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00:41:20

Driverless Dilemma

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2023/09/22

Podcast: Radiolab (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Driverless DilemmaPub date: 2023-09-15Most of us would sacrifice one person to save five. It’s a pretty straightforward bit of moral math. But if we have to actually kill that person ourselves, the math gets fuzzy. That’s the lesson of the classic Trolley Problem, a moral puzzle that fried our brains in an episode we did almost 20 years ago, then updated again in 2017. Historically, the questions posed by The Trolley Problem are

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00:47:55

What If? Kennedy and Vietnam

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2023/09/21

Podcast: History As It Happens (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: What If? Kennedy and VietnamPub date: 2023-09-14This is the first episode in an occasional series examining major counterfactual scenarios in history. As the 60th anniversary of his assassination approaches, a question still hangs over John F. Kennedy’s legacy: had he lived and been reelected, would he have withdrawn from Vietnam? It’s a tantalizing counterfactual, not only because LBJ’s escalation led to an epic

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00:47:55

What If? Kennedy and Vietnam

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2023/09/21

Podcast: History As It Happens (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: What If? Kennedy and VietnamPub date: 2023-09-14This is the first episode in an occasional series examining major counterfactual scenarios in history. As the 60th anniversary of his assassination approaches, a question still hangs over John F. Kennedy’s legacy: had he lived and been reelected, would he have withdrawn from Vietnam? It’s a tantalizing counterfactual, not only because LBJ’s escalation led to an epic

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00:34:55

Herb, Ep 1: The Panic

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2023/09/20

Podcast: Rigged (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Herb, Ep 1: The PanicPub date: 2023-07-21In the 1970s, Mobil Oil had invented the advertorial and was aggressively pursuing an entirely new type of marketing, branding the company as a person with a unique personality and opinions that deserved to be heard. When public backlash threatened to undermine their approach, they launched a campaign that would change the course of U.S. history. Transcript Learn more about your ad choices

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00:34:55

Herb, Ep 1: The Panic

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2023/09/20

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00:27:32

Polio: The Last Mile

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2023/09/19

Podcast: Incubation (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Polio: The Last MilePub date: 2023-09-14Why has polio been so challenging to eradicate? Karen Torghele tells the story of two polio vaccines and the two rival scientists who developed them: Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk. Then, Dr. Ananda S Bandyopadhyay explains our best bet for eliminating the disease worldwide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pushkin

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00:27:32

Polio: The Last Mile

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2023/09/19

Podcast: Incubation (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Polio: The Last MilePub date: 2023-09-14Why has polio been so challenging to eradicate? Karen Torghele tells the story of two polio vaccines and the two rival scientists who developed them: Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk. Then, Dr. Ananda S Bandyopadhyay explains our best bet for eliminating the disease worldwide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pushkin

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00:40:27

A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House

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2023/09/18

Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera HousePub date: 2023-09-151957. Jørn Utzon receives a phone call: he's just won an international competition to design a brand new opera house for the Australian city of Sydney. Utzon is unknown in the field, so this is a triumph. The young architect couldn’t have imagined what a bitter victory it would turn out to be... The Guggenheim in Bilbao; the Burj Khalifa in

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00:40:27

A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House

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2023/09/18

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00:34:00

A Master Class with David Grann

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2023/09/14

Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: A Master Class with David GrannPub date: 2023-09-08David Grann is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of two nonfiction books that topped the best-seller list this summer: “The Wager” and “Killers of the Flower Moon,” from 2017, which Martin Scorsese has adapted into a film opening in October. Grann is among the most lauded nonfiction writers at The New Yorker; David Remnick says that “his urge to find

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00:34:00

A Master Class with David Grann

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2023/09/14

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00:35:20

Big Bad Chocolate

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2023/09/13

Podcast: OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Big Bad ChocolatePub date: 2022-11-16Remember the Mast Brothers scandal? Think you are eating sustainable, small batch chocolate? It's way more complicated than that. Plus: when three idealists try to tackle the evils of Big Chocolate, they realize treacherous roads, nails and bullets are just the beginning of their problems. Want some of this truly bean to bar chocolate? Kaleidoscope has joined forces with Luisa

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00:35:20

Big Bad Chocolate

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2023/09/13

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00:57:49

1955: The Team Nobody Would Play

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2023/09/13

Podcast: One Year (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 1955: The Team Nobody Would PlayPub date: 2023-08-31The Cannon Street All-Stars dreamed of playing in the 1955 Little League World Series. Their biggest obstacle didn’t come on the field. In the year that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus, these Black 12-year-olds became unlikely civil rights pioneers—and faced the wrath of a white society that wasn’t ready to change.Josh Levin is One Year’s editorial director

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00:57:49

1955: The Team Nobody Would Play

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2023/09/13

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00:59:26

The Way I See It

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2023/09/12

Podcast: Selected Shorts (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The Way I See ItPub date: 2023-08-17On this Selected Shorts, host Meg Wolitzer offers up stories about limited viewpoints and larger visions. In “You Can Find Love Now" by Ramona Ausubel, performed by Amy Ryan and Martin Short, an unusual character drops into the dating pool; in “The Weave,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Arnell Powell, a heist gets hairy; and in J. Robert Lennon’s “Blue Light, Red Light,” a child's fears

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00:59:26

The Way I See It

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2023/09/12

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00:25:00

Alone and on Foot in Antarctica

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2023/09/09

Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Alone and on Foot in AntarcticaPub date: 2023-09-05Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and collector of rare books, maps, and fossils. But his true obsession was exploration. Worsley revered the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and he had led a 2009 expedition to the South Pole. But Worsley planned an even

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Alone and on Foot in Antarctica

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2023/09/09

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00:45:34

The Nine Lives of Credit Suisse: Part One

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2023/09/07

Podcast: A Long Time In Finance (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: The Nine Lives of Credit Suisse: Part OnePub date: 2023-09-01In March 2023 the unthinkable happened: Credit Suisse, that giant of Swiss banking, collapsed. Like the proverbial cat, it had run through its nine lives. From the Chiasso saga to unprecedented corporate fines, via troubled times on Wall Street, Credit Suisse had always lived dangerously. And finally, in 2023, the financial winds caught up with them. In this

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