Episode summary: 6. An Epiphany at the Hampstead Toy Boat Pond

Episode summary: Hello and welcome back! Delicious History is coming back with a vengeance, and this time it’s personal! For this season, we’ll be on the road, talking about some of the most important ways food has affected history on location! Starting in Ecuador, we’ll take you to Colombia, Spain,...

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Episode summary: For the first episode in the new series of History of Ideas – on the great essays and the great essayists – David discusses Montaigne, the man who invented a whole new way of writing and being read. From the fear of death to the joys of life, from the perils of atheism to the pitfal...

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Episode summary: The Mystery of Mastery with Adam Gopnik

Episode summary: For our first ever episode talking about Amazon (somehow?), Logic Magazine co-founder Moira Weigel tells us what she learned about Amazon by spending years interviewing its third-party sellers. From hand sanitizer hoarding to Chinese vendors getting “dragon boated,” Moira gives us a...

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Episode summary: What’s more intense than leading the IMF during a financial crisis? For Simon Johnson, it was co-authoring a book with Daron Acemoglu.

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Episode summary: Episodio 34: Zucchero, scheletri e marmellate assassine (Stagione 3)

Episode summary: 5. The Paper Trail Trial

Episode summary: The massive consequence of parking minimums

Episode summary: “What we ask jurors to do is to just absorb all this trauma and just to keep on absorbing it and not process it with anyone. Just hold it in and hold it in and hold it in.” A look at what happens during and after a trial – and how some courts are trying to help jurors. Say hello on...

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