Interview with author Jonah David Conner. His book is "All That's Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities and More".
Investing Skeptically: The Rule of 72 and Floating Rate bond funds.
Curious City - Special Training For School Police: How Do Young People Feel About It?
As lawmakers move to require additional training for police in Illinois schools, five young people weigh in on whether it will make a difference.
PHPUgly - 107: Drugs, Tattoos, and Coding (aka PHP: Pot Head Programming)
Recorded May 17, 2018
Topics
- SEC launch spoof ICO to warn naive ICO investors » Brave New Coin
- Solving a 43Mb favorites list
- OSMI Mental Health in Tech Survey 2018
- testing FTW
- New GitHub Desktop Application | Simple collaboration from your desktop
- GitHub Releases Desktop App Version 1.2 - Laravel News
- hangouts chat
- Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user’s private audio | Ars Technica
- EFF Wins Final Victory Over Podcasting Patent | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Pod Save America - “A wicked clutch election.” (LIVE from Boston!)
Trump calls off the North Korea summit after Mike Pence was called a dummy, and the NFL restricts the right to free speech after threats from the president. Governor Deval Patrick and Ambassador Samantha Power join Jon, Jon, Tommy, and Erin on stage at the Wang Theater in Boston.
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #672 – May 26 2018
Interview with Jennifer Ouellette; What's the Word: Sapient vs Sentient; News Items: Cancer Quackery Death, EM Drive Follow Up, Loch Ness DNA, Largest Salamanders; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Panspermia; Science or Fiction
You're Wrong About - Anita Hill
Mike tells Sarah about the complicated legacy of Anita Hill and the not-particularly-complicated facts of her case. Digressions include “Tootsie," Garrison Keillor and the Donner party. Mike, for reasons unknown, seems to believe that one flies “down” from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Washington, D.C.
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Impeachment Question
While President Trump demands an investigation into the investigators investigating the investigation, the clamour to impeach grows ever more fervent in some quarters. Dahlia Lithwick explores the legal and constitutional questions surrounding impeachment with constitutional scholar and Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, co-author of To End a Presidency - The Power of Impeachment
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Podcast production by Sara Burningham.
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The Gist - Ratatouille Got It Wrong
On The Gist, we here at Slate take GDPR compliance very seriously … just not in this monologue.
Before SNL, David Wain says, the countercultural comedy torch belonged to National Lampoon. The laugh magazine was created by Harvard graduates and became a creative laboratory for movies like Animal House and Caddyshack. Chief among them was Doug Kenney, the subject of Netflix biopic A Futile and Stupid Gesture, which Wain directs.
In the Spiel, the nostalgia we feel around meals and dishes is overrated. It’s not about the food; it’s about the feels.
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Motley Fool Money - Surprising Earnings and Summer Movies
Lowe’s gets some love. Footlocker jumps higher. Tiffany sparkles. And what the heck is GDPR??? Aaron Bush, David Kretzmann, and Jason Moser talk earnings news, analyze what a new set of privacy rules means for investors, and offer book recommendations for your summer reading list. Plus, corporate governance expert and film critic Nell Minow talks Facebook, Disney, and summer movies.
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Focus on Africa - The WHO Lists Snake-bites as a Global Health Priority
The World Health Organisation says snake-bites are a global health priority; why is a Dutch company claiming ownership of Teff - an Ethiopian staple? Remembering the Malian music maestro, Kassé Mady Diabaté, who died last night.