Sparks: Interview with David Baron
Christie Aschwanden interviews the author of "American Eclipse," by David Baron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...
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20 of 112 episodesSparks: The Eclipse Of 1878
The Sparks gang discusses "American Eclipse" by David Baron, and the solar eclipse coming to the U.S. later this month. Learn more about you...
WTP Best Of: DNA Evidence
Jody discusses the rise of forensic DNA with Erin Murphy, professor at New York University and author of the book "Inside the Cell." Learn m...
WTP Best Of: Adam Ruins Everything
Jody interviews Adam Conover of TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything on how his show covers stats heavy topics. Learn more about your ad choices. V...
Sparks: Interview with Charles Ornstein
Christie Aschwanden talks to journalist Charles Ornstein about how he reports on how money can influence doctors. Learn more about your ad c...
Sparks: Conflicts of interest
The Sparks crew discusses how politicians and scientists wrestle with conflicts of interest, and what the science says about how conflict of...
Sparks: Interview with Bob Holmes
Anna Maria Barry-Jester talks to Bob Holmes, the author of "Flavor: The science of our most neglected sense." Learn more about your ad choic...
Sparks: Flavor Science
FiveThirtyEight's science team discusses "Flavor: The science of our most neglected sense," a book by Bob Holmes. They also go flavor trippi...
WTP Best Of: Bear Mapping
Rae Wynn-Grant, a conservation researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, discusses her work tracking black bears in the American...
Sparks: Interview with Thomas Levenson
FiveThirtyEight's Christie Aschwanden interviews the author of "The Hunt for Vulcan." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...
Sparks: "The Hunt for Vulcan"
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 fo...
WTP Best Of: Baseball
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 man...
Sparks: Interview with Elisabeth Rosenthal
Anna Maria Barry-Jester interviews the author of "An American Sickness: How healthcare became big business and how you can take it back." Le...
Sparks: "An American Sickness"
Our science podcast crew discusses the state of American health care, and what consumers can do about it. This month's book: "An American Si...
WTP Best Of: Internet Tracking
Jody interviews Arvind Narayanan about the latest in online tracking, and what you can do to shield yourself. Learn more about your ad choic...
WTP Best Of: Your Certainty Bubble
Jody Avirgan and Carl Bialik discuss research into how we get information and what information we trust. Learn more about your ad choices. V...
Sparks - Interview with Alondra Nelson
FiveThirtyEight's Maggie Koerth-Baker discusses The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome with author A...
Sparks - The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
This month, we're discussing Alondra Nelson's The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome. Learn more abo...
WTP Best Of: Life In Yemen
What cell phone metadata can reveal about the patterns of daily live -- and the effect of drone strikes. Learn more about your ad choices. V...
WTP Best Of: James Hamblin
From the archives, Jody Avirgan and James Hamblin discuss modern medicine, personal health tracking, and why health journalism is broken. Le...