Bushkin.

Why is Miami, Miami?

What does the heartbreaking fate of the Cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children?

Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports?

I'm Malcolm Gladwell. In my new audiobook, Revenge of the

tipping point, I'm returning to the subject of social epidemics and the dark side of contagious

phenomenon. Find revenge of the tipping point wherever you find audiobooks out now.

From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories

behind the stories in the news.

I'm Noah Feldman.

These days, it seems, we live and die by the model.

You can't turn on your phone or open the newspaper or watch

the television without being hit in the face by some sort of model or graph or chart that

purports to show you how fast the coronavirus is likely to spread, when it will peak, whether it will

plateau, how many people will die, you name it.

These graphs and charts and models are constantly changing, and sometimes they are in conflict

with one another.

So how should we be making sense of all of this?

Here to help is Carl Bergstrom.

He's a computational biologist at the University of Washington, who's got a deep background

both in epidemiology and in model building and in model analysis. He's also an expert on the spread

of misinformation. With his co-author, Jevin D. West, he's written a forthcoming book,

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