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Elon Musk, Twitter and free speech; and how tech moguls misread sci-fi. (episode)
The world’s wealthiest man is buying Twitter, because Twitter is power.
Can social media look more like a public park than a spaceship?
What if Silicon Valley's tech moguls have been reading Sci-Fi wrong?
On a quiet cul-de-sac, a husband and wife are stabbed to death. Could the Republican lobbyist have killed his wife, then set their bedroom on fire, before knifing himself? (episode)
Why you should un-love work; the liberating oppression of technology; and lessons from the actual Luddites. (episode)
The perils of loving your job.
"Efficiency purgatory," the original open office, and more.
The misremembered, tech-savvy pioneers.
May Day isn't some kind of Soviet export developed in Moscow's Red Square. It actually started in the U.S. (episode)
The Iranian revolution; the Iron Curtain; and the internet. (episode)
It started in 1983 with British programmer Simon Goodwin.
Explaining 'Sneakernet.'
How one man's voice upended a country's politics and continues to echo around the globe today.
Tax Time! (episode)
Apathy towards Long Covid. Plus, using history's most famous infections and the teachings of Kurt Vonnegut to process our "new normal." (episode)
COVID is now the third leading cause of death in the U.S.
Long influenza, post-polio syndrome, and other history lessons.
Our preference for simple stories has made it hard to keep track of the pandemic.
Is another new variant a cause for concern? (probably not) (episode)
The threat of nuclear apocalypse, and what Putin should've learned from past American invasions. (episode)
If you think it'll be quick, clean, and anything but brutal, don't do it.
This moment is less Cuban Missile Crisis and more business as usual in the nuclear age.
How do we fear the incomprehensible?
Is it time for a remake of the Soviet-era movie?