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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Juli 202436min
Episode 93: Fertility and the Elusive Sweet Spot
Send us Fan Mail It wasn’t so long ago that human fertility was likened to a ticking time bomb, with overpopulation leading to famine and ecological collapse. More recently, we’ve heard that declinin...
14 Juli 202453min
Episode 92: American Climate Refugees?
Send us Fan Mail For decades, Americans have moved south chasing cheaper homes and better weather. But after years of unremitting heat and more frequent hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods that have di...
30 Juni 202425min
Episode 91: The Vultures Are Circling Around College Athletics
Send us Fan Mail Just as colleges are finally being forced to pay their long-exploited student-athletes commensurate with the revenue they generate for their schools, we’re beginning to hear about pri...
17 Juni 202451min
Episode 90: The (Non-Existent) Connection Between Bail Reform and Crime
Send us Fan Mail Over the past several years, bail reform laws—changes to the criminal legal system to reduce unnecessary pretrial detention, especially for non-violent offenses—were implemented in ju...
26 Maj 202434min
Episode 89: Reckoning with the Brain-Computer Interface
Send us Fan Mail Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neurotechnology startup, recently live-streamed footage of a paralyzed man with a brain implant playing video chess using only his mind. According to Musk, tha...
12 Maj 202447min
