Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1520: Automobile Drag Coefficients
Episode: 1520 In which automobile makers gradually learn aerodynamics. Today, aerodynamics and automobiles.
Audio Mises Wire - Trump, Immigration, and ICE
Restoring the rule of law and Constitutional government on immigration—something wrecked by Trump's rule-by-decree with federal agents—is vastly more important than expelling illegal immigrants.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-immigration-and-ice
Audio Mises Wire - Why America’s Two-Party System Will Never Threaten the True Political Elites
The fact that the Republican and Democratic parties are allowed to circulate into key positions of government is proof enough that they are no threat to the true governing elites.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-americas-two-party-system-will-never-threaten-true-political-elites
Audio Mises Wire - The Idiocracy that Is California Politics
If California voters and politicians do not understand the current crisis, we will see the continuous march to perdition as California politicians refuse to acknowledge that they are killing the geese laying the golden eggs.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/idiocracy-california-politics
Curious City - Why did Chicago widen Ashland Avenue?
If you pay attention to street signs in Chicago, you’ll notice imperfections and many quirks.
Paul Durica of the Chicago History Museum said a coworker informed him that North Avenue becomes North Boulevard when you’re east of Clark Street.
“And I was like, what?” Durica recalled. “And it does! And it's because here we are, now in the park.”
One of Chicago’s major arteries, Ashland Avenue, has a rich history of its own.
In our last episode, we looked at why streets like Ashland are occasionally labelled boulevards (like North Boulevard, sometimes the answer is because the street is adjacent to a park).
Today, we’re looking closer at the history of Ashland Avenue, including how it became a major thoroughfare and why the city widened it at great expense 100 years ago. (The short answer? To accommodate car traffic.) Contributing are Durica and Northwestern Professor Bill Savage, author of a forthcoming book on the anomalies and politics behind Chicago’s grid system.
The Indicator from Planet Money - How college sports juiced Olympic development
How did the U.S. become the Olympic powerhouse it is today? Cold War competition. The Soviet Union sponsored their athletes. But America wanted its athletes to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. It birthed an unexpected accelerator of Olympic development: College football. Stay with us now.
On today’s show, how college football became an Olympic development engine. And how that engine might not be running as smoothly as it once did.
Related episodes:
Why the Olympics cost so much
You can't spell Olympics without IP
A huge EU-India deal, Heated Rivalry, and a hefty $200k to Olympians
Why Host The Olympics?
The monetization of college sports
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On today’s show, how college football became an Olympic development engine. And how that engine might not be running as smoothly as it once did.
Related episodes:
Why the Olympics cost so much
You can't spell Olympics without IP
A huge EU-India deal, Heated Rivalry, and a hefty $200k to Olympians
Why Host The Olympics?
The monetization of college sports
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2555: Google Books
Episode: 2555 The brave new world of digitizing books for the Web. Today, this old book.
Audio Mises Wire - A Positive View of Sectional History
In most nations of any size, sectionalism is almost inevitable. How nations handle such divisions, historian Frank L. Owsley, determines if sectionalism is peaceful or becomes violent. It became violent in the US in 1861.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/positive-view-sectional-history
Audio Mises Wire - Why “Affordability” Is the Wrong Term to Describe Effects of Inflation
Politicians are touting “affordability” to describe the current regime of rising prices. However, most lawmakers who claim they are trying to make things more affordable demand policies that make things more costly.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-affordability-wrong-term-describe-effects-inflation
Audio Mises Wire - The Not-So-New Dollar Strategy: Monetize Productivity in Advance
A bad end is most likely though even in the best case scenario of AI increasing living standards. The build-up of asset inflation malinvestment and overleveraging will impose huge costs.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/not-so-new-dollar-strategy-monetize-productivity-advance