The Gist

Unwrapping Holiday BS

Maria Konnikova joins us for our favorite reindeer game.

Advice as we steer through this holiday season.

Photo by Dustin Gaffke/Flickr

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On The Gist, Maria Konnikova of the New Yorker rounds up the holiday season’s most tedious myths for a game we call “Is That Bulls–t?” Her new book, The Confidence Game, is now available for preorder. For the Spiel, all the things we don’t know but tend to report in wake of another mass shooting.

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