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Introducing Understood: The Making of Elon Musk
Season 6
What explains Elon Musk? Could his most outlandish ambitions and most toxic qualities trace back to his youth in Apartheid South Africa? Understood: …
1 year, 1 month ago
Introducing: Click Here | Citizen Lab is still chasing shadows
Today we’re sharing an episode from the Click Here podcast from Recorded Future News and PRX.
The early Internet was all about hope and utopian possib…
1 year, 3 months ago
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Bonus: Cory Doctorow chats about his new novel on Bookends with Mattea Roach
In this special bonus conversation, Cory Doctorow sits down with Bookends host Mattea Roach to discuss his latest novel, Picks & Shovels. The book is…
1 year, 4 months ago
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Who Broke the Internet? | E4: Kick 'Em in the Dongle
Season 5 Episode 4
It's 2025. President Trump is back, and the richest men in tech are on stage with him. What started as a dysfunctional internet run by tech giants, a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Who Broke the Internet? | E3: In God We Antitrust
Season 5 Episode 3
American antitrust laws were designed to stop companies from wielding the power of kings. But in the 1970s, a legal scholar named Robert Bork convinc…
1 year, 5 months ago
Who Broke the Internet? | E2: Ctrl, Ctrl, Ctrl
Season 5 Episode 2
In 1998, the United States Congress tried to tame the wild internet with a new law: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. But buried in its fine prin…
1 year, 5 months ago
Who Broke the Internet? | E1: Don't Be Evil
Season 5 Episode 1
Google Search was the gold standard — a product born in a dorm room during the internet’s early, idealistic era. But when internal emails surfaced th…
1 year, 5 months ago
Introducing Understood: Who Broke the Internet?
Season 5
It's not you — the internet really does suck. Novelist, blogger and noted internet commentator Cory Doctorow explains what happened to the internet a…
1 year, 5 months ago
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Céline Episode 4: The Céline-aissance
Season 4 Episode 4
In the aftermath of René Angélil’s death, a Céline-aissance. But then, illness strikes. In the final episode of Céline: Understood, a look at her rec…
1 year, 11 months ago
Céline Episode 3: The Globalization of Céline
Season 4 Episode 3
Céline Dion becomes inescapable in the mid-nineties with her hit song from the Titanic soundtrack, My Heart Will Go On. She achieves a unique level o…
1 year, 11 months ago