The Context

A weekly podcast about why things happen. The Context is what you need to know to speak intelligently about current events.

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"This podcast replaces a half dozen others. [..] I comb through newspapers, blogs, and podcasts and all I'm really looking for is context."

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Great talk by an actual scientist about gravitational waves and LIGO, way more detailed than our Ep. 4! https://t.co/xyKRTpyjHQ @APSphysics

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The sea level rise estimates I mentioned in the last episode about Miami might be far, far too low. https://t.co/2Eis9Naogk via @slate

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Salve! Gratiam habeo, amice. https://t.co/GpL44pVmxV

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walking home from Hail Caesar, and listening to @contextcast over here in good ol London. Marco Rubio Miami and Climate Change. brilliant.

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Episode 8 is live: “Miami, Climate Change and Marco Rubio”. #climatechange https://t.co/8FWLURz6Iu

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Listen now to Episode 8: “Miami, Climate Change and Marco Rubio”. @CityofMiami https://t.co/8FWLURz6Iu

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@podcastnutshell Man, you are SO GOOD at this twitter thing. How do you do it?

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This week on The Context: February 2016: The Warmest Month?

See you Friday.

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Did @iamjohnoliver and @LastWeekTonight listen to our episode about Apple+FBI?
Here’s his great 18-minute explainer: https://t.co/cWk9vNGrbN

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Episode 7 of The Context is out. This week I ask the question, #OscarsSoWhite? https://t.co/cFU5sajsx7

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The @ACLU apparently thinks that the FBI can get around the iPhone’s self-destruct mechanism after all. https://t.co/UBq4KAreTV

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This week on The Context: #OscarsSoWhite?

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This week's episode is up! Learn all about the origins of world poverty from Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and me. https://t.co/f80vfOlTq6

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DID YOU KNOW: There are almost 800 million illiterate people on Earth. Two-thirds of them are women.

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This week's episode is about world poverty, and what @BillGates and @MelindaGates think we should do about it. See you Friday.

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Hey if you wanted to listen to us on @Stitcher, you can do that now: https://t.co/VGcXuTjeWp

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Have you listened to today's episode about @Apple, encryption, and the FBI? Did it change how you thought about it? https://t.co/BtQ8oL1ED7

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Want to know more about the black holes that created @LIGO’s gravitational waves? https://t.co/3RDWkIDdmT

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From @voxdotcom: “Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture.” https://t.co/5duKCEXu9K

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"Encrypt" : verb, from english "in" and greek "kruptos" ("hidden"). First used in the 1950s, in American English.