Is "Don't Be Evil" More Than a Slogan?

The Gist

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🗓️ 13 January 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Today on The Gist, Michael Levi from the Council on Foreign Relations helps us find the right analogy for describing the impact and scale of the Keystone XL pipeline. Plus, when Silicon Valley profits, who is losing? Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen joins us to discuss The Internet Is Not the Answer (and Pesca offers the one scenario in which the Internet is always the answer). For the Spiel, things we can't actually believe are going on in the world. Today's sponsor: Friday Night Tykes. The new season premieres Jan. 20 at 9/8c on Esquire Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.8	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:49.2	It's Tuesday January 13th, 2015 from Slate It's Digestime, Mike Pasca. We go now to the Charleston
0:58.9	Gazette at the request of a West Virginia Board of Education member who said he doesn't believe
1:03.6	human-influenced climate change is a quote foregone conclusion. New state science standards
1:10.0	on the topic were altered. The board member, whose name is Wade Linger, added the words
1:16.2	and fall to the part of the standards which asked sixth graders to explain the rise of global
1:22.4	temperatures over the last century. Get it? The rise and fall of global temperatures. Wade Linger
1:29.3	said that asking them to explain the rise quote presupposes that global temperatures have risen
1:35.7	over the past century. And of course there's debate about that. Only thing is there's no debate
1:39.8	about that. According to NASA's Gdard Institute for Space Studies, they have a surface temperature
1:45.3	analysis. They say 97% of scientists agree with the conclusion that humans have caused rising
1:52.0	temperatures over the last century. NASA also has a very useful web page, climate.nasa.gov.
1:58.8	It lays it all out. But Wade Linger does not care. I was compelled by Wade Linger. Could be the name
2:04.8	Wade to move through something slowly. Linger to stay in something for a while. So it seems like
2:09.9	Wade Linger might be a man who proceeds carefully. But then the New York Times had a story on Wade Linger
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