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Episode summary: Misha Glenny and guests discuss how, after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833, sugar planters recruited workers from India to replace or compete with their formerly enslaved labourers. Over the next 90 years, more than a million people in India travelled under fi...

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Episode summary: Americans have access to a flood of news, and yet we’re in a deep information crisis. What’s really wrong with the news media? Is it what we think it is? And what about news consumers? Most of us don’t trust the media, but can we trust ourselves? By John Biewen with co-host Chenjera...

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Episode summary: The episode centers on the dilemma of a man with an advanced, metastatic case of prostate cancer. His name is Dan. Every doctor he spoke to had a different opinion on what he should do — or whether it was even worth doing anything at all. His question was: which of these many opinio...

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Episode summary: High heels are no longer as high as they were twelve years ago. What happened? An analysis of a trend. For images and links, head to articlesofinterest.substack.com

Episode summary: Bob Spitz has written major biographies of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, and now the Rolling Stones — but also, somehow, Ronald Reagan and Julia Child. In rock, his credentials were hard won: he started out hustling gigs for an unknown Bruce Springsteen for six years, moved...

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Episode summary: Years ago a music producer named Irv Gotti–a hitmaker for Jay-Z, Ja Rule, and Ashanti–was tapped by Sony Music to make a record with Jennifer Lopez. They wanted a big hit. And Irv delivered. But then he made the biggest mistake of his career.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

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Episode summary: Craig Newmark’s career, in retrospect, looks like a series of deliberate subtractions: he kept Craigslist plain, stepped aside as CEO early on, gave his equity to his foundation, and now funds people and gets out of their way. His theory, arrived at gradually, is that recognizing yo...

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Episode summary: In Episode 1, I chat with Adam, the creator of omg.lol and proprietor of Neatnik. We talk about, among other things, his story getting started with the web, building omg.lol, and encouraging people to start websites. Enjoy the episode!

I really enjoyed this first episode of Wond...

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