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The Jerusalem Post's 1996 Bet and the Global Jewish News Race
Episode 5581
The Jerusalem Post is remembered as a polarizing outlet with a broken refresh button, yet it launched JPost.com in December 1996 — at the front of th…
18 hours ago
Before the Word Spy Existed: Venice's Intelligence Machine
Episode 5580
Long before anyone used the words "intelligence service," Venice built one. Historian Ioanna Iordanou argues the Republic ran a centrally organised s…
19 hours ago
Cutting Things With a Dremel: What Actually Works
Episode 5579
A listener's engraving tool turned out to be forty tools in one, and now he wants to know which cutting attachments are worth owning. This episode so…
23 hours ago
Resilience Isn't a Muscle — What the Research Actually Shows
Episode 5578
Resilience is the most common outcome after trauma, yet the self-help advice to "strengthen it like a muscle" doesn't match the evidence. This episod…
23 hours ago
When the UN Goes Viral: Pitchers, Shoes, and 6-Second Clips
Episode 5577
A man reaches for water at the UN General Assembly and lifts the entire pitcher instead of a glass. The clip is everywhere — but it's from 2024, not …
23 hours ago
Lying Flat as a Tactic: The Quiet Opt-Out
Episode 5576
In 2021, a Chinese forum post titled "Lying Flat Is Justice" was censored and denounced on state television — for advocating nothing more than doing …
1 day ago
Why 1930s Riveters Carried Bigger Pouches Than You Do
Episode 5575
What did Empire State Building ironworkers actually carry on their belts? A listener's research agenda sends us up the scaffolding: the four-man rive…
1 day ago
Ephemeral Containers and the ADE Label Nobody Owns
Episode 5574
Claude Code's default cloud environment is an ephemeral container — a fresh Anthropic-managed VM cloned from your repo on every session. That design …
1 day, 5 hours ago
Audio Post-Processing for AI Podcast Pipelines
Episode 5573
The front end of an AI podcast pipeline gets all the attention — agents, prompts, retrieval. But the stage nobody films a documentary about is audio …
1 day, 6 hours ago
Renting Out Your Spare Room, Car, and Boat
Episode 5572
A spare room, a parked car, a boat sitting at the marina — peer-to-peer rental platforms turn idle private assets into income without owning any inve…
1 day, 6 hours ago