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The Gist

Are Bilinguals Really Smarter?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A century ago, bilingual children were seen as disadvantaged—a kid speaking English and Spanish was liable to become confused and might not learn properly. Now? Bilinguals are seen as better than the rest of us. They get dementia later. They have bigger brains and are better at focusing on tasks. So what's the truth? Our resident social science sleuth Maria Konnikova investigates. She's a New Yorker contributor and author of The Confidence Game. Her new podcast is The Grift.  In the Spiel, the news buried this week by the firing of James Comey.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.4

It's Friday, May 12, 2017 from Slate It's the GIST I'm Mike Pesca.

0:12.4

Today on the GIST in the Spiel are patented segments that ends the show.

0:17.2

I will talk about this week's news out of Washington

0:20.8

as if we hadn't been made to pay attention to the dismissal of an FBI director

0:26.2

who served at the pleasure of a man who suffers from an hedonia.

0:29.6

And we should not forget the important news of the week.

0:32.6

That is very important and to summarize it, it goes like this on Monday,

0:36.4

the president tweeted that he was sick of that Russia investigation on Tuesday.

0:40.4

He fired the man running the Russia investigation on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

0:44.8

His staff insisted this had nothing to do with the Russia investigation.

0:49.2

On Wednesday afternoon, he told NBC's Lester Holt, I was going to do it for a while.

0:53.8

You know, I'm really sick of the Russia investigation.

0:56.2

But there's the other stuff, the fine details that takes the melody

1:01.4

and really makes the orchestra sing the minor players who fill in the tone color.

1:07.4

Like, like how Nixon delivered his, I am not a crux beach from Disney World.

1:12.4

Did you remember that?

1:13.4

And maybe in a few years, we won't remember that during a scandal

1:17.0

with more Russian elements than the 1812 overture that Vladimir Putin was interviewed on CBS.

1:26.4

All suited up for an amateur hockey match.

1:29.2

President Vladimir Putin took the time to weigh in on Washington's latest scandal.

1:34.4

How will the firing of James Co. me affect US Russia relations?

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