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My Little Hundred Million
Season 1 Episode 6
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a tiny public university in Glassboro, New Jersey: not Harvard, not Yale, not even to his alma mater, MIT. What was Rowan thinking? And why has it p…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
Food Fight
Season 1 Episode 5
Bowdoin College and Vassar College are two elite private schools that compete for the same students. But one of those schools is trying hard to address the problem of rich and poor in American societ…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
Carlos Doesn’t Remember
Season 1 Episode 4
Of the tens of thousands of talented, low-income students who graduate from high school every year in the United States, most never make it to universities appropriate to their gifts. America leaves …
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
The Big Man Can't Shoot
Season 1 Episode 3
Wilt Chamberlain’s brilliant career was marred by one, deeply inexplicable decision: He chose a shooting technique that made him one of the worst foul shooters in basketball—even though he had tried …
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
Saigon, 1965
Season 1 Episode 2
In the early 1960s the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon. The task? To interview captured North Vietnamese soldiers and guerrillas in order to measure t…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
The Lady Vanishes
Season 1 Episode 1
In the late 19th century, a painting titled The Roll Call, by a virtually unknown artist, took England by storm. But after that brilliant first effort, the artist all but disappeared. Why? And what d…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
Introducing Revisionist History
Season 1
Coming soon, a new podcast series from bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell.
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Published on 9 years, 6 months ago