Interview with Mandisa Thomas. She is the founder of Black Nonbelievers. We discuss the group their fall cruse and the October Conference "Women of Color Beyond Belief".
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Investing Skeptically: The System. You can win every horse race and every stock pick if you follow "The System".
Bonus audio: George Carlin and Pete Davidson
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #721 – May 4 2019
Live from Bethlehem with guest George Hrab; News Items: Reading the Brain, JAMA on Medical Misinformation, Thanos Apocalypse, Fake Gay Cure; Skeptical Experiences; Science or Fiction
The Gist - Bird City
On The Gist, is it unusual that Attorney General William Barr didn’t look at the underlying evidence covered in the Mueller report?
In the interview, Tuca & Bertie is the new series from Lisa Hanawalt, best know for her art direction on Bojack Horseman. She’s here to discuss the origins of her new series, all the jokes she fits into the background, and how she figured out if China exists in her show’s universe. Tuca & Bertie is available on Netflix.
In the Spiel, Stephen Moore on the Federal Reserve Board.
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Motley Fool Money - Earnings-Palooza and a Meaty IPO
Apple surprises. Alphabet stumbles. Berkshire Hathaway loads up on Amazon. And Beyond Meat serves up a big IPO. Analysts Andy Cross, Ron Gross, and Jason Moser discuss these stories and dig into the latest earnings from Arista Networks, CBS, Mastercard, Shake Shack, Shopify, Spotify, Square, Twilio, Under Armour, and Wayfair.
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the memory palace - Episode 141: This Story Climbed Mount Washington
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.
Music
We start off with a touch of Hills in the Rain, by Simon Rackham.
Go to a bit of Narkopop 1 by Gas.
Then gaze in wonder to Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise, as performed by the Cincinatti Pops Orchestra
We listen to two versions of Trying Something Again, Again by our friends in Lullatone.
And go out on Jaybird, by Charlie Parr
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Nurses, flatmates and cats
Nurse suicide rates
There were some worrying figures in the news this week about the number of nurses in England and Wales who died by suicide over the last seven years. We try to work out what the numbers are really telling us.
Are 27 million birds killed a year by cats?
Newspapers reported this week that 27 million birds are killed by cats each year. We find out how this number - which might not really be "news" - was calculated.
How rare are house shares?
A listener got in touch to say she was surprised to read that only 3% of people aged 18 to 34 live in a house share with other people. She feels it must be too low ? but is she living in a London house-sharing bubble? We find out.
Proving that x% of y = y% of x
Why is it that 4% of 75 is the same as 75% of 4? Professor Jennifer Rogers from the University of Oxford joins Tim in the studio to explore a mind-blowing maths ?trick?.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producers: Charlotte McDonald, Darin Graham and Beth Sagar-Fenton
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Canada’s Roswell: The Shag Harbor Incident
In 1967 the tiny fishing community of Shag Harbor became ground zero for one of the most infamous UFO sightings in Canadian history. More than 50 years later, people still haven't forgotten the bizarre series of lights they saw that October night... but what exactly were they? Listen in to learn more about the mysterious event known as Canada's Roswell.
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Axon Enterprises is the company behind the taser, and it just awarded its CEO $246M in compensation — So we look in to how it’s set up to incentivize him. Beyond Meat surged 163% on its IPO day. And Wayfair is the biggest online furniture platform whose stock fell 7%, but it’s got a fascinating relationship with 80 “house brands.”
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Barr, none: the White House’s defiance
The no-show of America’s attorney-general in Congress is just the latest example of the White House’s broad stonewalling policy; we look at the constitutional crisis that may be brewing. Facebook’s blocking of extremists yesterday is just one front the social-media behemoth is fighting. Mark Zuckerberg’s bid to remake the platform will probably ape its Chinese rival, WeChat. And, we check into the Czech Republic and Poland, finding one immigrant group being embraced in a notoriously anti-migrant region.
What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Bank That Holds Trump’s Financial Secrets
Deutsche Bank was the one lender that couldn’t quit Donald Trump. Now the bank holds the key to understanding President Trump’s finances.
Guest: David Enrich, finance editor for the New York Times.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin, with help from Samantha Lee.
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