This week Grant and Zoe were joined by Mary Brooks. Mary is a resident fellow for Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats at R Street Institute.  They discuss prediction markets, how useful that can be to policymakers, and why forecasting politics can be so challenging.

In the final segment, Zoe talks about the national lifeguard shortage, Mary talks about the impact of current events on the study of early earth history, and Grant talks about the Crisis in Sri Lanka.

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