Another week, another shooting

Make Me Smart

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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, reminds us of an unfortunate reality: They’re becoming routine. As we discussed in a recent deep dive, the AR-15, the most popular weapon in the consumer market, is often used in mass shootings and has fueled debates on what should be done. Then: Crypto mining presents a huge environmental problem, but there are alternatives. And: A unique solution to the Pythagorean theorem makes us smile.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Gunman Kills 4 Co-workers at Louisville, Ky., Bank on Livestream, Police Say” from The New York Times

- “Gunman livestreamed mass shooting at Louisville bank that left 4 dead and 9 wounded, police say” from CNN

- “Pfizer, Biogen among hundreds of US drugmakers calling for abortion pill ruling reversal” from Reuters

- “Why the GOP isn’t celebrating this major antiabortion ruling” from The Washington Post

- “The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin” from The New York Times

- “An environmentally friendly model for crypto mining shows promise” from “Marketplace Tech”

- “With ‘the merge,‘ ethereum tries to set a greener example for crypto” from “Marketplace”

- “New Orleans East teens make ‘impossible’ mathematical discovery unproven for 2,000 years” from WWL

- “2 High School Students Prove Pythagorean Theorem. Here’s What That Means” from Scientific American

- “Can ChatGPT Decipher Fedspeak?” from SSRN

- Have I Been Encoded?

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1:05.4	Let's go. Let's go.
1:06.8	Let's go.
1:12.7	Hey everybody, I'm Kyle Rizdo. Welcome back to Make Me Smart.
1:15.4	I guess that applies to me too, because I've been gone.
1:17.2	I'm back.
1:18.4	When we make today make sense.
1:20.4	It's Monday the 10th of April today.
1:24.0	And we are so glad to have you back.
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