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The Gist - Up With Eggheads
Experts have had a rough year. Tom Nichols sees a new fervor in the country’s anti-intellectualism, and he thinks it stems from frustration with elites. Turns out, there’s a difference between the people with expertise and the people with power. Nichols is a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. His book is The Death of Expertise.
In the Spiel, the two recent suicides in the news tell us something about how we talk about murder.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Playground Fight: Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley
In Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley, the Supreme Court considers to what extent a government giving used tires to a church playground can constitute a state establishment of religion. Trevor Burrus comments.
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Curious City - How A Rat Balloon From Suburban Chicago Became A Union Mascot
Scabby the Rat is now common on picket lines around the world, but the balloon started in Chicago’s historically blue-collar suburbs.
Containers - Episode 8: Robots, Piers Full of Robots
In the conclusion of this series, we peer into the future of human-robot combinations on the waterfront and in the rest of the supply chain. We’ll hear about the strange future of cyborg trucking and meet the friendly little helper bots in warehouses. The view of automation that sees only a battle between robots vs. humans is wrong. It’s humans all the way down.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film
What does pop culture have to tell us about our own hopes and fears about technology? Kimberly Hurd Hale is author of The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film.
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The Gist - What Happened to the Crack Epidemic?
Why are crack users given such long, punishing sentences? It’s because of political gamesmanship around crime in the ’80s. In the new Audible series 100:1 The Crack Legacy, journalist Christopher Johnson looks at how inner-city drug panics led to today’s mass-incarceration crisis.
On the Spiel, a thought about America’s warship debacle.
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The Phil Ferguson Show - 209 Andrew Torrez from Opening Arguments
Interview with Andrew Torrez. We discuss many legal and financial topics including the new USA fiduciary rules.
Investing Skeptically: Leveraged ETFs.
Investing Skeptically: Leveraged ETFs.
The Goods from the Woods - Episode #138 – “Israel” with Paige Weldon
In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys are joined by one of their favorite returning guests ever: PAIGE WELDON! Paige catches the Boys up on her recent trip to Israel as part of the "Birthright" program and, frankly, she has mixed emotions. This is a fascinating episode with plenty of side tangents on Japanese Baseball and, of course, a couple of cute animals! This is a super fun episode and you're gonna enjoy it! Check out Paige on Twitter @PaigeWeldon. Song of the week this week: "Alabama Side" by Tony Brook. Follow the show @TheGoodsPod Rivers is @RiversLangley Dr. Pat is @PM_Reilly Mr. Goodnight is @SepulvedaCowboy Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
Python Bytes - #22 PYTHONPATH considered harmful
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