Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGOLD — AFTER THE SHINE
Season 1 Episode 14
Gold has been an object of desire forever. Why? It's shiny! Some birds and humans like shiny things. Gold is also scarce, which adds value. There are rarer metals than gold, but the yellow metal is m…
Published on 11 hours ago
Electrify Everything: The Path to Zero Carbon
In this episode, we explore one of the most powerful tools in the fight against climate change: electrification. Currently, America runs on millions of tiny fires—cars, trucks, furnaces, and factorie…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Shrinking Trump - Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (Part 3 of 3)
Season 8 Episode 116
The Real-World Costs
What happens when psychological dysfunction meets ultimate power? In our final episode, we examine the cascading failures already underway - and the catastrophic scenarios ahead.
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Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Shrinking Trump: Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (Part 2 of 3)
SHOW-NOTES
How does individual psychological dysfunction become mass contagion? This episode explores the transformation from personal pathology to cultural crisis—examining how smart people voluntari…
Published on 1 month ago
Shrinking Trump: Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (1 of 3)
SHOW-NOTES
Something disturbing is happening in real time, and mental health experts are sounding urgent alarms. The most powerful person in the world is showing clear signs of cognitive breakdown – c…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
The Last War - Why Humanity's Oldest Problem is Finally Solving Itself (Part 2 of 2)
Season 8 Episode 116
Modern Warfare has Evolved Beyond Recognition From the clear battlefield lines of 1813 Leipzig to today's asymmetric conflicts, war has bec…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
From Nuclear Nightmares to Digital Warfare: How We Traded Apocalypse for Algorithms Part 1 of 2
Season 8 Episode 115
SHOW-NOTES
From Cold War Terror to Algorithm Anxiety
In 1983, 100 million Americans watched "The Day After" and couldn't sleep for days. Today, a 13-year-old Russian boy thinks he's playing a video ga…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Torching the Future: From Cooking to Catastrophe (Part 3 of 3)
The Quintessential Question – Why is the Human Brain so Extraordinary?
Fire made us human through cooking, giving us the energy to build massive brains and create civilization. But the species that ma…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Torching the Future (Part 2 of 3): Living in the Age of Fire
Season 7 Episode 113
Fire has transformed from the simple chemistry Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman once described—oxygen and carbon atoms finding their way home to each other—into something far more sinister. When mo…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Torching the Future: Part 1 of 3 – How Fire Forged Human Civilization
For thousands of years, humans and fire had a deal. Fire exists because of the oxygen generated by life. Civilization exists because it partnered with fire. Fire had co-evolved with Life.
We…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago