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Messiahs, Abuse and Espionage: Adnan Oktar’s Sex Cult
If you live in the US, you may not have heard of Adnan Oktar. Yet if you live in Turkey or practice Islam, you’re almost certainly familiar with char…
3 years, 8 months ago
Listener Mail: Real-life Telekinesis (Sort of), Hatchet Drones and Immunology
Jasper writes in with an excellent explanation of how cancer works -- and how cancerous cells can be stopped. Tall Pockets relays an interesting enco…
3 years, 8 months ago
Cautionary Tales, with Tim Harford
What can history teach us about the present? How can the average person use critical thinking to avoid being taken in by slick infographics and arden…
3 years, 8 months ago
CLASSIC: Could someone erase the world's debt?
Modern civilization relies on the concept of debt. Wars are fought over it, loves lost and revolutions launched. So what would happen if, one day, it…
3 years, 8 months ago
Strange News: Is LaMDA alive? Cartel Corruption, Predatory Banking in Utah
Google employee Blake Lemoine is on leave after going public with his belief that the company's "Language Models for Dialog Applications," or LaMDA, …
3 years, 8 months ago
The Rare Earth Metals Gold Rush
It may sound hard to believe, but a great deal of Earth's modern electronics -- everything from jets to your smartphone -- depend on just a few subst…
3 years, 8 months ago
Listener Mail: Fish in Florida are on Drugs, A Disturbing Rash of Brain Tumors in New Jersey
An instagram user hips the guys to a bizarre, frightening study of fish off the coast of Florida -- they're testing positive for pharmaceutical drugs…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Hazards of Standardized Testing
Each and every year, billions of children take some form of standardized tests. In theory these tests help measure how much a child has learned, allo…
3 years, 8 months ago
CLASSIC: Free Wifi: Gambling with Your Privacy
Public wifi can be an enormously convenient thing -- it helps people dodge data charges in coffee shops, airports and other places around the globe. …
3 years, 8 months ago
Strange News: Historic Cancer Breakthrough, and a Company Decides Not To Put Drones in Schools
The CEO of Axon thought he had a solution to mass shootings in schools: putting taser-equipped drones in public facilities. Axon's ethics board resig…
3 years, 8 months ago