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
Episode 88: Does “Clutch” Performance Exist?
Send us Fan Mail A common argument among sports fans is whether coming through “in the clutch” — where an athlete is said to raise his or her level of performance in the most important moments of the ...
13 Apr 202442min
Episode 87: Economic Forecasting is a Joke
Send us Fan Mail "Inflation will be with us for years to come." "You can’t lower inflation without raising unemployment." "Supply chain disruptions will cause a recession." These are some of the fable...
23 Mars 202439min
Episode 86: The Future is Now for Electric Vehicles
Send us Fan Mail Electric vehicle charging stations were recently installed in the parking lot of Joe’s apartment complex, and that got him thinking about how our country’s transition to EVs is going....
12 Mars 202436min
