Predicting the News
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Micah Loewinger speaks with Judd Legum, the author of the accountability
newsletter Popular Information, about the explosive rise of prediction
markets, ...
Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs
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We talk with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and Chief Economist at Redfin
Daryl Fairweather about two of the biggest issues of our time: AI and
housing.
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Skeptoid #1037: A Skeptic's Guide to Sleepmaxxing
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This social media fad promises to supercharge your sleep and make you
healthier than healthy, when in fact it probably does significantly more
harm than ...
393: Infidelity
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Stories of cheating, cheaters, and the cheated.
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Pint pressure
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Felicity Hannah asks whether CO2 shortages could lead to a pint shortage.
The boss of a brewery joins our Friday panel to discuss that, along with
the Ch...
Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
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Japan is the forge of the world’s fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga
and anime, Pac-Man and Pokémon and Hello Kitty, online argots like selfies
and ...
News Post: Underground Tour
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Tycho: When I was pulling up our Gran Turismo 7 video to link it, I ended
up skipping through a few parts of it to appreciate just how otherworldly
some as...
How to Do Cross Product Calculator
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The vector thing, or cross thing, of two vectors is a vector. If C is the
vector consequence of An and B, we form
Imagine a repairman turning a wrench t...
Mix: The Best of Shibuya-kei, Volume One
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The time has been right for a new mix that showcases, celebrates, and
reintroduces the best tracks from Shibuya-kei’s peak years: dj david, mon
amour - “Th...
15.11.42
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Church bells rung this morning – in celebration of the victory in Egypt.
[1] The first time that I have heard them in over two years. [1] Following
the att...
Capitol Crimes
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With disgraced lobbyist back in the news and on the big screen in Alex
Gibney's new film, CASINO JACK, we re-present Bill Moyers 2006 in-depth
exploration ...
Obama the Sphinx
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President Obama officially launched his push for peace in the Middle East
yesterday, sending his new envoy George Mitchell to the region and
declaring his ...
Why Do Americans Still Hate Welfare?
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"Welfare" remains a charged word in the American lexicon, even though it's
rarely talked about as a political issue any more. But why?
Dmitry and Brian
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Things in Russia played out very predictably last week. On May 7, Dmitry
Medvedev, the former pipeline CEO and presidential aide who Vladimir Putin
had chr...