Episode summary: There’s a sentence in the Declaration of Independence that almost no one talks about. It’s the last grievance: “He has excited the merciless Indian Savages”, it reads, “whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” We’ve all been...
Episode summary: Fear of automation, trad wives, and America First movements. None of this is new: it all happened in the history of knitting and crochet. For images, links and more, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
Episode summary: Send us Fan Mail We walk through the weirdly powerful math that makes a stable $10,000 profit stream worth $50,000 in one world and $1,000,000 in another. Then we apply the same present value logic to politics and show how unpredictable rules raise transaction costs, inflate the eff...
Episode summary: Signal Hill’s first-ever installment of Letters to the Editors. We want to hear from you! Tell us what you thought of the issue. Send a voice memo to editors@signalhill.fm. Signal Hill is an independent, listener-funded, nonprofit publication. Help us continue making it by signing...
Episode summary: What role do microbes play in aquaponic farming and cultivated meat production, and how might such novel food technologies impact microbiomes? In this episode, Ishita Dey of Gastronomica hosts Lukáš Senft, Tereza Stöckelová, and Varvara Borisova in a conversation about their new art...
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