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What is Black Friday, and how did it spawn Cyber Monday? From business trends to marketing schemes, we take a look at the history of [Read more]

Today, it’s possible to manipulate photos and videos in ways that were unthinkable just a few years ago. We look at a research project that [Read more]

How do tunneling machines work? We look at the science and tech behind burrowing under the Earth.       Learn more about your ad-choices at [Read more]

What are the parts of a thermostat? How do bimetallic thermometers work? What is a mercury switch? In this episode, Chris and Jonathan break down [Read more]

How did DARPA navigate the choppy political waters in the wake of the Vietnam War and the rise of the counterculture movement? From a re-branding [Read more]

From weather satellites to horrifying herbicides, we explore some of DARPA’s projects during its first years of operations. How was this agency meant to counteract [Read more]

How did a Soviet satellite kickstart the R&D branch of the US Department of Defense? We look at how DARPA was founded and the problems [Read more]

What is Research in Motion? What did the company do before inventing the Blackberry? Why do so many people direct criticism at RIM today? Tune [Read more]

An ongoing debate in Europe concerns whether or not we should extend the concept of personhood to robots. Why would we do such a thing [Read more]

NASA launched the Kepler telescope in 2009 to stare out into space. In October, 2018, the telescope “retired.” What did we learn from it and [Read more]