Music drawn from Creative Commons, “Heart on Redial” by Loveshadow, is featured on this podcast.
Surveying Troops, Elderly Rats
In this week’s audio newsletter, we tackle science and technology. In addition, Emily Badger examines changes in the food industry.
In this week's podcast, learn how an experiment that involved skipping rope demonstrated the value of self-doubt, while Emily Badger examines the idea of taxing drivers by the miles they travel, not the fuel they use.
This week our Tom Jacobs discusses the fallacy that our Facebook friends are our political fellow travelers, while Emily Badger plunders Uncle Sam's video cabinet.
In this week’s podcast newsletter, Emily Badger examines the implications of a government shutdown. In addition, we open with a discussion of how technology and artistic effort coexist uneasily.
In our weekly podcast Emily Badger reviews her reporting on the military's oil use and Tom Jacobs discusses the how luxuriating in thoughts of tobacco may be a better way to quit it.
In this week's podcast Tom Jacobs discusses how music creates a cooperative spirit and Emily Badger explains how the concerns over employment lead many to reject greater environmental or safety regulation that likely would benefit them.
