What's The Point

By FiveThirtyEight, 538, ESPN, Jody Avirgan

A show about our data age. Each week, Jody Avirgan brings you stories and interviews on how data is changing lives.... more

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How many episodes does What's The Point have?

The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.

What's The Point episodes:

May 04, 2017 Sparks: "The Hunt for Vulcan"
What does it take to revise a cold, hard science fact? This monthas Sparks podcast explores that question in the context of aThe Hunt for Vulcana by Thomas Levenson.

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48min
April 20, 2017 WTP Best Of: Baseball
Jody interviews Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller, authors of "The Only Rule Is It Has To Work," a chronicle of their summer spent as general managers for the Sonoma Stompers.

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37min
April 12, 2017 Sparks: Interview with Elisabeth Rosenthal
Anna Maria Barry-Jester interviews the author of "An American Sickness: How healthcare became big business and how you can take it back."

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29min
April 06, 2017 Sparks: "An American Sickness"
Our science podcast crew discusses the state of American health care, and what consumers can do about it. This month's book: "An American Sickness" by Elisabeth Rosenthal.

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51min
March 23, 2017 WTP Best Of: Internet Tracking
Jody interviews Arvind Narayanan about the latest in online tracking, and what you can do to shield yourself.

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33min
March 09, 2017 WTP Best Of: Your Certainty Bubble
Jody Avirgan and Carl Bialik discuss research into how we get information and what information we trust.

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26min
March 03, 2017 Sparks - Interview with Alondra Nelson
FiveThirtyEight's Maggie Koerth-Baker discusses The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome with author Alondra Nelson.

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51min
March 02, 2017 Sparks - The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
This month, we're discussing Alondra Nelson's The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome.

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41min
February 17, 2017 WTP Best Of: Life In Yemen
What cell phone metadata can reveal about the patterns of daily live -- and the effect of drone strikes.

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39min
February 02, 2017 WTP Best Of: James Hamblin
From the archives, Jody Avirgan and James Hamblin discuss modern medicine, personal health tracking, and why health journalism is broken.

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39min

FAQs about What's The Point:

How many episodes does What's The Point have?

The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.