Only the clever need apply. This week, stories of people acting on a technicality in the face of some of life’s toughest regulators: financial regulators, parents and God.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/473/loopholes
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Loopholes | This American Life
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Retraction | This American Life
Regrettably, we have discovered that one of our most popular episodes was partially fabricated. This week, we devote the entire hour to detailing the errors in "Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory," Mike Daiseyâs story about visiting Foxconn, an Apple supplier factory in China.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/retraction
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Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory | This American Life
Mike Daisey was a self-described "worshipper in the cult of Mac." Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory
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When Patents Attack! | This American Life
Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries. (Transcript)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
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Malcolm Gladwell: Who Is Successful? Why?
Sometimes the way you conduct science has profound impacts on society as a whole. Malcolm Gladwell says the way we look at who is and who isn’t successful is crucial. He says it’s dangerous to think East Africans are good runners because they have an innate gene that makes them fast. Instead, you have
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Science Friday Archives: Listening To Wild Soundscapes
Science, technology, environment and health news and discussion from the makers of the NPR public radio program Science Friday with host Ira Flatow.
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Original Recipe | This American Life
The formula for Coca-Cola is one of the most jealously guarded trade secrets in the world. Locked in a vault in Atlanta. Supposedly unreplicable. But we think we may have found the original recipe. And to see if the formula actually might be Coke, we made a batch.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/427/original-recipe
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Science Friday Archives: Digital Sampling and Remix Culture: Creativity or Criminality?
Science, technology, environment and health news and discussion from the makers of the NPR public radio program Science Friday with host Ira Flatow.
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Studio 360: Bonus Track: James Cameron Uncut
Kurt Andersen interviews James Cameron about Avatar and other things. Including Cameron’s favorite movie, The Wizard of Oz.