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How Tax Dodging And Corporate Secrecy Found A Home In Delaware, With Hal Weitzman
Episode 86
When you think about corporate secrecy, nefarious shell companies and conspiratorial tax dodging, the state of Delaware probably doesn’t come to mind…
4 years ago
Why Countries Choose War Over Peace, With Chris Blattman
Episode 85
War is costly, deadly and destructive. So, why do we do it? In his new book Why We Fight: The Roots of War and The Paths to Peace, Prof. Chris Blattm…
4 years ago
How Death In America Is Changing With Shannon Lee Dawdy
Episode 84
What does our relationship with the dead tell us about the living? Anthropologists learn about ancient cultures by studying their burial sites, but c…
4 years ago
Why We Need To Invest In Parents During A Child's Earliest Years, With Dana Suskind
Episode 83
The United States is an outlier when it comes to parents. Compared to similar countries, the U.S. has the largest happiness gap between the 63 millio…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Troubling Rise Of Antibiotic-resistant Superbugs, With Christopher Murray
Episode 82
For nearly a decade, public health experts have been warning that bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics. In 2014, the World Health Organizat…
4 years, 1 month ago
Is Scientific Progress Slowing? with James Evans
Episode 81
There are far more scientists in today’s world, and they’re publishing research papers at a much faster pace. However, all of this growth hasn’t tran…
4 years, 2 months ago
Could We Vaccinate Against Opioid Addiction? With Sandra Comer And Marco Pravetoni
Episode 80
The United States recently hit a grim milestone: More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between May 2020 and April 2021. The majority o…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Man Who Fought To Sanction Putin And Russian Oligarchs, with Bill Browder
Episode 79
As Vladimir Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine, Western nations have come together in unprecedented fashion to condemn his actions, in the form …
4 years, 3 months ago
Why Big Ideas Fail To Scale—And How To Fix It With John List
Episode 78
Solving problems like poverty, education inequality or discrimination require policy interventions that can scale, but they rarely do. Why do some sc…
4 years, 3 months ago
Could Personalizing Laws Make Society More Just? With Omri Ben-Shahar
Episode 77
Big data has created a world of personalization. We have personalized medicine, personalized education, personalized advertising. Now, one University…
4 years, 4 months ago