We’re taking a look at the complicated history of gossip, why we do it and what happens when press coverage gets into the personal.

Appetizer

Apple AI notifications, Clean-air measures dropped, Challenge on abortion pill access, SpaceX troubled launch, California wildfires

Main course

• Titivillus
• The origins of the gossip
• Covering sex scandals, Radiolab episode
• The Watergate scandal
• Who gossips?
• The surprising benefits of gossip

Sweet treat

• A weird Oxford Oath
• The curious case of Henry Symeonis

Tip your waiter

• Sherlock Holmes never said
• What Holmes said
• Who actually said it

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