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  • The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop

    LIVE SHOW TOUR INFO HERE. New stories, live tapings, special guests, book signings and more.  What would you build on a piece of land when all the normal rules go out the window? On today’s show, how the Squamish Nation reclaimed a...

  • Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain

    When you come across a book at a yard sale or a bookstore, you might pay more attention to the words between the covers than the physical form of the book itself. But content and the form are both crucial to a book’s success. Each book...

  • Inside a BOOK auction

    In the age of TikTok and Polymarket, it can be easy to overlook the humble book. But books are one of the most influential technologies ever invented. From “The Wealth of Nations” to “Das Kapital,” books have the power to shape whole...

  • The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon

    The cardinal tetra is one of the most popular pet fish in the world. They look like little red and blue sequins. You've almost certainly seen them at the pet store or the fish tank at your dentist's office. They're everywhere.  Not so...

  • Chef vs. Robot

    Robby the chef has lots of endearing qualities. He can make over 5000 dishes, he’s a consistent cook, and he’s never late for work. But he’s not a human. It is a 750 lb. stainless steel robot. With a rotating wok at its center. It’s a...

  • The laws of the office revisited

    Live event info and tickets here. If something is going wrong in your workplace, there's probably a law that explains why. Meetings always seem long, and never end early? There’s Parkinson’s Law, which says work expands to the time...

  • Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem

    What do we want from sports? The very best athletes competing as hard as they know how, putting all their effort and training and natural ability to the test against their opponents. But this time of year, that’s not the product the NBA...

  • The Business of Heated Rivalry

    Heated Rivalry, the steamy hockey romance show, was made for about $2 million per episode.  That is remarkably cheap for an hour-long drama. Today on the show, a conversation with Heated Rivalry creators Jacob Tierney and Brendan Brady...

  • Don't hate the replicator, hate the game

    The world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. Re-running an old study today doesn't always yield the same result. Same with re-enacting old experiments....

  • The ICE hiring boom

    Live event info and tickets here . ICE is scaling up, with rapid new hiring. So we ask, has training new officers changed? At what cost?  Also, the Trump administration has plans to pour billions of dollars into warehouses for mass...

  • The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what?

    Live event info and tickets here. The Supreme Court has spoken. Those big, sweeping tariffs that President Trump imposed early last year? They’re illegal.  On today’s show: Why were those tariffs struck down? Will anyone get refunds?...

  • How to get what Greenland has, with permission

    Book tour and ticket info here. Greenland has said it is not for sale. Denmark has said it can’t even legally sell Greenland. And at a security conference in Munich over the weekend, U.S. lawmakers spent a lot of time trying to walk...