COVID is still here. And it’s costing the economy.
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19 has been circulating for well over two years, and new research looks at what the disease has meant for the workforce. Kimberly and guest host Amy Scott dig into it. Plus, who’s in charge of investigating a crash in space? Then, is it too early to start talking about leaf peeping and Halloween? Welp, we’re going to do it anyway.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Covid-19 Illnesses Are Keeping at Least 500,000 Workers Out of U.S. Labor Force, Study Says” from The Wall Street Journal
- Our deep dive episode on long COVID
- A thread from The Atlantic’s Ed Yong on brain fog
- “Blue Origin rocket suffers problem during uncrewed launch” from The Washington Post
- “Embrace ‘Shop Early’ and Cancel ‘Black Friday’” from Bloomberg
- 2022 Fall Foliage Map & Nationwide Peak Leaf Forecast
Questions? Comments? Suggestions? We’re taking them all. Email us at [email protected] or leave us a voice message at 508-U-B-SMART.
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| 0:00.0 | We should start. Jake was on top of it anyway. Hello everyone. Happy Monday. I'm Kimberly |
| 0:09.4 | Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. And I'm Amy Scott |
| 0:15.5 | in Forkai Rizdal today. Thanks for joining us on this Monday. We're going to do the news |
| 0:19.8 | and then share a couple of Make Me Smiles and get out of your hair. So Kimberly, let's |
| 0:24.5 | start with the news fix. What you got? Oh, so of course I go space, but space with |
| 0:29.9 | a little bit of extra political drama, minor political drama, but drama nevertheless. |
| 0:35.6 | So the blue origin, the company Blue Origin, which is the Jeff Bezos company, had a rocket |
| 0:43.3 | launch that did not go well Monday morning. And it had a serious problem with the new shepherd |
| 0:49.3 | rocket, which forced the vehicle's emergency abort system to jettison the capsule away |
| 0:56.5 | from the booster. Now there were no people on this rocket. There were no people in the |
| 1:00.9 | capsule. This was a test flight. And you know, to the credit of the safety system, the capsule |
| 1:06.8 | did jettison when there was a problem. And it seems to have landed safely away from danger. |
| 1:12.2 | So that's a good test. And according to the Washington Post, the capsule's parachutes |
| 1:17.8 | later deployed and it landed softly in the West Texas, Texas desert. So that's good |
| 1:23.6 | news. And all of these tests are very important for, you know, that's what you test, right? |
| 1:30.1 | This is why you test good. This did not happen with people on board. So hopefully whatever |
| 1:33.6 | the problem is, it will be fixed for the next time. But one interesting thing in the Washington |
| 1:38.4 | Post story that I didn't even realize what's happening is that they mentioned, you know, |
| 1:44.7 | halfway down the article, the mishap comes as the federal aviation administration and |
| 1:49.2 | the national transportation safety board have been working to clarify who investigates |
| 1:55.3 | space flight crashes. And last week, the agency signed an agreement detailing how they'll |
| 2:01.6 | work together in the event of a mishap. The NTSB will lead the agency in any commercial |
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