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#775: The Pigweed Killer

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#775: The Pigweed Killer

A battle with a weed divides neighbors and leads one farmer to shoot another dead. Today's show: The hunt for a better pesticide gets way out of hand.

#775: The Pigweed Killer

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#599: The Invisible Wall
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#599: The Invisible Wall

A man goes looking for the invisible wall that traps poor people in poverty. Finding it almost gets him killed.

#599: The Invisible Wall

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#774: Unspeakable Trademark

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#774: Unspeakable Trademark

You can name your business whatever you want. But the government won't register it as a trademark if it thinks it's offensive. It gets weird when you try to decide what is too offensive to trademark.

#774: Unspeakable Trademark

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#773: Slot Flaws Scofflaws

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#773: Slot Flaws Scofflaws

As long as there have been casinos, people have tried to cheat them. The latest attempt was by a group of hackers who tried to take down slot machines using math, iPhones, and a whole lot of swiping.

#773: Slot Flaws Scofflaws

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#772: Small Change

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#772: Small Change

How fast is the world really changing? The answer has implications for everything from how the next generation will live to whether robots really will take all our jobs.

#772: Small Change

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#606: Spreadsheets!
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#606: Spreadsheets!

The creation of the electronic spreadsheet transformed industries. But its effects ran deeper than that.

#606: Spreadsheets!

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#771: When India's Cash Disappeared, Part Two
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#771: When India's Cash Disappeared, Part Two

What happened when India's Prime Minister declared most of the paper money in India worthless? We travel to India to see what happened after the country's demonetization.

#771: When India's Cash Disappeared, Part Two

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#770: When India's Cash Disappeared, Part One

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#770: When India's Cash Disappeared, Part One

Something incredible happened in India about six months ago. The government declared most of the paper money invalid. Demonetization they called it. Today, we meet the man who came up with the plan.

#770: When India's Cash Disappeared, Part One

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#769: Speed Dating For Economists

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#769: Speed Dating For Economists

We visit a job market created by economists, for economists. It's a hyper-efficient, optimized system, tested by game theorists, tweaked by a Nobel Prize winner, but it requires comfortable shoes.

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#768: A Chat With Ben Bernanke

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#768: A Chat With Ben Bernanke

Ten years ago, two little-known funds at Bear Stearns blew up, and the financial crisis was on its way. Today, we ask the person at the center of it all, former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, why it happened.

#768: A Chat With Ben Bernanke

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