When Conspiracies Aren't Just Theories with Journalist Tom Risen

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Talking to the Future: Nuclear Semiotics (rerun)

[We are taking a break this week so please enjoy a re-release of one of our favorite episodes!] How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future about nuclear waste sites that will remain extremely dangerous for longer than human civilization has existed? When language, symbols, ...  Show more

JINGLES pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

If you thought the first part of our series was catchy, wait til we enter the modern era where all the jingles that played throughout our lifetimes will be activated like sleeper cells inside us. For part two of our series, we are starting our history in the middle of the century ...  Show more

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