Jan 18, 2019
Stat: 57 percent of social media news consumers expect what they see there to be largely inaccurate.
Story: The rise of deepfakes—realistic fake videos made with artificial intelligence software—is beginning to make sorting fact from fiction even harder. In an interview with Dartmouth Professor Hany Farid, a digital...
Jan 4, 2019
Stat: 50. The percentage of American children today who will grow up to earn more than their parents did.
Story: That’s down from over 90 percent for children born in the 1940s and its says a lot about the current state of the American Dream. John Friedman, who’s a leader of Opportunity Insights which is working to...
Dec 21, 2018
Stat: Four in 10 Americans say technology has improved their lives most in the past 50 years.
Story: To end 2018, we look ahead at the promise of new technologies, which also bring challenges for societies. To understand the issues, we speak to Arati Prabhakar, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
Dec 7, 2018
Stat: 21. The number of African countries where manatees live.
Story: If you’ve ever seen a manatee, chances are you were in Florida, where these aquatic relatives of the elephant may have poked their faces above the water’s surface to get a look at you. But this episode’s guest studies manatees few have ever...
Nov 21, 2018
Stat: 39 percent. That’s how many Americans say
they are highly religious.
Story: When asked about their religion, most
Americans identify with a traditional faith: Christianity, Judaism,
Islam. But the Pew Research Center recently looked beyond familiar
classifications and analyzed patterns of American beliefs...