All Episodes
ClaraNarratio Brain Candy — 98 episodes
Shadowing a Satellite: How War Reaches into Orbit
The Price of Silence: Musk, NDAs, and Billionaire Power
Russia's Invisible Election Campaign: The Machinery of Manufactured Division
The Sucky Supremes and the One-Way Ratchet of Religious Liberty
The Bug in OpenAI's Boardroom: Inside an AI Lab Security Scare
DOGE’s Disaster: How Trump and Musk Hollowed Out Government
Trump’s Nobel Grievance: Peace Claims Under Scrutiny
Who Gets to Teach AI Right from Wrong?
Who Sets the Fall Vaccine Rules?
How Russia Won: Trump's Dismantling of Election Defenses
Russian Diesel, American Prices: What Happens When Sanctions Become Negotiable?
The Return of Public Executions: America and the Spectacle of State Killing
The Golden Bear: From Merchant Marine Training to a Proposed Deportation Ship
One Death, No Confirmed Plague: How an Information Vacuum Fuels an Outbreak Rumor
Agent of Whom? When AI Acts on Your Behalf
When the Government Buys the President an Ad Campaign
The Machines Get Rich. What Happens to Everyone Else?
Canada’s 300,000 Reserve Goal: Separating Readiness from the U.S. Invasion Rumor
When Does Distrust in Medicine Become Distrust of Science?
Your Earbuds Need a Privacy Policy Now. That Should Bother You
Bill Gates Isn't an AI Doomer. So Why Is He This Worried?
The AI Fear Premium: Safety Warning, Engineering Failure, or Regulatory Strategy?
Venezuela’s Vanishing Gold: What Happened to the Reserves—and Why New Bars Are Turning Up in America
Ukraine’s New Long-Range War
Greenland After the Annexation Threats
Can the AI Arms Race Be Slowed?
The Quiet ICE Surge: Immigration Enforcement in Everyday America
The AI Slowdown Paradox: Why Warnings Are Rising as the Race Accelerates
Iona and Kells: The Monk, the Manuscript, and the Journey Worth Making
The AI Talent War: Passports, Visas, and the Race for Researchers
Trump TV and the White House Press-Access Dispute
UNGA 81: Greenland, Iran, and a World Testing Its Alliances
The AI Wallet Grab: Why ChatGPT Wants Your Bank Data
How Fertilizer Deals Shape Food Security and Global Power
When AI Knows What You Buy
When Airports Fail: Newark and the Fragility of Travel Networks
NAZA: AI Targeting, Civilian Lives, and the Cost of Speaking Out
Chasing the Shadow: Why People Cross the Earth for Six Minutes of Night
The LZ Signal: Dark Matter or Statistical Fluke?
When Drone Boats Started Fighting Each Other
When the Environment Remembers
The Silent Threshold: AI Mathematics, Autonomy, and the Illusion of Understanding
The Aestheticization of Politics and the Cinematic Image
Bill Gates Wants to Tax AI. Is He Right?
The Glacier Above Juneau: A Flood, a Tunnel, and a Federal U-Turn
The Human Slop Machine: When Podcasters Monetize Bad Science
The AI Homeschool: What Happens When Every Kid Gets a Private Tutor?
The Human Reserve: Which Decisions Should AI Never Make?
Can Police Buy Their Way Around the Fourth Amendment?
The $40 Trillion Privilege: What Happens When the Dollar Goes Private?
The Attention Economy vs. the Book: What Is Your Leisure Training You to Become?
NO COLLUSION: How William Barr Rewrote the Mueller Story Before America Could Read It
They Had Billions of Years. Where Are the Machines?
Why You Keep Betraying Your Future Self
The Surveillance State We Bought Ourselves: Are We Already There?
When Privacy Becomes Probable Cause
The AI Cheated by Hacking the Exam
Musk’s AI Utopia Has One Problem: Elon Musk Owns It
The Billion-Dollar Flying Palace That Wasn’t Safe to Fly
How Groups Teach Ordinary People to Believe Absurd Things
America Fought the Pirates. Then Trump Borrowed Their Business Model.
The Captain Who Told a Nation to Forget Democracy
The State Must Never Own the Confessional
Ghost Ships Over Europe
The War Comes Home to Russia
Marx in the Machine — Ep. 2: Dueling Manifestos
The President’s Only Interest Is Himself
When Pamphlets Become Terrorism
Horizon of Hope: The First Autonomous Maritime Rescue
The Iran MOU and the $300 Billion Question
No ICE in the Cup: The World Cup as a Political Stage
The $1.8 Trillion IOU
When the Conspiracy Takes Power
The AI Labor Debate: Will Artificial Intelligence Create or Destroy Jobs?
Fusion’s Startup Moment: Can Helion Beat the Laws of Physics?
Quantum Computers: Miracle Machine or Billion-Dollar Maybe?
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Critiquing the AI Equity Proposal
The Pool Guy and the Republic
The Stories Societies Remember — and the Ones They Forget
Guardrails of Democracy: Stress-Testing the 2026 Midterms
Patriotism as Spectacle: From Bicentennial Junk to the White House Octagon
The Trillionaire Who Rented Us the Future
The Norway Paradox
Why the Godfather of AI Fears AI
The Fifth Force & the Crack in the Standard Model
The Dangerous Delusion of Modern Warfare
The Digital Leviathan: Cyberweapons, Surveillance, and Modern Intelligence
Zero-Click Spyware in Criminal Hands
The Court That Checks Trump — and Empowers Him
The Expensive Art of Blowing Up Rockets
Killer Drone Swarms and the Future of War
Attention Is Not Love
Cuba, Texas, and the Politics of Protest
The Thorium Bridge: A Future for Sustainable Nuclear Power
Nexusism: The Path of Universal Connection
The Fatal Toll of the Night Shift
AI 2027
Oil, War, and the Price at the Pump