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Mapping Purple: How Texas Really Votes
Episode 5046
Everyone calls Texas a red state, but the county-level map tells a far more complex story. In this episode, we color in the political geography of th…
1 month ago
Balcony Solar in Jerusalem: What Can You Really Capture?
Episode 5045
Daniel rents an apartment in Jerusalem with a south-facing balcony and wants to know the real ceiling for solar capture when you don't own the roof. …
1 month ago
Abilene's AI Arms Race: Power, Water, and Backlash
Episode 5044
Abilene, Texas is the site of a massive Starlink LLC project: ten data centers housing 100,000 GPUs to train the next generation of AI models. But bu…
1 month ago
Stargate's $500B Question: Policy or Profit?
Episode 5043
The US has committed $500 billion to Stargate, a private AI infrastructure project announced from the White House. Is it an arm of American national …
1 month ago
The Town That Vanished From the Map
Episode 5042
What happens when a real town vanishes from the official map? We dig into documented cases like Perdido, Alabama, which disappeared from state highwa…
1 month ago
GPT-6 Astra, 100K GPUs, and the AGI Question
Episode 5041
OpenAI dropped GPT-6 Astra, and the headline isn't just the model — it's the AGI claim attached to it. This episode unpacks the Stargate LLC consorti…
1 month ago
The 130,000-Person Secret: Beyond Oppenheimer's Story
Episode 5040
The movies tell the story of the Manhattan Project through the eyes of its scientists — but the project's real scale was industrial. At its peak, it …
1 month ago
Who Actually Counts Wars? The Data Behind the Headlines
Episode 5039
Headlines scream that the world is on fire, but is it actually worse than usual? We dig into the messy business of counting wars — from Sweden's Upps…
1 month ago
Ukraine's War: How Narratives Shifted but the Invasion Didn't
Episode 5038
Five years into the war in Ukraine, the justifications have shifted dramatically—from a "special military operation" to annexation to a civilizationa…
1 month ago
Why the Russia-Ukraine War Grinds On: Attrition & Escalation
Episode 5037
The world's attention has moved on, but the Russia-Ukraine war grinds on. This episode examines why the international community has failed to halt th…
1 month ago