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Methods is about how we know what we know. Each week, Brooke Borel, author of The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, interviews someone who examines facts for a living, including journalists, scientists, historians, judges, translators, and more. Picking one of the guest’s projects—an investigative…

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    Episode 12: Bad Algorithms

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2017 33:27


    Data scientist and "Weapons of Math Destruction" author Cathy O’Neil on the dark side of big data. 

    Episode 11: Social Data

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2017 28:19


    BuzzFeed data reporter Lam Thuy Vo on the illuminating and obscuring nature of social media data. 

    Episode 10: Dead and Pre-Dead

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2017 32:09


    New York Times obituary writer Margalit Fox on the art and science of writing what she calls “flash biographies.”

    Episode 9: Future Tech

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2017 34:02


    Zach and Kelly Weinersmith on how to predict our future technologies and their new book "Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything"

    Episode 8: Gun Country

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2017 31:33


    Journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer on the research linking guns and crime. 

    Episode 7: Science Doesn’t Understand

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2017 31:39


    Julie Rehmeyer is a math and science journalist and author of “Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer’s Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn’t Understand.”

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    Episode 6: Big Chicken

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2017 30:29


    Journalist Maryn McKenna on uncovering a story about the secretive meat industry.

    Episode 5: Forecasting

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2017 37:00


    Statistician Nate Silver on baseball and the 2016 election, recorded live at CAVEAT.

    Episode 4: Hurricane Season

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2017 29:51


    Climate scientist Kate Marvel on whether climate change is to blame for Harvey, Irma, and Jose.

    Episode 3: A Climate Change Lawsuit

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2017 27:14


    Vice News Tonight reporter Arielle Duhaime-Ross on an unprecedented legal case over climate change.

    Episode 2: Talking with Dolphins

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2017 29:38


    Marine mammal expert Diana Reiss explains how scientists get in the heads of other species.

    Episode 1: Conspiracy Theorists

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2017 29:20


    Author Jon Ronson on how journalists should cover Alex Jones.

    Methods Trailer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2017 1:44


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