Episode summary: Who is the greatest chess player in history? And what does the answer have to do with a story of a chess cheating school from Texas? In this week’s More or Less, the BBC’s numbers programme, David Edmonds finds out what a statistical analysis of chess moves can teach us about this a...

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Episode summary: A young entrepreneur’s Girls Gone Wild franchise leads to a litany of legal issues related to tax evasion, bribery, and false imprisonment as well as accusations of sexual assault. // Prelude: A group of high school students create a much-maligned reality film titled Bumfights that...

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Episode summary: We try to draw some wider lessons from the nightmare that the Brexit process has now become. What have we learned about the relationship between parliament and the executive? Is there any way that the Article 50 process could have worked? And what conclusions will other countries re...

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Episode summary: Brett Terpstra, the mad scientist automator, joins to talk about how he got started in automation and share some great workflows for keyboard and trackpad automation, extending automation to your home, and more.

Episode summary: Paul Holes was starting out in the field of criminology when, one day in 1994, he spotted a filing cabinet in the library of the crime lab where he was working. He opened a drawer, pulled out some files, and discovered the cold case that he would spend his entire career trying to so...

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Episode summary: “My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” —Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County Public Defender’s Office Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. If you haven’t already, please review us on iTunes! It’s an i...

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Hmm. Still not regularly getting show info out of Huffduffer, nor do I seem able to update my Avatar there. Hey ho.

Episode summary: This week, PJ and Alex open up the phone lines and try to solve your problems, big and small. Don’t type like my brother.Further Reading: JusoorInstitute of International Education PEER Michael Bazzel’s workbook to remove your personal information online

Episode summary: As the days lengthen and a new season approaches, Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by the Rilke poem Early Spring. The People Who Feel Featuring Henry Córdova Produced by Ariana Martinez Falling Like Blossom Featuring Naoko Abe Produced by Sar...

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Episode summary: Copyrighting comedy is expensive. So comedians have devised an informal system of sanctions to protect their jokes from theft. Sometimes it works.