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Cryptocurrencies and the Future of Money 08.03.2022 58:03

Podcast : Teneo Insights Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Cryptocurrencies and the Future of Money Pub date : 2022-02-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Crypto and digital currencies are rapidly changing the nature of money itself and continue to be a disruptive threat to the global financial system. As businesses...

Chris Bail on How To Make Social Media Platforms Less Polarizing 01.03.2022 30:54

Podcast : A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Chris Bail on How To Make Social Media Platforms Less Polarizing Pub date : 2022-02-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Chris Bail is Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Data Science at Duke University, where he directs the Polarization Lab. A leader...

Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, "The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World" (MIT Press, 2021) 01.03.2022 52:21

Podcast : New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, "The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World" (MIT Press, 2021) Pub date : 2022-02-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a m...

2778 - "E-Carceration" Trapping Prisoners w/ James Kilgore 01.03.2022 1:05:44

Podcast : The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : 2778 - "E-Carceration" Trapping Prisoners w/ James Kilgore Pub date : 2022-02-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Emma hosts James Kilgore , Research Scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois, to discuss his recent...

The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons 22.02.2022 58:43

Podcast : The Anti-Dystopians (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons Pub date : 2022-02-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Alina Utrata talks to Dr Siân Brooke, a Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics a...

El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment 22.02.2022 26:42

Podcast : Nothing is Foreign (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment Pub date : 2022-02-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Can a nation — and economy — of 6.5 million people run on bitcoin? That's the real-time experiment playing out in El Salvador, where the country's tech bro president has made t...