Episode 14: Slingshot

Steve and Alesh talk about the Susan G. Komen fiasco, fact-checking at the New York Times, the pros and cons of gun ownership, elections futures markets, and Frank Ghery.

Episode links:

• After Outcry, A Top Official Resigns At Komen Cancer Charity
• The Guardian: By defunding Planned Parenthood, the Susan G Komen Foundation betrays women
• He-said-she-said journalism at NPR
• Should the NY Times be a truth vigilante?
• PolitiFact
• Should we put truthtelling back at number one?
• Sock fashion in Silicon Valley
• Twitter: NYTimes is on it
• Politics of political prediction markets
• InTrade
• Apple stock over the last 5 years
• New World Center
• Frank Gehry’s National Eisenhower Memorial
• Eisenhower Memorial Controversy
• Ted Talks: Frank Gehry interview

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