Slate Money - The Doomed Youth Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today on Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss:
America’s growing lead poisoning problem The actual effectiveness of China’s educational system How some of the Pulse nightclub victim’s families are suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for their roles in spreading ISIS propaganda
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Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann
Production by Zachary Dinerstein
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello! |
| 0:10.7 | And welcome to the doomed youth edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance |
| 0:18.4 | News of the Week. |
| 0:19.9 | I am Felix Herman of Fusion. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm here to wish you a very Merry Christmas, |
| 0:25.7 | because it's Christmas time, |
| 0:26.8 | with Kathy O'Neill, the author of Weapons of Math Destruction. |
| 0:30.5 | And Happy Hanukkah. Hello, everyone. |
| 0:32.2 | And Hanukkah Time. |
| 0:33.1 | And Jordan Weissman, the Monday Box columnist at Slate. |
| 0:37.1 | And it's best of us for the rest of us. |
| 0:39.3 | And we are going to do a very unholiday. |
| 0:44.8 | There's nothing holiday themed about this episode of Slate Money. |
| 0:47.3 | It's a perfectly normal episode of Slate Money. |
| 0:49.8 | For the festivities, you're going to have to wait until next week and the Kraft Beer |
| 0:55.3 | Edition. This week, we're going to be talking about the Chinese educational system, what we |
| 1:02.6 | know about it and what they're up to. We're going to be talking about whether Google and |
| 1:08.8 | Facebook and Twitter have any role to play in in mass shootings, |
| 1:14.1 | I'm going to be talking about lead poisoning. |
| 1:17.0 | You know, it's going to be one of those kind of episodes. |
| 1:20.7 | Far from uplifting. |
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