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Listener Mail: How News Works, IGU Returns, Cooking Salamander Tacos, and More

In this week's listener mail segment: Colin inspires a conversation about the nature of understanding the news -- and why 'triangulating' conflicting news sources remains crucial. Newly-hired to Illumination Global, Unlimited, Calamatiy Chris weighs in with some work notes. Dory ...  Show more

CLASSIC: The Philadelphia Experiment

Here's the story: In October of 1943, hundreds of people watched a top secret experiment go horribly wrong. The US Navy, attempting to create a kind of invisibility cloak for ships, accidentally transported the USS Eldridge through time and space, with disastrous consequences for ...  Show more

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It's a news special - with Natsuki: The Movie on the horizon, Pete and Chris pile through some important crow-based news stories. Warning: contains Assange. Here are this week's links. Check that wacky credit card-stealing crow! https://bit.ly/2rJsMd7https://bloom.bg/2InXlvdhttps ...  Show more

This Week's Top Stories
The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Florida bans math books for CRT, airlines shock travelers by dropping the mask mandate mid flight and CNN+ shuts down after a $300M launch fails. Here's a look at what happened this week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...  Show more

'We Were Hanging Like Bats'
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First, we bring you the latest on a plane that crashed and flipped upside down during landing. Then, senior US and Russian officials meet in Saudi Arabia about ending the war in Ukraine ... without Ukraine. Plus, President Trump has directed Elon Musk and the DOGE team to identif ...  Show more

Flying stop: Boeing
The Intelligence from The Economist

Following a second fatal crash of Boeing’s 737-MAX, China was quick to ground its fleet of the newish airliner. What does this mean for the world’s largest planemaker? In Russia, protests have broken out against President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to isolate and control the countr ...  Show more