Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2038: Leap Second
Episode: 2038 Putting a leap second in an elastic year. Today, we add a second to our lives.
Audio Mises Wire - The Aristotelian-Thomistic Roots of Austrian School
The Austrian School of economics isn’t a 20th century or even 19th century creation. Instead, Austrian economics is rooted in the logical thought, as developed by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/aristotelian-thomistic-roots-austrian-school
Audio Mises Wire - The Venezuelan War is a Racket
Donald Trump’s war against Venezuela is truly a racket, as it looks to be little more than an attempt to loot the nation of Venezuela’s natural resources in the name of “liberation.”
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/venezuelan-war-racket
Curious City - What’s the story behind Berlin nightclub’s huge mural?
The large mural hung over the main bar at Berlin. Painted in the Art Deco style, the masculine and feminine figures in the painting watched over the nightly revelry at the storied nightclub until it closed in 2023.
More or Less - The Stats of the Nation: Sex, drugs and empty homes
What kind of state does the UK find itself in as we start 2026? That’s the question Tim Harford and the More or Less team is trying to answer in a series of five special programmes.
In the third episode, we’re searching for answers to these questions:
Are there really 700,000 empty homes that could be used to solve the housing crisis?
Does the NHS pay less for drugs than health services in other countries?
Is violent crime going up or down?
Is the UK in the midst of a fertility crisis?
Get in touch if you’ve seen a number in the news you think we should take a look at: moreorless@bbc.co.uk
Contributors:
Dr Huseyin Naci, Associate Professor and Director the Pharmaceutical Policy Lab at the London School of Economics Professor Jennifer Dowd, deputy director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford
Credits:
Presenter: Tim Harford Reporters: Lizzy McNeill and Nathan Gower Producers: Katie Solleveld and Charlotte McDonald Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound mix: Sarah Hockley and James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon
The Indicator from Planet Money - Can you trust you’re getting the same grocery prices as someone else?
When you're in a grocery store nowadays, chances are your data is being collected. From a swipe of the loyalty card to the purchase of an ice cream pint, your data tells stores what you like, how much they should stock, and more.
But what if that data meant a grocer could charge you a different price than another shopper?
On today's show, the evolving price tag.
Related episodes:
Should 'surveillance pricing' be banned?
How Grocery Shelves Get Stacked
How niche brands got into your local supermarket
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But what if that data meant a grocer could charge you a different price than another shopper?
On today's show, the evolving price tag.
Related episodes:
Should 'surveillance pricing' be banned?
How Grocery Shelves Get Stacked
How niche brands got into your local supermarket
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.
Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2566: Champagne
Episode: 2566 Taking Champagne to the Masses. Today, we pop the cork.
Audio Mises Wire - Calhoun’s Doctrine of the Concurrent Majority
Sensing the dangers of tyranny by the majority, John C. Calhoun developed the doctrine of the concurrent majority which served to limit the powers of government.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/calhouns-doctrine-concurrent-majority
Audio Mises Wire - Three Key Lessons from the US’s Venezuela Intervention
The US's bombing of Caracas reiterates three key foundations of American foreign policy: the Constitution is dead, democracy is irrelevant, and the "rule of law" doesn't matter.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/three-key-lessons-uss-venezuela-intervention
More or Less - The Stats of the Nation: Health
What kind of state does the UK find itself in as we start 2026? That’s the question Tim Harford and the More or Less team is trying to answer in a series of five special programmes.
In the second episode, we’re asking some interesting questions about health and the NHS:
Has life expectancy in the UK starting to go up again at last?
What statistics tell you about the health of the NHS?
After years of promises, are there actually any more GPs?
What’s happening to cancer rates in the UK?
What’s gone wrong with productivity in the health service?
Get in touch if you’ve seen a number in the news you think we should take a look at: moreorless@bbc.co.uk
Contributors:
Stuart McDonald, Head of Longevity and Demographic Insights at the consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) Jon Shelton, Head of Cancer Intelligence at Cancer Research UK Ben Zaranko, Associate Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Credits:
Presenter: Tim Harford Reporter: Nathan Gower Producers: Lizzy McNeill, Katie Solleveld and Charlotte McDonald Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound mix: Sarah Hockley and Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon