Wonking Week: Go Daddy

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss teen pregnancy and the NFL’s big game. In addition, Emily Badger examines developments in the auto industry that may create genuinely smart cars.

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Updated:: Jun 14, 2017
Original:: Feb 7, 2011

Audio portions for this week’s Wonking Week podcast were drawn from:
The outro to our second story on teen pregnancy came from a NoBaby.org radio advertisement. The outro to our third story was a song entitled “Poisonous” by Scomber. The outro to our interview with Emily Badger was taken from Stephen King’s 1986 directorial debut, Maximum Overdrive.

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Social Justice

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