The Prof G Pod

The Real Reason Trump Always Finds a Workaround

It's not just being a con man, which is something else. It's I am cheating the system. And that to me, I think illuminates not only Trump, but also many of the people who follow him because they're like, "Yeah, he's just a smart businessman. This is the way you're supposed to do business." And in a way that's a real denigration and destruction of what the system is, which is the American people trying to make rules under which to govern themselves.

Daily Stoic

Fighting Modern Corruption With Ancient Stoic Wisdom

Corruption begets corruption. When other people are lying, when other people are cheating, when you see it happening all around you, people shrug their shoulders. They they say, "What the hell?" Right? We join in because we see other people doing it.

The Prof G Pod

Heather Cox Richardson: What History Predicts Happens Next

It's not just being a con man, which is something else. It's I am cheating the system. And that to me, I think illuminates not only Trump, but also many of the people who follow him because they're like, 'Yeah, he's just a smart businessman. This is the way you're supposed to do business.' And in a way that's a real denigration and destruction of what the system is, which is the American people trying to make rules under which to govern themselves.

Radiolab

Oliver Sipple

What happens next makes us wonder what a moment, or a movement, or a whole society can demand of one person. And how much is too much?

Throughline

Prediction markets are making a 150-year comeback | Throughline

Because you have the option to bet on bombs being dropped, on people dying, events that will have huge impacts on real people's lives.

Radiolab

Worth

This episode makes three earnest, possibly foolhardy, attempts to put a price on the priceless. We figure out the dollar value for an accidental death, another day of life, and the work of bats and bees as we try to keep our careful calculations from falling apart in the face of the realities of life, and love, and loss.

Radiolab

The Bad Show

With all of the black-and-white moralizing in our world today, we decided to bring back an old show from 2011 about the little bit of bad that's in all of us...and the little bit of really, really bad that's in some of us.

Book of the Day

'The Take' and 'The Left and the Lucky' explore peculiar friendships across age

There are only two ways to get ahead in this world. You either make something or you take something.

Daily Stoic

Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump

Stoicism is not a way for you not to have to care about the consequences of the things that are happening around you. It's not a way to turn inward and turn away from other people, from what's happening in the world, from not having to care.

Hidden Brain

When It's Okay to Lie

Should you tell a harsh truth if it will only cause pain? Or is it sometimes kinder to keep someone in the dark?

TED

How to Make Your Idea Unforgettable | London | TED Idea Search

Now with artificial intelligence if we do not fix this silence now machines will just perpetuate this for the future.

The New York Times

How Jeffrey Epstein Used Doctors to Control Women

The only reason you do this is if you were putting somebody else's needs first. We see again and again doctors in these files bending or breaking the rules of their profession. And often they treated Epstein as if he was the real client.