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Things That Go Boom

Things That Go Boom

91 Episodes • By PRX • inkstickmedia.com/category/podca...
Stories about the ins, outs, and whathaveyous of what keeps us safe. So, grab a beer and buckle up. It gets bumpy! Hosted by Laicie Heeley.
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Bringing it Home
After a season spent examining feminist foreign poli... more
Jun 24 2024 33m
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Where Are the Women, Really?
Political Scientist Cynthia Enloe is, arguably, the ... more
Jun 10 2024 24m
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Is Anybody Listening?
As civilian casualties mount in Gaza and many more c... more
May 27 2024 33m
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The End of the World as We Know It
When news of a new disaster seems to roll in every d... more
May 13 2024 21m
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Inside Poland’s Abortion Crossroads
When does something as deeply personal as abortion b... more
Apr 29 2024 27m
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The War at Home
Mexico's gotten a lot of praise for its feminist for... more
Apr 15 2024 34m
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Fika and Feminism: Part 2
It took two years, after holdups from Turkey and Hun... more
Apr 1 2024 23m
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Fika and Feminism: Part 1
This season on Things That Go Boom, we’re on a missi... more
Mar 18 2024 28m
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Season 9: The F-Word
With more than 50 elections set to take place around... more
Mar 4 2024 2m
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Things That Go Boom Introduces: Click Here
Click Here is a podcast, hosted by Dina Temple-Rasto... more
Dec 4 2023 19m
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Well, What Do You Know?
What do swarms of autonomous drones, facial recognit... more
Oct 30 2023 33m
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Least Cost Paths
On Sunday, the people of Poland cast their votes in ... more
Oct 16 2023 28m
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Tobacco, Trust, and the Artist Formerly Known as Twitter
We’re about a year out from a presidential election,... more
Oct 2 2023 31m
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Will the Internet Suck Us Dry?
When we say that we’re going to store something “in ... more
Sep 18 2023 28m
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Who Gets To Shut It All Down?
Internet blackouts — when internet service is shut d... more
Sep 4 2023 25m
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How to Break a Fish
It’s one of our biggest problems in 2023, and it can... more
Aug 21 2023 28m
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Lost in Translation
Greg is an artist whose clients include Magic the Ga... more
Aug 7 2023 25m
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Can You Hack a Nuke?
In the age of Oppenheimer, nuclear weapons didn’t ha... more
Jul 24 2023 31m
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The Internet Is at the Bottom of the Sea
We need the internet. No, seriously. In 2023, the di... more
Jul 10 2023 39m
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Coming Soon: Troubleshooting
You know the internet — that big, vast, expanse that... more
Jun 26 2023 2m
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How a US Reporter Was Imprisoned in Putin’s Russia
We’re hard at work on Season 8 of Things That Go Boo... more
Jun 9 2023 25m
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Getting L-A-O-D
America’s war on communism in southeast Asia dragged... more
Mar 20 2023 34m
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Mr. Fonio
There are tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of ed... more
Mar 6 2023 28m
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What’s Next for Brazil After Bolsonaro?
Just two years ago, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio ... more
Feb 20 2023 27m
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Can Cluster Bombs Show Us How To Stop a Nuclear War?
Despite being banned, anti-personnel landmines and u... more
Feb 6 2023 27m
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