Episode summary: Guns Part 2: Getting out of Dodge

Episode summary: Solving the housing crisis and the office vacancy crisis with one obvious and elegant idea: office to housing conversion. If it were only that simple.

Episode summary: At 53, the chess legend is still one of the best in the world. What keeps him playing?

Episode summary: When Amy Loughren started working as a nurse at Somerset Medical Center, she did everything she could to hide the fact that she had a heart condition. And then, another nurse named Charles Cullen discovered Amy’s secret. He told her that he would keep it, but she didn’t know that he...

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Episode summary: The story of how “Who Let The Dogs Out” ended up stuck in all of our brains. A story that goes back over 50 years and spans continents.

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Episode summary: Guns Part 1: The Sudden Celebrity of Sir John Knight

Episode summary: Timnit Gebru is not just a pioneering critic of dangerous AI datasets who calls bullshit on bad science pushed by the likes of OpenAI, or a tireless champion of racial, gender, and climate justice in computing. She’s also someone who wants to build something different. This week on...

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Episode summary: In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking for two missing wolves. “They’re just gone. And that’s implausible because wolves don’t just disappear.” Thomas McNamee’s book is The Killing of Wolf Number Ten. This episode was origi...

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Episode summary: A preview of what we’re making over on Criminal Plus! Hear me and Criminal co-creator Lauren Spohrer taking your questions, telling stories, and talking with other producers and special guests. We’re having a lot of fun making these bonus episodes. When you sign up for Criminal Plus...

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Episode summary: MR co-founders Tyler and Alex Tabarrok reflect on the blog’s legacy with long-time readers Vitalik Buterin, Ben Casnocha, and Jeff Holmes.

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