Intelligence Squared is the home of lively debate and deep-dive discussion. Follow Intelligence Squared wherever you get your podcasts and enjoy four regular episodes per week taking you to the heart of the issues that matter in the company of the world’s great minds. We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be. Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to [email protected] or ...
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Welcome to Arts & Culture by Intelligence Squared. Here we delve into the artistic and cultural moments, movements and conversations that have shaped, and are still shaping, our world. In this podcast Intelligence Squared speaks to some of the world’s greatest orators, writers, actors and artists. Guests include Stephen Fry, Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo, Salman Rushdie, Kate Winslet, Simon Schama, Tom Hiddleston and Marina Abromović. Join us every week as we feature the best of cultu ...
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Sotheby’s is the temporary custodian of some of the world’s most rare, remarkable and coveted art and objects. Our global specialists are connoisseurs and market experts in 40 countries and 70 collecting categories. They will be your guides, exploring the significance and journey of an extraordinary work with those who know it best. Your weekly dose of wonder is available now. To step further into the world of Sotheby’s, you can visit any of our galleries around the world; they’re open to th ...
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The Call by the Global Intelligence Desk
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Hosted by Jay Sapsford, The Call delivers timely and incisive analysis to help businesses navigate risks and opportunities.
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Comprehensive, relevant and insightful conversations about health and medicine happen here… on MedStar Health Doc Talk. Join us for real conversations with physician experts from around the largest healthcare system in the Maryland-DC region.
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Beyond the world we can see is a mysterious world.
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America is more divided than ever—but it doesn’t have to be. Open to Debate offers an antidote to the chaos. We bring multiple perspectives together for real, nonpartisan debates. Debates that are structured, respectful, clever, provocative, and driven by the facts. Open to Debate is on a mission to restore balance to the public square through expert moderation, good-faith arguments, and reasoned analysis. We examine the issues of the day with the world’s most influential thinkers spanning s ...
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AI Research Today unpacks the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, one paper at a time. We go beyond abstracts and headlines, walking through architectures, experiments, training details, ablations, failure modes, and the implications for future work. Each episode will choose between one and three new, impactful research papers and go through them in depth. We will discuss the papers at the level of an industry practitioner or AI researcher. If you want to understand the newest to ...
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Lady Logic in a World of Loud Men is a sharp, funny, and painfully relatable dispatch from the front lines of common sense. Each episode cuts through ego fueled noise with wit, clarity, and a touch of eye rolling elegance as Sable calmly explains the obvious while the men around her confidently explain the wrong thing at full volume. This is logic wearing lipstick, intelligence with a grin, and reality served with playful precision.
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Two professors of writing and design share strategies for effectively and ethically implementing generative AI into teaching and learning. We answer listener questions. We talk to students, faculty, and whoever else comes to the table.
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The Future. It’s all there, in front of us. It could go wonderfully. Or it could go badly wrong. It will inevitably require our passions and our ingenuity. So how do we see the challenges early on, find solutions and help make the world a better place? For ourselves, for our families, for everyone. Welcome to the Futureverse, brought to you by Intelligence Squared and Y TREE.
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America feels divided. From the most salient questions about our national identity and place in the world, to fundamental concerns about technology, religion, the economy, and public policy, Intelligence Squared U.S. is here to help. A respite from polarized discussions, we bring together the smartest minds to debate and dissect issues in depth, restoring civility and bringing intelligence to the public square in the process.
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VS is a light-hearted podcast about the little debates that are always a big deal to someone. Arsenal VS Spurs. McDonald’s VS KFC. Twitter VS TikTok. 80s VS 90s. And many more. Our host Coco Khan invites experts and fans to go head-to-head on the timeless debates that form the lifeblood of friendships. Who wins? You decide with our weekly vote. VS is an Intelligence Squared production. Tune in to new episodes every Friday.
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Jump down new rabbit holes with Timesuck, the weekly podcast that takes you on a fascinating and bizarre journey through history’s darkest corners, most shocking conspiracies, and wildest true stories. Hosted by acclaimed standup comedian and storyteller Dan Cummins, each episode blends dark humor with deep research to uncover hidden truths about infamous historical figures, unsolved mysteries, notorious serial killers, and more. If you crave the weird, the wild, and the unexpected, Timesuck ...
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Breaking down the economic ideas we’ve all heard of but may not fully understand in under 15 minutes. Host Nicola Walton is joined by an economics expert each week to take us through the terminology, statistics and stories of how economic forces shape our world and lives. Brought to you by Intelligence Squared.
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My name is Mary Rutt. I'm a podcaster. I'm also a big fan of mental health, and I'm interested to find out if artificial intelligence makes a good therapist. In this show, I'm wondering...can IA therapy help me become a better person? Is it smart to seek advice from a bot or a cloud or whatever? Let's find out!
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Chris Hirst, CEO of Havas advertising group, cuts through the bullsh*t and gets to the heart of modern leadership. In this straight talking podcast he interviews leaders from Clive Woodward to June Sarpong on how to inspire, how to keep going when sh*t hits the fan, and ultimately how to get stuff done. Brought to you by Intelligence Squared.
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A Members Exclusive Limited Series from Intelligence Squared. Head to www.intelligencesquared.com/membership to become a member today and listen whenever you get your podcasts. In recent months it can feel like Saudi Arabia is intent on buying the world. Its Public Investment Fund (PIF) has bought up much of golf, sports teams, many of the globe’s best soccer players to its domestic league, and it owns huge chunks of many of the most famous companies on the planet. But Saudi Arabia is not ju ...
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What is your Working Genius? The Working Genius podcast is designed to help people identify their natural gifts and find joy and fulfillment in their work and life. Leadership and teamwork expert Patrick Lencioni and his team explore the Working Genius model and provide practical advice for applying this framework individually, at our jobs and in our homes. What type of work makes you thrive? Are you burning out because your job requires you to work in your areas of frustration? How can team ...
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This podcast is designed to celebrate all that is good in Public Education around Western New York. We will be featuring programs and innovative ideas that inspire and influence our students, faculty, staff and community in new and exciting ways.
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Join Alannah Weston, Chairman of Selfridges Group, for the third series of How to Lead a Sustainable Business. In this series, Alannah continues her mission to discover how businesses can innovate and transform to put sustainability at their core. The latest IPCC report demonstrates what we all know - there is no time left for incremental progress. This series is all about systems change. What are the big, bold ways we can reimagine our industries? Each week, Alannah speaks to the business p ...
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Questions For Corbett is a regular podcast series from CorbettReport.com. Send your question in via CorbettReport.com and have James Corbett answer them live on the air. Questions are encouraged on all Corbett Report topics, from 9/11 truth to central banking, police state issues to geopolitics, history, science, or anything else.
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City Cast Las Vegas is an an award-winning daily podcast and newsletter created by and for locals (and locals-at-heart) that’ll challenge the easy narratives about our city … and, okay, maybe confirm a few of them, too. Join us every weekday morning for the messy, delightful, complicated conversations that Las Vegans are having: You’ll hear us ask hard questions about where we’ll get our water when Lake Mead runs out, and how we’ll keep housing affordable. We’ll argue over our favorite China ...
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Home of The Art of Lightness & The Lightness Practice — for Soulpreneurs and the ever-becoming. Welcome to Hello Soul: The Virginia Scheuer Show — This is the home of The Art of Lightness and The Lightness Practice, Virginia's signature method for rising out of the heaviness of trauma, hustle, and overwhelm, and into the light of your true self. Each episode guides you through the four sacred steps of the Lightness Practice: Feel what is Find your lightness Focus on what matters Flow into yo ...
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BORN TO BLOG If you don't have time to read my blogs you can always listen to it as a podcast. You should never hesitate to gain some free, researched knowledge.
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Each week, Jane Wakefield sits down with some of the key movers and shakers from the UK tech ecosystem for the UKTN Podcast. Learn growth strategies from both seasoned and up-and-coming founders, hear market sentiments from investors, and understand the tech policy affecting businesses across the country. The UKTN Podcast provides insight into the most influential people in the UK’s innovation economy, exploring their personal and professional journeys and hearing their views on the hottest ...
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Conversations with politicians, public figures, thinkers and commentators about taking American democracy back from the algorithms and social media platforms that are swallowing us whole.
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In this podcast, we'll visit 200 Wonders of the World, from the Pyramids to the Great Barrier Reef, to tell the story of our people, our civilization, and our planet. My name is Caroline Vahrenkamp, and I'm a travel junkie. The world is filled with amazing places that reflect the greatest achievements of human accomplishment. In these uncertain times, understanding our great shared history may help to bridge the divides between us. And if not, it will be a fun ride anyway! We'll discuss the ...
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How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming our Relationships? With James Muldoon
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It is over ten years since the release of Spike Jonze’s film Her, in which a lonely man begins a relationship with a computer programme voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Since then, AI companions have surged in popularity. A new generation is now growing up with large language models and the chatbots they power, with AI entities playing the role of fri…
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The Specialist | Oprah and Agnes Gund: Art for the Next Generation, with Charlotte Van Dercook
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This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, we acknowledge with great respect the recent passing of the visionary philanthropist, Agnes Gund. Her extraordinary patronage – from her l…
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Dr. Jared T. Bloom - Embedding Artificial Intelligence within the Franklin Square UFSD
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Joining the podcast is Dr. Jared T. Bloom, superintendent of the Franklin Square UFSD. In this episode, Jared shares his professional journey as an early adopter of technology, and all of its benefits personnaly and professionally. Jared also shares how his district has been moving forward with specific AI tools for students, teachers, admi.nistrat…
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Oprah and Agnes Gund: Art for the Next Generation, with Charlotte Van Dercook
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On today’s episode, we acknowledge with great respect the recent passing of the visionary philanthropist, Agnes Gund. Her extraordinary patronage – from her leadership at MoMA to her unwavering support of contemporary artists – forms one of the defining legacies in the art world today. Charlotte Van Dercook, Sotheby’s Head of Marquee Private Sales,…
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How Worried Should Las Vegans Be About Artificial Intelligence?
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At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, AI was the acronym on everyone's lips. From AI agents to smart toilets, it seems like there's no corner untapped by artificial intelligence. Host Sonja Cho Swanson is joined by tech commentator and podcaster Ed Zitron and newsletter editor Rob Kachelriess to discuss what they saw at CES this year. Plus, the…
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Would like like to share feedback on this podcast? Or suggest another topic for us to explore? Click here, or email us at [email protected] For more episodes of MedStar Health DocTalk, go to medstarhealth.org/doctalk.By Debra Schindler and MedStar Health physicians
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How can you use the Working Genius framework to reframe your traditional New Year’s resolutions so that they don’t lead to frustration or shame? In episode 104 of the Working Genius Podcast, Patrick Lencioni and Cody Thompson introduce the idea of a “New Year’s evolution” instead of a New Year’s resolution. They explain why resolutions built on sha…
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Lady Logic: When Power Breaks the Rules and Calls It Justice
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Today’s headlines aren’t isolated. They’re connected by one pattern: secrecy replacing transparency, force replacing law, and religion used as cover for power. From Venezuela to sealed records to constitutional outrage, this episode strips the spin and asks the only question that matters: do the rules apply upward, or only downward. Logic, not comf…
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Breast Neurotization with Resensation after Mastectomy
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Would like like to share feedback on this podcast? Or suggest another topic for us to explore? Click here, or email us at [email protected] In this episode in the MedStar Health DocTalk series, host Debra Schindler talks with Dr. Meghan Milburn, FACS, director of the Breast Center at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, about an important and …
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489 - Taken from Her Bed: The Elizabeth Smart Abduction
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In the middle of the night, a man with a messiah complex and a god-sized ego walked into a suburban Utah bedroom and stole a fourteen-year-old girl from her family. What followed was a nine-month nightmare of psychological torture, cult-style control, and one of the most chilling cases of child abduction in modern American history. This is the true…
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Meta-RL Induces Exploration In Language Agents
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Send us a text Episode Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.16848 In this episode, we dive into a cutting-edge AI research breakthrough that tackles one of the biggest challenges in training intelligent agents: how to explore effectively. Standard reinforcement learning (RL) methods help language model agents learn to interact with environments and so…
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What Made Harry Reid So Powerful (And So Divisive)?
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Will there ever be another Nevadan as powerful as Harry Reid? In his new biography of the late senator, Nevada Independent CEO Jon Ralston dissects Reid's legacy in Las Vegas, his ruthlessness, and why rural Nevadans hated him so much. Plus, host Dayvid Figler asks about some of the stories that ended up on the cutting room floor. "The Game Changer…
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Julia Ioffe and Clarissa Ward on Putin, Russia and the Women Fighting For A Better Future (Part Two)
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Russian-born journalist Julia Ioffe is one of America’s most influential voices on Russia-US relations, reporting on Putin’s regime for over 15 years. Her new book, Motherland – which has been longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Non-Fiction – tells the stories of the many women who have shaped modern Russia, from feminist revolutionarie…
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Julia Ioffe and Clarissa Ward on Putin, Russia and the Women Fighting For A Better Future (Part One)
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Russian-born journalist Julia Ioffe is one of America’s most influential voices on Russia-US relations, reporting on Putin’s regime for over 15 years. Her new book, Motherland – which has been longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Non-Fiction – tells the stories of the many women who have shaped modern Russia, from feminist revolutionarie…
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The Minneapolis ICE Shooting — What Really Happened and Why It Matters
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On January 7, 2026, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent during a federal immigration operation in south Minneapolis. Good, a U.S. citizen, mother of three, poet, and community member, was in her vehicle when officers ordered her to exit. Video and eyewitness accounts show conflicting actions during the encounter, and auth…
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Short Suck #49: The Milk Wars: When People Died for Dairy
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In this week's Short Suck, we head back to the 1930s, when milk wasn’t just one of many beverages - it was survival, income, and power. As the Great Depression crushed farmers, workers, and cities alike, a perishable staple sparked riots, bombings, deadly shootings, and even Mafia involvement across the Midwest. This is the forgotten history of the…
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Time to Demolish New Orleans Square? Plus, Tesla Shuttles to the Airport and a New Vegas Museum
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The first Friday News Roundup of the year takes stock of what’s already shaping 2026 in Las Vegas, from the uncertain future of New Orleans Square in the Historic Commercial Center to what preservation could cost the city. Host Sonja Cho Swanson is joined by Nevada Current reporter Michael MJ Lyle and executive producer Layla Muhammad to unpack a n…
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Are Ouija boards really paranormal? Does God know what time it is? And is dark matter real — or is gravity wrong? Continuing his Christmas tradition of spending the holiday with those spending it alone, Jimmy Akin tackles these and many more questions posed by listeners with reason, faith, and curiosity. The post Alone Together for Christmas 2025 a…
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Millions of people have credited Alcoholics Anonymous with helping them stay sober from alcohol, but is it the best path for everyone? Those who say “yes” argue it is easily accessible to all and that its structure through the 12-step program helps people succeed. Those who say “no” argue say the abstinence model doesn’t work for everyone and there…
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Jonathan Freedland on The Secret Rebels who Defied Hitler (Part Two)
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Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist, broadcaster, and author of the widely acclaimed book The Escape Artist which tells the remarkable story of Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Alfred Wetzler who became the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwitz. In October 2025 he came to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss his new book, The Tr…
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Genicular Artery Embolization with Moutasem Aljundi, MD
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Would like like to share feedback on this podcast? Or suggest another topic for us to explore? Click here, or email us at [email protected] Chronic knee pain affects millions of Americans, especially as we age, and osteoarthritis is often the cause. In this episode, host Debra Schindler talks with Dr. Moutasem Aljundi, vascular and interventional…
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Is your New Year's Resolution to branch out and try more restaurants and bars in Las Vegas this year? Well, you're in luck! Food writer Jason Harris and @nothingtodolveats founder Giselle D'souza join host Sarah Lohman to discuss their most anticipated new restaurants coming to Las Vegas in 2026. Plus, their picks for which existing restaurants des…
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Greenland is not a Monopoly square, and America is not a landlord. In this episode of Lady Logic, we dismantle the absurd idea that the US can buy or annex Greenland for national security. We break down what Greenland actually is, why Trump’s fixation is reckless, and how real security comes from alliances not ego. Sharp, direct, and unapologetic. …
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Which Las Vegas Restaurants Could Earn a Michelin Star This Year?
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The Michelin Guide is returning to Las Vegas in 2026, and not everyone is popping Champagne. Food writers John Curtas and Lorraine Blanco Moss join host Sonja Cho Swanson to debate whether the once-gold standard still means something — or if it’s just expensive hype — and what it could actually change about the city’s dining scene. Plus, their pick…
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What Washington's 2026 Policy Shifts Mean for Business
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Washington policymakers will again navigate a dramatically shifting playing field in 2026, not least because of the midterm elections in November. We can think of no better guide than our very own Neil Bradley to help us understand not only the stakes of the election, but what to expect across the issues that matter most for business. In this conve…
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Jonathan Freedland on The Secret Rebels who Defied Hitler (Part One)
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Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist, broadcaster, and author of the widely acclaimed book The Escape Artist which tells the remarkable story of Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Alfred Wetzler who became the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwitz. In October 2025 he came to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss his new book, The Tr…
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The Specialist | The Declaration of Independence: 250 Years of the United States, with Selby Kiffer
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This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, Selby Kiffer, Sotheby's Senior International Specialist of Books and Manuscripts, tells the story of an original copy of the Declaration o…
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The Declaration of Independence: 250 Years of the United States, with Selby Kiffer
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On today’s episode, Selby Kiffer, Sotheby's Senior International Specialist of Books and Manuscripts, tells the story of an original copy of the Declaration of Independence found in a flea market and the meticulous process of authentication that brought it to auction. Over the last half century, he has overseen the sale of many of the most celebrat…
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Bingo is making a surprising comeback on the Las Vegas Strip, and it’s not just for retirees anymore. We talk with Plaza Hotel CEO Jonathan Jossel about how bingo never really left town and why it’s suddenly clicking with new generations. From packed super bingo tournaments downtown to Circus Circus’ big bet on the game, Jossel explains how payouts…
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