What's The Point
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Christie Aschwanden interviews the author of "American Eclipse," by David Baron.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Sparks gang discusses "American Eclipse" by David Baron, and the solar eclipse coming to the U.S. later this month.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jody discusses the rise of forensic DNA with Erin Murphy, professor at New York University and author of the book "Inside the Cell."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jody interviews Adam Conover of TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything on how his show covers stats heavy topics.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Christie Aschwanden talks to journalist Charles Ornstein about how he reports on how money can influence doctors.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Sparks crew discusses how politicians and scientists wrestle with conflicts of interest, and what the science says about how conflict of interest can change our decisions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Anna Maria Barry-Jester talks to Bob Holmes, the author of "Flavor: The science of our most neglected sense."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
FiveThirtyEight's science team discusses "Flavor: The science of our most neglected sense," a book by Bob Holmes. They also go flavor tripping.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rae Wynn-Grant, a conservation researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, discusses her work tracking black bears in the American West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
FiveThirtyEight's Christie Aschwanden interviews the author of "The Hunt for Vulcan."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What does it take to revise a cold, hard science fact? This montha€™s Sparks podcast explores that question in the context of a€œThe Hunt for Vulcana€ by Thomas Levenson.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jody interviews Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller, authors of "The Only Rule Is It Has To Work," a chronicle of their summer spent as general managers for the Sonoma Stompers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Anna Maria Barry-Jester interviews the author of "An American Sickness: How healthcare became big business and how you can take it back."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Our science podcast crew discusses the state of American health care, and what consumers can do about it. This month's book: "An American Sickness" by Elisabeth Rosenthal.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jody interviews Arvind Narayanan about the latest in online tracking, and what you can do to shield yourself.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jody Avirgan and Carl Bialik discuss research into how we get information and what information we trust.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
FiveThirtyEight's Maggie Koerth-Baker discusses The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome with author Alondra Nelson.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This month, we're discussing Alondra Nelson's The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What cell phone metadata can reveal about the patterns of daily live -- and the effect of drone strikes.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From the archives, Jody Avirgan and James Hamblin discuss modern medicine, personal health tracking, and why health journalism is broken.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
FiveThirtyEight's Maggie Koerth-Baker talks with author Will Storr about his book "The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the enemies of science."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
FiveThirtyEight's science team discusses Will Storr's book, "The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the enemies of science."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jody Avirgan and Kate Larue discuss the postcards we received for our "Dear Data" project, and then rerun our original conversation. Check it out: fivethirtyeight.com/deardataLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This month we're discussing Michael Lewis's new book "The Undoing Project." Here he talks with Nate Silver about his work. Be sure to check out part 1!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Our science team discusses Michael Lewis's new book, which is about the rise of behavioral economics. Check out part 2, coming soon, in which Nate Silver talks with Lewis.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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