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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Saturday, 26 September 2026
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A sloth and a donkey discuss anything — every episode generated by AI from a single prompt.
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Technology |
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In 1954, engineers on two continents began designing the fastest passenger aircraft ever attempted. They forecast a market of 350. They built 20. This episode walks…
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A wrong AC adapter sent 52 volts into a 12-volt fiber modem, and the sizzle lasted a second and a half. That accident opens a bigger question: how do you decide…
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What happens when you strap a jet engine to a bicycle? It turns out the physics is funnier and stranger than the video. We dig into why that bike almost certainly…
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Can any open source controller manage access points from different vendors? We walk through what controller software actually does — adoption, VLANs, 802.11k/v/r…
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A friend's DIY Ethernet run negotiated at 80 Mbps on a 2.5-gig fiber connection — and the termination was almost certainly to blame. This episode walks through why…
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This episode unpacks why "cursor works, clicks don't" is the signature of a swollen battery, not a dead trackpad, and why the visual check almost always fails. We…
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Aviation |
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From Boeing's "fly it onto the runway" technique and a sobering NTSB case where a crew touched down 4,242 feet past the threshold on a 7,001-foot runway, to the…
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A shattered engine and a river landing is the image most people have of bird strikes. The data tells a different story: roughly 19,400 reported strikes at 713 U.S…
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The answer turns out to be barely above idle — and the reason why reframes the whole hazard. It isn't engine RPM that kills, it's mass flow, and a large turbofan at…
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Geopolitics |
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That's the thread this episode pulls. We walk through what migration research actually says about why people move — push and pull, voluntary versus forced versus…
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What actually drives people to leave one country for another? That claim opens up the whole field of migration economics: push-pull models, self-selection, the…
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We separate the facts, the rhetoric, and the reaction — and ask whether a movement's own style can manufacture the opposition it claims to be fighting.
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Health |
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That "low-VOC" label doesn't mean zero emissions — and your nose is a terrible instrument for detecting what matters. This episode digs into what's actually in a…
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Most advice about learning starts with the résumé: get the degree, get the certificate, and happiness will follow. The research says that's backwards. This episode…
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This episode digs into the neuroscience of clutter: how multiple objects compete for neural representation in visual cortex, why subjective messiness tracks…
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Finance |
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Ireland sits second in the world by nominal GDP per capita, yet its household disposable income ranks 19th in the OECD. Israel's output sits below the OECD average…
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History |
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Heavy industry" sounds like a description of big, heavy things. It isn't. The real definition is economic: higher capital intensity, deeper cyclical swings, and a…
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Israel |
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Israel's Foreign Minister says convincing governments to move their embassies to Jerusalem is as important as the battlefield. A listener in Jerusalem calls that…
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Parenting |
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This episode digs into parental burnout as a distinct, measurable condition, why cognitive labor weighs more than physical tasks, and what the research actually…
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Science |
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This episode works through all four, starting with the physics of saturation and temperature inversions, then Koschmieder's law and the theoretical limit of sight…
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Travel |
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Most "worst bus journey" lists just count hours. This one doesn't. Working from a listener's detailed brief, we rank five real long-haul routes by the full stack of…
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Everything Else |
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What happens when a genuinely talented actor lands in a role they are spectacularly unsuited for? We rank ten of the most disastrous casting decisions in well-known…
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Some films are puzzles with solutions. Others are experiences that resist solution entirely. This episode digs into five critically acclaimed movies that a…
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