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The first Steroid Olympics -- officially the 'Enhanced Games' took place in Las Vegas. The bizarre story of an Admiral's neck on Fox. A terrifying chemical disaster in Washington leaves one dead and nine missing. Also: fatal umbrellas, dystopian WiFi surveillance, and some real d ...  Show more

Everybody's heard of Nessie, the infamous cryptid alleged to reside in Scotland's Loch Ness -- but did you know Lake Superior may be home to a mysterious creature all its own? In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel dive deep into the millennia-old legends of something strange i ...  Show more

When journalists tell stories, they rarely start at the beginning but instead with the latest development. Context comes towards the end. It’s called the ‘inverted pyramid’. When scandal at the Confederation of British Industry hit the newspapers and boss Tony Danker was dismisse ...  Show more

This week on Onward, Rosie has a fascinating conversation with Lyle Menendez.  Many of a certain age will remember the sensational trials of Lyle and his brother Eric, found guilty of the murder of their parents. So sensational within the American zeigeist; this case has been mad ...  Show more

New York Times reporter Emily Steel talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about the stories she and her reporting partner Michael Schmidt wrote that brought down Fox News star Bill O'Reilly — part of a series of stories on sexual harassment that netted the Times and the New Yorker a Pu ...  Show more

Today on the Gist, Politico magazine editor Susan Glasser talks with Mike about "politicization," and why politicians, of all people, like to demonize it. Mike also asks Stephen Dubner about the secret sauce that helped the Freakonomics empire take hold in book and podcast form. ...  Show more