Author Caitlin Doughty destigmatizes death for kids and adults alike by answering 35 questions about death, dead bodies, and decomposition in her new book “Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs”.
Curious City - Little Fingers And Screechy Sounds: Why Do So Many Kids Learn To Play The Recorder?
The recorder often inflicts squeaky torture on parents. Music teacher Valerie DePriest explains why it became a staple in music education.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Reducing your risk of death
Two statistics about reducing your risk of an early death made headlines around the world recently. The first seems to be a great reason to add a four-legged friend to your life. It suggests that owning a dog is tied to lowering your chance of dying early by nearly a quarter.
The second statistic claims that even a minimal amount of running is linked to reducing your risk of premature death by up to 30%. Ruth Alexander finds out what?s behind these numbers and we hear from epidemiologist, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz.
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #748 – Nov 9 2019
5-10 Years: Growing Livers; News Items: Bacterial Colonies, Does Music Make You Smarter, Measles and Immunity, Bill Maher Anti-Vaxxer; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
The Phil Ferguson Show - 320 Interviews from Freeflo, wise words, bitcoin and Fisher
Interviews with several people at the Florida Freeflo conference.
Additional interview with Michael Albrow. We discuss partial physics and his new card game "wise words".
Investing skeptically stuff...Bitcoin manipulation and Fisher investment problems.
Additional interview with Michael Albrow. We discuss partial physics and his new card game "wise words".
Investing skeptically stuff...Bitcoin manipulation and Fisher investment problems.
Cato Daily Podcast - Kentucky Puts the Kibosh on Entrepreneurial Freedom
Kentucky wants a would-be entrepreneur to get permission from his would-be competitors to operate in the commonwealth. Larry Salzman of the Pacific Legal Foundation details the case of Phillip Truesdell and Legacy Medical Transport.
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - A Look at the Original Quid Pro Quo: Emoluments.
Dahlia Lithwick calls former prosecutor Mimi Rocah for an answer to a question Amicus listeners often ask. She then asks Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, if all hope is lost for the federal judiciary. Finally, she revisits emoluments with Deepak Gupta and pulls on threads that extend right into the impeachment investigation.
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The Gist - Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn
On The Gist, the new book by the anonymous member of the White House.
In the interview, Mike talks to actor Edward Norton about his new film Motherless Brooklyn. They discuss Robert Moses’s complicated legacy in New York, his early beginnings volunteering as a public housing advocate, and working with Alec Baldwin to make this movie come alive. Motherless Brooklyn is in theaters now.
In the Spiel, Pete Buttigieg and Black voters.
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - Announcement! Listen up…
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - What Next Impeachment: The Tortoise and the Hare
This week, in impeachment inquiry news: Gordon Sondland revised his memory, Lev Parnas said he’d cooperate with inquisitors, and Donald Trump, Jr. insisted that we focus on the whistleblower.
Guests: Dahlia Lithwick, Slate’s courts correspondent, and Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer.
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