Episode summary: Send us a text Adam Smith’s pin factory example from “The Wealth of Nations” demonstrates how dividing labor into specialized tasks dramatically increases productivity. Ten workers specializing in different aspects of pin-making could produce 48,000 pins daily, while individually th...

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Episode summary: Patrick Radden Keefe: From the New Yorker to the bookstore to the screen

Episode summary: Since the late aughts, Bahraini activist Esra’a Al Shafei has been building spaces where Arab and Middle Eastern queer folk, dissidents, and migrants can safely gather online, often amid governmental suppression. In part one of our interview with Esra’a, we talk through some of the...

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Episode summary: The shortwaves today

Episode summary: The Formula

Episode summary: What a life spent inside other people’s heads reveals about free will

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Episode summary: Nooks & Crannies

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Episode summary: I first smelled the freshly nixtamalized masa from Emmanuel Galvan of Bolita at the Gilman Wine Block, where the tender, vegetal umami scent carried above the crowds right into my nose. This episode, we focus on technological and labor challenges of nixtamalization in the present, s...

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Episode summary: I first smelled the freshly nixtamalized masa from Emmanuel Galvan of Bolita at the Gilman Wine Block, where the tender, vegetal umami scent carried above the crowds right into my nose. This episode, we focus on technological and labor challenges of nixtamalization in the present, s...

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Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests explore typology, a method of biblical interpretation that aims to meaningfully link people, places, and events in the Hebrew Bible, what Christians call the Old Testament, with the coming of Christ in the New Testament. Old Testament figures like Moses, Jona...

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