Episode summary: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) is a story that it’s easy to know without really knowing it at all. This week’s episode explores all the ways that Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale confounds our expectations about good and evil. What does Dr Jekyll really want? What are all the men in the...

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Episode summary: Episodio 63: Non me la bevo con Michele Fino (Stagione 4)

Episode summary: CW/TW: Intimate partner violence, child exploitation Diana Freed has spent the past several years radically reframing the threat model in cybersecurity with groundbreaking research into how domestic abusers utilize everyday technology like smart phones and tracking apps. Diana sits...

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Episode summary: Stephen Millard, one of our favorite automators, returns to the show with ideas (and scripts) to automate Alfred and announces the public Automators Obsidian Vault.

Episode summary: Is the status of linear algebra rising?

Episode summary: Squirrels were purposefully introduced into our cities in the 1800s, and when their population exploded, we lost track of how many there are.

Episode summary: Garden Utopias: Michael Gilson, Associate Fellow of the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex, takes Laurie Taylor behind the privet hedge, to explore the suburban garden and the beautification of Britain. How did millions of British people develop an obsession...

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Episode summary: As we get ready to launch our Season 7, a bonus episode from another podcast we think our listeners will want to hear: Long Shadow. Episode 1 of its newest season, In Guns We Trust, with host Garrett Graff.Mass shootings have plagued the U.S. for generations. But in 1999, when shots...

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Episode summary: Ed Mitchell’s name has come to be synonymous with Eastern North Carolina wood-smoked whole-hog barbecue. From Wilson, North Carolina, he grew up smoking hogs and has tried to continue that tradition, using old techniques and traditionally farm-raised pigs. But almost since the start...

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Episode summary: Roman talks to Jake Berman, author of “The Lost Subways of North America.”

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