Category: podcast
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778 Debby Applegate: Polly Adler, the queen of prostitution in New York City in the 1920s
in podcastAbout Debby Applegate Debby Applegate is a historian and biographer. Her first book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2007 and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. Her book was…
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477 Ronald Gruner: How American presidents, over the last 100 years, have shaped today’s economy
in podcastAbout Ronald Gruner Ronald Gruner founded, served as chief executive, and sold three successful technology firms during his long career: Alliant Computer in 1982, Shareholder. com in 1993 and Sky Analytics in 2009. Each of Gruner’s firms was a pioneer and leader in its industry: Alliant in parallel processing, Shareholder.com in investor relations, and Sky…
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476 Laurence Kotlikoff: Simple money magic tricks that will transform your financial future.
in podcastAbout Laurence Kotlikoff Laurence Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, President of Economic Security Planning, Inc., and Director of the Fiscal Analysis Center. Professor Kotlikoff has written 19 books…
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475 Paco Underhill: How our food is in the midst of a transformation
in podcastAbout Paco Underhill Paco founded Envirosell Inc. in 1986 as a testing agency for prototype stores. A consulting firm that does research, Envirosell has worked in 50 countries and with more than one-third of the Fortune 100 list. While prototype testing of stores, restaurants and bank branches is still 30% of its business, Envirosell’s largest…
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474 Wendy Syfret: The meaning behind a meaningless life
in podcastAbout Wendy Syfret Wendy Syfret is an award-winning Melbourne-based writer and editor. She’s the author of The Sunny Nihilist: How a Meaningless Life Can Make You Truly Happy and How to Think Like an Activist. Formerly, she served as the Managing editor of VICE Asia. Before taking on that role she was the Head of…
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473 Andy Norman: How to be immune from all the bad ideas
in podcastAbout Andy Norman Andy Norman is an award-winning author and public philosopher. He’s done research on the evolutionary origins of human reasoning and the norms that make dialogue fruitful. He writes for national magazines like Free Inquiry, Skeptic, and The Humanist, and works to clarify the foundations of responsible thinking about what matters. He likes…