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Cato Daily Podcast - Returning to a Stable Dollar
The return to a stable dollar may take some time, but it's critical for the global economy, says author and publisher Steve Forbes.
The Gist - Is Dick Cheney the Least Qualified Iraq Expert Ever?
Today on The Gist, song lyrics made literal. Wits host John Moe has written a book of imagined pop culture correspondences called Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth. Plus, Mike speaks with RAND political scientist Jonah Blank for an anthropological look at negotiating in Afghanistan’s Pashtun society. For the Spiel, Mike debuts his new imaginary radio show “Least Qualified.”
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Cato Daily Podcast - Rushing to No Judgment on the Iraq War
Dick Cheney and John Bolton would prefer that Americans not examine the decade of the Iraq War, but understanding those errors will help the U.S. choose its fights more carefully. Chris Preble comments.
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Start the Week - Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly
Tom Sutcliffe talks to the director Erica Whyman about a series of plays by the RSC which focus on the idea that 'well behaved women rarely make history'. The historian Helen Castor looks back at the Middle Ages to some of the earliest roaring girls, while the soprano Joyce DiDonato brings alive Mary, Queen of Scots, the tragic hero of Donizetti's opera. The political activist Julie Bindel has been behaving badly since she came out as a lesbian in the 1970s. She looks at what it means to be gay in 2014 and whether the genuine gains that have been achieved in the last forty years have castrated a once-radical social movement. Producer: Katy Hickman.
Start the Week - Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly
Tom Sutcliffe talks to the director Erica Whyman about a series of plays by the RSC which focus on the idea that 'well behaved women rarely make history'. The historian Helen Castor looks back at the Middle Ages to some of the earliest roaring girls, while the soprano Joyce DiDonato brings alive Mary, Queen of Scots, the tragic hero of Donizetti's opera. The political activist Julie Bindel has been behaving badly since she came out as a lesbian in the 1970s. She looks at what it means to be gay in 2014 and whether the genuine gains that have been achieved in the last forty years have castrated a once-radical social movement. Producer: Katy Hickman.
Serious Inquiries Only - AS43: The Moral Landscape, with Ryan Born
This week we have the winner of Sam Harris’s essay contest, Ryan Born! We have a very enlightening discussion of philosophy, specifically moral philosophy. Is Sam Harris right when he says that science can determine moral values? Is wellbeing really the bottom line objective in terms of morality? These are some of the many questions … Continue reading AS43: The Moral Landscape, with Ryan Born →
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #467 – Jun 21 2014
This Day in Skepticism: Summer Solstice; Cosmos Review; News Items: Chopra Challenge, New Computer Architecture, Oz Skewered, Self-Repairing Teeth; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Solar Power; Science or Fiction
More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?
When it comes to aid, what works best ? giving people food, shelter, medicine, or just handing over cash and letting them spend it how they like? One group of researchers went to a Kenyan village to try to answer this question and to do so they also employed a new tool - randomised controlled testing. RCTs have long been the gold standard for measuring whether medical drugs work, but could they revolutionise how we measure the impact of aid?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Was T. Henry Moray the Next Tesla?
You've probably heard about Nikola Tesla, but what about Thomas Henry Moray? Listen in to learn why some people believe this little-known electrical engineer may have discovered a revolutionary zero-point energy device.
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Today’s Gist is a special New Haven hotel room dispatch. Mike shares an excerpt from the New Haven ideas festival event “Thinking About Sports.” He was a panelist there alongside legendary sportswriter and NPR commentator Frank Deford, poet Elizabeth Alexander, and author Nicholas Dawidoff. Also in today’s show, we ask Dartmouth professor of pediatrics James D. Sargent about McDonald’s new happy meal branding, and how other countries limit marketing to young children. In today’s Spiel, some ideas about ideas festivals.
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