Learning Little From the Near-Death Experience

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Pop-up ads keep telling Mike to test his food sensitivity. Is that bulls--t? Today on The Gist, we ask Maria Konnikova of The New Yorker about the differences between food allergies and intolerance. Plus, Meghan Daum discusses the craft of essay writing, and the near-death experience that taught her nothing. She's the author of The Unspeakable. For the Spiel, the importance of the galvanizing anecdote in the University of Virginia rape case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I raise for life for my best friend who we lost to soon.
0:04.0	I raise for life for my mom who was diagnosed with bowel cancer.
0:08.0	I raise for life for my dad who's living with prostate cancer.
0:12.0	I raise for life for everyone who's in cancer.
0:17.0	Who will you, Raceful?
0:19.0	Sign up to your local event at raceforlife.org
0:23.0	And together we will be cancer.
0:27.0	Impartnership with Headline Sponsors Standard Life.
0:32.0	It's Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 from Slate.
0:36.0	It's the GIST I'm Mike Pasca.
0:38.0	I will now play a bit of audio. It is in Norwegian.
0:40.0	But I can translate the video that you're about to hear.
0:42.0	It's of a Norwegian fighter jet and outside the pilot's window,
0:46.0	he sees a Russian MIG and he says this.
0:50.0	Translation.
0:52.0	What the hell?
0:54.0	This was just disclosed that a Russian foxhound jet and the SU-34
0:59.0	fullback, a top of the line Russian fighter jet,
1:02.0	came quite close to a Norwegian Air Force fighter.
1:06.0	And my thought was the Norwegian Air Force has fighter jets,
1:10.0	but yeah, of course they do. They have 57 F-16s.
1:14.0	They participate in patrolling the skies. They're a NATO ally.
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