Microsoft announced this week that it was acquiring Activision Blizzard, the maker of video games such as Call of Duty and Candy Crush, in a deal valued at nearly $70 billion. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. * Novak Djokovic lost his bid to stay in Australia to a government determined to make him a symbol of unvaccinated celebrity entitlement to an immigration law that gives godlike authority to border enforcement and to a public outcry, in a nation of rule followers.ДЇor more information on todayвЂ™s episode, visit /thedaily. But with an election looming, itвЂ™s not clear that it was a political winner. * Prime Minister Scott Morrison latched on to the Djokovic case. Want more from The Daily? For one big idea on the news each week from our team, subscribe to our newsletter. Guest: Damien Cave, the Australia bureau chief for The New York Times. In Australia, the вЂњDjokovic affairвЂќ has become about a lot more than athletes and vaccines - it has prompted conversations about the countryвЂ™s aggressive border policy, isolationism and treatment of migrants. A win there would have made him the most decorated male tennis player in history.Д«ut he arrived in the country without having had a Covid-19 vaccination, flying in the face of AustraliaвЂ™s rules, and after a court battle he was ultimately deported. 1 player in menвЂ™s tennis, had a lot at stake going into this yearвЂ™s Australian Open. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, _download Audm for iPhone or Android_._ _This story was written by Molly Young and recorded by Audm. ItвЂ™s behind everyday purity rites the reason we use toilet paper, wash our hands and hold cutlery it has shadowed the rules that have governed emotion in every culture throughout time.Д¬harles Darwin, the scholar William Ian Miller, the research psychologist Paul Rozin and the philosopher Aurel Kolnai, among the many others who felt compelled, Young explained, to investigate this most primal emotion. She explains how disgust shapes our behavior, technology, relationships and even political leanings. Young explains the different forms of disgust, analyzing how the reactions they elicit play out in the body and mind, and why it is in many ways cultural. What is вЂњdisgustвЂќ? Molly Young, a journalist with The New York Times, considers the evolutionary and social uses of this вЂњuniversal aspect of lifeвЂќ to identify the impact of disgust in its physical, psychological and linguistic manifestations.

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