Segments From This Episode

• NASA has a solution for bug splats on your jetliner

  by Gigi Douban

  

  Bug splats on the surface of wings makes for inefficiency and higher fuel consumption.

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• Canada and U.S. go after methane leaks in oil fields

  by Scott Tong

  

  Methane, the main component of natural gas, is a much more potent warming pollutant than carbon dioxide

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• The Dispatch Episode 6: Steph Curry and the economics of 3-pointers

  by Molly Wood

  

  The b-ball phenom talks long shots and the power of water. AlphaGo outsmarts humans

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• A transatlantic central banking policy disparity

  by Mark Garrison

  

  While Europeans ease, Americans ponder another rate hike

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• The nonpartisan software helping Trump’s campaign

  by Kai Ryssdal

  NationBuilder's election tools attempt to "bring democracy to democracy"

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• A test for superheroes: will mobile comics fly?

  by Marketplace Contributor

  

  The mobile challenge: you read one panel, move down. Read another, down some more.

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• Go-playing computer: 2 Humans: 0

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  Google's AI program AlphaGo one the second of five games against a human Go champion.

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