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Cybersecurity and consumer protection online

Guests: Nicole Perlroth, Richard Forno Last week Yahoo announced that 500 million accounts had been hacked – co ...

Air Date: September 28, 2016

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Seeds on Ice
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault; the judge retirement age ballot question in Pa.

Guests: Cary Fowler, Daniel Craig On the frozen Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, near the North Pole, sits the ...

Air Date: September 22, 2016

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The #NoMakeup Movement and its role in history

Guests: Juliet Williams, Yaba Blay, Ellensue Gross The #NoMakeup Movement is building up steam. Singer Alicia Key ...

Air Date: September 21, 2016

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As companies rush to Camden, are residents left behind?

Armed with an $82 million tax break from the state of New Jersey, the Philadelphia 76ers celebrated the opening of the team’s new m ...

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Tackling the high cost of child care and the presidential candidates’ plans

Guests: Linda Houser, Corey Shdaimah As any working parent knows, child care costs a lot and finding good quality ...

Air Date: September 19, 2016

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How do tech companies determine what we want?

Guests: David Pierce, Julie Guinn Are we saying goodbye to the headphone jack?  Apple thinks so. The newly relea ...

Air Date: September 19, 2016

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Bridgegate trial preview

Guests: Matt Katz, Joe Hernandez The Bridgegate trial starts on Monday.  The case goes back to 2013 when three l ...

Air Date: September 16, 2016

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What’s the role of moderators in Presidential debates?

Guests: Brian Stelter and Alexios Mantzarlis Should we expect moderators and reporters to fact-check candidates d ...

Air Date: September 13, 2016

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Radio Times in Review: football edition

Guests: Joe Queenan, Stephan Fatsis, Michael MacCambridge The football season officially began last night, so for ...

Air Date: September 9, 2016

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Starting a business from scratch: the joys and the headaches

Guests: Tayyib Smith, Siddiq Moore, Tiffany Spraggins Payne These days you don’t have to go to business school ...

Air Date: September 2, 2016

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Guantanamo Bay
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Three national security stories: Guantanamo, government watch lists, cyber attacks

Guests: Carol Rosenberg, Hina Shamsi, Bruce Schneier This hour we examine three national security stories. First, ...

Air Date: September 1, 2016

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The Paralympic Games and how we view disability

Guests: James Senbeta, Eli Wolff, Scott Brown, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson The Paralympic Games, an international m ...

Air Date: August 30, 2016

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The politics of infrastructure

Guests: Stephen Sweeney, Michael Symons, Nick Timiraos, Robert Puentes This hour on Radio Times, Mary Cummings-Jo ...

Air Date: August 29, 2016

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“I Contain Multitudes” – on microbes and our microbiome; Hiring undocumented immigrants

Guests: Ed Yong, Javier Garcia Hernandez For centuries humankind has been waging a war against microbes – the bacteria, viruses, ...

Air Date: August 25, 2016

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100th anniversary of America’s National Park Service

Guests: David Quammen, Beth Pratt-Bergstrom, Jeremy Cronon We’ll discuss the 100th anniversary of Am ...

Air Date: August 24, 2016

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