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439. Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears
Episode 439
The modern world overwhelms us with sounds we didn’t ask for, like car alarms and cell-phone “halfalogues.” What does all this noise cost us in terms…
5 years, 4 months ago
438. How to Succeed by Being Authentic (Hint: Carefully)
Episode 438
John Mackey, the C.E.O. of Whole Foods, has learned the perils of speaking his mind. But he still says what he thinks about everything from “consciou…
5 years, 4 months ago
Why the Left Had to Steal the Right’s Dark-Money Playbook
The sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent years studying crack dealers, sex workers, and the offspring of billionaires. Then he wandered into an even st…
5 years, 4 months ago
437. Many Businesses Thought They Were Insured for a Pandemic. They Weren’t.
Episode 437
A fine reading of most policies for “business interruption” reveals that viral outbreaks aren’t covered. Some legislators are demanding that insuranc…
5 years, 4 months ago
436. Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog
Episode 436
As beloved and familiar as they are, we rarely stop to consider life from the dog’s point of view. That stops now. In this latest installment of the …
5 years, 4 months ago
435. Why Are Cities (Still) So Expensive?
Episode 435
It isn’t just supply and demand. We look at the complicated history and skewed incentives that make “affordable housing” more punch line than realit…
5 years, 4 months ago
434. Is New York City Over?
Episode 434
The pandemic has hit America's biggest city particularly hard. Amidst a deep fiscal hole, rising homicides, and a flight to the suburbs, some people …
5 years, 5 months ago
“Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird” | People I (Mostly) Admire: Ken Jennings
It was only in his late twenties that America’s favorite brainiac began to seriously embrace his love of trivia. Now he holds the “Greatest of All Ti…
5 years, 5 months ago
433. How Are Psychedelics and Other Party Drugs Changing Psychiatry?
Episode 433
Three leading researchers from the Mount Sinai Health System discuss how ketamine, cannabis, and ecstasy are being used (or studied) to treat everyth…
5 years, 5 months ago
432. When Your Safety Becomes My Danger
Episode 432
The families of U.S. troops killed and wounded in Afghanistan are suing several companies that did reconstruction there. Why? These companies, they s…
5 years, 5 months ago