Episode 28: Space: The Final Public-Private Partnership
Send us Fan Mail With billionaires launching themselves into space and salivating at the prospect of mining asteroids for precious metals, we’ve come to an inflection point for what used to be called ...
9 Aug 202149min
Episode 27: Filiflustered
Send us Fan Mail With the fate of the arcane U.S. Senate filibuster likely to be the most important domestic political news story of President Biden’s first term, Mark and Joe trace its history, how i...
26 Jul 202136min
Episode 26: Replaced by a Machine
Send us Fan Mail Automation has already changed some workplaces, and robots are likely coming for many more American jobs in the years to come – maybe even yours. Joe and Mark examine whether massiv...
10 Jul 202157min
Episode 25: UFOs Are Real!
Send us Fan Mail In anticipation of the release of a U.S. government report on “unexplained aerial phenomena” later this month, Mark and Joe ponder the most likely explanation for UFOs and, despite th...
20 Jun 202141min
Episode 24: Why Haven't We Cured Cancer?
Send us Fan Mail The Biden administration’s recent proposal to create a new health agency designed, among other things, to “end cancer as we know it” evokes a similar pledge made by Richard Nixon in 1...
13 Jun 202149min
Episode 23: Demystifying NFTs and the Blockchain
Send us Fan Mail Christie’s recently auctioned a non-fungible token (NFT) by a noted digital artist for $69 million. NFTs are unique files that live on a blockchain, but what’s an NFT, and what’s a b...
23 Mai 202137min
Episode 22: Attack of the Killer Robots
Send us Fan Mail Joe and Mark consider recent advances in drone technology and AI that may soon lead to the chilling prospect of fully autonomous weapons coming to a battlefield near you. Given the l...
9 Mai 202155min
Episode 21: Deepfakes and the Warping of Reality
Send us Fan Mail "I saw it with my own eyes' – but is that still good enough? Mark and Joe explore deepfake technology and its many applications—some arguably positive, others unquestionably scary an...
25 Apr 202140min
