Episode 100: What Makes Pop Music Artists Run Out of Ideas?
Send us Fan Mail After considering why companies run out of ideas in our last episode, Joe put the same question to Mark about why so many of our favorite pop and rock music artists seem to run out of...
17 Marras 202437min
Episode 99: What Makes a Company Run Out of Ideas?
Send us Fan Mail Google had quite a run, from its market-leading search engine to Gmail to the Android operating system. For the longest time, it seemed like a veritable fount of innovation. But in ...
26 Loka 202447min
Episode 98: The Checkered Legacy of Legacy Admissions
Send us Fan Mail When the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious affirmative action programs, it conveniently left standing the legacy preferences employed by colleges and universities that are desc...
5 Loka 202438min
Episode 97: The Threat to Critical Infrastructure
Send us Fan Mail Every time the power goes out in Seattle, Mark wonders whether his city fell victim to malicious hackers. It’s a legitimate concern, since bad actors have been messing with America’s...
26 Syys 202453min
Episode 96: All the Lonely People
Send us Fan Mail The CDC and Surgeon General recently released reports highlighting twin epidemics that are plaguing young people in our country. For boys, it’s loneliness and social isolation; for g...
8 Syys 202439min
Episode 95: Fusion Is (Still) Just Around the Corner
Send us Fan Mail It’s been said that fusion power is 20 years away, and always will be. Why is it taking so long? Well, it turns out that generating temperatures as hot as the sun is hard to do here...
18 Elo 202449min
White-Hot Take: Childless Cat Ladies?
Send us Fan Mail Who knew the Democratic Party was run by "childless cat ladies"? JD Vance's rant has already garnered more than its share of well-deserved opprobrium. But in Mansplaining's first-ev...
10 Elo 20247min
Episode 94: Decoding the Unitary Executive Theory
Send us Fan Mail The Supreme Court’s recent controversial ruling about presidential immunity appears to rely on a shadowy notion of executive branch power called the unitary executive theory. After g...
27 Heinä 202436min
