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NVIDIA: At the Heart of the AI Boom
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In the past few years,  NVIDIA has become one of the most valuable and important companies in the world by making GPUs, the chips powering the AI boom. But ...

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What Claude Shannon Figured Out
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 Claude Shannon is a major figure in the history of technology. Known as the father of information theory, Shannon spent decades at Bell Labs and MIT. But what ...

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Measles: The Cancer Killer?… from Incubation
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We thought we knew everything there was to know about measles. But in recent years, new research has revealed that the virus attacks the immune system and ...

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RoboPod and the Perpetual Money Machine – Cautionary Questions 2… from Cautionary Tales
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What really drove the 2008 financial crash? What’s a shadow bank? And what’s the connection between NIMBYs and BANANAs? Tim Harford and Jacob Goldstein answer ...

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Turning Solar Energy Into Fuel (The Solar Era, Part 3)
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Solar power and batteries are becoming cheap and ubiquitous. Great. But there are problems batteries can’t solve – like fueling ships and planes. One way to ...

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Get Happier, Help Others: Some Good Ideas About Giving
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It’s the season of giving: colorful paper and shiny bows, sure, and charitable giving, too. In this special episode, Jacob Goldstein, the host of ...

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Can Hot Bricks Save the World? (The Solar Era, Part 2)
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This is the second of three episodes about the solar-power revolution. Last week, we talked about how solar power got so cheap. This week, we’re talking with ...

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How the Sun Won (The Solar Era, Part 1)
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In the past 20 years, the price of solar panels has fallen by more than 97 percent. This extraordinary decline is good news for the world – and it’s ...

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Drugs in Space
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Paul Reichert is a research scientist at Merck, working on improvements to how we administer drugs to patients. Paul’s problem is this: How can you run ...

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The World Is Getting Better (Really)
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Hannah Ritchie is a data scientist and the deputy editor of Our World in Data. She is also the author of Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First ...

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