Could Bayesian statistics find Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing? This niche form of statistical modelling has been used to find everything from submarines to missing people. More or Less explores how it was used to locate the wreckage of Air France flight 447 from Brazil to France which disappeared in 2009. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Cato Daily Podcast - Anti-Sanctions for Ukraine?
Sanctions on foreign countries that do bad things don't tend to achieve the desired results, but what about lifting punitive trade restrictions on countries in need? Bill Watson calls them "anti-sanctions."
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TLDR - #19 – Project Flame
In 1966, a bored college freshman created Project Flame, an early computer dating system that promised to pair lonely hearts. Project Flame was an overnight sensation. The only problem was that the guy who founded didn't have a computer. Or any idea how to use one.
Cato Daily Podcast - Seizure and Search of Mobile Phones at SCOTUS
The Supreme Court will soon have another chance to rein in police searches of our personal electronics.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Three Years Since the War in Libya
Even on humanitarian grounds, the war in Libya didn't help the people of that country prosper, says Benjamin H. Friedman.
Did the Military Intervention in Libya Succeed?
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Cato Daily Podcast - Free Expression and Discrimination Laws
When should your right to free expression be trumped by the demands of antidiscrimination laws?
Choosing What to Photograph Is a Form of Speech
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Start the Week - Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff
Tom Sutcliffe discusses how we make decisions with the Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Moral choices in politics can be a complicated business, according to the academic and former politician Michael Ignatieff, who explores whether the age of international intervention is over. Doctors work under the oath 'do no harm', but the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh says the decision whether to operate on a brain is rarely that simple. High emotion can cloud your judgement and the writer Lisa Appignanesi looks back at sensational crimes of passion to ask how far the perpetrators were responsible for their actions.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Mailbox edition
Your questions answered - Do the Maasai in Africa number one million? Is it true that a quarter of Americans do not know the Earth goes round the sun? Are half of Tasmanians innumerate and illiterate? Plus, Do the 85 richest people in the world hold the same amount of wealth as the poorest half? This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Cato Daily Podcast - Freaked-Out Parents, Bubble-Wrapped Kids
There was a time in the United States when young children roamed free of the fear of kidnapping or other horrible fates. The world has gotten much safer since then.
Quit Bubble-Wrapping Our Kids!
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Cato Daily Podcast - NSA Fakes Facebook to Spread Malware
The NSA's use of hijacked botnets and fake Facebook pages are aimed at gathering intelligence on a massive scale, whether or not those surveilled are suspected of any wrongdoing.
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