Tidal Forces
I swim in open water. I used to swim in the ocean all the time, but for the last two years it's been mostly lakes. Even with this shift though I never deleted the app on my phone that tells me the tides and the phase of the
Entropy Hunters
I had planned to have more to share here before getting into what didn't make it, and to share it sooner, but this week my writing time got cut short. I got bitten by a dog and ended up in the ER, and spent the week before that
Half-Light
When I started this show, I knew I wanted "internet history" to be part of it. But what goes in that category isn't always obvious. I often get this feeling like the more I learn about something, the less confident I am in my understanding of
Silent Agreement
For about a week, I was utterly convinced I was going to ruin this episode. After a stretch of stories that felt heavy and often tragic, I really wanted to write about something else. On my list, I had "MIDI" and I thought it fit the bill. To
Working in the Dark
This episode started because I wanted to know where the microchip manufacturing process actually begins. I had been watching Instagram reels where people were putting small electronics components under microscopes and I got curious about how we make things that small. The answer I got was that we start by
America On Hold
I had all of these CDs stuck to my bedroom wall when I was a kid. I do not remember asking for them. They were just there. Shiny and everywhere. I remember getting them in the mail, and I know I once saw a kid try to melt one with