Acquired

Formula 1 (Audio)

It eventually became the sport of rich guys who want to own teams to gallivant around Europe, losing colossal sums of money along the way.

TED

The Brilliance of Bridges and Roads That Repair Themselves | Mark Miodownik | TED

All of our stuff, we've got so good at making it, but we're not so good at repairing it. We're not so good at taking care of it. And that is our next big task.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Prediction markets want to be the news

It's becoming increasingly untenable for prediction markets to sit in the middle of the tension between gambling on the news and trying to self-regulate such that they don't encourage insider trading.

TBPN

Oracle Rips, Ellison's Tech-First Vision, Fertilizer Crisis | Apoorv Agrawal, Owen Jennings, Amjad Masad, Shardul Shah, Mike Blue, Brian Taylor, Ivan Soto-Wright

The market is demanding another AWS. And so, let's go through the top line numbers first.

The Business of Tech

AI’s Kiwi gatekeeper inside Microsoft

if this can transform how architects are imagining buildings, imagine how we can transform every industry.

Fresh Air

Jamilah Lemieux on the complicated beauty of being a ‘Black. Single. Mother.’

I realized there's nothing wrong if I am a black single mother for life. I've lived a great life as a black single mother. I had a great black single mother. It may not be my preference, but it's not a death sentence. It's not doom.

Fresh Air

Jamilah Lemieux on the complicated beauty of being a ‘Black. Single. Mother.’

I was afraid that if I wrote that book, I was going to be a black single mother for the rest of my life. But also, as I wrote this book, I realized there's nothing wrong if I am a black single mother for life. I've lived a great life as a black single mother. It may not be my preference, but it's not a death sentence, it's not doom.

Acquired

Formula 1 (Audio)

Formula One is three competitions in one: a 200mph battle of the world's best race car drivers, the world cup of engineering where thousand-plus people that work on each car determine the races more than the drivers, and the Real Housewives of the Garage, which makes for a fantastic Netflix show.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

The Iran War’s Oil Shock: How Bad Could It Get? | Prof G Markets

if this war is extended if it if if we see um no offramp for for for the US and Israel and it has to continue and therefore that choke point stays closed. At some point we're going to see you're going to see a supply crunch and that's what that that's really the the major fear.

China Decode

Iran War EXPLODES Oil Prices — How Will the War Inflation Impact China?

there are about 20 million barrels of oil that transit the straits of Hormuz every day. That's almost three times as much as Russia exports. So, you know, this is a problem three times as great as the problem that created the panic on global oil markets at the start of the Ukraine war.

TED

How to Capture Your Audience’s Attention | Athens | TED Idea Search

Bad breath is kind of a metaphor for humanness, for being a human being, for loving somebody enough to tell them something that might be painful in the short term but very helpful in the long term.

TBPN

Nvidia Invests in Thinking Machines, Meta Acquires Moltbook, BYD F1 | Olivia Moore, David Paffenholz, Adam Goldstein, Max Junestrand, Allan McLennan, Jagdeep Singh, Scott Hickle

You also got Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. These guys have backed a lot of founders. They've worked with a lot of AI startups. They can understand the team that they're trying to build over there.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

I came out of that honeymoon realizing I had learned totally the wrong idea about negotiation. I was, first of all, a lawyer who'd been primed to think that negotiating meant competing, full stop. So you're out to win. And maybe even more than that, you're out for somebody else to lose.

Fresh Air

The hidden history of blackface in America

Ironically, it's a huge success of the civil rights movement. Civil rights activists protested against blackface and tried really hard to strip it from the school curriculums and everyday performances where it was really common currency. And by doing so, they turned blackface into something that was culturally taboo. And so it became so taboo, in fact, that the history of it is no longer taught.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

Being able to come on board to a company like Wizards has been such a big part of my life. D&D also helped inspire me to get into the video game industry in the late '90s.

TBPN

History’s Largest Oil Disruption, Oil & AI, Sundar's New Pay Deal | Alex Epstein, Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, Charles Lamanna, Julien Bek, Eoghan McCabe, Michelle Volz

Crude oil is five standard deviations above its fifty day moving average. Statistically speaking, this occurs every nine thousand five hundred years.

Pivot

Tim Walz is "Petty As Hell" After Kristi Noem Firing | Pivot

Well, I was trying to act all serious and say, you know, I'm not a petty person. And then I checked myself and I said, in this case, I'm petty as hell.

Book of the Day

In new memoir, Gavin Newsom reflects on his political rise | NPR's Book of the Day

I'm just offering a glimpse of some of the things that people may not see, of sweaty hands, of anxiety, insecurity, of trying to be someone I'm not, of making mistakes, learning from those mistakes.

Book of the Day

In 'Bad Asians,' a friend group threatens its reputation with a viral video

I was trying to capture that initial innocence that we all had. The sense that you were almost in a private room with your friends rather than having it be this public forum that everyone across the world could attend.

TBPN

Oil Market Turbulence, Sundar's New Comp Package, TBPN Weather Report | Diet TBPN

crude oil is five standard deviations above its 50-day moving average. Statistically speaking, this occurs every 9,500 years.

TBPN

FULL INTERVIEW: Alex Epstein on The Oil Market’s Biggest Geopolitical Threat

roughly 20% of the world's oil production is flowing through that every day and so whether you're looking backward or looking forward there is no replacement whatsoever for opening that strait and keeping it open.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

negotiation is just steering. It's about steering the relationships in your life, building those relationships, so when you get to the place where you do need to negotiate something difficult, you're in a much better place to have successful outcomes.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Prediction markets want to be the news

One thing about economists is that they tend to discover 50 years later stuff that psychologists and sociologists have already known the whole time.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Shyam Sankar - Celebrating Heretics - [Invest Like the Best, EP.462]

the United States must reindustrialize after decades of moving production overseas, and explains what we can learn from America's industrial past

The a16z Show

Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity

the neurotechnologies Huberman believes will let us write to our own biology within the next five years

Fresh Air

The hidden history of blackface in America

Historians right now are in somewhat of a culture war in that it is our patriotic duty as American citizens and as patriots to help make sure that the American public has access to our history in all of its complexity.

TED

How to Make an Idea Land | Mumbai | TED Idea Search

India has a rich and vibrant culture but yet it's not really looked at by designers so seriously because it's seen as traditional and handmade and design tends to be mechanized. We can bring some of that humanity and the handmade quality into the work that we do as designers.

Daily Stoic

How to Reset Your Life (According to the Stoics)

It's not about now. It's not about what's happening now. It's not about what it's taking out of you now. It's about what it's giving you. Right? Before it happened, you were scared. Before it happened, you were sheltered. Before it happened, you were soft. Before it happened, you were dependent. You were all these things and more. But after, right, after the breakup, after the bankruptcy, after the pandemic, after those rough couple years, after things didn't go your way, well, now you're something different. Now you're something new. You are more. You are stronger. You are braver.

Hidden Brain

Yuck! The Science of Disgust

Disgust is a strong emotion, one designed by evolution to protect us from danger and diseases. But disgust also spills into other areas of our lives, influencing our morals, our intuitions about right and wrong, even our politics.

Fresh Air

The hidden history of blackface in America

It is our patriotic duty as American citizens and as patriots to help make sure that the American public has access to our history in all of its complexity. And the truth is, is that you can't understand the victories and the triumphs without understanding how far Americans had to push.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

toys and games have become a market for adults as much as for kids. This is really a remarkable conversation: toys are a big, complex business.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

Tell me is the biggest question you can ask, and it is the most powerful first question in any negotiation, at work or at home.

EconTalk

How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil (with Hanno Sauer)

in a Darwinian world of selfish genes, how did humans become so extraordinarily cooperative?

The Business of Tech

Australia's new unicorn and its digital twins

So what if you could build a living, breathing, physics based model of the entire grid, every pole line and transformer and watch how it actually behaves in a storm or when you plug in a wind farm or aluminum smelter sized data center.

Radiolab

Snail Sex Tape

And this very surprising habit—erm kink—of making tiny arrows (actually!) and stabbing each other with them. Known as a "love dart," these limestone daggers aren't just a strange trick of nature—they have a deep evolutionary purpose.

It's Been a Minute

The end of the Civil Rights "superhero" | It's Been A Minute

We need group centered leadership. We need people centered leadership. And I think that's a much harder effort to thwart than it is when you just have one individual who has to represent all interests of all people.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

We say "So long!" to Kristi Noem and Benetti plays ball

welcome to all of these gentlemen who are joining the world of impossible beauty standards that women have been inhabiting for centuries.

Founders

#414 How SpaceX Works

The practices that made SpaceX dominant aren't unique to rockets. They're a blueprint for building anything hard.

The Origins Podcast

(New Science News Feb 2026) Fusion Dark Matter, String Theory in Biology, and Rapid Evolution

if we ever have a nuclear fusion reactor why not give it a try you know it's uh it makes a lot of sense to me

Acquired

Formula 1 (Audio)

Formula One is three sports in one. It is, of course, the world's best race car drivers showcasing their skills, but it's also the World Cup of Engineering... And as one listener put it to us, It's also the World Cup of Office Politics, or as another one put it, it's Real Housewives of the Garage.

Prof G Markets

The $2 Trillion Risk Investors Can’t See | Prof G Markets

this is a regime that um is essentially a death cult and doesn't have the same motivations as a normal regime has. They view the death of their own people, the martyrdom of their people as a sign of their own sacredness and righteousness.

TED

What Ancestral Intelligence Can Teach Us About AI | Nanjira Sambuli | TED

I am because you are. This sums up a set of value systems that emerged among the Bantu people of Africa, and is known as "utu" in Eastern Africa and "ubuntu" in South Africa.

TED

How to Make an Idea Land | Mumbai | TED Idea Search

The strength of the idea, but you then have to make it land. The delivery is how well they connect with the people in the room.

Fresh Air

Best Of: ‘Hamnet’ star Jessie Buckley / Documentarian Morgan Neville

The thing that this story offered me, that brought me into this next chapter of my life as a mother was tenderness, you know? And that was a word and a feeling that I think I didn't know was what I was looking for.

TED

A Songwriting Battle with My AI Clone | Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd | TED

AI has never had its heart broken, you know, AI's never been in love. So it's like those things. Of course, there will be a math equation that equals up to heartbreak or love or something like that. But I don't think, like, actually going through it.

Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway

Paramount Beats Netflix in Battle for Warner Bros. | Pivot

You sound smarter when you catastrophize. It sounds scarier and more interesting. And you put some bar charts around you talking about the zombie apocalypse in a downward spiral doom loop.

NPR Podcasts

'The Irish Goodbye' and 'Frog' are micro-memoirs and essays about everyday life

I'm not interested in holding anything back anymore. I'm not interested in protecting myself or being koi or photoshopping my emotions or my life.

NPR Podcasts

Why Iranian perspectives often get flattened and caricatured

Iran has 90 million people of different ethnicities and faiths and very different ideas about their country.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

John Arnold - China, Energy Markets and Fixing America's Systems - [Invest Like the Best, EP.461]

cultivating the best seat in your industry – the seat with the best perspective, the most information, the best systems