The Daily Dive

This is a compilation of some of the most compelling stories of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A baby formula shortage has caused parents to scramble to find alternatives to keep their kids fed with the appropriate nutrition.  The FDA has shut down Abbot Nutrition’s factory in Michigan amid an investigation into bacterial infections which has been the biggest problem with supply as they are the largest producer in the country.  Dr. Steven Abrams, Professor of Pediatrics at t...

Very soon you could be seeing ads on your favorite streaming platform.  Netflix has long been a holdout when it came to placing ads during their content, but a huge loss of subscribers has them scrambling for how to make up the lost revenue.  To that end, a cheaper pricing tier with ads could be coming by the end of the year.  Peter Kafka, senior correspondent at Recode, joins us fo...

High inflation persists as President Biden points to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine as top causes for high prices.  Each month we get updated numbers on the Consumer Price Index, but how is that number calculated?  477 government workers spend their days going to grocery stores and other businesses to track the costs of over 100,000 goods and services each month.  Rachel Wolfe,...

Researchers are constantly working on new vaccine delivery methods for Covid and are hoping that nasal vaccines could be better at preventing transmission and infection.  Several candidates are in the works and in early clinical trials but the hope is that it could work better by taking hold in mucus membranes where the virus enters the body.  Karen Weintraub, health reporter at USA Toda...

As the war in Ukraine rages on, we saw another high-profile U.S. visitor go to the country to show support.  First Lady Jill Biden met with her counterpart Olena Zelenska, Ukraine’s first lady.  The met at a school and showed support for mothers across the war-torn country.  Ginger Gibson, deputy Washington digital editor at NBC News, joins us for this and a look at the fallou...

This is a compilation of some of the most compelling stories of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a compilation of some of the most compelling stories of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

UFOs continue to be in the news as classified briefings have begun on Capitol Hill, but some lawmakers are frustrated saying that intelligence agencies are not taking it seriously enough.  Lawmakers see these sightings as national security issues and want more analysts and surveillance systems dedicated to finding the origins of these aircrafts instead of just more reports of sightings. ...

The education culture war is raging with discussions on everything from how we teach history, gender and sexuality and race.  We are seeing textbooks being banned and laws being implemented restricting certain conversations in school settings.  While some of these discussions have been loud and very contentious, a new poll says that for most parents, its more background noise.  &nbs...

The big story of the week is the draft opinion by the Supreme Court that was leaked on Monday.  The draft may still undergo some changes, but everything points to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and with it, the constitutional right to an abortion.  So how did we get here?  Lawsuits over the years haven’t explicitly challenged that ruling, rather they have asked the Court to up...

Police records are showing that across the country, women are being stalked with Apple AirTags. When released the devices were touted as a way to help users keep track of missing items like your keys, wallet or car, but police reports are showing that some women were getting notifications that their phones were tracked by an AirTag they didn’t own. In some of those cases they could identify...

Despite some positive signs in the economy, record high inflation, rising interest rates, and the GDP shrinking 1.4% has led many to worry about a possible recession coming our way.  While it doesn’t seem like we are there quite yet, economists are mixed in their views of what to expect.  This is also reflected in ongoing, sagging poll numbers for President Biden.  He still ha...

This is a compilation of some of the most compelling stories of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a compilation of some of the most compelling stories of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Start saying goodbye to menthol cigarettes.  The Biden administration has moved to ban the sales of menthols and flavored cigars, although it most likely would not take effect until 2024.  A third of all cigarettes sold in the U.S. are menthols with $20 billion in annual sales and 18.6 million Americans who smoke them.  We have already seen signals that at least one tobacco company...

Fentanyl continues to spread rapidly through the U.S. drug supply and the community groups that work closely with those most at risk of overdosing say that Naloxone is needed in greater quantities and closer to users. Naloxone which reverses the effects of opioids comes in a nasal spray and an injectable, but cost has always been a problem. Speed is also of the utmost importance as...

Netflix is scrambling to figure out a way to retain subscribers as they ended the first quarter with 200,000 less people paying for their content. Netflix has long sold itself as a commercial free space for TV shows and movies, but is now exploring a lower priced option that is ad-supported. Another area the company hopes to cut back on is rampant account sharing. They estimate that 222 million ho...

A software startup named Classroom Technologies has teamed up with Intel to monitor student emotions on Zoom. The system can detect whether students are bored, distracted or confused by looking at facial expressions and how they interact with content. There are a lot of critics of this “emotion AI” technology that say you can’t properly read students in this manner and also concerns over privacy a...

In less than two weeks, Richard Bernard Moore is set to be executed in South Carolina. The method he chose is firing squad. If this goes through he will be fourth prisoner in the country to die that way since 1976. Because of a law passed last year, it made the electric chair the default method of execution if lethal injection drugs could not be obtained. Moore chose firing squad because he oppose...

President Biden has a number of issues that continue to bog down his approval ratings. Starting with the war in Ukraine, Biden recently said that Putin is a war criminal and that he is committing genocide there. Biden projects calm about Covid publicly, but officials are nervous another wave could hit. And approval rating are the lowest they have been, especially with young people. Ginger Gibson,...

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Elon Musk continues to take Twitter on a roller coaster ride as he has now made an offer to buy the rest of the company. Musk has offered to buy it for $43 billion and said that Twitter has extraordinary potential and wants to unlock it. He is worth about $259 billion, so he can afford it, but says that to make the changes he thinks are necessary, the company needs to go private. Aaron Gregg, busi...

The next big treatment for addiction may have presented itself. Several psychedelic drugs have been touted as effective treatments for alcohol and drug abuse, but psilocybin also known as magic mushrooms seems to be the most effective when combined with therapy. Psilocybin still remains illegal under federal law, but there are some clinical trials running to study the drug and how it can address t...