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Form-Based Codes and the City That Feels Dead
Episode 5933
Hannah wants to build a mid-sized walkable Israeli city with a new Levantine architectural language — and she's asking what the form-based code under…
1 week, 6 days ago
What the 1964 White Paper on the Twin Towers Actually Said
Episode 5932
When a 37-year-old listener asked why the Twin Towers fell, the honest answer turned out to be narrower and stranger than the popular story. The towe…
1 week, 6 days ago
What the Council on Vertical Urbanism Actually Decides
Episode 5931
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat spent 56 years cataloguing height records — then renamed itself the Council on Vertical Urbanism. Dan…
1 week, 6 days ago
The World's Greatest Drunk Foods
Episode 5930
The spice bag was invented around 2006 as a staff meal at a Dublin takeaway. Poutine lives or dies on cheese curds less than a day old. Chimaek becam…
2 weeks ago
Who Believes God Is Personally Involved? The Data on Divine Providence
Episode 5929
Everything happens for a reason" sounds like one belief. It's actually at least three — God orchestrates every event, God permits events for a purpos…
2 weeks ago
Believing Without Belonging: The Religion of One
Episode 5928
What do you call someone who believes in God but belongs to no religion? Sociologist Grace Davie named it "believing without belonging" in 1990, and …
2 weeks ago
Where Generalists Get Priced: Inside the FDE Role
Episode 5927
Daniel asked where an intellectually restless generalist actually gets priced — and refused the lazy answers. The answer has a name: Forward Deployed…
2 weeks ago
Inside Alibaba's Machine: AliExpress, Guanxi, and the China Daniel Has Never Visited
Episode 5926
Daniel has ordered from AliExpress twice a month for years but has never been to China, never worked with a Chinese team, and wants to know what the …
2 weeks ago
Plus Codes, Geohash, and the Open Addressing Gap
Episode 5925
Google's Open Location Code was designed to work completely offline, with no geocoding service and no proprietary database in the middle. Then the co…
2 weeks ago
Living Among the Dead: Cemetery Housing, Cairo to Manila
Episode 5924
What does it mean when a cemetery becomes a neighbourhood? This episode treats cemetery habitation as its own form of housing insecurity — not a curi…
2 weeks ago