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#3130: How to Fight Better: The Science of Healthy Conflict
The first 3 minutes of a fight predict divorce with 90% accuracy. Here’s what to do about it.
#3129: Holden Caulfield vs. the War Briefing
What Salinger’s phoniness detector reveals about how the war with Iran is being reported.
#3128: The Real Job of a Policy Wonk
What does a policy wonk actually do? It's not just a put-down — it's a real, high-impact job.
#3127: Crafting AI Characters That Feel Alive
Move beyond system prompts with structured character bibles that give AI personalities real inner lives.
#3126: How Flat Hierarchy Actually Works (No, It’s Not No Managers)
Flat hierarchy isn’t no managers—it’s fewer gates between insight and action. But hidden hierarchies survive every reorg.
#3125: When Democracy Requires Door-Knocking
Why Irish politicians knock on doors while Israeli MKs don't — and what Canada, Japan, and Taiwan do instead.
#3124: Immigrant Strategies: Enclave vs. Full Immersion
Do enclave builders or full immersionists report higher satisfaction? The data reveals a surprising tradeoff.
#3123: What Research Says About Healthy Families
Beyond the greeting-card version—what the data actually says about what makes families work.
#3122: When Trust Collapses: Chile, Lebanon, South Korea
Three countries, three outcomes when citizens lost faith in their entire political class.
#3121: Can You Benchmark Government Value for Money?
A century of attempts to measure whether citizens get a good deal on taxes — and why none have fully worked.
#3120: What Makes Agentic Search Tools Like Exa Actually Work?
Why swapping Google for Exa transformed our show's accuracy — and what agentic search does differently.
#3119: How to Catalog Your Entire Home Without Losing Your Mind
One listener spent 3 years cataloging thousands of items. Here’s what he learned about systems that actually survive.
#3118: Anteaters: Savanna Animals, Not Jungle
Brazil has the most, but Paraguay has the highest density. And no, they don’t just eat ants.
#3117: Inside the Military's Secret Airline
The U.S. military runs a passenger airline bigger than Delta's international operation. Here's how.
#3116: How the U.S. Army Prepositions Tanks for War
Inside the $30 billion global network of warehouses keeping tanks, Bradleys, and ammo ready to fight in 96 hours.
#3115: How Many Scientists Actually Live at the Poles?
The surprising answer: ~850 in Antarctic summer, ~400 in winter, and effectively zero at the North Pole.
#3114: Life Underwater: 90 Days Without Sun
How do submariners survive months underwater without sunlight, fresh air, or contact with home?
#3113: Baby Vital Signs: What Actually Works for Home Monitoring
Pulse oximeters, thermometers, and stethoscopes for infants — what's accurate and what's dangerously misleading.
#3112: Life on the Logistics Bubble: Supply Chains That Can't Fail
How planners keep Antarctic stations, submarines, and remote outposts alive when resupply is impossible for months.
#3111: The Broken Contract: Trust, Taxes, and Truth in Israel
73% of Israelis rate government performance as poor. The contract between citizens and state has fractured.