Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1320: Intellectual Misdirection
Episode: 1320 Today, we wonder where to look for our new widget. Intellectual misdirection: looking inside and outside our heads for knowledge.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1319: Differential Analyzer
Episode: 1319 Vannevar Bush and the great Rockefeller Differential Analyzer. Today, a eulogy for a machine.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1318: Three-Field Rotation
Episode: 1318 Three-field crop rotation and the origins of Western technology. Today, putting horses to work proves harder than we might think.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?
Just before being inaugurated as US president for the second time, Donald Trump launched something called a ?meme-coin?. This is a bespoke cryptocurrency token featuring a picture of Donald Trump. A billion of them may eventually be created.
Newspaper headlines claimed that the Trump meme-coin had made the president billions of dollars wealthier. But it is far from clear that this is the case. Presenter: Charlotte McDonald Producer: Lizzy McNeill Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: Mike Etherden Editor: Richard Vadon
The Indicator from Planet Money - Why China’s DeepSeek AI is such a big deal
Indicators of the Week unpacks numbers from the news. This week, we delve into what President Trump's first AI announcement reveals about the economics of the industry, a Chinese company's answer to OpenAI, and the reason why Prince Harry may have settled with Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
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Is AI overrated or underrated? (Apple / Spotify)
AI creates, transforms and destroys... jobs
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Cato Daily Podcast - What’s the Best Way to End the Department of Education?
There are multiple ways to end the Department of Education. The method chosen matters. Neal McCluskey explains why.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3305: An Inland Seaport
Episode: 3305 An inland shipping port expands our vision of seaports. Today, an inland seaport.
Cato Daily Podcast - Trump Trade Tactics against Canada and Greenland
Are Trump threats aimed at Canada and Denmark (over Greenland) anything more than bluster? Cato's Doug Bandow and Clark Packard talk about the implications for trade and foreign relations.
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Audio Mises Wire - The Establishment’s “Principles” Are Fake
The Biden administration, and the political establishment more broadly, is scrambling to ram through policies that a majority of voters just voted against. Their actions expose that their supposed commitment to democracy is a lie.
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Audio Mises Wire - The Nation’s Reading Instruction Disaster
Much of the failure of American schools is due to the adherence to a flawed system of teaching students how to read. Homeschoolers often don‘t seem to have that problem, and there is a good reason why.
Original article: The Nation’s Reading Instruction Disaster