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What's The Point

FiveThirtyEight.com

A show about our data age. Each week, Jody Avirgan brings you stories and interviews on how data is changing lives.

What's The Point Podcast Guide

Listen to What's The Point, a Society & Culture podcast by FiveThirtyEight.com. Stream 112 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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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/...

42:45Aug 11, 2017

Sparks: 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...

43:01Aug 10, 2017

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...

40:38Jul 27, 2017

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...

30:05Jul 18, 2017

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...

34:26Jul 7, 2017

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...

38:24Jul 6, 2017

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...

40:24Jun 2, 2017

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...

39:30Jun 1, 2017

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...

36:20May 18, 2017

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...

46:42May 5, 2017

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...

47:45May 4, 2017

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...

36:32Apr 20, 2017

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...

28:16Apr 12, 2017

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...

50:16Apr 6, 2017

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...

32:21Mar 23, 2017

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...

25:35Mar 9, 2017

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...

50:57Mar 3, 2017

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...

38:08Feb 17, 2017

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...

38:25Feb 2, 2017

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