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Send us Fan Mail It’s been said that New Year’s Day is the closest thing we have to a truly global holiday. People of all different religions and ethnicities recognize it, but how did that come to be...

7 Jan 202328min

Send us Fan Mail The last few years have seen rapid improvement in AI’s ability to generate original text, images and music – so rapid that it got Mark thinking about what that means for the people wh...

19 Des 202252min

Send us Fan Mail Mark Zuckerberg renamed his company from Facebook to Meta to signal that he’s all in on building the metaverse—the next-stage internet, betting billions that it will be the next big t...

19 Nov 20221h 6min

Send us Fan Mail There’s another epidemic in America right now: an epidemic of vaping. Just as the number of cigarette smokers was in decline, we have e-cigarettes with flavors like bubblegum and man...

5 Nov 202242min

Send us Fan Mail It’s fair to say that Russia is having a tougher time in Ukraine than anyone (outside of Volodymyr Zelenskyy) expected. The vaunted Russian military is performing very poorly, at lea...

23 Okt 202240min

Send us Fan Mail It used to be that the movies were where you found profound meditations on subjects that mattered, while TV was the place for frivolous, escapist fare, but it sure seems like those ro...

9 Okt 202245min

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to charter schools, people working on education policy tend to sort themselves into two camps: the lovers and the haters. Charters are either dramatically improving the...

25 Sep 202247min

Send us Fan Mail It’s a simple question, really: Why can’t we control guns in America? The answer is also deceptively simple: It's because we’re afraid. Mark and Joe explore the deep divisions arou...

5 Sep 202240min