New York
state of the United States of America
Episodes
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#5661: Same Pills, Same Gun, New State, New CrimeFifty states, fifty legal answers. What happens when ordinary conduct is a felony one zip code over? -
#5472: Can Anyone Scan a QR Code From a Landing Plane?A New York printing startup wants to tow a QR code behind a plane on the airport approach path. We rate the idea. -
#5414: Inventing Anna: The Real Tradecraft Behind the ConHow Anna Delvey ran a four-year con on Word docs, AOL addresses, and a supermarket burner phone — and what Netflix got right. -
#5823: Why Soap Operas Never EndCoronation Street has aired nearly 12,000 episodes. What the reset button, the archetype, and the missing consequence reveal about TV's most durabl... -
#5814: Who Remembers Where You Left Off?mpv remembers. MPRIS, GstPlay, and Media3 don't. There's no standard for playback history. -
#5790: Police Auditors: Rights, Rage, and the CameraThey film outside police stations until someone in uniform reacts. Is it civil liberties activism or a business built on confrontation? -
#5729: Why There Are 1,500 Kosher CertificationsOne product, three seals, and no way to tell which is "the" kosher one. How a single biblical sentence became a 1,500-agency industry. -
#5701: When Kids Hear Their Name in an Empty RoomHallucinations peak in childhood and fade with age — one meta-analysis found 17% prevalence in kids aged 9–12. So what separates a benign blip from... -
#5668: Why Depression Drains Your EnergyLight, melanopsin, and inflammation — the two very different mechanisms behind seasonal and non-seasonal depression fatigue. -
#5660: The Siesta Law Nobody ObeysIsrael has a legally mandated afternoon rest that almost nobody takes. Where the siesta came from, why Spain abandoned it, and who's napping now. -
#5648: Before the Break: How Rest Became a RightThe work break wasn't handed down on a tablet—it was invented in a 1915 munitions factory by a physiologist who threatened to arrest the manager. -
#5644: Scrambled Jets and the Hijack Code: What Really HappensA 737 squawks 7500 over Saudi airspace and Israel scrambles fighters. What those jets can actually do — and why "escort" isn't the right word. -
#5600: Alien Abductions: 4 Million Claims, Zero EvidenceNearly four million Americans say they've been abducted. Not one has produced a lab-verifiable artifact. What's going on? -
#5572: Renting Out Your Spare Room, Car, and BoatAirbnb, Turo, and the platforms turning idle private assets into income — and the regulatory reckoning catching up with them. -
#5539: Gilgul: How Judaism's Soul Recycling Actually WorksReincarnation is absent from the Hebrew Bible and Talmud — so how did gilgul become central to Kabbalah and Hasidic life? -
#5466: Hebrew Words Hidden in English TextDaniel wants a classifier that spots Hebrew written in Latin letters — and it turns out nobody's built one. -
#5449: The Neurotic Jew: Where the Stereotype Came FromThe anxious, overthinking Jewish personality — where did it actually come from? The answer isn't what you'd expect. -
#5446: The Potter's Field: Who Buries the Unclaimed Dead?From Hart Island's million graves to the met mitzvah, how societies bury the unclaimed — and why the shame of a pauper's funeral is surprisingly mo... -
#5444: Carmei Gat: The Buchman of the Negev?A planned neighborhood on Kiryat Gat's edge is pulling in Anglo olim with prices that undercut Beit Shemesh and Modiin. -
#5441: Dollar Plumbing: Why Bessent's Iran Threat Has TeethOne line from Treasury can ground an airline worldwide. The reason lives in New York's clearing houses, not the currency itself. -
#5309: What Imports-to-GDP Actually Tells YouImports-to-GDP doesn't measure trade balance — it measures openness. Here's what the 50% line really separates. -
#5280: What Chemicals Do to Workers in 20262.9 million work-related deaths a year — and 2.58 million of them are disease, not injuries. What workers still don't know about the air they breathe. -
#5199: Shell Companies Over Shell CompaniesWhy covert networks stack shell companies in layers — and why the structure itself is the weapon. -
#5194: Designing Buildings to Age BeautifullyCopper turns green, lime plaster hardens, concrete just stains. What if architects designed for year 100 instead of day one? -
#5170: How Many Languages Sit in the Middle?Roughly 250 of the world's 7,000 languages have 100,000+ speakers. What's it like living in one of them? -
#5138: Who Are Taxi Drivers Really Talking To?The earpiece isn't a fake call or a coordination tool. It's a lifeline against the profound isolation of the job. -
#5122: Why a Private Jet Costs $200K (And Who Pays It)A Tel Aviv to Hartford charter quote explained: positioning, fuel, fees, and the real math behind private aviation.