The most undercovered policy stories of 2017
Explain It to Me
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This time of year, many people want to give back, but it can be overwhelming to choose where to donate. |
| 0:04.3 | There's thousands of options. |
| 0:05.6 | Give Well is a resource for donors like you. |
| 0:07.8 | Give Well does in-depth research to identify very short lists of exceptional charities |
| 0:12.0 | that help you do the most good for your donation. |
| 0:14.4 | All the details of their research are available for free online. |
| 0:17.5 | Visit www.givewell.org to make your charitable donation go further. |
| 0:23.9 | In the French Revolution, they replaced the calendar with, |
| 0:28.8 | it was like 12 months that were each composed of three, ten day weeks, |
| 0:33.5 | and then there was a five-day year-end festival. |
| 0:36.2 | But they got rid of it. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah, Napoleon. |
| 0:39.2 | Fucking guy. |
| 0:40.3 | Didn't work out. |
| 0:41.0 | We're back our shambles of the calendar. |
| 0:42.9 | Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm Matthew Glacias. |
| 1:01.5 | This is Friday, but we are doing it more like a Tuesday. |
| 1:05.4 | We got Sarah Cliff here. |
| 1:06.8 | Hi. |
| 1:07.3 | Back from the antipodes. |
| 1:10.6 | Really? |
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