Episode summary: Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson

Episode summary: How can we navigate our lives in a more efficient and satisfactory way? It’s a question Professor David Sumpter is looking to answer in his new book, Four Ways of Thinking. He talks to Tim Harford about four different approaches to our day to day challenges. Presenter: Tim Harford P...

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Episode summary: Episodio 37: Le buone maniere a tavola (Stagione 3)

Episode summary: For the last episode in our summer season on the great twentieth-century essays and essayists, David discusses Joan Didion’s ‘The White Album’ (1979), her haunting, impressionistic account of the fracturing of America in the late 1960s. From Jim Morrison to the Manson murders, Didio...

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Episode summary: On Background: The Case Against Sam Bankman-Fried

Episode summary: Guns Part 2: Getting out of Dodge

Episode summary: Solving the housing crisis and the office vacancy crisis with one obvious and elegant idea: office to housing conversion. If it were only that simple.

Episode summary: At 53, the chess legend is still one of the best in the world. What keeps him playing?

Episode summary: When Amy Loughren started working as a nurse at Somerset Medical Center, she did everything she could to hide the fact that she had a heart condition. And then, another nurse named Charles Cullen discovered Amy’s secret. He told her that he would keep it, but she didn’t know that he...

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Episode summary: The story of how “Who Let The Dogs Out” ended up stuck in all of our brains. A story that goes back over 50 years and spans continents.

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