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Chef vs. Robot
Mar 13, 2026Robby 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 ...
The laws of the office revisited
Mar 11, 2026Live 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, whi...
Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem
Mar 06, 2026What 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 ...
The Business of Heated Rivalry
Mar 04, 2026Heated 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 crea...
Don't hate the replicator, hate the game
Feb 27, 2026The 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 ...
The ICE hiring boom
Feb 25, 2026Live 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...
The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what?
Feb 21, 2026Live 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 st...
How to get what Greenland has, with permission
Feb 18, 2026Book 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 s...
Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines
Feb 13, 2026Book tour event details and ticket info here. An iconic cartoon character liberated from copyright, journalism from the world of competitive spreadsheeting, a controversial piece of US currency. Each...
The Invention Invention
Feb 11, 2026Book tour tickets and details here. Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and ambitious inventor who wanted all the credit and was willing to f...