All Episodes

Episode 142: Billionaires Wanna Live Forever

Episode 141: Imagine a World Without Mosquitoes

Episode 140: Are We at a Tipping Point for Tipping?

Episode 139: Standardized Testing and the Pretense of Meritocracy

Episode 138: Geoengineering Our Way Out of Climate Disaster

Episode 137: Should Billionaires Exist?

Episode 136: Living a Meaningful Life

Episode 135: Gerrymandering: A Jerry-Built Contraption

Episode 134: The Clock is Ticking to Doomsday

Episode 133: What is It About Dogs?

Episode 132: Who’s Happier: Liberals or Conservatives?

Episode 131: The Next Pandemic

Episode 130: Flat Earthers Are Still Around

Episode 129: Mansplaining Mailbag

Episode 128: We’ve Got a Gambling Problem

Episode 127: The Proper Retirement Age

Episode 126: The Decline and Fall of Expertise

Episode 125: Darkness Over Light in Film and TV

Episode 124: The Best (and Worst) Holiday Music

Episode 123: Tripping Your Way Out of Trauma

Episode 122: Why Gas Stoves Stink

Episode 121: Halloween: A Singularly American Stew

Episode 120: Potatoes and Tomatoes: Hardy Migrants

Episode 119: Flag Fetish

Episode 118: The Pros and Cons of Gerontocracy

Episode 117: What Rousseau Might Say About the USA

Episode 116: The Cemetery Industry is Not Dead Yet

Episode 115: Will There Be Enough Water?

Episode 114: About Those Expiration Dates…

Episode 113: Green Lawn Origin Story

Episode 112: We’re Dawdling on High-Speed Rail

Episode 111: We Best Not Nuke Nuclear

Episode 110: Housing and the Land-Value Tax

Episode 109: A Quantum Leap in Computing

Episode 108: There’s No Dressing Up Dress Codes

Episode 107: The Skinny on GLP-1 Drugs

Episode 106: Are Lotteries Justifiable?

Episode 105: An Appalling Lack of Savings

Episode 104: The Rap on Map Apps

Episode 103: Things Are Looking Up (We Hope)

Episode 102: In Search of Peace and Healing

Episode 101 Bonus Content: The Past and Future of Air Travel

Episode 101: Will Air Travel Crash and Burn?

Episode 100: What Makes Pop Music Artists Run Out of Ideas?

Episode 99: What Makes a Company Run Out of Ideas?

Episode 98: The Checkered Legacy of Legacy Admissions

Episode 97: The Threat to Critical Infrastructure

Episode 96: All the Lonely People

Episode 95: Fusion Is (Still) Just Around the Corner

White-Hot Take: Childless Cat Ladies?

Episode 94: Decoding the Unitary Executive Theory

Episode 93: Fertility and the Elusive Sweet Spot

Episode 92: American Climate Refugees?

Episode 91: The Vultures Are Circling Around College Athletics

Episode 90: The (Non-Existent) Connection Between Bail Reform and Crime

Episode 89: Reckoning with the Brain-Computer Interface

Episode 88: Does “Clutch” Performance Exist?

Episode 87: Economic Forecasting is a Joke

Episode 86: The Future is Now for Electric Vehicles

Episode 85: Does John Fetterman Herald the Return of Blue-Collar Liberalism?

Episode 84: When Machines Become Smarter Than Humans

Episode 83: The Robotics Revolution That Wasn’t

Episode 82: What We’re Thankful For

Episode 81: Understanding Effective Altruism

Episode 80: How to Solve Immigration (in 40 Minutes)

Episode 79: Nothing Is Real, Not Even this Podcast

Episode 78: What Makes a Hero?

Episode 77: Can a Machine Be Intelligent?

Episode 76: To Play Or Not To Play Football

Episode 75: Bad Data ≠ Good Science

Episode 74: The Weather Report Is Calamitous

Episode 73: The Cases For and Against Universal Basic Income

Episode 72: Do Deficits Really Matter?

Episode 71: The Debt Ceiling Disaster Scenario

Episode 70: Must We All Have Smartphones?

Episode 69: Why Increased Productivity Doesn’t Create More Leisure

Episode 68: : Those Namby-Pamby NIMBYs

Episode 67: The Best Pop Song Ever Written?

Is Cord-Cutting a Looming Apocalypse for Pro Sports?

Episode 65: What Critical Race Theory Is (and Is Not)

Episode 64: Is Aging a Disease?

Episode 63: The State of Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico

Episode 62: Rumors of Religion’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Episode 61: The Origin of New Year's Day

Episode 60: The Artist is a Bot

Episode 58: Welcome to the Metaverse!

Episode 57: The Ups and (Mostly) Downs of Vaping

Episode 56: Whither the Russian Military?

Episode 55: Boob Tube Bests Big Screen

Episode 54: The Hullabaloo Over Charter Schools

Episode 53: I’m Scared, Therefore I’m Armed

Episode 52: Wrapping Our Brains Around Love

Episode 51: Is There a Link Between Abortion and Crime?

Episode 50: Why We Laugh

Episode 49: Are Cities In Trouble?

Episode 48: I Own It, Now You Pay For It

Episode 47: College Is For Girls

Episode 46: What We Get From Watching Sports

Episode 45: Spring Forward or Fall Back - Pick One

Episode 44: Charity Begins Where, Exactly?