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This week, Emily Badger examines a new program to help fund social programs, while Tom Jacobs and Jessica Hilo discuss changes to the warning on cigarette packs.

This week we discuss how using predators' traits may reduce mosquito numbers where we don't want them, while Emily Badger examines a new program to push successful women into running for office.

Emily Badger examines just how negative advertising in the U.S. midterms was, and why that might not be a bad thing, while Tom Jacobs explains that puritanism may be bred in the American bone.

In this week's podcast we look at the relative success rates of charter schools while our Emily Badger discusses the failure of the administration's commitment to science to take hold.

In this week's podcast we look at how social networking site may reveal the reality of how we care for our bodies, while Emily Badger discusses a new program to provide a jump start to electric cars.

In this week's podcast newsletter, we look at the ABCs of spelling bees and the FTC's new focus on curbing deceptive 'greenwashing.'

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, we look at what drives people to movies houses and Emily Badger discusses a bill that combines immigration and education.