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Back to SearchBEST OF THE GIST: Affirmative Phosphogypsum Quotas
Today on The Gist. We play the spiel from this week about phosphogypsum. Then we go into the vaults and listen to a spiel from 2020 about the Oscars …
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Prune Lola Prune
Film maker / musician / director / podcaster Lola Blanc is out with a new film “Pruning” about a blonde right wing pundit who inspires a shooting and…
2 years, 6 months ago
Technology Revolutionizes Life But Not Incomes
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson are the authors of the new book “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity.” We …
2 years, 6 months ago
Cooling Down The Tik-Tok Experience
Evelyn Gosnell is a behavioral scientist who, as Managing Director of Irrational Labs, studies and advises the biggest apps and social media sites in…
2 years, 6 months ago
God Bless America … And Scotland, Too, Some Day
Happy July Fourth, Americans, and happy Tuesday to the rest of planet Earth. Today, the production staff of The Gist is off for the holiday, but we t…
2 years, 6 months ago
Is Ron Deathsantis Eager To Spread Cancer Over The Florida Roads?
No. He's Not. But the coverage of the phosogypsum issue might lead a concerned citizen to conclude otherwise. Wait, what phosphogypsum issue? The Gis…
2 years, 6 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Who Started The Fire?
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Thursday’s Spiel about Billy Joels We didn’t Start the Fire. Speaking of Billy Joel, we pl…
2 years, 6 months ago
Poland Perspective On Putin's Pugnacity
Atlantic writer and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Anne Applebaum has chronicled Eastern Europe's unstable relationship with communism, democracy, and Vladim…
2 years, 6 months ago
The FBI Lost Their Son
Brett Forrest is a national security correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and the author of a new book about how ... and who ... the FBI recruit…
2 years, 6 months ago
Earth Off Its Axis
A new study indicates that humans have been slurping up water at such a greedy pace, we're actually causing the Earth to tilt. And this means? Unclea…
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