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How Ancient Jerusalem Outgrew Its Own Walls
Episode 5494
The walls surrounding Jerusalem's Old City were built by Suleiman the Magnificent between 1537 and 1541 — yet the original Jerusalem sits outside the…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Jerusalem Before Sukkot: Reconstructing the Pilgrim City
Episode 5493
Imagine Jerusalem in the days before Sukkot during the Second Temple period — not as a pilgrim, but as a resident watching your city triple in size. …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
21 Shofar Blasts a Day: The Temple's Lost Soundscape
Episode 5492
Most Jews today hear the shofar once a year. But in the Second Temple, horns and silver trumpets were part of the daily soundscape of Jerusalem — at …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Night the Temple Courtyard Glowed
Episode 5491
Every Sukkot, the Temple courtyard filled with towering lamps, torch dances, and all-night music. But what does the earliest source actually claim — …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Why Screen Protectors Bubble Every Time
Episode 5490
Almost everyone has tried to install a tempered glass screen protector, and almost everyone has ended up with bubbles. The frustrating part is that i…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
When Your Toddler Swallows a Screw
Episode 5489
A fifteen-month-old, a flat-pack wardrobe, and a screw that went missing — that's the scenario a listener wrote in about, and it turns out the answer…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
How Emoji Went From 176 Characters to 3,600
Episode 5488
Emoji didn't start as decoration. In 1999, NTT DoCoMo's Shigetaka Kurita built 176 tiny pictures to carry tone that plain text on a tiny screen could…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Why Your Spreadsheet Mangles José's Name
Episode 5487
Ever opened a UTF-8 CSV in Excel and watched José turn into "José"? That garbled text is called mojibake, and it's the visible symptom of a characte…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Why Hebrew URLs Turn Into Percent-Sign Gibberish
Episode 5486
A listener noticed something odd: Hebrew in a URL's domain renders beautifully in the address bar, but Hebrew in the path collapses into six lines of…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Fine-Tuning Parakeet for Hebrew and Your Own Jargon
Episode 5485
Daniel runs NVIDIA's Parakeet V2 on Android for dictation and wants two things: a Hebrew fine-tune, and a personal-vocabulary tune to catch tech jarg…
3 weeks, 4 days ago