Malcolm Gladwell: I'm Malcolm Gladwell. You're listening to Revisionist History, my podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood. Allow me to introduce a new voice to this podcast, Maria Conakova. In basketball, they call people like Maria Swiss Army Knives, people who do everything. He says he could think of no one better equipped to speak truth to the power that is Revisionist History.
Author, psychologist and professional poker player Maria Konnikova joins the show as Revisionist History’s first ombudsman. Maria advocates for the audience, reading letters from listeners and challenging Malcolm on matters great and small. They discuss how iodized salt is changing lives, the ethics of the Minnesota starvation experiments, and the ever-changing guidance around drinking alcohol. If you’d like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts, be sure to sign up for our email list at Pushkin.fm.
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