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30: Gasleaping
Ever wonder why the Trump administration keeps repeating debunked claims? Or why it regularly denies objective evidence, and encourages everyone else to do the same?
29: Ribbiting Disparities
This podcast explores the notion of income inequality. Although it’s an oft-discussed subject, it’s not always defined well or only discussed in the narrow band
28: Frognosis
This episode examines the political debates around public health and public health policy. It is a perfect case study to illustrate so many of the
27: Trade Wart
Welcome to The Boiling Frog reboot! The first 26 episodes were examinations of general topics, such as understanding capitalism, how social psychology belies the principles
26: Jimmy Hoppa
This podcast is all about labor unions – why they exist, their history in the U.S., a brief comparison with unions in other countries, the
25: Jump for Joy
Building off the prior podcast on learning from the past, this discussion is all about success and failure. We all know the common wisdom that
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Readers, Not Algorithms, Are the Issue
A recent article in Nature reported on the results of the first (so far as I know) research into how search algorithms might encourage/promote partisanship.
The Community Is Critical
There was an interesting op ed in the journal Science recently, talking about how, even in something as objective as the pursuit of scientific insights,
Honoring MLK
I’m embarrassed to admit that, like I suspect many White Americans, when I think about “Martin Luther King” and “speeches” I only come up with
Prisoner Voting Rights
One of our listeners contacted us to comment on our recent podcast, Toad to the White House, where we discussed, among other things, why both
Dramatic Statement of the Obvious, Redux
An article today in the New York Times tell us what we already knew would happen (certainly to listeners of The Boiling Frog, and specifically
“Originalism” and Voting Rights
After recording our 19th podcast (The Toad to the White House) on voting rights a friend with far more knowledge of the Constitution than me
