Episode 110: Housing and the Land-Value Tax
Send us Fan Mail Recent estimates are that the United States has a shortage of housing volume of 4-7 million homes. A problem of that scale doesn’t happen overnight and involves decades of neglect and...
20 Huhti 202539min
Episode 109: A Quantum Leap in Computing
Send us Fan Mail Like its cousin AGI, quantum computing, which harnesses the quantum states of subatomic particles to perform impossibly difficult computations at lightning speed, is a new-ish technol...
30 Maalis 202546min
Episode 108: There’s No Dressing Up Dress Codes
Send us Fan Mail The New York Yankees’ recent relaxation of half-century-old rules about facial hair got Joe to thinking about dress and codes generally. Why do they exist? Where do they come from? ...
16 Maalis 202544min
Episode 107: The Skinny on GLP-1 Drugs
Send us Fan Mail You know them by their brand names, like Ozempic, Trulicity, or Mounjaro. They're the GLP-1 receptor agonists that were originally formulated for Type 2 diabetes but have caused a rev...
2 Maalis 202555min
Episode 106: Are Lotteries Justifiable?
Send us Fan Mail State lotteries are a 12-figure business in the US of A. Americans spend more money on lottery tickets than on books, video games, recorded music, movie and sports tickets combined. O...
16 Helmi 202537min
Episode 105: An Appalling Lack of Savings
Send us Fan Mail Here are a couple sobering numbers: The typical American has only $8,000 in the bank, and the median savings for the age cohort approaching retirement is only $120,000. Neither is any...
2 Helmi 202549min
Episode 104: The Rap on Map Apps
Send us Fan Mail You’ve probably used a map app like Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze to help you get from Point A to Point B as quickly as possible. But did you ever wonder how they work? Did you ev...
19 Tammi 202542min
Episode 103: Things Are Looking Up (We Hope)
Send us Fan Mail The year 2024 brought more than its share of misfortune to your Mansplaining co-hosts, what with the double whammy of layoffs and a terrible election result. But in the spirit of tur...
4 Tammi 202545min
