Iraq
sovereign state in Western Asia
Episodes
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#5832: When Your GPS Is Lying: Aviation's Spoofing ProblemGPS spoofing is feeding pilots fake positions — and the panel stays green. How crews detect it, and why the airport stand sign can't save you. -
#5819: What Happens to Retired London Buses?A field guide to 50 Routemasters and their strange afterlives — tea rooms, circuses, a bus called The Potato Story. -
#5569: Measuring Democracy Beyond Voter TurnoutVoter turnout is one reading from one instrument. What else tells us whether a democracy is actually engaged? -
#5357: Pan-Arabism, the Umma, and Why the Arab League Can't Enforce AnythingWhat pan-Arabism actually claims, why it isn't the umma, and why 22 members can't stop sanctioning each other. -
#5338: Iran Is Rebuilding Parchin. Again.Satellite imagery shows Iran rebuilding the Taleghan Two site at Parchin for the second time in 18 months — this time under a tarp. -
#5153: When Surveyors Meet Shepherds: Borders vs. NomadsWhat happens when a precise surveyed border cuts through a way of life built on movement? The Bedouin, Druze, and Maasai cases. -
#5685: East Jerusalem's Residency Trap: What 300,000 People Actually WantA third of East Jerusalem's residents hold residency, not citizenship. What the polling says about identity surprises almost everyone. -
#5595: Roman Roads Still Running Under Modern CitiesThe Aqua Virgo still pours into the Trevi Fountain. The Cloaca Maxima still drains central Rome. What keeps ancient infrastructure alive? -
#5495: Musrara: Growing Up on Jerusalem's Pencil-Drawn BorderHow a border drawn with wax pencils in 1948 split Musrara's homes in two — and shaped the neighborhood that raised the Israeli Black Panthers. -
#5445: Israel's Periphery: Why It's Not About DistanceWhat "peripheria" really means in Israel — and why a $10B Intel fab sits in a town that still tops unemployment. -
#5195: When Real Danger Silences PhobiasA year of war and housing crisis erased his cockroach phobia. The science says that's not as strange as it sounds. -
#5185: Why One Border Becomes Three FencesWhat border fences are actually built for — and why a steel barrier that took years to engineer was cut through in minutes. -
#5176: IAEA Reports Iran: What the Vote Actually DoesThe IAEA Board reported Iran to the Security Council for the first time in 20 years — over 440kg of uranium it can't locate. -
#5152: Sinai's Level 4 Warning: What's Actually Left of ISISEgypt declared terrorism over in North Sinai in 2023. The NSC still rates the peninsula level four. What's actually left?