Episode summary: Natalie narrates Jason and the Argonauts’ epic quest to find the Golden Fleece. Killer women, bronze giants, talking crows and a skeleton army all feature in the great poem by Apollonius. No wonder the equally epic 1963 film of the story credited him as a screen writer.’Rockstar myt...

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Episode summary: The Philosophy club continues. This time, Derek Guy joins to talk about Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son. It’s kind of a weird book! For links, and a special additional article from Derek, head to articlesofinterest.substack.com To hear the podcast in full on your podcast play...

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Episode summary: Send us Fan Mail We trace how Hebrew goes from a “museum language” to a living vernacular by treating language as a coordination good with huge network effects and real transaction costs. We follow Eliezer Ben-Yehuda’s strategy for lowering those costs, then watch the Technion langu...

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Episode summary: A massive victory for privacy advocates in the Supreme Court hinged on what the justices say a user “reasonably expects” to be their own, personal data.

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Episode summary: There’s a sentence in the Declaration of Independence that almost no one talks about. It’s the last grievance: “He has excited the merciless Indian Savages”, it reads, “whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” We’ve all been...

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Episode summary: Fear of automation, trad wives, and America First movements. None of this is new: it all happened in the history of knitting and crochet. For images, links and more, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com

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Episode summary: Send us Fan Mail We walk through the weirdly powerful math that makes a stable $10,000 profit stream worth $50,000 in one world and $1,000,000 in another. Then we apply the same present value logic to politics and show how unpredictable rules raise transaction costs, inflate the eff...

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Episode summary: Signal Hill’s first-ever installment of Letters to the Editors. We want to hear from you! Tell us what you thought of the issue. Send a voice memo to editors@signalhill.fm. Signal Hill is an independent, listener-funded, nonprofit publication. Help us continue making it by signing...

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Episode summary: What role do microbes play in aquaponic farming and cultivated meat production, and how might such novel food technologies impact microbiomes? In this episode, Ishita Dey of Gastronomica hosts Lukáš Senft, Tereza Stöckelová, and Varvara Borisova in a conversation about their new art...

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