Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrom Stomachs to Joints: The Peptide Investigation
Season 1 Episode 118
Your father-in-law's buddies swear peptides fixed their knees. So we spent three weeks in a research rabbit hole to find out if it's Nobel Prize medi…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Going Underground: AWS from the Top Down
Season 1 Episode 117
AWS might sound ethereal, but it's more like descending into a layered mine—each level with its own rules and treasures. We explore AWS's staggering …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Glass Fibers and Gunboats: The Internet's Ocean Floor
Season 1 Episode 116
600 submarine cables lie unprotected on the ocean floor, carrying 99% of intercontinental data and $10 trillion in daily transactions through fibers …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Allomancy of Chords: Why Music Makes You Cry
Season 1 Episode 115
Ever wondered why certain chord progressions make you cry without any lyrics? In this episode, we explore the musicology behind emotional manipulatio…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Dragon's Tongue: Why the Terminal Returned
Season 1 Episode 114
From a terrifying college computer lab to 78% of developers living in the terminal—the command line is having the strangest renaissance in tech histo…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Glamour and Heist: The Cost of Crossing Over
Season 1 Episode 113
In the 1950s, cover versions were racial heists—Black artists created while white artists profited from the segregated charts. This sequel to Episode…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Broken by Design: The Irrational Magic of Hometown Fandom
Season 1 Episode 112
Why do millions of fans keep showing up for teams that statistically break their hearts? Host A and Host B dive into the mathematics of losing season…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Mimic Protocol: One Click, Four Tiers of Damage
Season 1 Episode 111
You clicked a link. You didn't type anything. You're fine, right? Wrong. In this episode, we unpack the cascading chain of damage that happens the mo…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Git: The Angry Wizard's Time-Travel Spell
Season 1 Episode 110
Linus Torvalds rage-coded Git in just two weeks after a licensing fight with BitKeeper turned the Linux community against a proprietary tool. This ep…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Vocal Benders: How Asian Cultures Bent the Human Voice
Season 1 Episode 109
What's that ethereal, throaty sound at your local Vietnamese restaurant? It's the gateway to one of music history's wildest stories—a discovery that …
3 months, 4 weeks ago