S2 E8 Free Solo and More - Alex Honnold on Life and El Capitan

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

Michael and Mary Shelley were glamorous Sydney socialites, who became Christian fanatics and kidnappers. Three of their children - Steven, John and Hannah - were secretly placed into foster care with my parents, Lenore and Tom Blaine. The Shelleys were apocalyptically irritated to discover that the children of God had been fostered by working-class Queensland…

I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson

S3 E4 Back to Thailand - Cave Diver Craig Challen on The Rescue, Risk and Adventure

Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance

Was Zabihollah Mansouri secretly a prolific author?

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

Long before the shocking killings in Sydney, the threat of antisemitic violence was often left unchallenged. That must change

Their quest captured the imagination of the colony and became part of Australia’s foundation narrative. But it was a debacle led by an eccentric man with a poor sense of direction

You may want to keep this news from your kids.

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.

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Moving the capital is an old idea and a perennial nonstarter.