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Dispatch 1: Numbers

Mar 27, 2020
32:35
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
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2
We Need a Whole Screen of Jazz Hands
02:02 • 4min
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The Zoom Meeting - What Do We Do With These Numbers?
05:46 • 2min
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The Exponent Curve Is Growing Fast, Isn't It?
07:38 • 2min
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Is There a Way to Double Pennies?
09:42 • 4min
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How to Flatten the Curve With Feedback
14:08 • 3min
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Radio Lab - The Divided Dial
17:01 • 3min
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Are We All Going?
19:47 • 2min
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Coronavirus
21:35 • 3min
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How Many Jars of Peanut Butter Have Been Sold?
24:37 • 2min
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The Onslaught
26:47 • 3min
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I'm on Team Hope. I've Got It.
30:00 • 2min
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The New Yorker Radio Hour
32:30 • 2min
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In a recent Radiolab group huddle, with coronavirus unraveling around us, the team found themselves grappling with all the numbers connected to COVID-19. Our new found 6 foot bubbles of personal space. Three percent mortality rate (or 1, or 2, or 4). 7,000 cases (now, much much more). So in the wake of that meeting, we reflect on the onslaught of numbers - what they reveal, and what they hide. 

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