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.54.2 - Stopping Gun Deaths In New Orleans Jul 14, 2016

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Our series - a mini-interview every day for a week - on the guns project continues with reporter Ben Casselman. See the full project fivethirtyeight.com/gundeaths

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.54.1 - A Week Of Conversations About Gun Deaths Jul 13, 2016

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Every day for a week, we'll discuss the new FiveThirtyEight project on gun deaths in America. Today, editor Simone Landon frames the issue. www.fivethirtyeight.com/gun-deaths

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.53 Mapping Police Violence Jul 07, 2016

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A rerun of a conversation with Samuel Sinyangwe describing why data on police shootings is so murky. Samuel runs mappingpoliceviolence.org and checkthepolice.org

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.52 A History Of Political Data (Part 3) Jun 30, 2016

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Daniel Kreiss of UNC is back to discuss what we've learned from the 2016 primaries. fivethirtyeight.com/podcasts

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.51 The $173,775 Data Set Jun 23, 2016

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David Yanofsky is suing the U.S. government for immigration data after they wanted to charge him $173,775 for it. fivethirtyeight.com/podcasts

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.50 How To Hate-Like Jun 16, 2016

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Tom Vanderbilt is accounting for taste. More at fivethirtyeight.com/podcasts

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.49 Hearing Philly Jun 10, 2016

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A new project is testing different polling techniques to get input from Philadelphians about their civic lives. fivethirtyeight.com/podcasts

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.48 The Schmidt Sting Pain Index Jun 02, 2016

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Entomologist Justin Schmidt is developing a way to measure painful insect stings - by stinging himself with as many creatures as possible.

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.47 Rivers Cuomo Has Spreadsheets (from Song Exploder) May 26, 2016

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Song Exploder talks with Rivers Cuomo of Weezer about his very nerdy songwriting style. Plus, we're collecting your playlists at DefeatedJoy.com

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.46 Gut Week, Gut Strong May 19, 2016

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It's Gut Week at FiveThirtyEight. Chad Matlin, filling in for Jody (who's on jury duty) discusses the world of pro- and psycho-biotics. fivethirtyeight.com/podcasts

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