The Context

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

Great talk by an actual scientist about gravitational waves and LIGO, way more detailed than our Ep. 4! youtube.com/watch?v=AT9XPP… @APSphysics

The sea level rise estimates I mentioned in the last episode about Miami might be far, far too low. slate.com/blogs/the_slat… via @slate

Salve! Gratiam habeo, amice. twitter.com/jamiepohotsky/…

Episode 8 is live: “Miami, Climate Change and Marco Rubio”. #climatechange soundcloud.com/thecontext/008…

Listen now to Episode 8: “Miami, Climate Change and Marco Rubio”. @CityofMiami soundcloud.com/thecontext/008…

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

This week on The Context: February 2016: The Warmest Month? See you Friday.

Did @iamjohnoliver and @LastWeekTonight listen to our episode about Apple+FBI? Here’s his great 18-minute explainer: youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r…

Episode 7 of The Context is out. This week I ask the question, #OscarsSoWhite? soundcloud.com/thecontext/007…

The @ACLU apparently thinks that the FBI can get around the iPhone’s self-destruct mechanism after all. aclu.org/blog/free-futu…

This week on The Context: #OscarsSoWhite?

This week's episode is up! Learn all about the origins of world poverty from Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and me. soundcloud.com/thecontext/006…

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

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

Hey if you wanted to listen to us on @Stitcher, you can do that now: stitcher.com/podcast/the-co…

Have you listened to today's episode about @Apple, encryption, and the FBI? Did it change how you thought about it? bit.ly/1QBZGhS

Want to know more about the black holes that created @LIGO’s gravitational waves? thephysicsmill.com/2016/02/21/the…

From @voxdotcom: “Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture.” vox.com/2016/2/23/1109…

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