Episode summary: YouTube insists it is not liable for the hate speech in its platform. This is also what YouTube said about the copyrighted material back when it was a start up in 2006. We revisit YouTube’s history with Chris Stokel-Walker author of the new book Youtubers. Plus your host takes respo...

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Episode summary: The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. On The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green rates different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale. This week 99% Invisible is featuring two...

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Episode summary: Singing with whales, a cloud of bats and the ballad of a rare bird - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about the natural world. Whale Duet A version of this story first appeared on the podcast Sound Matters Interview by Tim Hinman Produced by Andrea Ran...

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Episode summary: We talk with Gary Gerstle about the big issues roiling US politics with likely aftereffects that will long outlast Trump’s presidency. First up: the fight over the census. What’s a stake in the citizenship question? How has American politics been shaped by people-counting in the pas...

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Episode summary: Moving to the big city used to provide an escalator to a more prosperous life, even if you didn’t have a college degree. But now economists are wondering: Are cities overrated?

Episode summary: How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.

Episode summary: Gretchen Carlson, the long-time co-host of Fox & Friends, set off shockwaves in 2016 when she filed a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment against Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. Just two weeks later, he was ousted from the network. But it had taken years of enduring abusive behavior b...

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Episode summary: Nella prima parte del nostro programma parleremo di attualità. Inizieremo, parlando delle celebrazioni che si sono tenute lo scorso 6 giugno, in occasione del 75esimo anniversario dello Sbarco in Normandia. Poi,…

Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the people of Cusco, in modern Peru, established an empire along the Andes down to the Pacific under their supreme leader Pachacuti. Before him, their control grew slowly from C13th and was at its peak after him when Pizarro arrived with his Conqu...

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Episode summary: As on every year, here is an episode I released a few days after the murders at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016.