'Nyad’: Swimmer defies what people expect from a woman in her 60s - a podcast by KCRW

Diana Nyad’s dream was to swim from Cuba to Florida. She failed when she was 28, then retired, and at age 60, decided to try again. A new Netflix film tells her story. 

As the Israel-Hamas conflict continues, a Thousand Oaks Jewish man died on Monday after sustaining injuries during a protest, and college campuses have erupted in sometimes violent demonstrations.

Critics say Sam Bankman-Fried’s guilty verdict reveals the whole crypto charade, but evangelists see this as just another growing pain on the road to market maturation.

Coworking and real estate company WeWork filed for bankruptcy on Monday. What does its demise say about the future of where and how people work post-pandemic?

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