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East Jerusalem's Residency Trap: What 300,000 People Actually Want
Episode 5685
East Jerusalem is home to over 300,000 Palestinians who hold permanent residency in Israel — a status that is not quite citizenship and not quite a p…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Who Built the Dome of the Rock?
Episode 5684
The Dome of the Rock was completed in 691 CE — the oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture anywhere in the world, dated by its own inscription.…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
How a Handshake Became the Temple Mount Status Quo
Episode 5683
In June 1967, Moshe Dayan — the defense minister who hadn't wanted the Old City at all — walked into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and improvised an arrangement…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Boredom, the DMN, and the Shower Thought
Episode 5682
We treat boredom as a bug and busyness as a virtue, but the research points somewhere stranger. A listener's question about a life with no empty morn…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Why Your Volume Knob Can't Find the Right Spot
Episode 5681
You press the volume button once and it's too quiet. Press it again and it's too loud. Daniel wrote in about exactly this: Android's coarse volume in…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Teletubbies Were Engineered, Not Accidental
Episode 5680
What if the strangest children's show ever broadcast was strange on purpose? This episode digs into the real origin story of Teletubbies: Anne Wood a…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Glue, Don't Bolt: Anchoring Road Studs and Soil Anchors
Episode 5679
A relative renovating a rural Connecticut house wants reflective road studs on a long, dark driveway — and wants to know what fasteners hold them int…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Why Voices Are Harder to Design For Than Music
Episode 5678
Daniel listens to podcasts with headphones while minding Ezra, and the show has become the soundtrack of his apartment — which got him wondering why …
2 weeks, 2 days ago
When 80,000 Pilgrims Fill Your Neighborhood
Episode 5677
Every Sukkot, central Jerusalem fills with pilgrims — tens of thousands at the Western Wall, a record 8,690 Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, and …
2 weeks, 2 days ago
DIY Cable Guide: Barrel Jacks, XLR, and What to Avoid
Episode 5676
Daniel sent in a question that cuts to the heart of DIY cabling: which cables actually pay off to learn, and which ones should you never touch? We wo…
2 weeks, 2 days ago