California
state of the United States of America
Episodes
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#5670: Circadian Policy: Light, Schedules, and Public HealthWhat if a task force treated light and time as public infrastructure? The science of circadian alignment — and the policies that follow. -
#5661: Same Pills, Same Gun, New State, New CrimeFifty states, fifty legal answers. What happens when ordinary conduct is a felony one zip code over? -
#5632: Why Cities Keep Digging Expensive Parking HolesParking minimums bury money underground — and shape the towers above. What Jerusalem's luxury towers reveal about rules nobody chose. -
#5502: Clifford Hutsell and the Storybook Houses of DallasA listener's childhood mystery: who designed those fantastical Lakewood houses? The answer leads to Storybook architecture. -
#5483: One Network: Israel's Deregulation and the Case for State-FiberIsrael's reforms cut mobile prices 60–80%. Now: what if the state owned the physical network and every carrier rented it? -
#5798: Project Sundial: Teller's 10-Gigaton Doomsday ProposalEdward Teller proposed a 10,000-megaton bomb in 1954. The physics allowed it — the delivery problem killed it. -
#5796: 900 Tonnes on Public Roads: The Weirdest Cargo Moves544 wheels, 66 hours on the road with three elephants, and a spaceship on Crenshaw Boulevard — the strange industry that moves the impossible. -
#5790: Police Auditors: Rights, Rage, and the CameraThey film outside police stations until someone in uniform reacts. Is it civil liberties activism or a business built on confrontation? -
#5767: Inside Private Grids That Run ThemselvesFrom hospital CHP plants to remote mines, private grids already run like miniature utilities. Here's where the fence line sits. -
#5744: Blue Tools, Green Tools: Inside Bosch's Channel StrategyWhy Bosch sells two tool lines under one name — and why the green one wasn't sold in America for decades. -
#5679: Glue, Don't Bolt: Anchoring Road Studs and Soil AnchorsRoad studs get glued, not bolted — and plows eat anything proud of the pavement. Soil anchors are a different physics problem entirely. -
#5648: Before the Break: How Rest Became a RightThe work break wasn't handed down on a tablet—it was invented in a 1915 munitions factory by a physiologist who threatened to arrest the manager. -
#5647: Can Any Country Actually Go It Alone?Ninety percent of rare earth processing runs through one country. So what happens when a nation tries to trade with nobody at all? -
#5637: Lux Sensors for Home Assistant: The Feedback Loop Nobody Warns You AboutLux sensors sound simple until the lights you turn on trip the sensor that turned them on. Here's the full chain, from Aqara T1 to Matter's missing... -
#5560: What's Really in That Paint Can?Water-based paint still off-gasses for weeks. Here's what's in the can, and the one free lever that actually matters. -
#5552: Why Ireland and Israel Feel Poorer Than Their GDP SaysIreland ranks 2nd in the world by GDP per capita. Israel's prices rank 5th highest. Neither number tells you how wealthy life actually feels. -
#5478: When AI Hands Out Your Phone NumberA chatbot gave out a stranger's real phone number. What happens when the model can't forget it? -
#5326: What Makes a Bar a Third Place?A listener's search for a bar where you can actually hear your friend — and the 35-year-old sociology that explains why it's so hard to find. -
#5249: What Makes a Network Truly Sovereign?An HF antenna on a consulate roof raises a bigger question: what makes a network sovereign — and why is everyone from cloud vendors to AI data cent... -
#5120: Why Ground Rumble Ignores Your Acoustic WindowsAcoustic windows can't stop low-frequency rumble traveling through soil. Can wave barriers or base isolation actually work between city buildings?