What's The Point
A show about our data age. Each week, Jody Avirgan brings you stories and interviews on how data is changing lives.
- Website
- http://www.espn.com/espnradio/podcast/index
- Description
- A show about our data age. Each week, Jody Avirgan brings you stories and interviews on how data is changing lives.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2023-10-13 21:05
- last episode published
- 2017-08-11 16:18
- publication frequency
- 7.03 days
- Contributors
- FiveThirtyEight.com
- Owner
- FiveThirtyEight, 538, ESPN, Jody Avirgan
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 112
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2017-08-11 | Christie Aschwanden interviews the author of "American Eclipse," by David Baron. |
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| 2017-08-10 | The Sparks gang discusses "American Eclipse" by David Baron, and the solar eclipse coming to the U.S. later this month. |
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| 2017-07-27 | Jody discusses the rise of forensic DNA with Erin Murphy, professor at New York University and author of the book "Inside the Cell." |
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| 2017-07-18 | Jody interviews Adam Conover of TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything on how his show covers stats heavy topics. |
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| 2017-07-07 | Christie Aschwanden talks to journalist Charles Ornstein about how he reports on how money can influence doctors. |
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| 2017-07-06 | The Sparks crew discusses how politicians and scientists wrestle with conflicts of interest, and what the science says about how conflict of interest can change our decisions. |
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| 2017-06-02 | Anna Maria Barry-Jester talks to Bob Holmes, the author of "Flavor: The science of our most neglected sense." |
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| 2017-06-01 | FiveThirtyEight's science team discusses "Flavor: The science of our most neglected sense," a book by Bob Holmes. They also go flavor tripping. |
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| 2017-05-18 | Rae Wynn-Grant, a conservation researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, discusses her work tracking black bears in the American West. |
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| 2017-05-05 | FiveThirtyEight's Christie Aschwanden interviews the author of "The Hunt for Vulcan." |
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