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Cato Daily Podcast - Evaluating the New Calls for Gun Control
Are the new calls for gun control any different from the old ones? Cato Institute Chairman Robert A. Levy weighs in.
Start the Week - What Is the State For?
Tom Sutcliffe discusses whether Western states have anything to learn from countries like China and Singapore. Adrian Wooldridge argues that many governments have become bloated and there's a global race to reinvent the state. In the past Britain was at the forefront of exporting ideas on how to run a country, as the Labour MP Tristram Hunt explains in his book on the legacy of empire. Charu Lata Hogg from Chatham House looks at the challenges to democracy in Thailand where the country is in political turmoil, and the journalist Anjan Sundaram spent a year in The Congo during the violent 2006 elections, and looks at day-to-day life in a failing state. Producer: Katy Hickman.
Start the Week - What Is the State For?
Tom Sutcliffe discusses whether Western states have anything to learn from countries like China and Singapore. Adrian Wooldridge argues that many governments have become bloated and there's a global race to reinvent the state. In the past Britain was at the forefront of exporting ideas on how to run a country, as the Labour MP Tristram Hunt explains in his book on the legacy of empire. Charu Lata Hogg from Chatham House looks at the challenges to democracy in Thailand where the country is in political turmoil, and the journalist Anjan Sundaram spent a year in The Congo during the violent 2006 elections, and looks at day-to-day life in a failing state. Producer: Katy Hickman.
The Goods from the Woods - Episode #37 – “The Neighbors” with Alex Hooper
In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys talk with comedian Alex Hooper about what's going on with all the neighbors; the downstairs neighbors that call the cops, the next door neighbors who are always brawling, and the upstairs neighbor who puked moonshine and blood over a balcony. Side tangents include the loss of human interaction to technology, the Rolling Stones, and the weirdest thing people have smoked weed out of. This episode is not to be missed! Follow Alex on Twitter @HooperHairPuff. Song of the week is "Weeds Downtown" by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires. 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
More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS MoreOrLess: ‘Spurious Correlations’
Is the divorce rate in the US state of Maine linked to margarine consumption? It's one of many pairs of statistics featured on the 'Spurious Correlations' website started recently by Tyler Vigen. We talk to him about some of the funniest correlations he's found and the serious point he's trying to make. Plus: World Cup Office Sweepstake strategy. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Serious Inquiries Only - AS39: Blake Follow Up, Ex-Witness Harley
First we have a follow up with Blake from last week, fresh off his appearance on Dogma Debate. Then, we begin a very gripping and engaging interview with Harley, an ex-Jehovah’s Witness who has somewhat recently come out atheist. This is no easy task and there have been many challenges and heartbreaks for him along … Continue reading AS39: Blake Follow Up, Ex-Witness Harley →
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the memory palace - Episode 61 (The Glowing Orbs)
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #465 – Jun 7 2014
Interview with Bug Girl; This Day in Skepticism: British Museum; News Items: Mega - Earth, Secondary Drowning, Medical Information on Wikipedia, Lady Hurricanes, Black Hole Magnetism; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Third-Hand Smoke; Science or Fiction
World Book Club - Per Petterson
This month World Book Club comes to a surprisingly sunny Oslo as part of our mini Norwegian season to talk to one of the country’s most feted novelists Per Petterson, about his phenomenally successful novel Out Stealing Horses.
Per will be answering questions from a rapt audience here in the elegant canteen of his publishers about his poignant, compelling multi-award-winning tale.
Through passages of often achingly beautiful prose Out Stealing Horses explores universal themes of isolation, loss of innocence, paternal love and sexual passion and the unexpected betrayals that can follow in their wake.
Photo: Per Petterson by Tom Martinsen)
The Gist - Freakonomics Is Basically a Peanut Butter Cup
Today on the Gist, Politico magazine editor Susan Glasser talks with Mike about “politicization,” and why politicians, of all people, like to demonize it. Mike also asks Stephen Dubner about the secret sauce that helped the Freakonomics empire take hold in book and podcast form. For the Spiel, let’s partake of national doughnut day.
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