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A show about our data age. Each week, Jody Avirgan brings you stories and interviews on how data is changing lives.
Christie Aschwanden interviews the author of "American Eclipse," by David Baron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...
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...
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...
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...
Christie Aschwanden talks to journalist Charles Ornstein about how he reports on how money can influence doctors. Learn more about your ad c...
The Sparks crew discusses how politicians and scientists wrestle with conflicts of interest, and what the science says about how conflict of...
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...
FiveThirtyEight's science team discusses "Flavor: The science of our most neglected sense," a book by Bob Holmes. They also go flavor trippi...
Rae Wynn-Grant, a conservation researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, discusses her work tracking black bears in the American...
FiveThirtyEight's Christie Aschwanden interviews the author of "The Hunt for Vulcan." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...
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...
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...
Anna Maria Barry-Jester interviews the author of "An American Sickness: How healthcare became big business and how you can take it back." Le...
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...
Jody interviews Arvind Narayanan about the latest in online tracking, and what you can do to shield yourself. Learn more about your ad choic...
Jody Avirgan and Carl Bialik discuss research into how we get information and what information we trust. Learn more about your ad choices. V...
FiveThirtyEight's Maggie Koerth-Baker discusses The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome with author A...
This month, we're discussing Alondra Nelson's The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome. Learn more abo...
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...
From the archives, Jody Avirgan and James Hamblin discuss modern medicine, personal health tracking, and why health journalism is broken. Le...
FiveThirtyEight's Maggie Koerth-Baker talks with author Will Storr about his book "The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the enemies of scienc...
FiveThirtyEight's science team discusses Will Storr's book, "The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the enemies of science." Learn more about y...
Jody Avirgan and Kate Larue discuss the postcards we received for our "Dear Data" project, and then rerun our original conversation. Check i...
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...
Our science team discusses Michael Lewis's new book, which is about the rise of behavioral economics. Check out part 2, coming soon, in whic...
What's The Point is coming to an end with Jody Avirgan as the host. We discuss what we've learned over the last year and a half. Stay tuned...
Adam Conover on the challenge of explaining tough topics - while being funny. Catch "Adam Ruins Everything" on TruTV. Learn more about your...
In part two of our Thanksgiving special, Anna Maria Barry-Jester talks about the science of food with Kenji Lopez-Alt. Learn more about your...
A Thanksgiving cooking special from our science team as they discuss Kenji Lopez-Alt's "The Food Lab." Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
Maggie Koerth-Baker talks with Kayt Sukel about how we define risk, and how to write about it responsibly. Learn more about your ad choices....
Our monthly science series looks at why humans make, or don't make, risky choices. Part 2 of this conversation - and interview with author K...
Cathy O'Neil discusses her book "Weapons Of Math Destruction," about algorithms that are widespread, harmful, and secretive. Learn more abou...
Julia Angwin of Pro Publica discusses their investigations into "black box" algorithms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoic...
Carl Bialik discusses a new study that shows how Americans get their information, how they make decisions, and how they change their minds....
Maggie Koerth-Baker talks with Dr. Patrick Corrigan about the stigma of mental health and how it relates to public figures. Learn more about...
Our monthly science series looks at the ethics and laws of discussing and diagnosing the health of political figures. Part 2 of this show ai...
How a digital model can help prevent bear-human conflicts. Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant discusses her work in the field, and at the computer. Learn mo...
From Hot Takedown, how our editor Blythe Terrell used an algorithm to help pick a new NFL team to root for. Learn more about your ad choices...
A new survey of one million websites reveals the latest tricks being used to track your online behavior. Arvind Narayanan of Princeton Unive...
The coach of the U.S. Math Olympiad team shares his secrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the second part of our new science podcast, Christie Aschwanden talks to Alice Dreger about her book "Galileo's Middle Finger." Learn mor...
The debut of our new science series! The FiveThirtyEight science team discusses "Galileo's Middle Finger," and what happens when activism an...
A memo from the Trump campaign reveals their attempts to go after "low P, high T" voters. Clare Malone discusses her reporting. Learn more a...
A visit to the Westminster Dog Show with FiveThirtyEight's Oliver Roeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoic...
Mini-interviews with Charles Duhigg and Marcus Bullock of Flikshop, from the Aspen Ideas festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p...
We conclude our series of mini-conversations about the FiveThirtyEight guns project. FiveThirtyEight.com/gundeaths Learn more about your ad...
A mini-interview a day for a week about the 538 guns project. Carl Bialik discusses the criminal justice program that is gaining GOP support...
A mini-interview a day for a week about the 538 guns project. Leah Libresco discusses how other countries have reacted to mass shootings. fi...
A mini-interview a day for a week about the 538 guns project. Hayley Mungia discusses how to get guns out of the hands of domestic abusers....
We're doing a mini-interview every day for a week about the the 538 guns project. Anna Maria Barry-Jester discusses her reporting from Wyomi...