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The Gist

The Pursuit of Happiness Studies

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Can gathering happiness data help countries evaluate the success of public policies? For our regular segment "Is This Bulls--t," we examine the value of happiness studies with Maria Konnikova of The New Yorker. Also, Arab studies professor Justin Stearns explains how the Muslim world interprets extremist calls for a return to the caliphate. For the Spiel, Mike remembers Robin Williams in light of our recent report on comedy and mental health. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.2

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:47.4

It's Tuesday, August 12, 2014. From slated to the GIST I'm Mike Pasca. So Toledo has its

0:56.6

drinking water back. Yay, except for the guy with the exclusive Poland Springs Distribution

1:01.4

Contract. Guess my kid's are going to a state school.

1:04.9

Well anything stop this from happening again. Unpotable water. Well there's been lots of

1:10.7

reports about phosphorus runoff. Phosphorus runoff leads to algae bloom that kills the oxygen

1:16.8

at ruins water. This has been written up again and again and again and the attitude so

1:21.2

far has been, eh, have a yuhu. But there was a quote the other day from this, this was

1:27.0

Donald Malin, the Toledo Commissioner of Public Utilities and he talks about how they're

1:31.1

all these reports and everyone saying, you know, you're going to ruin the water and

1:34.0

then as we saw a couple days ago, no water for Toledo and Donald Malin said, we bring this

1:38.6

subject up for conversation with the regulators. Everyone sort of walks out of the room. The

1:43.2

whole drinking water community has been raising these issues and so far we haven't seen

1:47.8

a viable response and I stopped there and I said, the drinking water community, that's

1:52.8

such a close knit tribe. It's a distinctive band of brothers. Isn't the drinking water

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