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Back to SearchBEST OF THE GIST: Unusual Protest Methods Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, a podcast extra from our Thursday conversation with Sir David King, formerly the UK's Government Chief Scien…
2 years, 7 months ago
Anatomy Of A Barbenmaestro Of The Flower Moon
Its Oscar talk with Decoding Everything and Filmcast's David Chen. Why Mike thought Maestro hit sour notes ... and why David thought the structure of…
2 years, 7 months ago
Carbon Capture: Boon, Bane, or Balderdash?
Sir David King, formerly the UK's Government Chief Scientific Adviser, is now the Founder and Chair at Cambridge's Center for Climate Repair. He advo…
2 years, 7 months ago
Luxuriating In Luxury Beliefs
Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, grew up in foster care among the people that the elites of Yal…
2 years, 7 months ago
A Dearth Of Sinemaphiles
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema announces her intention to become Former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Also on the show, The New York Times' union s…
2 years, 7 months ago
Border Porous? Blame Mayorkas
Jonathan Blitzer author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, profiled DHS Secretary Aleja…
2 years, 7 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Fast-Food Innovation Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we tackle the important topic of poor-quality, quick-heating food innovations. From the archive, we listen b…
2 years, 7 months ago
Get Used To It
Cass Sunstein joins us to talk about how, without knowing it, we habituate to our circumstances ... regardless of the circumstances. This is both a g…
2 years, 7 months ago
Bloody American History, Long Before the Founders
We're joined by James Swanson author of The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America. Plus…
2 years, 8 months ago
Surge Burgers
Wendy's experiments with dynamic pricing, but generally lethargic french fries. Plus, it was a week from hell for Richard Lewis and Mitch McConnell. …
2 years, 8 months ago