Our GPS system is wearing down
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Much in our modern lives depends on GPS. But the United States’ GPS system is getting old and hasn’t kept up with international competition. We’ll get into how this leaves the U.S. vulnerable to national security threats. And, new data shows that as abortion protections have eroded across the country, more young women have been getting sterilized. Plus, one nonprofit’s work to give kids who’ve aged out of foster care a bona fide college move-in experience, and a women’s soccer stadium’s surprise success story.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Why GPS Is Under Attack” from The New York Times
- “Rate of Young Women Getting Sterilized Doubled After Roe Was Overturned” from MedPage Today
- “Move-In Day Mafia Helps Kids From Foster Care Settle In College” from Black Enterprise
- “No One Wanted to Finance Their Stadium. Now Every Game Is a Sellout.” from The Wall Street Journal
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| 0:00.0 | You're the boss? Yes, I'm the boss. Yes, I'm I'll be the boss. |
| 0:08.0 | Everybody I'm Kai Rizdahl. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, |
| 0:15.2 | where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:17.5 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:18.4 | Thank you for joining us on this Wednesday. |
| 0:20.1 | It's July the 3rd. |
| 0:21.8 | Wednesday on this 3 July, we will do what we usually do. |
| 0:25.0 | Some news, some smiles of which I am without, |
| 0:28.0 | but we'll get there in a minute. |
| 0:29.0 | Let's start with the news. |
| 0:30.0 | What do you got? |
| 0:31.0 | I was struggling today because the entire... the news cycle is |
| 0:35.0 | cycle is focused on by and I was just like there has to be more happening in the world |
| 0:42.1 | but the story that I landed on was There has to be more happening in the world. |
| 0:43.1 | But the story that I landed on was, I subscribed to this |
| 0:46.7 | newsletter called Medpage Today, and they send articles |
| 0:49.9 | about the medical field and things in medicine, things like that. |
| 0:53.2 | And they were highlighting research published in the Jama |
| 0:56.6 | Health Forum about what's happened to the rates of sterilization |
| 1:02.0 | since Roe v. Wade was overturned. |
| 1:05.0 | Yes. |
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