Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1303: Transit of Venus
Episode: 1303 Chasing the transit of Venus over the tundra. Today, we chase a mini-eclipse.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1302: Francois Marcet’s Steam Globe
Episode: 1302 Francois Marcet's steam globe: measuring vapor-pressure. Today, a piece of apparatus and a piece of history.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1301: The Boy Mechanic
Episode: 1301 The Boy Mechanic: endangering boys seeking danger. Today, a boy's world, a century ago.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?
?Say what you like about Mussolini but he did make the trains run on time.? This phrase is the political equivalent of ?every cloud has a silver lining? ? but does it have any factual basis? Mussolini?s dictatorship in Italy was full of atrocities, brutal suppression and propaganda. Did it also create a more efficient railway network? We speak to Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat about the truth of the claim and why the Mussolini regime wanted us to believe it. Presenter: Lizzy McNeill Producer: Lizzy McNeill Researcher: Esme Winterbotham Series Producer: Tom Colls Editor: Richard Vadon Sound Master: James Beard Production Co-ordinator: Katie Morrison.
Image: Benito Mussolini in his train studying maps. (Photo by ullstein picture/ullstein picture via Getty Images)
The Indicator from Planet Money - Help us pick the indicator of the year!
2024 was a wild year for the U.S. economy: The economy did well in terms of inflation and unemployment, but vibes ruled the roost. (Mostly didn't feel great!) Additionally, Bitcoin went to the moon and some wacky stuff was happening with unemployment and job opening rates, showing that we might have achieved an economic soft landing.
So ... which of these economic stories defined the year?
Our hosts from Planet Money and The Indicator duke it out in ... Family Feud!
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So ... which of these economic stories defined the year?
Our hosts from Planet Money and The Indicator duke it out in ... Family Feud!
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Cato Daily Podcast - Renewing Small Towns with Zoning Reform
Downtowns built 100 years ago are still viable, so why are they so hard to build today? Andrew Cline is president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy. We talked about what's instructive about the changes in New Hampshire's zoning rules that have left so many towns unable to renew themselves.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1300: Daniel Fahrenheit
Episode: 1300 Daniel Fahrenheit invents the thermometer and its scale. Today, we invent the thermometer.
Cato Daily Podcast - Nowhere to Live: The Hidden Story of America’s Housing Crisis
The history of government control over how and where people live is told in Nowhere to Live: The Hidden Story of America's Housing Crisis. Jim Burling is the book's author.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Can empty-nesters boost housing affordability?
The "silver tsunami" of aging Americans is often seen as a potential way to alleviate the country's housing affordability woes. However, the data suggests that an influx of empty-nester homes coming on the market won't have much of an impact on the problem—because of a geographical mismatch.
Today on the show, we speak to an economist who's looked into the silver tsunami's impact on the housing market and thinks this theory might be more of a red herring.
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Today on the show, we speak to an economist who's looked into the silver tsunami's impact on the housing market and thinks this theory might be more of a red herring.
This episode was fact checked by Sierra Juarez
Related episodes:
The graying of America
What would it take to fix retirement?
How big is the US housing shortage?
The highs and lows of US rents
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2399: Engineering Freeways
Episode: 2399 The Many Facets of Engineering a Freeway. Today, stuck in traffic.