]

  • 15 questions for…Joris Delacroix: “Be careful who you’re working with, and as an artist, don’t think that the music industry is always your friend.” [Computer Music]

  • Issue 360 of Future Music is on sale now [Future Music]

  • Black Junglist Alliance Launches to Address Diversity Issues in Jungle and D&B [DJ Mag]

  • ZHU entrances with remix of Mathame’s ‘Never Give Up’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • London Motor Show Will Feature DJ Set From Carl Cox & Cars From His Private Collection [Your EDM]

  • MSF forced to close COVID-19 centre on Lesbos [MSF]

  • Acting USAID Administrator John Barsa on World Day Against Trafficking In Persons [USAID]

  • Joe Biden has a good chance of becoming a surprisingly activist president [The Economist]

  • The end of modernity - What will fashion look like after the pandemic? [1843 magazine]

  • You Need More Sleep. What Should You Do If You Can’t Get It? [Harvard Business Review]

  • Jesse Lingard: Manchester United midfielder says ‘I was lost as a player and person’ [BBC Sport]

  • College Campuses and Towns Have No Good Choices [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • Democrat Biden says he will name running mate in first week of August [Reuters]

  • The quiet undoing of the Zionist noise [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Biden’s Big-Tent Strategy Seems to Be Working [The New Yorker]

  • The Verge’s Back-To-School Gift Guide 2020 [The Verge]

  • Millions of people will see a sharp drop in their unemployment benefits because Congress failed to act [Vox]

  • The Red Hat Developer Program will give you the tools to develop apps in the cloud [TechCrunch]

  • American parents are setting up homeschool “pandemic pods” [MIT Technology Review]

  • Bill Gates: We will have a coronavirus vaccine, but the disease will keep coming back if there’s a US ‘leadership vacuum’ [Business Insider]

  • You’re already wearing a mask - now consider a face shield and goggles [The Guardian]

  • What Happens When You’re Disabled but Nobody Can Tell [The New York Times]

  • Republicans Resume Fear-Mongering About The Debt. Don’t Believe Them. Helping working people will not hurt the economy [Huffington Post]

  • A Breakthrough Some Cosmologists Thought Would Never Come [The Atlantic]

  • Some Republicans Have Gotten More Concerned About COVID-19 [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Congress deeply unpopular again as gridlock on coronavirus relief has real-life consequences [The Washington Post]

  • Vigilance orange a la canicule maintenue dimanche dans l’Ardeche et la Drome [Le Monde]

  • Best audio workout apps for training without a screen [Mashable]

  • Government Hacking Crews Have a New Target: A COVID-19 Vaccine [VICE]

  • Surging tourism is straining this Yellowstone gateway town [NatGeo]

  • How many coronavirus masks should you have? [Nautilus]

  • Syria Is Overwhelmed By Coronavirus As Govt Conceals Outbreak, Health Worker Says [NPR]

  • Hospitals Juggle Resources, Continue Surgeries As California’s COVID-19 Cases Rise [CapRadioNews]

  • Petitionnaires de tous les pays… [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Inside the Massive Foreign-Policy Team Advising Biden’s Campaign [Foreign Policy]

  • The Overmilitarization of American Foreign Policy [Foreign Affairs]

  • Afghanistan’s Higher Education System Has a Stark Geographic Divide [The Diplomat]

  • Fixing DOD’s Acquisition Problem [The Cipher Brief]

  • Our Genes May Explain Severity of COVID-19 and Other Infections [Quanta magazine]

  • Quels sont les constituants de l’Univers? [CERN]

  • NASA Astronauts Safely Splash Down after First Commercial Crew Flight to Space Station [NASA]

  • INTERPOL assisting Cote d’Ivoire identify terrorists arrested after attacks [INTERPOL]

  • The Goldfein Years [Air Force Magazine]

  • EVgo’s Charging Infrastructure Is Getting Bigger With Help From GM [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody, here are JR 189 & BR 189. We only have about 11 more episodes until JETLAG RADIO 200! The third interstellar object was not out there yet, but we did get Comet NEOWISE! Let’s keep looking in that night sky and maybe we’ll finally find that third interstellar object.

Please continue to wear a mask outside, everybody is tired of the coronavirus just as much as anyone else. But, if we want to go out in gatherings again, we need to social-distance until the vaccine is available.

Please stay strong. It’s August! About 90 more days until the Elections 2020. We can do it. We can vote for Biden, and get rid of the Trump administration. We cannot afford to lose this election. Once Biden gets in office, the Progressives must continue to force him to pass important policies, including Medicare For All.

I was so excited to watch Chapter 1 of the new Transformers series on Netflix, it was awesome. Also, I just watched the JEXI movie, I really recommend you watch it! It was awesome!

It’s nice to see Basketball on the TV screen again! Always fun to watch them play.

I’m looking forward to listening to the Road to F9 Mixtape! There’s also a Fast & Furious video game coming out this month!

The best advice I have for you is the one I follow in order to make it through the day. Take things one day at a time. It’s a struggle! But you can do it!

Until next time!