Marine mammal expert Diana Reiss explains how scientists get in the heads of other species.

Episode 2: Talking with Dolphins

Methods is about how we know what we know.

Each week, Brooke Borel, author of The Chicago Guilde to Fact-Checking, interviews someone who examines facts for a living, including journalists, scientists, historians, judges, translators, and more.


Picking one of the guest’s projects—an investigative article, a book, a scientific discovery—we’ll dig into how they did it. What was their process? How did they investigate the evidence? What stories, pitfalls, and dead ends didn’t make it into the published work? How sure are they? And what level of uncertainty should we all be comfortable with when it comes to calling something a fact?

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Data scientist and "Weapons of Math Destruction" author Cathy O’Neil on the dark side of big data.

Episode 12: Bad Algorithms

BuzzFeed data reporter Lam Thuy Vo on the illuminating and obscuring nature of social media data.

Episode 11: Social Data

New York Times obituary writer Margalit Fox on the art and science of writing what she calls “flash biographies.”

Episode 10: Dead and Pre-Dead

Zach and Kelly Weinersmith on how to predict our future technologies and their new book "Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything"

Episode 9: Future Tech

Journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer on the research linking guns and crime.

Episode 2: Talking with Dolphins

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