The Gist - Are You Being Servered?

On The Gist, Trump’s press conference with Putin and the red herrings involved.

Silicon Valley is steeped in self-made mythology, with stories about giants like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Marissa Mayer. But how did Silicon Valley really come into being? Adam Fisher, whose new book is Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, joins us to discuss where it all started—and the valley’s potential future.

In the Spiel, how journalists should respond to criticisms of the media and how they should hold talk show guests accountable.  

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The NewsWorthy - U.S.-Russia Summit, World Cup Winner & Amazon Prime Day – Monday, July 16th, 2018

All the news to know for Monday, July 16th, 2018!

Today, we're talking about everything from the Trump-Putin meeting and the World Cup winner to facial recognition and the weekend's top movie. 

That and much more in less than 10 minutes.

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

For links to all the stories referenced in today's episode, visit https://www.theNewsWorthy.com and click Episodes.

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You're Wrong About - 10th Episode Spectacular!

Sarah and Mike take a break from debunking to reflect on the first 10 episodes and tell the secret history of how they met. Digressions include “Portlandia,” Snapchat and the The New York Post. The recording quality, as usual, is wildly inconsistent.  

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The Gist - Pardon the Arson

On The Gist, it turns out your ethnicity is really easy to guess.

AnneMarie Sgarlata got rid of her TV months ago, but she still heard about President Trump’s pardon of Dwight and Steven Hammond this week—and she wasn’t happy. Sgarlata was among the lawyers who originally prosecuted the Hammonds for burning federal land and putting the lives of firefighters, hunters, and a teenage boy at risk.

In the Spiel, what America’s political parties can learn from cereal brand mascots.

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CrowdScience - Why do Humans have Different Coloured Skin?

Anand Jagatia heads to the rainbow nation of South Africa, to answer listener Lucy’s deceptively simple question. He follows the path of early human migration to understand the relationship between light skin and latitude, and find out how the world become more multi-coloured as people ventured further away from the equator. And he learns how our genes have helped us adapt to less sunny environments, hearing from the remote KhoeSan tribe in the Kalahari desert, who took part in a massive study aimed at giving scientists a better understanding of pigmentation.

Producer: Marijke Peters Presenter: Anand Jagatia

(Image: Four diverse women’s arms holding each others wrists in a circle. Credit: Getty Images)