Technology writer Brian Merchant joins us to talk about the surprising and shadowy world of crowd-sourced contract killers.
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A Full Inventory Of Our 44th Presidency
We’ll spend this hour with David Bromwich, whose essay in the June issue of Harper’s is “What Went Wrong: Assessing Obama’s Legacy.”
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Investigating Our Ancestors
We’ll talk to the writer and director this hour about how his hometown of Baltimore has influenced his work and about his new book, Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America.With sites like ancestry.com and the digitization of public records, tracing our family trees has become easier than ever. We’ll talk this hour about why we’re so interested in discovering our roots with Maud Newton, who writes about the subject in the June issue of Harper’s.
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The Sense Of Smell
Just how powerful can our perception of odor be – strong enough to train troops, fool consumers or even control unruly crowds?
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Undercover in a Slaughterhouse
How are livestock treated in slaughterhouses and how reliable is food inspection in the United States?
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The Battle against IEDs
Just how deadly have Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) become and what is being done to combat them?
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