Best Plain Zero Podcasts (2025)

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 05-25-2025 9PM EDT 4:40

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 05-25-2025 8PM EDT 4:40

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The Rest Is Money: 175. Does Trump Spell The End Of Net Zero? 37:01

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How do we swap out dirty power for clean power in the UK? Why aren’t politicians more ambitious with green energy policies when it’s cheaper than the fossil fuel alternative? Will China and the rest of the world step forward where America is stepping backwards? Robert and Steph speak to Lord Nick Stern, one of the leading voices on the economic imp…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 05-25-2025 7PM EDT 4:40

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Letters from an American: May 24, 2025 13:31

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Garamond

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This American Life: 860: Suddenly: A Mirror! 59:53

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A show about people who are suddenly confronted with who they are. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: Guest host Aviva DeKornfeld tells Ira Glass about breaking into a community pool as a kid, and the split-second decision that has haunted her ever since. (4 minutes) Act One: Some people are g…

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The Nation Podcasts: Taking David Horowitz Seriously | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer 52:22

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The late David Horowitz, who died in April at age 86, was often dismissed as a fringe figure not just by liberals and leftists but even many on the right. Horowitz would often complain that his books — crude polemics with titles such as BLITZ: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win (2020) and The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying A…

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The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer: Taking David Horowitz Seriously 52:22

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The late David Horowitz, who died in April at age 86, was often dismissed as a fringe figure not just by liberals and leftists but even many on the right. Horowitz would often complain that his books — crude polemics with titles such as BLITZ: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win (2020) and The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying A…

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The Daily: ‘Modern Love’: Why Boys and Men Are Floundering, According to Relationship Therapist Terry Real 37:09

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A session with Terry Real, a marriage and family therapist, can get uncomfortable. He’s known to mirror and amplify the emotions of his clients, sometimes cursing and nearly yelling, often in an attempt to get men in touch with the emotions they’re not used to honoring. Real says men are often pushed to shut off their expression of vulnerability wh…

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Otherppl with Brad Listi: 967. J. Robert Lennon 1:19:37

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J. Robert Lennon is the author of the novel Buzz Kill, available from Mulholland Books. It is the official May pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Lennon is the author of two story collections, Pieces For The Left Hand and See You in Paradise, and eight novels, including Mailman, Castle, Familiar, Broken River, and most recently, Hard Girls. He holds a…

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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1221: Nonsense mediated decay 1:59:04

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TWiV reviews cuts in National Science Foundation budgets, cuts to Harvard University grants, judge blocks ban on Harvard enrolling international students, DOGE ordered cuts of NIH grants, endemic coronavirus infection induces Fc receptor binding antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, and inherited IFNAR1 deficiency causing adverse reactions to measles and yello…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4511: WarRoom Special: Live From West Point Cont.

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Episode 4511: WarRoom Special: Live From West Point Cont.By WarRoom.org

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Lex Fridman Podcast: #470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles 3:30:56

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James Holland is a historian specializing in World War II. He hosts a podcast called WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep470-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/j…

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Letters from an American: May 23, 2025 6:02

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Garamond

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4510: WarRoom Special: Live From West Point

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Episode 4510: WarRoom Special: Live From West PointBy WarRoom.org

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Outside Lands San Francisco: 565: West Portal Elementary 49:54

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Join Chelsea, Drew, and Nicole as they explore the nearly 100-year history of West Portal Elementary School and the stories that have shaped its legacy.By nicole @ outsidelands.org

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The Gist: The Gist List Live w Ethan Strauss 44:05

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Today on The Gist. Ethan Strauss joined Mike Pesca for a Substack Live conversation. Today we air a portion of it focusing on Caitlin Clark and shoes. You can listen to the full interview by clicking the link below. Live w Ethan Strauss Mike Pesca n' Caitlin Clark, Jayson Tatum & you Produced by Corey Wara Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠ …

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Wisdom of Crowds: Sex and Death and Norms and Shame 49:20

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live We live in an increasingly weird world, where the weirdness is facilitated and accelerated by the Internet. We live in a world full of instantly-available bizarre pornography and terrorist attacks inspired by misanthropic ideologies whose manifestos are published onli…

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Macro N Cheese: Ep 329 - Stage IV Terminal Capitalism with Hamza Hamouchene 1:14:17

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The podcast focuses on the critical need to address the root causes of health and environmental crises, emphasizing that many diseases, including cancer, are largely influenced by environmental factors and capitalism's exploitative nature. Hamza Hamouchene talks about his reasons for leaving a career in cancer research, highlighting the disillusion…

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The Good Fight: Paul Krugman on Why International Trade is Good 1:35:31

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Yascha Mounk and Paul Krugman also explore whether the Euro was a mistake. Paul Krugman is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024. In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his cont…

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Jacobin Radio: Jacobin Radio: The Americans Disappeared by Pinochet w/ John Dinges 59:18

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Journalist and author John Dinges joins Suzi to discuss his new book, Chile in Their Hearts. The book reopens the case of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi — two young Americans who went to Chile to experience the radical democratic socialist experiment of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government — and were detained and executed in the days follo…

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts: The Two Tracks of Justice 1:16:06

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This week’s episode attempts to understand the ways in which the law of Trump unfolds along two tracks at the same time. First, Mark Joseph Stern joins us to talk about the Supreme Court’s decision to let Trump fire the heads of independent agencies, undermining a 90-year-old precedent in an unsigned, two-page decision on the shadow docket. This is…

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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning: Tim Lee: 2025 and the driverless car revolution 55:46

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Today Razib talks to Tim Lee, a previous guest on Unsupervised Learning. Lee hosts Understanding AI. Lee covered tech more generally for a decade for Washington Post, Ars Technica, and Vox.com. He has a master's degree in computer science from Princeton. Lee writes extensively about general AI issues, from Deep Research’s capabilities to the state …

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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1220: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin 54:19

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello debate the changes in FDA vaccine approval policy especially how it is applied to COVID-19 vaccines and restricts vaccine availability/usage and Novavax’s vaccine, mpox on surfaces and in the air, “bird flu”, the ongoing measles outbreak globally before Dr. Griffin reviews recent st…

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Left Anchor: Four Futures Revisited - 353 PREVIEW 7:02

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Back in 2011 Peter Frase wrote an article for Jacobin called "Four Futures," later turned into a book, speculating about how politics and the economy might evolve in the future as automation progresses. The four possibilities, outlined in broad strokes, are: communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism. Fourteen years on, how have his predictions…

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The Bitchuation Room: Trump's 'SKETCHY" Dinner & Will SCOTUS Let Trump End Birthright Citizenship? FRANTASTIC FRIDAY 1:42:17

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In this white nationalist fanfic we’re living in, Trump has put birthright citizenship on the chopping block. Traci Feit Love, President & Executive Director of Lawyers for Good Government joined Francesca to talk about Trump’s battle against the American constitution. And journalist and producer of THIS VERY SHOW Paige Oamek came by to talk with F…

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Big Technology Podcast: OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google Enters 'AI Mode' 50:58

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Alex's unexpected Sergey Brin interview 2) Jony Ive sells his IO device company to OpenAI 3) What this device could be 4) Is Jony + Sam bad for Apple? 5) Could this device work? 6) What the move to ambient assistants could signal for tech 7) Anthropic's …

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Bannon`s War Room: WarRoom Battleground EP 775: The Pitfalls Of AI Regulation And Cyborg Theocracy

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WarRoom Battleground EP 775: The Pitfalls Of AI Regulation And Cyborg TheocracyBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4509: Bannon's Budget Breakdown; Maureen Previews Board Of Visitors

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Episode 4509: Bannon's Budget Breakdown; Maureen Previews Board Of VisitorsBy WarRoom.org

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The Gist: Funny You Should Mention: Robby Hoffman 1:11:27

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Comedian, podcaster, and self-described cutie-in-her-own-way Robby Hoffman drops by to discuss her life, her comedy, and why she takes talking as seriously as any other art form. From growing up ultra-Orthodox and ultra-poor to becoming a sought-after stand-up with a Porsche no one wants, Hoffman explains how she’s thrived in disaster and learned t…

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Changelog: Dull, dirty or dangerous 1:08:07

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We sit down with Scott Hanselman at Microsoft Build 2025 to discuss open sourcing all the things, cool stuff Windows can do, where we want (and don’t want) AI to fit into our lives, building arcade cabinets, and so much more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Spon…

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 2504 - Trump's Brutal Big Billionaire Bill w/ Ryan Grim 1:21:31

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Ryan Grim joins us to unpack the brutal consequences of the GOP’s latest “Big, Beautiful Bill”—who’s getting crushed and who’s cashing in. We also look at why a Democratic Senator from Michigan is teaming up with Republicans to kneecap the EPA, and cover Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Check out @DropSiteNews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/…

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Making Sense with Sam Harris: #416 — “More From Sam”: Biden's Big Lie, Review of Tapper Interview, Trump, & a Case Against Israel's Actions in Gaza 19:45

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Sam hopped back on with his manager and business partner, Jaron Lowenstein, to talk about current events and answer some of the questions you all submitted on Substack. They discuss the Biden cover-up and how it compares to Trump’s transgressions, Sam’s latest episode with Jake Tapper, whether Tapper had a journalistic responsibility to share what …

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Letters from an American: May 22, 2025 13:43

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Garamond

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Changelog Interviews: Refactored in prison 1:42:14

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Preston Thorpe joins us from inside prison, where he awaits a hopeful release within the next 12 months. His journey has been anything but easy—marked by hardship and uncertainty. But over the past few years, Preston has undergone a profound transformation. He’s refactored not just his skills, but his identity. Today, he proudly calls himself a sof…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 5/23/25: Trump Big Beautiful Bill Passes, Secret Crypto Dinner, Trump War On Harvard & MORE 56:45

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Ryan and Emily discuss Trump's secret crypto dinner, Harvard foreign students banned, Trump 'big beautiful bill' passes and more! To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.com Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy …

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The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan: San Tanenhaus On Bill Buckley 55:49

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Sam is a biographer, historian, and journalist. He used to be the editor of the New York Times Book Review, a features writer for Vanity Fair, and a writer for Prospect magazine. He’s currently a contributing writer for the Washington Post. His many books incl…

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The Bulwark Podcast: S2 Ep1049: James Comey: Uncomfortably Numb 52:59

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Public corruption used to be a congressman hiding $90,000 in his freezer. Now, we have a president taking "me time" to rake in $40 million from a Chinese crypto billionaire who was facing fraud charges under POTUS 46. And that's just a drop in the bucket of some of Trump's recent haul. Of course, today's FBI will do nothing about it, and his buddie…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4508: Building The Case For Economic Populism

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Episode 4508: Building The Case For Economic PopulismBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4507: Who Really Is Pope Leo The XIV; Our Power Grid Is Compromised

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Episode 4507: Who Really Is Pope Leo The XIV; Our Power Grid Is CompromisedBy WarRoom.org

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Money Stuff: The Podcast: Midnight Madness: Ryan Patch and Jon Seale 40:16

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Katie and Matt talk with Ryan Patch and Jon Seale of Great Gotham Challenge about building puzzle hunts for the hedge fund manager who has everything. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Bloomberg

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Volts: The past and future of community choice aggregation 1:02:23

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This week, I chat with Dawn Weisz of MCE Clean Energy about the nitty-gritty of community choice aggregation, where local governments take control of their electricity procurement. We get into issues like navigating utility obstruction, the complexities of rising grid costs they don't control, and their push for smarter, more autonomous regulation.…

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Interintellect Hostcast: Sean Hughes: On Upholding the Integrity of the System 36:37

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In this episode, Ravi Joseph speaks with writer and veteran Sean Hughes. They talk about the resilience of the American system, the contemporary relevance of Fukuyama’s End of History thesis, Sean’s journey from the military to the tech world and professional writing, and more. If you like this episode, be sure to check out Sean’s salon co-hosted w…

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Ones and Tooze: World War II Miniseries: Part 3 1:09:12

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To mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender, Adam and Cameron are doing a three-part series on World War II. In Part 3, they look at the economics of the Holocaust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Foreign Policy

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Future of Life Institute Podcast: Facing Superintelligence (with Ben Goertzel) 1:32:33

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On this episode, Ben Goertzel joins me to discuss what distinguishes the current AI boom from previous ones, important but overlooked AI research, simplicity versus complexity in the first AGI, the feasibility of alignment, benchmarks and economic impact, potential bottlenecks to superintelligence, and what humanity should do moving forward. Timest…

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Hard Fork: Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on Living in an A.I. Future 1:13:42

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This week, we take a field trip to Google and report back about everything the company announced at its biggest show of the year, Google I/O. Then, we sit down with Google DeepMind’s chief executive and co-founder, Demis Hassabis, to discuss what his A.I. lab is building, the future of education, and what life could look like in 2030. Guest: Demis …

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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: The 8 Faces of AI: Who Will You Become As AI Accelerates? | Frankly 96 13:01

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In a world increasingly mediated by machines, the boundaries between human identity and artificial intelligence are beginning to blur. While some embrace the tools of the future, others quietly resist, preserving ways of being that have endured for millennia. What happens when AI becomes not just a tool but a mirror? In this week’s Frankly, Nate in…

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Bankless: ROLLUP: Bitcoin Hits NEW ATH | Stablecoin Bill Advances | ETH’s ZK Miracle | Solana’s New Chain? | T

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This week, Ryan and David unpack Bitcoin’s explosive run to $111K and the macro chaos driving it—specifically, the U.S. Treasury’s failed bond auction and what it signals for the dollar. They break down the Senate’s landmark stablecoin bill (and Elizabeth Warren’s meltdown), Ethereum’s ZK miracle that could 100x Layer 1 throughput, and Texas launch…

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Plain English with Derek Thompson: The Gene-Editing Breakthrough That Saved a Baby’s Life 51:20

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Last year, Kyle and Nicole Muldoon welcomed their baby KJ into the world. Almost immediately, doctors realized something was wrong. KJ had been born with a genetic mutation that made it impossible to regulate the amount of ammonia in his system. The rare disease had the potential to kill him or cause severe brain damage. But KJ is almost 10 months …

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The Daily: An Outcry in Europe, a Shooting in Washington and a Blockade in Gaza 29:12

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For the past week, an international outcry has been building, particularly in Europe, over Israel’s plans to escalate its military campaign in Gaza and over its two-month-long blockade, which has put Gaza’s population on the brink of starvation. On Wednesday in Washington D.C., two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot and killed by a man who chanted …

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