JETLAG RADIO 234 | BENKYO RADIO 234

  • It’s Time to #DanceAway2020 [beatportal]

  • 15 'groundbreaking' music technology products that could have been classics but weren’t [Computer Music]

  • The 9 best new drum machines and samplers of 2020 [Future Music]

  • 2020: a year in dance music [DJ Mag]

  • The Best DJ Mixes of the Year 2020 [Mixmag]

  • Dancing Astronaut’s Artists to Watch in 2021: Lastlings [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Flume Shares Delectable New ID On Instagram Stories & We Need It Now [Your EDM]

  • A year in pictures 2020 [MSF]

  • The Top 3 Wines for the Holiday Season [Gary Vee]

  • Christmas newsletters are a form of slow social media [The Economist]

  • How Businesses Can Find “Hidden Workers” - Even before the pandemic, these low- and middle-skills workers were cut out of the economy. It’s time to bring them back. [Harvard Business Review]

  • Covid: Millions of Americans face unemployment benefits lapse [BBC News]

  • Bitcoin Crushes Doubters as 224% Rally Proves It’s Here to Stay [Bloomberg]

  • In Christmas message curbed by COVID, pope calls on nations to share vaccines [Reuters]

  • Turkish president wants to bring ties to a ‘better point’ but says Israeli policy towards Palestinians is unacceptable. [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Kim Kardashian and the Year of Unchecked Privilege-Checking [The New Yorker]

  • Verge readers can get two years of PlayStation Plus for only $58 [The Verge]

  • How we can encourage people to wear masks — for others’ sake [Vox]

  • Music made 2020 better, but we failed to make 2020 better for musicians [TechCrunch]

  • Cyberpunk 2077 Wiki Guide - Beginner’s Guide - Tips for Getting Started [IGN]

  • Mass Effect 4: Everything We Know [GameSpot]

  • What did 2020 mean for the games industry? [Polygon]

  • GPD’s new handheld console revives Sony’s most daring design [INPUT]

  • To End the Pandemic, the COVID-19 Vaccine Must Clear One Final Obstacle [INVERSE]

  • The climate revolution will be intergenerational [Mic]

  • Kids are sick of Zoom too—so their teachers are getting creative [MIT Technology Review]

  • 'For God's sakes, get out of the way': Trump's former national security advisor urges him to fund the US military [Business Insider]

  • Christmas travel rush ignores Covid warnings as California hits 2m cases [The Guardian]

  • One Vaccine Side Effect: Global Economic Inequality [The New York Times]

  • House Republicans Block $2,000 Coronavirus Stimulus Checks, Defying Trump [Huffington Post]

  • What Happened to American Childhood? - Too many kids show worrying signs of fragility from a very young age. Here’s what we can do about it. [The Atlantic]

  • Latest Polls Of The Georgia Senate Runoffs [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Covid-19 : 25 millions de cas en Europe, renforcement des restrictions partout dans le monde [Le Monde]

  • The absolute best longreads of 2020 [Mashable]

  • An Incomplete Timeline of the Moments I Remember From 2020 [Motherboard by VICE]

  • Trump Just Handed Democrats a Chance to Cut You a $2K Stimulus Check [VICE News]

  • Snowden and Assange Deserve Pardons. So Do the Whistleblowers Trump Imprisoned. [The Intercept_]

  • Why do we have Christmas trees? The surprising history behind this holiday tradition. [Nat Geo]

  • Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing [Nautilus]

  • Hank Adams, The 'Most Important Indian,' Dies At 77 [NPR]

  • California Coronavirus Updates: California Hits 0% ICU Capacity Statewide [CapRadioNews]

  • Les Livres du Mois [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • The Biggest National Security Stories of the Year [Foreign Policy]

  • The Best of 2020 [Foreign Affairs]

  • South Korea Prepares for Its Worst COVID-19 Scenario Yet [The Diplomat]

  • In a Future Military, You Must Spend to Deter [The Cipher Brief]

  • Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse [Quanta magazine]

  • Cybercrime - Israeli’s NSO Group Spyware [INTERPOL]

  • Operation Christmas Drop Continues for 69th Year Despite COVID-19 [Air Force Magazine]

  • Give the Gift of the Ultimate Japanese Project Car: A Barn-Find 1973 Nissan Skyline GT-R [MOTORTREND]

  • « Salam, Shalom, Salut » – SOS Racisme lance son nouveau projet ! [SOS Racisme]

  • A notre tour - Documentaire [Harissa]

  • Vivre ensemble - Les Guignols - CANAL+ [Les Guignols]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 234 & BENKYO RADIO 234.

I’m making a few reports in a row, back to back to back to back, just like The Ohio State University Football Team who won the Big Ten 4 times in a row.

Don’t forget to wear a mask, social-distance, and do NOT have large gatherings. If we did not get sick for the majority of 2020, it’s not worth ending the year by getting sick on Christmas or New Year’s Eve. We are in the final stretch! Do the right thing! Only a few more months until the vaccine is available to more Americans. I cannot wait. I miss my family and friends. But, to avoid the spread of COVID-19, we cannot risk having large gatherings for a few more months. This disease is not a joke. Please don’t act like your IQ is under 70 like many Republicans. They had all large gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and they all got sick. Did you read the articles that I have content curated? There’s one about 0% ICU beds left in California. I have neighbors who are firefighters/EMTs. They are distraught. Please make their lives easier. Stop having large gatherings. COVID-19 is a deadly disease, and in some places around the world, the virus has mutated. Please, be safe. Listen to CDC warnings.

Stay home. Go play some videogames. Watch a movie. Read a book. Play some board games.

Let us pray for Peace on Earth and a Happy Birthday to Holy baby Armin van Buuren. 🙏

Until next time!