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
Episode Twenty: Pondering A Meatless Future
Send us Fan Mail Climate change is forcing us to consider monumental changes to our way of life, including rethinking the wildly inefficient and unconscionably wasteful way we produce meat. Which beg...
12 Apr 202150min
Episode Nineteen: No News Is Not Necessarily Good News
Send us Fan Mail Since 2004, more than 1,300 communities in the USA have lost a newspaper, and when the daily paper is a thing of the past it will be replaced by ... what, exactly, and what might be ...
28 Mar 202145min
Episode Eighteen: Unpacking the Green New Deal
Send us Fan Mail Joe and Mark consider the Congressional resolution that has progressive hearts aflutter, while conservatives are in a tizzy at the prospect of losing access to the hamburger-industria...
14 Mar 202152min
Episode Seventeen: ERA Maybe
Send us Fan Mail Mark and Joe trace the history of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, from its genesis in the 1920s through the ratification wars of the 1970s, and try to guess wheth...
28 Feb 202142min
Episode Sixteen: Are We the Sum Total of Our Memories?
Send us Fan Mail Why do some people lose their memories? When you lose your memory, what is it that you’re losing? Joe and Mark discuss the umbrella of neurocognitive disorders known familiarly as ...
14 Feb 202149min
Episode Fifteen: Breaking Up (Big Tech) Is Hard to Do
Send us Fan Mail The recent federal antitrust lawsuits against Facebook and Google mark a rare area of agreement in our polarized political culture. Seemingly everybody wants to do something about Bi...
1 Feb 20211h 1min
