To what degree do our personal opinions cloud our judgement? Yale University researchers have attempted to detect and measure how our political beliefs affect our ability to make rational decisions. The study suggests that our ability to do maths plummets when we are looking at data which clashes with our worldview. Ruth Alexander and Ben Carter consider Professor Dan Kahan's findings. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Cato Daily Podcast - Legalizing Pot One City (or District) at a Time
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Cato Daily Podcast - Two Proposed NSA Reforms Emerge
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TLDR - #6 – Ghost Town
Before the Internet as we know it today, there were text-based bulletin board systems all over the country that people could dial into. One of those systems, M-net, happened to live in Alex's backyard, and it was his internet home base for the better part of a decade. Alex went back this week and found out that it's actually still running.
Cato Daily Podcast - NSA Taps Google, Earns Universal Ire
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Politics and Policy of Employment Discrimination
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Cato Daily Podcast - E-Verify, Immigration and Identity Theft
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Start the Week - Fiona Shaw; Simon McBurney; Journeys Into the Unknown
Stephanie Flanders contemplates nothing with science editor Jeremy Webb who is fascinated with the idea of vacuum, voids and absolute zero; and astronomer Carolin Crawford explains there's more to black holes than meets the eye. The director Simon McBurney looks to reveal all in his production of the Magic Flute, including liberating the orchestra from the pit to centre stage; and Fiona Shaw asks 'is this all?' in her re-imagining of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia.
Producer: Natalia Fernandez.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - 100,000 Christian martyrs?
It is claimed an average of 100,000 Christians have died because of their faith every year for the past decade: and that this is an 'unreported catastrophe'. The Vatican has called it a credible number. But is it? Ruth Alexander and Wesley Stephenson report.