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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?'Hello, Trump. Bye-Bye, Biden.With just days to go before the official launch of a new administration, the GOP-led Congress is putting together plans on how to enact incoming President Donald Trump’s agenda, with a particular emphasis on cutting spending on the Medicaid program. Meanwhile, the Biden administration makes major moves in its last days, including banning a controversial food dye and ordering cigarette companies to minimize their nicotine content.Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss thes...2025-01-1646 min
The Podcast BrowserMegapod: Why Is There So Much BS in Psychology? Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Megapod: Why Is There So Much BS in Psychology?Pub date: 2024-11-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn the last decade, several major findings in social psychology have turned out to be hogwash—or, worse, even fraud. This has become widely known as psychology's "replication crisis." Perhaps you have heard of power poses—based on a study finding that subjects reported stronger “feelings of power” after they posed, say, with their hands on th...2024-12-141h 50
The Atlantic Magazine in AudioThe Fraudulent Science of SuccessThe rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.By Daniel EngberFrom the January 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-12-1142 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioThe Fraudulent Science of SuccessThe rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.By Daniel EngberFrom the January 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-12-1142 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioThe Fraudulent Science of SuccessThe rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.By Daniel EngberFrom the January 2025 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-12-1142 min
Radio AtlanticHow Fragile Is Our Vaccine Infrastructure?Anti-vaccine sentiment is, more or less, as old as vaccines. When Cotton Mather promoted inoculations against smallpox in the 1720s, someone threw a firebomb through his window with a message attached: “Mather, you dog, Damn you, I’ll inoculate you with this.” Today's vaccines are as safe and effective as ever. So why, suddenly, is the anti-vax movement at the height of its power and influence?Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee to be the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, is “the king of the anti-vaxxers,” says Atlantic senior editor Dan...2024-12-0541 min
Plain English with Derek ThompsonMegapod: Why Is There So Much BS in Psychology?In the last decade, several major findings in social psychology have turned out to be hogwash—or, worse, even fraud. This has become widely known as psychology's "replication crisis." Perhaps you have heard of power poses—based on a study finding that subjects reported stronger “feelings of power” after they posed, say, with their hands on their hips for several minutes. But that finding did not replicate. Or perhaps you have heard of ego depletion—the more famous assertion that, when people make a bunch of decisions, it exhausts their ability to make future decisions. Again: did not replicate.2024-11-271h 50The Atlantic Magazine in AudioOzempic or BustAmerica has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early promise. By Daniel Engber. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-05-2658 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioOzempic or BustAmerica has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early promise. By Daniel Engber. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-05-2658 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioOzempic or BustAmerica has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early promise. By Daniel Engber. From the June 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-05-2658 min
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 147: Scientists Unite Against Gas Stoves, Football, And The State Of FloridaFirst they banned gas stoves, because the science said they were harmful. Then the science said football was racist, so we banned that too. Then the nurses came out and said Battletech was problematic, so we banned that as well. Then a data scientist came out and said Florida’s COVID data was fake, so we banned the entire state. Then the scientists said podcasts were harmful, and th--In this (highly illegal) episode:* Jesse chains himself to his gas stove* A bizarre update on Rebekah Jones, serial grifter and former (?) me...2023-01-161h 03
The Story ColliderSport Science: Stories about the athletic side of scienceIn this week’s episode, both our storytellers share stories about the science-y side of sports and physical recreation.Part 1: Daniel Engber risks derailing his PhD by constant daydreaming, until his neuroscience research gives him an idea that will revolutionize the NBA.Part 2: Doomed to be the waterboy after tearing his ACL, engineering student Baratunde Cola is determined to make it back to his college's football team.Daniel Engber is a columnist for Slate.com and Popular Science, and a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine. He has appeared on Radiolab, Al...2022-12-3035 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioWhy Is Dad So Mad? - Daniel Engber - July/August 2022A father dares to explore his rage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-06-2418 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioWhy Is Dad So Mad? - Daniel Engber - July/August 2022A father dares to explore his rage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-06-2418 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioWhy Is Dad So Mad? - Daniel Engber - July/August 2022A father dares to explore his rage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-06-2418 min
This Is CriticalThe Best of SlimesToday's slime toys are not your kid brother's ooey-gooey, neon-green puddles: they're unicorn-colored, calming, ASMR wonders. Science journalist Daniel Engber joins Virginia to dig into a contemporary cultural history of slime — and why it's more relevant today than anyone could have predicted.
2022-06-0926 min
Explore New Worlds, Free Audiobook Are the Golden PearlsRaising Raffi: The First Five Years Audiobook by Keith GessenListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 548754
Title: Raising Raffi: The First Five Years
Author: Keith Gessen
Narrator: Keith Gessen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6:07:50
Language: English
Release date: 06-07-22
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Health & Wellness, Essays & Anthologies, Parenting
Summary:
“A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic
“An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, Romper
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONS
An unsparing, loving account of fatherh...2022-06-076h 07
Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsRaising Raffi: The First Five Years by Keith GessenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Raffi: The First Five Years Author: Keith Gessen Narrator: Keith Gessen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic “An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, Romper NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONS An unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s l...2022-06-0710 min
The ExperimentAn Engineer Tries to Build His Way Out of TragedyJames Sulzer has always loved building things. As a rehabilitation engineer, he spent years creating devices that he hoped would help patients recover from serious brain trauma such as strokes. And he believed strongly in the potential of rehab technology—that with the right robot, he could relieve a whole array of brain injuries.
But then, one spring day in 2020, there was a horrible accident. And suddenly James had to apply everything he knew about science and rehabilitation to help fix his own family. The Atlantic senior editor Daniel Engber spent months talking to James, following him as...2022-03-1727 min
Ye Olde CrimeThe Bone Wars: Rivalry and Deception in PaleontologyLindsay and Madison discuss the feud known as The Bone Wars, as well as why blowing up scientific discoveries isn’t cool, that pettiness can be a strong motivator, and how everyone loves dinosaurs (even if they have a funny way of showing it). Information pulled from the following sources:
2020 ThoughtCo article by Bob Strauss
2019 Interesting Engineering article by Marcia Wendorf
2017 Vintage News article by Boban Docevski
2014 Mental Floss article by Keith Plocek
2013 Slate article by Daniel Engber
PBS American Experience article
Wikipedia (1) (2)
Be sure to listen to our friends Dawn and Col...2022-01-1256 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioA Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering - Daniel Engber - November 2021James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-10-1948 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioA Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering - Daniel Engber - November 2021James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-10-1948 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioA Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering - Daniel Engber - November 2021James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-10-1948 min
Curiosity WeeklyDoes ESP Exist?Learn about ESP; why people panicked about electricity in the 1800s; and how embryos use sound to prepare for the world.
Please vote for Curiosity Daily in the 2021 People's Choice Podcast Awards! Register at https://podcastawards.com, select Curiosity Daily in the categories of Education and Science & Medicine, and then click/tap "save nominations" at the bottom of the page. Voting in other categories is optional. Your vote is greatly appreciated!
Is there such a thing as ESP? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Anay in Georgia)
ESP: What can science say? (2021). Berkeley.edu. https://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/esp
Eng...2021-07-0913 min
HCV424. COMO NOS MANTIENE CUERDOS LA BARRA DE PROGRESO DANIEL ENGBER 1 TEMPORADAThe progress bar makes waiting more exciting... and mitigates our fear of death. Journalist Daniel Engber explores how it came into existence
La barra de progreso hace más emocionante el proceso de esperar...y mitiga nuestro miedo a la muerte. El periodista Daniel Engber explora cómo la barra de progreso nació.
El video cuenta con SRT al español.
2021-06-2400 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioEdgar Allan Poe’s Other Obsession - Daniel Engber - July/August 2021Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-06-2217 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioEdgar Allan Poe’s Other Obsession - Daniel Engber - July/August 2021Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-06-2217 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioEdgar Allan Poe’s Other Obsession - Daniel Engber - July/August 2021Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-06-2217 min
The PUSH PodcastThe PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 12: Diet Unicorns...How Do They Do It?!A diet unicorn. We can all visualize that person in our life that has lost weight by dieting and has kept it off. Or….so it seems.When we step back and take a look at the bigger picture, what are the things that we don’t see? What parts of the story are unknown?In this episode we break down all of the reasons that dieting may look successful for some people and what variables we may not consider when we see those before and after photos on social media. Oh...2021-06-1135 min
Strange CountryFacilitated CommunicationIn the early '90s, facilitated communication was the big breakthrough. It was finally a way for nonverbal people to communicate their innermost thoughts while getting an assist from a facilitator. But then it started to become more clear that it was the facilitator who was actually communicating, and communicating some horrific allegations of sexual abuse, leading many upstanding organizations to denounce facilitated communication as a pseudoscience. Yet it still gets practiced. In this episode, cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the story of Anna Stubblefield and DJ, and a "romance" concocted through facilitated communication. Theme music...2020-12-0357 min
Hang Up and ListenLSU is the GeauxtJosh Levin, Stefan Fatsis, and new Hang Up and Listen co-host Joel Anderson revel in LSU’s win over Clemson in college football’s title game. ESPN’s Jeff Passan talks about MLB’s punishment of the Houston Astros. Finally, Daniel Engber discusses his story on a rape accusation against three New York Mets, and how those players were never charged.LSU-Clemson (04:21): How the Tigers from Baton Rouge won it all.Astros (20:34): What signal was commissioner Rob Manfred trying to send with the penalties he imposed against Houston for sign-stealing?Mets (40:52): A woman accused thre...2020-01-151h 30
Two Psychologists Four BeersSlow-Form Journalism (with Daniel Engber)Yoel and Mickey welcome Slate columnist Daniel Engber to the podcast. Dan talks about the state of science journalism, including what he sees as more skeptical, less credulous reporting. He also talks about the replication crisis in psychology, imposter syndrome in academics, concussion in sport, and the value of blue-ribbon panels opining on the state of science. Dan also delights with his contrarian takes on marathon running, the windchill factor, and a computer’s progress bar.
Bonus: Yoel yet again finds an excuse to drink no beer at all.Special Guest: Daniel Engber.Li...2019-06-0557 min
The ORION Open Science PodcastIs science self-correcting?Episode Summary:
In this episode we are discussing whether science is broken or whether it is self-correcting, and whether the Open Science movement is evidence that science does in fact self-correct. Our interview guest will be Daniel Engber who is a science journalist from Slate magazine. We will cover problems and challenges in the practice of science, what can be done to improve the situation, and how Open Science principles are helping to change things.
Resources and Links:
Factsheets
Engber Articles
Science Is Broken. How Much Should We Fix It?
For Better Science...2019-02-2840 min
Futility ClosetThe Bone Wars The end of the Civil War opened a new era of fossil hunting in the American West -- and a bitter feud between two rival paleontologists, who spent 20 years sabotaging one another in a constant struggle for supremacy. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of the Bone Wars, the greatest scientific feud of the 19th century. We'll also sympathize with Scunthorpe and puzzle over why a driver can't drive. Intro: Nepal's constitution contains instructions for drawing its flag. The tombstone of Constanze...2018-09-1734 min
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The Sugar Wars
Science can’t prove it and the industry denies it, but Gary Taubes is convinced that the sweet stuff kills.
By Daniel Engber
“I hope that when you have read this book I shall have convinced you that sugar is really dangerous,” wrote John Yudkin in his foghorn-sounding treatise on nutrition from 1972, Pure, White and Deadly. Sugar’s rapid rise to prominence in the Western diet, starting in the mid-19th century, had coincided with a sudden outbreak of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Yudkin, one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent nutritionists at the time, believed that one had caused the other.
...2018-08-0700 min
Let's Go To Court!The Family Annihilator & Is This Love?Hate ads? The entire LGTC catalog is available ad-free on Patreon!
Kristin kicks things off with the story of tenured Rutgers University ethics professor Anna Stubblefield. A few years ago, Anna began working with a physically and mentally disabled man. Thanks to a mostly discredited technique called facilitated communication, Anna uncovered what no other professional had ever considered — that although DJ’s body was disabled, his mind was not. The two eventually fell in love.
But were they really in love? And was DJ’s mind truly functioning at a high level? Did facilitated communication give DJ his...2018-05-301h 43Hang Up and ListenThe Golden Age of Tanking EditionGuest hosts Daniel Engber and David Epstein talk with Carl Bialik about robot line judges in tennis, Mike Pesca joins for a review of NBA tanking, and Florentina Hettinga discusses the science of the Paralympics. Robot umpires (1:47): Carl Bialik discusses the latest innovation in line-calling technology and how it might affect tennis. Tanking (18:25): Hang Up host emeritus Mike Pesca chats about why there’s more tanking than ever in the NBA and what might be done about it. Paralympics (36:09): Sports scientist Florentina Hettinga sheds light on debates over classification in the world of disability sports. Afterballs (45:39): Lear...2018-03-051h 01
a++[The Gist] Rejecting JaredWell, what do you know? In 2016, Trump tweeted that he wasn’t trying to get a top security clearance for his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. A year later, he’s finally right. On The Gist, what’s so special about an octopus? Slate’s Daniel Engber has a takedown of the many-armed beast of the deep: The research on cephalopod intelligence is flimsy, he says, and the octopus is hardly the first animal to have fascinated us with its methods of escape. In the Spiel, it’s time to name another Lobstar. One more thing: Please fill out the Slate...2018-03-0300 min
The GistRejecting JaredWell, what do you know? In 2016, Trump tweeted that he wasn’t trying to get a top security clearance for his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. A year later, he’s finally right.
On The Gist, what’s so special about an octopus? Slate’s Daniel Engber has a takedown of the many-armed beast of the deep: The research on cephalopod intelligence is flimsy, he says, and the octopus is hardly the first animal to have fascinated us with its methods of escape.
In the Spiel, it’s time to name another Lobstar.
One more thing: Please fill out the Slate podcast survey at...2018-03-0328 minHang Up and ListenThe Not a Victory Cigar EditionStefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Ethan Sherwood Strauss to preview the NBA Finals. They also talk with Charles P. Pierce about the legacy of writer Frank Deford, and Daniel Engber joins for a conversation about our favorite non-famous athletes.NBA Finals (1:54): A conversation with Ethan Strauss about what to look out for in the third consecutive finals matchup between the Warriors and Cavs. What will Golden State do in crunch time? Will Draymond Green kick anyone?Frank Deford (21:25): Charles P. Pierce, who worked with Deford at Sports Illustrated and The National, talks...2017-05-301h 09
New York Magazine's Sex LivesCannibals and QuicksandFor decades, conventional and scientific wisdom held that pornography warped our understanding of sex, attraction, and love. But a new generation of scientists are unable to replicate those early findings. Why did porn stop bothering us? Have we become numb— or were earlier generations just paranoid? Science writer Daniel Engber explains those findings— and his own sojourns through the strange, sordid, and occasionally sublime world of extreme fetish porn. Sure, you're cool with run-of-the-mill porn— but what about cannibal porn? Quicksand porn? Why does that stuff exist, anyway? With Maureen O'Connor. Call 646-494-3590 with your stories and thoughts about porn—...2017-01-1322 minHang Up and ListenThe Twerking Unicorns EditionStefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about Kevin Durant’s anti-media rant. They also discuss Jackie Robinson West Little League losing its U.S. title and Slate’s Daniel Engber joins to explore the art and science of free-throw distraction.
Show notes at www.slate.com/hangup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2015-02-171h 08
The Story ColliderDaniel Engber: Distracting Mark CubanDaniel Engber risks derailing his PhD by constant daydreaming, until his neuroscience research gives him a idea that will revolutionize the NBA. Daniel Engber is a columnist for Slate.com and Popular Science, and a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine. He has appeared on Radiolab, All Things Considered and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and received the National Academies of Science Communication Award in 2012 and the Sex-Positive Journalism Award in 2008. His work has been anthologized in The Best of Technology Writing and The Best of Slate. Learn more about your ad...2014-08-0118 min
Culture GabfestThe Culture Gabfest: Falling Off the Treadmill, Vomiting EditionSlate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner and columnist Daniel Engber discuss their favorite movies of 2012, NBC's "The Biggest Loser," and the decline of the shopping mall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2013-01-0945 min
Slate BooksAudio Book Club: Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with EinsteinIn this week’s audio book club, Slate’s Daniel Engber, David Plotz and Hanna Rosin discuss Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein, about his quest to compete in the U.S. Memory Championships, and what he learned about the human brain along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2011-04-2739 min
Culture GabfestSlate: The Culture Gabfest, Why All These Stupid Altruistic Urges? EditionIn this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Atlas Shrugged Part 1, the new film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s novel. They are then joined by Slate senior editor Daniel Engber to discuss Gary Taubes’ New York Times Magazine article “Is Sugar Toxic?” For their final segment, they are joined by historian and New York Times columnist Adam Goodheart to discuss his writing for The New York Times’ acclaimed Civil War blog Disunion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2011-04-2747 min
Culture GabfestSlate: The Culture Gabfest: Swarm of Humbugs EditionIn this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss director Tom Hooper’s film The King’s Speech and NBC sitcom Community. They’re joined by Slate’s Daniel Engber to discuss the state of peer review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2010-12-1543 min
Slate's Spoiler SpecialsSlate's Spoiler Specials: Terminator: SalvationSlate's Dana Stevens and Daniel Engber discuss Terminator: Salvation. WARNING: This podcast is meant to be heard AFTER you've seen the movie
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2009-05-2020 minSlate's Spoiler SpecialsSlate's Spoiler Specials: 10,000 BCDana Stevens and Daniel Engber discuss 10,000 BC. WARNING: This podcast is meant to be heard AFTER you've seen the show.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2008-03-0615 min