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What's The Point — 111 episodes

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Sparks: Interview with David Baron

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Sparks: The Eclipse Of 1878

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WTP Best Of: DNA Evidence

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WTP Best Of: Adam Ruins Everything

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Sparks: Interview with Charles Ornstein

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Sparks: Conflicts of interest

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Sparks: Interview with Bob Holmes

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Sparks: Flavor Science

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WTP Best Of: Bear Mapping

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Sparks: Interview with Thomas Levenson

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Sparks: "The Hunt for Vulcan"

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WTP Best Of: Baseball

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Sparks: Interview with Elisabeth Rosenthal

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Sparks: "An American Sickness"

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WTP Best Of: Internet Tracking

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WTP Best Of: Your Certainty Bubble

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Sparks - Interview with Alondra Nelson

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Sparks - The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome

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WTP Best Of: Life In Yemen

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WTP Best Of: James Hamblin

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Sparks: Interview with the author of "The Unpersuadables"

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Sparks - The Unpersuadables

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The Amazing Postcards You Mailed Us

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Sparks (Part 2) Nate Silver and Michael Lewis

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Sparks - The Undoing Project

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.72 That Was The Point

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.71 How Adam Ruins Everything

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.70 Sparks (Pt 2) Kenji Lopez-Alt

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.69 Sparks: Let's Eat, With Science!

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.68 Sparks (Pt 2) Risk

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.67 Sparks: Risk

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.66 When The Algorithm Decides

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.65 Optimized Or Monetized?

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.64 Do You Feel Informed?

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.63 Sparks (Pt 2) Mental Health Stigma

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.62 Sparks: Politicians' Mental Health

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.61 Bear Tracks

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.60 Blythe Picks A Team

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.59 Your Browser's Fingerprint

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.58 Math Gold

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.57.2 Sparks (Part Two) -- Alice Dreger

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.57 Sparks: Galileo's Middle Finger

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.56 A History Of Political Data (Part 4 - Trump)

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Dog Show! [Repeat]

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.55 Two Aspen Ideas

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.54.7 Accidents, Guns, And Stats

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.54.6 A Guns Program The NRA Actually Likes

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.54.5 Mass Shootings

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.54.4 - Guns And Domestic Violence

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.54.3 - Men, Suicide, And Guns

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.54.2 - Stopping Gun Deaths In New Orleans

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.54.1 - A Week Of Conversations About Gun Deaths

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.53 Mapping Police Violence

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.52 A History Of Political Data (Part 3)

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.51 The $173,775 Data Set

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.50 How To Hate-Like

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.49 Hearing Philly

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.48 The Schmidt Sting Pain Index

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.47 Rivers Cuomo Has Spreadsheets (from Song Exploder)

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.46 Gut Week, Gut Strong

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.45 The Stompers Get Stats

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.44 An Unusual Pattern

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.43 Every Song Ever

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.42 Tagging Banksy

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.41 How To Change Minds

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.40 Mahler By The Numbers

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.39 Let's Move To The Country

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.38 Wall St. vs. Internet

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.37 52 Postcards

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.36 Yemen Calling

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.35 The Academy

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.34 Who's A Good Dog

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.33 A Privacy Mea Culpa

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.32 Big-Time Sports

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.31 Don't Drink The Water

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.30 A History Of Political Data (Part Two)

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.29 A History Of Political Data (Part One)

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BONUS: Elections Pilot (Iowa!)

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.28 Algorithmic Arugula

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BONUS: Election Podcast Pilot

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.27 The 2015 Data Awards (Part 2)

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BONUS: Election Podcast Pilot

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.26 The 2015 Data Awards (Part 1)

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.25 The Dark Side Of Forensic DNA

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.24 Building Pixar's Landscapes

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.23 A WTP Compendium

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.22 God, In One Chart

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.21 Rejoice! The Canadian Longform Census Is Back

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.20 Fighting Outbreaks With New Tech (And Paper)

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.19 Why The Bronx Burned

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.18 That's Just, Like, Your Opinion, Man

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.17 Little Bird, Big Data

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.16 The $2000/Month Chat Service

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BONUS: Nate, Harry and Micah Talk Election 2016

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.15 Cloud Self vs. Physical Self

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.14 Everyone Is Your Cousin

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.13 Moneyball For Movies (w/ Andy Greenwald)

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.12 Your Boss Is Watching

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.11 Make It Viral

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.10 Science Is Hard

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.09 Our Military Is Drowning In Data

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.08 A Year Since Ferguson

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.07 Pre-crime

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BONUS: Totally Subjective 2016 Odds (Early August)

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.06 Behind The Browser

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.05 How Numbers Drive The Book Industry

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.04 Doctors And Data

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.03 Dear Mona, How Many People Regret Their Tattoos?

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.02 Solving Our Most Vexing Transportation Problems (With Data)

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.01 Neil deGrasse Tyson - "Are you wired for doubt?"

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.00 Welcome - Nate Silver Helps Introduce What's The Point