COVID-19
contagious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2
Episodes
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#5650: Electricians, Rentals, and the Skill That WaitsA day of wiring a rental sparks three threads: skills that return, a guild older than its technology, and spaces you can't touch. -
#5578: Resilience Isn't a Muscle — What the Research Actually ShowsTwo-thirds of people bounce back from major trauma by default. So why does "build resilience like a muscle" miss the point? -
#5423: Underground Burial in Jerusalem: 24,000 Graves, 3 ElevatorsJerusalem ran out of ground for its dead — so it built a multi-storey car park where the parking spaces are graves. -
#5387: Who Decides What Your Keyboard Knows?Your keyboard's word list was probably frozen in 2014. Here's who maintains the open-source dictionaries — and why Gboard's stays fresh. -
#5209: Sensitivity, Specificity & the Numbers Doctors UseA field guide to the numbers in a medical paper — what sensitivity, effect size, and risk ratio actually answer, and when they mislead. -
#5159: Why Your Rescue Inhaler Still Shakes (and What Changed)Albuterol hasn't changed in decades—but rescue itself just did. Here's why the blue canister still shakes, and what Airsupra fixes.