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Can We Normalize Breaking Into Song in Public?
Episode 5688
Daniel wrote in with a genuinely strange question: could a person be the vanguard for normalizing spontaneous singing in public — starting with the d…
4 days, 5 hours ago
The Speech Scientist Behind Teletubbies
Episode 5687
What if the strangest preschool show ever made was actually the most rigorously researched? Teletubbies turns out to be the work of Andrew Davenport …
4 days, 5 hours ago
What Arab Israelis Actually Say About Identity
Episode 5686
Ask what Arab Israelis think about their own identity and you'll get two completely different headlines from the same polling data. This episode digs…
4 days, 9 hours ago
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…
4 days, 9 hours 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.…
4 days, 9 hours 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…
4 days, 9 hours 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…
4 days, 9 hours 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…
4 days, 9 hours 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…
4 days, 10 hours 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…
4 days, 10 hours ago