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Why Suburbs May Be a Bad Deal
Episode 5880
Suburbs are sold as the ideal place to raise a family, but what does the evidence actually say? This episode digs into the research on children's ind…
1 week, 5 days ago
Why Experts Don't Follow Their Own Advice
Episode 5879
We've all met the doctor who skips the gym, the dentist who drinks soda, the tech worker who thinks his own product is garbage. The lazy answer is "p…
1 week, 5 days ago
How a Sloth Learned to Talk: Corn's Origin Story
Episode 5878
Twenty-three hundred hours of audio, and the hosts have never once explained how three animals ended up hosting a podcast in fluent English. This epi…
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A Sloth Diagnoses Human Civilization
Episode 5877
Daniel handed the microphone to a sloth and asked for a diagnosis of human civilization in 2026. What came back is a slow, careful reading of the yea…
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Sloth Leaf Medicine: What's Real and What Isn't
Episode 5876
Can a healing tradition exist without anyone writing it down? This episode gives sloth leaf medicine the serious treatment it keeps being denied: the…
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The Laminated Card Doctrine
Episode 5875
We've been reaching for the same object every time we want to make a point about doing something properly, and a listener finally called us out on it…
1 week, 5 days ago
Who Actually Builds a City's Housing Crisis?
Episode 5874
Jerusalem keeps building, and residents keep getting priced out. This episode works through an argument that the city's callousness toward its own re…
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Abliteration: How $5 Undoes a Model's Guardrails
Episode 5873
Open-weight models ship with safety training baked in, and thousands of people quietly take it back out. This episode traces the technical arc from a…
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When Citizen Engagement Becomes Paperwork Theater
Episode 5872
A Jerusalem resident spent a decade watching objection processes collect hundreds of signatures and change nothing. It turns out planning scholarship…
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Why Your USB-C Charger Won't Talk to Cheap Devices
Episode 5871
Daniel has a 300W GaN charging brick with ten ports, and one of them refuses to charge his pocket speaker. USB-A works fine. USB-C to USB-C just make…
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