Episode summary: ‘This episode was updated on 26th June to remove an error in how we quantified 32 trillion dollars’ The level of US government debt has just surpassed 32 trillion dollars. Negotiations over raising the borrowing limit once again went down to the wire a few weeks ago. But how concern...

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Episode summary: The diets of children in the UK are now mostly made up of ultra-processed food, so can we learn from the French in how they teach children healthy eating habits? Sheila Dillon finds out. Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Sophie Anton for BBC Audio in Bristol

Episode summary: Sheila Dillon explores how food habits are formed in the early years, and how parents and nurseries are coping with a food environment full of unhealthy ultra-processed food. Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Sophie Anton for BBC Audio in Bristol

Episode summary: Tyler’s two-thirds utilitarian, and Peter’s full on. Do either of them have the proportions right?

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Episode summary: On Background: Effective Altruism Still Has Friends

Episode summary: The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion

Episode summary: Do Spotify’s algorithms make a listener’s music taste, or does taste make the algorithm? Nick Seaver embedded himself as an ethnographer at a music recommendation software firm to learn about the the very real way very specific people influence the algorithms that power our automate...

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Episode summary: John is one of the food world’s most recognisable faces. He grew up in Melbourne, Australia, starting his career in the world of food at the age of 16.He credits his love of food and passion for cooking to his grandmother, who raised him from the age of 4. After apprenticeships at s...

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Episode summary: How courtroom artists became the preferred way to document trials

Episode summary: Have Beans, Will Travel