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Shell Companies Over Shell Companies
Episode 5199
A single brass-plate company in Panama is a rookie move. Whether it's Mossad building a pager supply chain or the IRGC moving oil to China, what actu…
1 month ago
Counting the AI Models Nobody Releases
Episode 5198
Detecting a ship at sea is nearly trivial; identifying what kind of ship it is takes custom labeled data that almost nobody publishes. This episode f…
1 month ago
Flags of Convenience: Ships, Planes, and Olive Oil
Episode 5197
What do a wet-leased Arkia aircraft with a Maltese registration and a bottle of Tunisian olive oil on an Israeli shelf have in common? Both rely on t…
1 month ago
How Shadow Fleet Tankers Get Caught
Episode 5196
Everyone pictures shipping containers heaved across a gap in the dark. The reality is a hose the width of a man's torso, two tankers lashed eleven fe…
1 month ago
When Real Danger Silences Phobias
Episode 5195
Can genuine danger actually quiet a phobia? After a year of housing instability and a month-long war, one person found his lifelong fear of cockroach…
1 month ago
Designing Buildings to Age Beautifully
Episode 5194
Architects once sketched how a facade would weather over decades — designing for year one hundred, not just opening day. Today, aging is treated as a…
1 month ago
Rethinking How We Travel Long Distances Without Flying
Episode 5193
Flying feels like the only real way to cross a continent, but that's infrastructure lock-in, not physics. This episode digs into the alternatives tha…
1 month ago
Why Flying Fear Starts in Your Late Twenties
Episode 5192
Hannah loved flying her whole life — until one flight in her mid-twenties, when terror showed up out of nowhere. It turns out her timing was almost e…
1 month ago
Marble in the Kitchen: Patina or Damage?
Episode 5191
Can marble actually work in a kitchen? An architect in Jerusalem was trained to never put marble in a kitchen — then she saw American high-end design…
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How Iranian Rugs Reach Israeli Shelves
Episode 5190
A bottle of Tunisian olive oil with French writing on the label sits in a Jerusalem supermarket. A rug dealer says his brand new rugs are from Iran —…
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