May 2026
210 episodes
- #2761 Strong Shekel Squeeze: Israel's Exporters & Foreign Workers
- #2760 How China's Overseas Police Stations Actually Work
- #2759 Zigbee vs Matter: Scaling Smart Home Networks
- #2758 Hard Water vs Soft Water: Appliance Care Guide
- #2757 The Nine Square Meter Standard: Measuring Urban Green Space
- #2756 Protein Bars as Frontal Lobe Jumper Cables
- #2755 How to Build AI Memory That Actually Works
- #2754 Why Your Dictation Setup Might Be Wrong
- #2753 ADHD-Friendly Systems for Overwhelmed Parents
- #2752 Water Flossers vs String Floss: The Evidence
- #2751 Moving Like a Pro: Tips from Roadies and Diplomats
- #2750 Inside the Theater Lighting Tech Stack
- #2749 The 16-Hour Day Behind an 8-Show Week
- #2748 What Cities Look Like Without Cars
- #2747 Can Method Acting Really Rewrite Your Memory?
- #2746 How Zoning Built the Suburbs We Hate
- #2745 What Do Urban Planners Actually Do?
- #2744 What Walkability Actually Means in Urban Planning
- #2743 Is Goat Meat Really the Most Eaten Meat in the World?
- #2742 Where Ancient Jerusalem’s Walls Actually Were
- #2741 What Theoretical Physicists Actually Do All Day
- #2740 ICL vs LASIK for High Myopia in 2025
- #2739 When Hoofbeats Are Zebras: How Doctors Learn to Think
- #2738 Why Can't Humans Sleep 24 Hours Straight?
- #2737 How Word Spacing Changed Human Thinking
- #2736 Why AI Flagged Your Em Dash
- #2735 What Talmud Study Actually Trains Your Mind To Do
- #2734 How Hebrew Printing Defied Book Burnings
- #2733 Did the Airplane Actually Kill the Train?
- #2732 Why Contact Lenses Still Hurt 10 Years Later
- #2731 ADHD in Adults: The 60% Reality
- #2730 Late Diagnosis at 57: Rewriting Your Life
- #2729 Why Medieval Libraries Sounded Like Beehives
- #2728 Vinegar vs. Disinfectant: What Actually Cleans Your Home?
- #2727 Your Kitchen Air Is Worse Than a Smoggy Day
- #2726 Radio Listening vs Podcast Guilt
- #2725 How to Inspect a Home Like a Pro
- #2724 How Sanctions Actually Trap a Company
- #2723 Socialism vs Communism: What Actually Works?
- #2722 The Three Things That Keep Your Home from Falling Apart
- #2721 What Square Meterage Do You Actually Need?
- #2720 Does More Money Actually Make You Happier?
- #2719 How Streetlight-Level Light Disrupts Mammal Immunity
- #2718 Small Apartment Storage Without Going Minimalist
- #2717 Lower Greenville: From Streetcar Suburb to Food Mecca
- #2716 Myrrh: The Ancient Resin Worth More Than Gold
- #2715 Why Studebaker Owners Are Different
- #2714 How Texas Became the Oil State
- #2713 The PT Cruiser: Icon or Punchline?
- #2712 The Plant Worth More Than Silver: Spikenard's Botany & Economics
- #2711 What 28 Molecules Actually Do Inside You
- #2710 Is Sunlight a Vitamin or a Hormone?
- #2709 POTS, Sodium, and Long COVID Explained
- #2708 Why Histamine Keeps You Awake and Makes You Sneeze
- #2707 The Perfect Dictation Trigger: Foot Pedals vs USB Buttons
- #2706 Can Anyone Learn to Lucid Dream?
- #2705 Your Brain Isn't a Hard Drive — What Actually Fits
- #2704 The Shower Effect: How Stepping Away Unlocks Solutions
- #2703 Why Fidgeting Actually Helps You Think
- #2702 How Jet Engines Really Push 100 Tons Through the Air
- #2701 Why Drugs Give You Vivid Nightmares
- #2700 What Your Brain Actually Does When You Daydream
- #2699 Inside Android's Binder: No HTTP Here
- #2698 How Hackers Hide C2 Servers in Plain Sight
- #2697 When Trust in Your Country Feels Like a Bad Relationship
- #2696 How Pegasus Silently Hijacks Your Phone's Microphone
- #2695 Self-Hosting Tailscale Exit Nodes Safely
- #2694 Borg vs Restic vs Kopia: Best Linux Server Backup Tool
- #2693 Format Adherence in AI: Beyond the Benchmarks
- #2692 Type Safety: Static vs Dynamic, Soundness & More
- #2691 Can AI Agents Safely Manage Your API Keys?
- #2690 Where Agent Builders Actually Gather
- #2689 Why CLI Beats MCP for AI Agents Sometimes
- #2688 Declutter Your Apartment with AI Video Analysis
- #2687 When Pre-Flight Checks Help (or Hurt) Agentic AI Plugins
- #2686 Why Jerusalem Stays Poor Despite Its Pull
- #2685 Plugin Data Storage for AI Agents
- #2684 When Agent Skills Collide: Context Windows & Plugin Design
- #2683 MCP vs Agent Skills: Context Wars
- #2682 Live Retrieval vs. RAG: What an Agent Actually Does
- #2681 Laundry Decoded: Beyond the Red Sock Disaster
- #2680 The 200-Year Loophole That Shaped UK Tax
- #2679 Can a VPN Protect You from SS7 Phone Spying?
- #2678 How IMSI Catchers Actually Track Your Phone
- #2677 Memory Layers for AI Agents: SaaS vs Self-Hosted
- #2676 Vector Database Schema Design for AI Memory Layers
- #2675 Docs That Win Clients: A Consultant’s Guide
- #2674 Why Your Agent's Context Window Is Getting Eaten Before You Start
- #2673 Vector DB Backups & Editing: What Pinecone Can (and Can't) Do
- #2672 12M Token Context: Subquadratic Cracks Attention Scaling
- #2671 How Your Phone Helps Strangers Find Lost Wallets
- #2670 Portable Projectors: What Actually Matters
- #2669 Low-Touch Lead Qualification for Solo Consultants
- #2668 OCR vs VLMs: Reading Labels on Camera
- #2667 Lost Phone, Found Tension: Security vs. Returnability
- #2666 Surviving Fast Food Without a Gallbladder
- #2665 Partner Certs vs Personal Certs: What Actually Matters
- #2664 Can You Trust an LLM's Raw Knowledge?
- #2663 Vyvanse vs. Seroquel: A Pharmacological Puzzle
- #2662 Jewish Monks? The Essenes and Therapeutae
- #2661 Half a Million Nuns Vanished: Who's Left?
- #2660 Where the World's Best Dry Cider Lives
- #2659 How to Make Mead: Ancient Honey Wine's Revival
- #2658 Off-Broadway vs Broadway: Seat Counts & Show Economics
- #2657 How Background Removal Actually Works (and Why It Matters for AI Art)
- #2656 Marconi vs. the Cable Builders: Who Really Built the Internet?
- #2655 Four Corners: The Center of the Universe
- #2654 The Bachelor Brothers Who Built a University
- #2653 Puppetry in America: From Vaudeville to Muppets
- #2652 Silk Worms, Cows, and a Goat: Inside Mansfield’s History
- #2651 AI Training Itself: Student, Teacher, and Grader
- #2650 How to Catch an LLM's Bad Writing Habits
- #2649 Freelancing Without Getting Burned: Clients, Contracts & Cash Flow
- #2648 The Art of the Brief: Writing What Busy People Actually Need
- #2647 Async Communication: Tools, Norms, and AI Mediation
- #2646 Smart Locks & Networks: What Actually Works
- #2645 How to Document Failures for Your AI Second Brain
- #2644 Crafting Agendas That Actually Work (With AI)
- #2643 How Stenographers Type 300 Words Per Minute
- #2642 Who Takes Notes in the Situation Room?
- #2641 Whiteboard to Clean Diagram with Nano Banana
- #2640 Batch Inference Use Cases and Instructional AI in 2026
- #2639 How Re-Ranking Actually Works in Search and RAG Pipelines
- #2638 How to Build Disposable AI Agents at Runtime
- #2637 How Russia Justified Invading Ukraine — and What Actually Happened
- #2636 Take Notes Like a Diplomat
- #2635 How to Upgrade Your Readiness Without the Anxiety
- #2634 Mining Latent Value from AI Prompts
- #2633 How Live UA Map Bridges Conflict Information Gaps
- #2632 How to Start a Meetup Without Burning Out
- #2631 The $56 Billion Shipping Container Home Boom
- #2630 Ahmad Vahidi: Iran's Most Dangerous Insider
- #2629 Frankincense to Attar: Ancient Perfume Oils Today
- #2628 Your Snake Plant Isn't Saving You
- #2627 Silk Road Countries: A Central Asia Travel Guide
- #2626 Smart Curtains vs Smart Glass: Bedroom Lighting Automation
- #2625 White Noise vs Pink vs Brown: What Actually Works
- #2624 Sensory Reduction vs Deprivation: A Home Toolkit
- #2623 How Much Bed Space Do You Actually Need to Sleep Well?
- #2622 How Transformers Actually Work: Attention, Tokens, and Context
- #2621 How 4 Batteries Produce 230 Volts
- #2620 How Atomic Clocks Actually Keep Time
- #2619 How Circadian Rhythm Disorders Actually Work
- #2618 Fixing Acronyms in TTS Pipelines
- #2617 How Putin's Russia Actually Works vs. The Myth
- #2616 Is Democracy Actually What People Want?
- #2615 Dual Citizenship: Loyalty, Law & Living in Two Countries
- #2614 Who Gets to Vote from Abroad?
- #2613 What Makes an Election Actually Free and Fair?
- #2612 Can You Speed-Date Your Way to the Right Therapy?
- #2611 Saturday Drums vs Quiet Homes: Protest Rights in Residential Areas
- #2610 Can Opposition Be Constructive in a Democracy?
- #2609 Mapping the Therapy Family Tree: CBT, ACT, DBT & Beyond
- #2608 Building a House with KNX: Smart Home Infrastructure That Lasts
- #2607 Life Coaching vs Therapy: How to Choose
- #2606 The Secret Superpower of Occupational Therapy
- #2605 Tracing the Hidden History of CBT to Life Coaching
- #2604 Self-Hosted Screen Recording: Tools Beyond Loom
- #2603 Building Agent Skills for Creative Workflows
- #2602 Mastering Spoken Word Audio with AI Agents
- #2601 When Your Lease Is a Gamble: Rent, Stability, and Community
- #2600 Circadian Lighting Gradients in Home Assistant
- #2599 Home 3D Printing in 2025: Keycaps, Cables & Real Costs
- #2598 Why Israeli Apartment Walls Are So Thin — and How to Fix Them
- #2597 Voice Control for Renters: $25 Per Room, No Wall Damage
- #2596 Systems Integrators vs MSPs: The Hidden Tech Career
- #2595 Baby-Proofing a Small Rental: Survival Strategies
- #2594 The Hierarchy of Immutable Code
- #2593 How to Type in Paleo-Hebrew: Unicode, Keyboards & Ancient Scripts
- #2592 Inside the Hidden World of Specialist Keyboards
- #2591 Can You Swap Our Podcast Voices?
- #2590 How Disfluency Detection Models Clean Up Speech
- #2589 Can You Actually See a Sleep Specialist?
- #2588 Ceasefire Bread: Raw Dough Under a Golden Crust
- #2587 DNS Blocking Showdown: Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home
- #2586 Pseudo-Personalized Emails: The New Spam Uncanny Valley
- #2585 The Hidden Superpower of F13-F24 Keys
- #2584 Why ADHD Meds Feel Cleaner Than Coffee
- #2583 Your Gut's Gear Shift Is Stuck in Reverse
- #2582 What Your Browser Does to Mic Audio Before It Reaches Your Server
- #2581 Did Ancient Jews Have Leisure?
- #2580 Bench Beer, Spotlight Effect, and Open Container Laws
- #2579 Why You Feel Watched (And Why You're Not)
- #2578 Building Deliberately Slow Deployment Pipelines
- #2577 Fixing Hidden UI Bugs on Real Devices
- #2576 Where Does City Power Go Underground?
- #2575 How Montessori Actually Works (It's Not Chaos)
- #2574 Why You're Not "Too Old" to Learn a Language
- #2573 What's Actually Inside a Hotel Smart Room System
- #2572 Solar Panels on Israeli Roofs: Who Gets to Decide?
- #2571 How S3 Billing Actually Works (And Why R2 Is Different)
- #2570 Can Solar Alone Power a Country?
- #2569 How the Power Grid Balances Every Second
- #2568 When Does Your House Need Three-Phase Power?
- #2567 Beyond Pixels: Controlling Apps Without Vision
- #2566 Why Your RGBW Bulbs Get Dim in Color Mode
- #2565 Why Background Conversation Hijacks Your Focus
- #2564 The Engineering Inside Your Toaster
- #2563 How Audio Fingerprinting Actually Works
- #2562 Why Do Humans Love Food That Burns?
- #2561 What BMI Actually Tells You (And What It Hides)
- #2560 Can You Actually Measure Happiness?
- #2559 The Smartest Path to Python for AI
- #2558 Should You Say Please to AI?
- #2557 Fake It at Dinner Parties: Philosophy Cheat Codes
- #2556 How SSDs Actually Store Your Data
- #2555 How to Bluff Your Way Through Buying Red Wine
- #2554 Bluffer's Guide to Car Talk: Sound Like You Know Engines
- #2553 How the Zipper Actually Works
- #2552 Inside Iran's Nuclear Inspections: What IAEA Can Actually See