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Curious City - How Has Chicago’s Coastline Changed Over The Decades?
Curious citizen Miriam Reuter wondered how Chicago's coastline has changed over the decades. We learn that from nature to industry and back again (sorta), the lakefront’s changed so much that city founders wouldn’t recognize it.
Curious City - How Has Chicago’s Coastline Changed Over The Decades?
Curious citizen Miriam Reuter wondered how Chicago's coastline has changed over the decades. We learn that from nature to industry and back again (sorta), the lakefront’s changed so much that city founders wouldn’t recognize it.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - World Service: Africa GDP & Royal twins
Where does Nigeria?s plan to revise its GDP leave our understanding of growth in Sub-saharan Africa? And what is the chance of the Duchess of Cambridge having twins given she has severe morning sickness.
Start the Week - Scotland – Ian Rankin and Alasdair Gray
On Start the Week Andrew Marr explores what it means to be Scottish. The streets and history of Edinburgh come alive in Ian Rankin's crime novels, while the Glaswegian writer and artist Alasdair Gray marries elements of realism, fantasy and science fiction in his work. With a long history of Scottish emigration, T M Devine looks at the impact on the nation left behind. And the theatre critic of The Scotsman, Joyce McMillan, believes that despite the coming Referendum on Independence, it's the arts and not politics that define Scottish-ness.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
Image © Alasdair Gray, A Life in Pictures, Canongate Books.
Motley Fool Money - Motley Fool Money: 12.07.2012
Our analysts discuss the jobs report, Citigroup layoffs, and the SEC investigation of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Plus, Nassim Taleb discusses his new book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Radio 4: Royal Twins & Autumn Statement
In light of the Royal pregnancy Tim Harford asks what severe morning sickness tells us about the chances of having twins. Yan Wong helps him look at the figures. We disentangle the Chancellor' Autumn Statement and ask: where is the economy really at? As Nigeria prepares to revise its GDP statistics with an expected jump of 40-60%, we ask how reliable are African GDP statistics? Another Daily Telegraph headline comes under scrutiny. And we return to our Lego tower and look at how Lego can be used to teach maths with Eugenia Cheng of Sheffiled University.
Cato Daily Podcast - Be Charitable to Your Opponents’ Views
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Trouble with ‘Too Big to Fail’
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Erroneous ‘Keynesian Fixation’
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