00:00 — Introduction

00:33 — The Engine That Farmers Were Supposed to Own

01:54 — The Cross in the Diary

03:02 — Three Suspects, No Answers

04:24 — Wrap Up

Sources:

- Rudolf Diesel (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel

- Inventor Rudolf Diesel mysteriously vanishes (History.com): https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-29/inventor-rudolf-diesel-vanishes

- The Mystery of the Diesel Engine's Disappearing Inventor (TIME): https://time.com/4049401/diesel-disappearance

- Rudolf Diesel, Inventor Of The Diesel Engine, Mysteriously Vanished In 1913 (Jalopnik): https://www.jalopnik.com/2177732/diesel-engine-inventor-rudolf-vanished-1913

- The Rockefeller/Rudolf Diesel murder theory is full of holes (Hagerty): https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/the-rockefeller-rudolf-diesel-murder-theory-is-full-of-holes

- The strange death of Mr Diesel (Air Cargo Week): https://aircargoweek.com/the-strange-death-of-mr-diesel

- Rudolf Diesel (EIA Energy Kids): https://www.eia.gov/kids/history-of-energy/famous-people/diesel.php

- Rudolf Diesel (Lemelson-MIT Program): https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/rudolf-diesel

- Rudolf Diesel (Britannica): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolf-Diesel

- Biodiesel Fuel Use in Diesel Engines (USDA Forest Service): https://www.fs.usda.gov/t-d/pubs/html/04511309/04511309.html

- Biodiesel Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis, 2032 (P&S Intelligence): https://www.psmarketresearch.com/market-analysis/biodiesel-market

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00:00 — Introduction

00:34 — How Much Power One Data Center Drinks

01:55 — Why Nothing Else Fits

02:52 — Three Mile Island, 6.6 Gigawatts, and the Full Sprint

04:26 — Wrap Up

Sources:

- 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory): https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/publications/2024-united-states-data-center-energy

- Data Centres, Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrencies Eye Advanced Nuclear to Meet Growing Power Needs (IAEA): https://www.iaea.org/bulletin/data-centres-artificial-intelligence-and-cryptocurrencies-eye-advanced-nuclear-to-meet-growing-power-needs

- Every Nuclear Data Center Deal: Google, Amazon, Meta & Microsoft (SMR Intel, updated Jul 2026): https://smrintel.com/nuclear-data-center-deals/

- Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers (AP News, Sep 2024): https://apnews.com/article/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-microsoft-8f47ba63a7aab8831a7805dfde0e2c39

- Trump officials announce $1bn loan to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant (The Guardian, Nov 2025): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/three-mile-island-nuclear-loan-microsoft-datacenter

- Three Mile Island reboot meets data centre milestone with 262-tonne transformer (The National, Aug 2026): https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/08/21/nuclear-power-plant-three-mile-island

- Silicon Valley is funding a nuclear renaissance (Yahoo Finance / Newsweek, Jun 2026): https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/silicon-valley-funding-nuclear-renaissance-110600941.html

- Nuclear sees tipping point as Meta makes deals with Bill Gates' TerraPower, Sam Altman-backed Oklo (Fortune, Feb 2026): https://fortune.com/2026/02/07/next-gen-nuclear-tipping-point-meta-hyperscalers-bill-gates-terrapower-sam-altman-oklo/

- Meta signs multi-gigawatt nuclear deals to power AI data centers (LA Times, Jan 2026): https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-01-09/meta-signs-multi-gigawatt-nuclear-deals-to-power-ai-data-centers

- Amazon, Google and Microsoft Are Investing in Nuclear Power (NYT, Oct 2024): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/business/energy-environment/amazon-google-microsoft-nuclear-energy.html

- US nuclear generation to grow 27% post 2035, as data centers fuel power demand: WoodMac (Reuters, Oct 2025): https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-nuclear-generation-grow-27-post-2035-data-centers-fuel-power-demand-woodmac-2025-10-29

- Powering Demand: Nuclear Solutions for AI Infrastructure — House Energy Subcommittee Hearing Charter (Jun 2025): https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118386/documents/HMTG-119-SY20-20250612-SD003.pdf

- NANO Nuclear Signs Strategic MOU with Supermicro to Power AI Data Centers with Advanced Nuclear Energy (May 2026): https://ir.nanonuclearenergy.com/news-releases/news-release-details/nano-nuclear-signs-strategic-mou-supermicro-power-next

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00:00 — Introduction

00:44 — Being in the Same Room Doesn't Count

01:43 — The Clock on Friendship

03:00 — The Random Phone Call

04:26 — Wrap Up

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00:00 — Introduction

00:54 — From Illegal Everywhere to a One-Hundred-Sixty-Seven-Billion-Dollar Industry

01:52 — The Scandals Arrived Faster Than Anyone Expected

02:57 — Every Ad Is a Bet, and Young Men Are Paying the Price

04:06 — Wrap Up

Sources:

- Sports betting hits record $16.96 billion in revenue in 2025 (ESPN): https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/48045855/sports-betting-hits-record-1696-billion-revenue-2025

- Jontay Porter banned from NBA for violating league's gaming rules: https://www.nba.com/news/jontay-porter-banned-from-nba

- U.S. Charges NBA Coach and Players in Gambling Schemes (NYT): https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/23/nyregion/nba-illegal-gambling-arrests

- Ex-Iona player Adam Njie Jr. ruled ineligible over point shaving (ESPN): https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/49110358/

- Sports gambling suspensions for pro athletes are on the rise (CNN): https://www.cnn.com/sport/live-news/nba-fbi-sports-betting-probe-10-23-25

- U.S. sports betting soars 23.6% amid alarming rise in addiction (Reuters): https://www.reuters.com/sports/us-sports-betting-soars-236-amid-alarming-rise-addiction-2025-02-21

- Betting on our Future Act fact sheet (Rep. Tonko): https://tonko.house.gov/uploadedfiles/betting_on_our_future_act_fact_sheet.pdf

- U.S. Senate to examine sports gambling's 'mental health crisis' (Philadelphia Inquirer): https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/gambling-sports-betting-crisis-hearing-20260519.html

- Expanded Sports Betting Legalization Would Generate Billions in Tax Revenue (Tax Foundation): https://taxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/FF874_Sports_Betting-1.pdf

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00:00 — Introduction

00:28 — More Listeners Than Ever, and the Pandemic Lit the Fuse

01:37 — The Money Is Real, But It Goes to Almost Nobody

03:23 — Video Is Rewriting the Definition of What a Podcast Is

04:25 — Wrap Up

Sources:

- Owl & Co: Global Podcast Economy Grew 23% To $9.2 Billion In 2025: https://www.insideradio.com/free/owl-co-global-podcast-economy-grew-23-to-9-2-billion-in-2025/article_adec67bf-e80e-4f07-a2e5-f5deca3065b6.html

- Podcast Statistics 2026 (Podcastatistics): https://podcastatistics.com/

- Searchlab Podcast Statistics 2026: https://searchlab.nl/en/statistics/podcast-statistics-2026

- The Podcast Consumer 2025 (Edison Research): https://edisonresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Podcast-Consumer-2025-revised-FINAL.pdf

- Number Of Active Podcasts Hits All-Time High In 2025 (Inside Radio): https://www.insideradio.com/free/number-of-active-podcasts-hits-all-time-high-in-2025/article_629f0c0c-299d-42ee-9509-2249a65b9720.html

- Listen Notes: Podcast Industry Shifts From Growth Boom To Maturity (Inside Radio): https://www.insideradio.com/free/listen-notes-podcast-industry-shifts-from-growth-boom-to-maturity/article_deccf8bf-a3d6-485b-98a6-25236579e2b9.html

- Podcast Advertising CPM: The 2026 Benchmarks (Podder): https://www.podderapp.com/post/podcast-advertising-cpm

- Explaining Host Read Ads (PPC Land, Magellan AI data): https://ppc.land/explaining-host-read

- Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up to $250 Million (WSJ): https://www.wsj.com/business/media/joe-rogan-podcast-spotify-deal-28eb5f74

- Spotify Paid $100 Million to Podcasts in Q1 2025 (CNBC/NBC): https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/business/money-report/spotify-paid-100-million-to-podcasts-in-the-first-quarter-including-joe-rogan-alex-cooper-and-theo-von/3901099/

- 2025 U.S. Podcast Report (Triton Digital): https://info.tritondigital.com/hubfs/U.S.%20Podcast%20Report%202025/U.S.%20Podcast%20Report%202025.pdf

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00:00 — Introduction

00:40 — The Numbers Are Already Staggering

01:59 — What the Research Actually Says

03:25 — The Irony at the Core

04:30 — Wrap Up

Sources:

- Restoration, Exploration and Transformation: How Youth Engage Character.AI Chatbots for Feels, Fun and Finding Themselves (CHI 2026): https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15340

- The Impact of AI on Children's Development — Harvard GSE (Ying Xu): https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/edcast/24/10/impact-ai-childrens-development

- AI Will Never Be Your Kid's Friend — The Atlantic (Russell Shaw, July 2025): https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/07/ai-companion-children-frictionless-friendship/683493/

- AI Companions and Adolescent Social Relationships — Child Development Perspectives (2025): https://academic.oup.com/cdpers/article/20/2/91/8414012

- A Systematic Literature Review on Human-AI Collaboration for Supporting Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Development (CEII 2025): https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/ceii/2025/849100a146/2iiLy049j32

- AI Coding Agents Fail at Teamwork — Stanford HAI: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-coding-agents-fail-at-teamwork

- How We Built Safety Into Muse — Meta (September 2026): https://research.meta.ai/blog/security-and-safety-for-ai-agents-our-approach-with-muse

- AI Use in Schools Is Quickly Increasing but Guidance Lags Behind — RAND (2025): https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA4100/RRA4180-1/RAND_RRA4180-1.pdf

- Character.AI Bans Minors From AI Character Chats — The Verge (October 2025): https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/808081/character-ai-under-18-chat-ban

- The Interaction of AI and Early Childhood Education: A State-of-the-art Review 2020-2024 — ECE Journal (2026): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10643-025-02079-3

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00:00 — Introduction

00:32 — The Red That Costs Something

02:11 — Twelve Hundred Years of Getting It Wrong

03:34 — What We're Losing

04:39 — Wrap Up

Sources:

- Autumn leaf color - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_leaf_color

- Anthocyanin - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocyanin

- Leaf peeping - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_peeping

- The phenomenon of red autumn leaves: optical and functional aspects - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0710190104

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00:00 — Introduction

00:33 — The Banana We Lost

01:52 — The Duke's Backup Banana

02:59 — The Sequel Nobody Wanted

04:37 — Wrap Up

Sources:

- Cavendish banana — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana_subgroup

- Bananas under threat — Kew Gardens: https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/bananas-threat-extinction

- Why bananas as we know them might go extinct (again) — CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/22/africa/banana-panama-disease

- Will Bananas Go Extinct? — Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/bananas-going-extinct-gros-michel-cavendish-disease-2023-9

- QCAV-4: first GM Cavendish banana resistant to TR4 approved — Plant Biotechnology Journal: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40488601

- The socioeconomic effects of Fusarium TR4 on banana — ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2452292925000621

- Banana Fusarium Wilt Tropical Race 4 — FAO: https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/8c53fac1-1ecc-4014-b675-7773ab2dbd0c/content

- The socioeconomic and cost benefit analysis of TR4 prevention — PLOS ONE: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11524470

- Worse Comes to Worst: Bananas and Panama Disease — PLOS Pathogens: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4652896

- What is artificial banana flavor made of? — Inverse: https://www.inverse.com/science/artificial-banana-flavor-real-science

- Meet Isoamyl Acetate, the Banana-Flavored Molecule — Serious Eats: https://www.seriouseats.com/banana-flavor-isoamyl-acetate

- Why bananas are the original Frankenfood — Genetic Literacy Project: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2024/12/18/why-bananas-are-the-original-frankenfood

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00:00 — Introduction

00:23 — A Swamp Fit for Kings

01:01 — The Shipping Company That Built a Fantasy

01:58 — The Pink Palace and the Ditch

03:15 — Jets, Statehood, and the Flood

04:12 — Wrap Up

Sources:

- History — Matson Navigation Company: https://www.matson.com/corporate/about_us/history.html

- Hawaiʻi Tourism: A Century and a Half in the Making — Hawaii Business Magazine: https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/hawaii-tourism-a-century-and-a-half-in-the-making

- Royal Hawaiian Hotel History: https://www.royal-hawaiian.com/history-overview

- Royal Hawaiian Hotel — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Hawaiian_Hotel

- History of Waikiki Hotels, 1893 to Present — Hawaii Living: https://www.hawaiiliving.com/blog/history-waikiki-hotels

- Ala Wai Canal — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala_Wai_Canal

- The 'Queen of Waikiki' Turns 110 — The Mercury News: https://preprod.mercurynews.com/2011/09/21/the-queen-of-waikiki-turns-110

- Hawaii Aviation Chronology 1950-1959: https://aviation.hawaii.gov/events/chronology/1950-1959

- Matson Vintage Art Collection: https://www.matson.com/about-matson/matson-vintage-art.html

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00:00 — Introduction

00:41 — The Book That Accidentally Created the FDA

02:57 — The Campaign of the Century

04:38 — Wrap Up

Sources:

- Upton Sinclair and the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1653522

- How Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' Led to US Food Safety Reforms: https://www.history.com/news/upton-sinclair-the-jungle-us-food-safety-reforms

- Upton Sinclair Biography: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Upton-Sinclair

- The Lie Factory (New Yorker): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/24/the-lie-factory

- Upton Sinclair's EPIC Campaign: https://depts.washington.edu/epic34/campaign.shtml

- End Poverty in California (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_Poverty_in_California

- Harvey Washington Wiley (FDA): https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-leadership-1907-today/harvey-wiley

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