October 2026
354 episodes · Page 3 of 6
- #5891 Four Ways Humanity Kept Records for 1,200 Years
- #5890 Fifteen Miles an Hour Through a Metal Pipe
- #5889 How Pipeline Pigs Actually Work
- #5888 Where Does the Rain Actually Go?
- #5887 Gears That Did Calculus: Mechanical Computers
- #5886 From Leviticus to the Kilogram: Honest Scales
- #5885 The World's Oldest Software Still Running
- #5884 The Machines That Take 5 Years to Replace
- #5883 What Happens to Water Between the Plant and Your Tap
- #5882 Half of All Energy Becomes Heat. Now What?
- #5881 How the Grid Loses Half Its Power — and How Delhi Fixed It
- #5880 Why Suburbs May Be a Bad Deal
- #5879 Why Experts Don't Follow Their Own Advice
- #5878 How a Sloth Learned to Talk: Corn's Origin Story
- #5877 A Sloth Diagnoses Human Civilization
- #5876 Sloth Leaf Medicine: What's Real and What Isn't
- #5875 The Laminated Card Doctrine
- #5874 Who Actually Builds a City's Housing Crisis?
- #5873 Abliteration: How $5 Undoes a Model's Guardrails
- #5872 When Citizen Engagement Becomes Paperwork Theater
- #5871 Why Your USB-C Charger Won't Talk to Cheap Devices
- #5870 Homebox Fork's Two Backend Scripts Need a Real Job Runner
- #5869 Scraping AliExpress Specs: Selectors, Agents, or Neither?
- #5868 Fine-Tuning Parakeet for Um-Free, Hebrish Speech
- #5867 Toddler Meltdowns After Daycare, Explained
- #5866 When Asking About a Leaky Roof Ends Your Lease
- #5865 Four Pocket Players That Won't Sell You a Device Today
- #5864 Inside a 15-Month-Old's Head: What Ezra's Brain Is Doing
- #5863 What Shabbat Does to Your Brain That Sleep Can't
- #5862 One Show, Eighteen Feeds: Apple's Duplicate Content Rules
- #5861 Inside Cloudflare's Bot Check: TLS, JA4, and the Sand-Timer
- #5860 Who Can Actually Train an LLM From Scratch?
- #5859 Slow Labs, Fast Ships: What Release Cadence Actually Tells Us
- #5858 Routing AI Models: When 3 Rules Beat a Trained Router
- #5857 Building a Scorecard for Our Own AI Writers
- #5856 ADHD Is Not One Thing: What the Data Says
- #5855 Spaghetti Hands: The Science of First Steps
- #5854 Why Quiet Weekends Make the Jackhammer Worse
- #5853 Who Actually Competes With Hugging Face?
- #5852 What "Free of Ordnance" Actually Means
- #5851 The Earbud Assistant Problem Nobody Solves
- #5850 Ambient Computing: Why Glasses Beat the Phone
- #5849 Who Invented Computer Science—and Was It Ever a Trade?
- #5848 The Libraries Nobody Thinks About
- #5847 Why One EQ Curve Can't Fix Two Voices
- #5846 Who Tells a Star the Show Is a Bad Idea?
- #5845 The $700 Pin and Other AI Flops
- #5844 Five of the Buggiest Software Ever Shipped
- #5843 Why pip and uv Share Almost No Code
- #5842 When Your TTS Model Updates Itself
- #5841 What's Actually Inside a Secure Line?
- #5840 Why Voice Clones Lisp: Sibilants, Codecs, and the Sounds We Lose
- #5838 What Customs Officers Actually Read at the Booth
- #5837 Atlas Obscura: 33,000 Hidden Places and a Boardroom Coup
- #5836 Counting Every Letter: Ancient Text Integrity Systems
- #5835 What Do You Call the Urge to Know Obscure Things?
- #5834 Dead Man's Switches: Alerts vs. Final Notices
- #5833 When GLP-1s Silence Hunger Cues
- #5832 When Your GPS Is Lying: Aviation's Spoofing Problem
- #5831 Managed vs Layer 3: Two Switch Axes, One Empty Box