Listen to Episode 947 of Slate’s The Gist:
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On The Gist, is it OK to ape a Russian accent when saying Russian names?
And we revisit an interview with filmmaker Bryan Fogel, whose documentary, Icarus, recently won an Academy Award.
In the Spiel, a short conversation with author Steven Pinker about the state of academia. Is it really doing that badly?
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