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Episode 9 (1:17)

Charlottesville and Racism

• • Don’t conflate two issues
  • Racism is indefensible
  • Has this caused us to talk about “how we talk about racism”?

Gut Fauna and Hookworm (starts: 24:13)

• • Extinctions in our gut fauna.
    • On NPR
  • Hookworm your allergies away!
    • Helminthic therapy (what?)
    • Radiolab piece here
    • Buy your own!  Please don’t.
    • BONUS: Hookworming is not just a first-world problem (NPR)
  • Sometimes, there’s not enough toilets.
  • We cure nothing. Not even Peter Thiel‘s herpes.

Facebook is evil (starts: 50:20)

• • Not-so-hidden power of Facebook and Google
  • Hidden viewpoint “bubbles” and confirmation-bias
  • You are the product
  • BONUS: Facebook is reluctant to reveal anything about the Russian Pro-Trump Ad Spend (DB)
  • BONUS 2: Russia’s $100,000 ad spend could have reached up to 100 million Americans (BI)