Episode summary: In the final episode of Not Built for This, we reckon with the biological limits of climate adaptation.

Episode summary: The United States has a strange way of electing presidents.

Episode summary: David checks in with Gary Gerstle one more time before November to explore where things now stand with the US presidential election. In a conversation recorded in the immediate aftermath of the Walz/Vance debate, they discuss dead cats, October headwinds, comparisons with 2016 and a...

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Episode summary: In this episode David and Rosemary explore Moom 4 and other window management tools for macOS.

Episode summary: Zombie mortgages—decades-old debts—are suddenly coming back to life and threatening to take everything away.

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Episode summary: The German word for “started the online shopping revolution” is Tobi Lütke.

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Episode summary: Election deepfakes have the potential to change people’s opinions about a presidential election in ways that can be harmful to democracy and the truth itself. But what does the Constitution say about regulating these manipulated images? One place to look: Hustler Magazine.

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Episode summary: Our counterfactuals series moves forward to 1989: David talks to Lea Ypi about what might have happened if the Berlin Wall hadn’t fallen when it did. Was the night it came down really just one big accident? How long could the East German regime have lasted? And what does the fate of...

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Episode summary: Send us a textWhat do Monty Python, George Akerlof, and the academic publishing industry have in common? They’re all part of the explanation for the way academic publishing works. High transaction costs and the race for tenure often push scholars to prioritize quantity over quality....

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Episode summary: Big stakes poker player and elections analyst Nate Silver is no stranger to a calculated risk. In his new book, On The Edge, he makes the case that people willing to take massive calculated risks are winning in the modern economy. Tim Harford talks to Nate about the mindset that’s d...

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