The AudioBook Guide

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Tesla completely transformed the automotive landscape when it introduced the Roadster, pioneering the mass-market electric car and reinventing the car as we know. It sold the first widely-available EV, and it did it with a product that you could easily live with every day. The company has done more to further the electric game than anyone else and deserves total credit for making EVs a part of the discussion when it comes to the future of the automobile. Tesla has changed the world. It’s also doomed.

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Following years of Russian noncompliance, the United States officially withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty on Aug. 2. The Cold War-era arms control agreement had banned land-based missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers, and the next day the new U.S. defense secretary, Mark Esper, told reporters that he wanted to counter China’s massive missile inventory “sooner rather than later.” China responded furiously.

Ironically, the threat comes as the most conspicuous flash point between the two countries, China’s military buildup on its artificial islands in the South China Sea, appears to be reaching a peak. In part, this is because of limits on the bases’ military usefulness in future conflict, but the key reason is that the backlash and counterbalancing its militarization encourages from the United States and other countries threaten the islands’ usefulness as a political signal at home, something that the Communist Party may value far more than their actual military potency.

Since 2013, China has constructed more than 3,000 degreed across seven features that are now studded with long-range sensor arrays, port facilities, runways, and reinforced bunkers for fuel and weapons. That’s a huge military footprint, despite Chinese President Xi Jinping’s nominal 2015 pledge not to militarize the islands and the Foreign Ministry’s claims that these “necessary defense facilities” are provided primarily for maritime safety and natural disaster support.

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Then, according to numerous current and former employees of Frazzini’s game studios, he ignored much of their advice. He frequently told staff that every Amazon game needed to be a “billion-dollar franchise” and then understaffed the projects, they say. Instead of using industry-standard development tools, Frazzini insisted Amazon build its own, which might have saved the company money if the software ever worked properly. Executives under Frazzini initially rejected charges that New World, an Amazon game that would ask players to colonize a mythical land and murder inhabitants who bear a striking resemblance to Native Americans, was racist. They relented after Amazon hired a tribal consultant who found that the portrayal was indeed offensive, say two people who worked on the project. The game, previously planned for release last year, is now scheduled for this spring.

This story is based on interviews with more than 30 current and former Amazon employees, most of whom spoke under the condition of anonymity citing fears of litigation or career repercussions. A spokeswoman for Amazon declined to comment or make Frazzini available for an interview.

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There have been attempts to allow richer countries to cut their emissions by paying for the development of carbon lowering schemes in poorer nations. However, the effectiveness of these schemes has been questioned, with research indicating that some have created more emissions than they have actually curtailed.

Of greater significance have been the so called cap and trade schemes, at regional, national and international levels. They work by setting an overall limit or cap on the amount of emissions that are allowed from significant sources of carbon, including the power industry, automotive and air travel.

Governments then issue permits up to the agreed limit, and these are either given free or auctioned to companies in the sector. If a company curbs its own carbon significantly it can trade the excess permits on the carbon market for cash. If it's not able to limit its emissions it may have to buy extra permits.

Schemes are up and running in the European Union and in several regions of the United States, but attempts at a national scheme in the US foundered in the Senate in 2010.

Cap and trade schemes have been very effective in tackling environmental problems in the past, with trading in sulphur dioxide permits helping to limit acid rain in the US. The big attraction for governments concerned with stemming CO2 is that carbon trading is much easier to implement than expensive direct regulations, and unpopular carbon taxes.

If regional cap and trade schemes can be joined up globally, with a strong carbon price, it could be a relatively pain-free and speedy method to help the world decarbonise.

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The idea comes from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd US president, who passed 15 major pieces of legislation and 76 Laws during the first 100 days of his presidency in 1933. By today's standards, the efficiency is almost unbelievable. It's mostly due to the extenuating circumstances of his term: Roosevelt was dealing with the Great Depression when he was inaugurated, and the nationwide sense of emergency allowed him to take action swiftly. And while the circumstances for following presidents were less dire, the term stuck.

For better or for worse, they've become a benchmark of a president's efficacy in office. Some argue that it's an arbitrary and unfair standard based on the extenuating circumstances FDR was governing in. Others raise the point that when a president first takes office, their halo of victory lingers and their leadership style is fresh and new, which can positively affect their impact on Congress.

Regardless of which side is correct, the myth of the 100 days becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: a new president knows that people's eyes will be on their first 100 days and therefore works to make them memorable. It can be seen as a time to take definitive action and set the tone of the next four years.

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Mass extinction means three out of every four species you are familiar with would disappear off the face of the Earth, plausibly in time for your grand kids to see it happen, if not before.

You may have heard that biologists now agree that’s exactly where we’re heading. They’re calling it the Sixth Mass Extinction, since it would be only the sixth time in half a billion years — the entire time complex life has been on the planet — that so many species go extinct so fast. And you’ve probably heard that it’s us, Homo sapiens, who are causing it, by all the ways we are changing the planet.

But, with all the gloomy predictions being thrown about, you may not know that the Sixth Mass Extinction is not a done deal.

Yes, it’s true that about a third of species we’ve evaluated are threatened with extinction, and that we’ve killed about half of all our wildlife in the past forty years. But it’s also true that so far we’ve only lost less than one percent of the species that have ridden the planet with us for the last twelve thousand years. That doesn’t mean species aren’t in trouble — more than 20,000 of them are — but it does mean that most of what we want to save is still out there to be saved.

Biologists have been quite successful at nursing some species back to health. But the task of saving the thousands that are are now in dire straits requires more than case-by-case efforts.  It requires dealing with the most important underlying drivers of extinction:

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Inthe early 1970s, decades before the cellphone, the handheld video camera, the laptop, or the modern electric car, scientists figured out that lithium, the lightest metal on the periodic table, could make for a revolutionary battery. Researchers at Exxon, hoping to diversify away from oil, were among those who began a series of experiments to create a lithium battery. But as often as not, they had to call the fire department, because the highly volatile element would sometimes catch fire and blow up the lab.

Even as researchers since then have managed to enable a massive lithium-ion economy of portable electronic devices, they have never gotten beyond inserting just a small few crumbs of the metal into the batteries powering iPhones, Tesla automobiles, and Chromebooks. Pure lithium has remained the Holy Grail — the presumed best consumer battery possible using currently known principles and technology, but always out of reach since no one could figure out how to actually deploy the metal without the risk of fire.

Now, in a colossal claim, QuantumScape, a 10-year-old San Jose, California, startup backed by Bill Gates, said in an interview that it has resolved lithium’s problems, and that VW, the giant German automaker, expects to have cars using pure metallic lithium in their batteries on the road by 2025. Jagdeep Singh, QuantumScape’s CEO, also announced that the company is going public, using a so-called SPAC to list on the New York Stock Exchange in the fourth quarter. The post-listing valuation would be $4.3 billion, Singh said. In a SPAC, a company goes public by merging with an existing, listed shell company.

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One of the things that’s really striking to me about stuff that keeps coming up recently, whether it's in politics, or the economy, or whatever, or wherever, is that people are doing a lot of noisy, boisterous stuff these days, perhaps with some short term objective in mind, but a lot seemingly just to tear things apart and jump around with no thought at all not one bit about what comes after. And what real destruction they may leave behind the havoc they wreak, which they’re doing sometimes just for fun, or so they say.

Like how did we wind up in a world where the main lesson many learned from the GameStop turmoil last week on Wall Street is not that cheating is wrong and needs to be fixed at the highest levels, but instead, everybody should be cheating?

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Still, it’s true that we’ve just lived through a singular chapter in the history of the stock market as something close to a pop-culture phenomenon: the white-hot story of the Reddit-fuelled run up of GameStop and other equities. Our brief, national stonkmare seems to be winding down; something else will fill the Trump-sized hole in our collective attention span. Fortunes have been made; hedge funds have been hurt. And perhaps there was actually a silver lining to it all — perhaps we genuinely learned a thing or two in the process.

I realize many will be skeptical of this argument. And I concede that some casual observers of the GameStop fiasco will come away with all the wrong conclusions, seeing a story of a righteous and thrilling populist uprising that somehow spells the end of Wall Street, and who will “learn” just enough from that to leap into stocks and lose a lot of money. I understand that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

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As a teenager, Will Smith scored high on his SATs and received a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. However, he turned them down because his dream was to be a rapper. In 1985, Smith met DJ Jazzy Jeff at a local house party. They both realized they had undeniable chemistry and formed the rap duo, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. The hit single "Girls Ain't' Nothing But Trouble" ended up being their big breakthrough. Smith was about to take hip hop to levels nobody imagined possible.

In the 1980s, Will Smith a rising star  on the verge of a significant breakthrough. In 1988, Smith became a household name with the hit single "Parents Just Don't Understand." DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince made history and won the first Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1989, but Smith led a boycott against the Grammys for not televising their category. They chose not to attend the event, as did other nominees. Smith's boycott gained him respect from the industry and added to his status. He went on to win several more Grammy Awards.