Episode summary: From Pascal’s wager to poker bluffs—when should you play the odds?

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Episode summary: Episode 3: Power Cedes to Power

Episode summary: Send us a text The ancient tradition of Il Palio in Siena showcases a complex system of strategic corruption, neighborhood rivalries, and high-stakes horse racing that has endured for centuries. This 90-second race around Siena’s central piazza involves extensive bribery, intense ne...

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Episode summary: For nearly a decade beekeepers around the world have been saying that there’s something very wrong with the honey industry. Prices are down, and so is production, but there’s more honey being sold than ever before. So what exactly is in that jar in your kitchen cupboard? An investig...

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Episode summary: Bread & Bakers with David Wright

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Episode summary: This week’s archival pull from What’s a Podcast? The Extended Interviews features one of the voices that helped build the podcast industry as we know it: Guy Raz. Dan Granger (CEO, Oxford Road) sits down with the creator of How I Built This to talk about how we built this—i.e. how p...

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Episode summary: For today’s episode in Politics on Trial it’s two trials for the price of one, which between them changed the course of British and Irish history. In 1889 the leading Irish politician Charles Parnell was cleared of any involvement in the notorious Phoenix Park murders by Irish repub...

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Episode summary: Are 12,000 nukes safer than zero?

Hard to decide whether she was being evasively defensive or standing up to Tyler’s hectoring questions. On balance, I’m going to go with standing up for herself.

Episode summary: Episode 2: Sin City

Ahah! So that's why Pat Conroy's Beach Music is called Beach Music. I mean, he kinda sorta alludes to what it is in the book, all that falling in love to The Drifters and the Carolina Shag, but he never quite spells it out, at least for a foreigner like me.

Episode summary: In 1976, Harvard University wanted to build a specialized lab for recombinant DNA research. But first, it had to get permission from the city of Cambridge. The resulting city council hearings drew TV stations and captured the attention of the whole…

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