The Best of Slate Podcasts
Only have time for one podcast this week? Make it this one.
In this edition of our members-only podcast digest, listen to the best segments of the week:
- Slate Money on algorithms and how big data can fail us (begins at 00:00:30);
- Hang Up and Listen on the Hall of Fame career of Slate’s favorite basketball player, with special guest Annie Beaty, the widow of Zelmo Beaty (00:24:10);
- The Culture Gabfest on a replication crisis in science and why you might not be able to smile your way to happiness, with special guest Daniel Engber (00:43:15);
- And the Political Gabfest on what to make of encouraging news about the economy and rising incomes, with special guest Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus (01:05:00).