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28 Mar 2023

🎧 How to tell the truth about lies (complete)

Episode summary: A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year: Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All the President’s Men remains our most authoritative account of Watergate. The film is also re...

28 Mar 2023

🎧 Present Tense

Episode summary: A shared experience of sonic joy crosses over the boundary of a prison wall, a conversation across generations explores being alive to the present moment, and an audio artwork from the archives plunges a listener into the sensation of time speeding up. Josie Long presents short docu...

28 Mar 2023

🎧 90: I have hot! 7 common expressions with AVERE in Italian

Episode summary: Careful when saying “I’m hot” in Italian! Why? Find out how to avoid embarrassing mistakes by learning these expressions with AVERE (have) in Italian. Get the bonus materials for this episode: http://joyoflanguages.com/avere-in-italian/ Join our Italian club and get a free mini It...

24 Mar 2023

🎧 73- Lies, George Santos, and the 1st Amendment

Episode summary: What does the Constitution say about lies, punishing lies, and punishing someone who lies to get elected?

23 Mar 2023

🎧 Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?

Episode summary: The smash hit TV show and video game ‘The Last of Us’ has spawned lots of curiosity about how worried we should be about the relatively unknown world of fungi. A figure in a recent BBC online article stated that fungal infections kill around 1.7 million people a year, about three ti...

23 Mar 2023

🎧 Chartism

Episode summary: On 21 May 1838 an estimated 150,000 people assembled on Glasgow Green for a mass demonstration. There they witnessed the launch of the People’s Charter, a list of demands for political reform. The changes they called for included voting by secret ballot, equal-sized constituencies a...

23 Mar 2023

🎧 72 Why Would People Trust Crypto? with Finn Brunton and Molly White (Trust episode 2)

Episode summary: Cryptocurrency is supposedly the basis of trustless economy, but in the past few years there were a lot of everyday people who entrusted it with everything. How did this happen? In this episode of our miniseries on trust, we talk to Finn Brunton about the deep history of crypto and...

21 Mar 2023

🎧 Rodents and Red Wine with Maria Konnikova

Episode summary: Rodents and Red Wine with Maria Konnikova

21 Mar 2023

🎧 Episode 210: Out of the Box

Episode summary: In 1964, one of the best javelin throwers in Australia traveled to England to see if he could qualify for the Olympics. But, because of an injury, he didn’t make the team - and he couldn’t afford a plane ticket home. So he came up with an idea while working a cargo job at Heathrow A...

19 Mar 2023

🎧 Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State

Episode summary: Yasheng Huang has written two of Tyler’s favorite books on China: , which contrasts an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China, and , which argues that Keju—China’s civil service exam system—played a key role in the…

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