I spend a lot of time thinking about my cat, but almost no time thinking about what happens to his poop after I throw it in the garbage. On this fourth episode of OK… So What Now? I follow the poop around (metaphorically) and speak with experts about the effects of what goes in my cat, and what goes out my cat.
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Newspapers used to have complete control of all the speech associated with their product. But on the internet, we expect to post anything we want, whenever we want, totally anonymously. On this third episode of OK… So What Now? what it’s like to read anonymous comments all day and what it’s like to write them, who watches over all those comments, and who watches over that guy.
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Think about every dollar you’ve given away – to a person begging on the street, to a cause you see advertised on television – how much good did that money do? How much did you think about your decision? On this second episode of OK… So What Now? three perspectives on generosity and the choices we make.
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Public opinion is an easy thing to quote, but is it an easy thing to measure? In this first episode of OK… So What Now? two conversations on what other people think, and why you should care. First, Jocelyn Kiley of the Pew Research Center on measuring the “public” in public opinion. Second, a conversation about extremism with Laird Wilcox, author and curator of one of the largest collections of extremist literature in the world.
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