Nine out of 10 Germs Agree
We dig through Maria Konnikova’s purse for hand sanitizer. Will she come clean about its effectiveness?
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Today on The Gist, what does the looong campaign mean for 2016’s candidates? Annie Lowrey from New York magazine joins us for a reasonable amount of time. She’s part of a new Panoply podcast called Podcast for America, which debuts Tuesday on Soundcloud and iTunes.
Then, in another installment of “Is That Bulls--t?” Mike asks Maria Konnikova of the New Yorker if hand sanitizer is a reasonable use of purse space. Her new book The Confidence Game is now available for preorder.
For the Spiel, Mike explores the growing popularity of the breastaurant—and does it partly in rhyme.
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