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The Dream of a Solar Sahara
In this episode, we explore the tantalising - but maybe impossible - dream of blanketing the world's deserts in solar panels to supply all of our energy needs....
Climate 201: Greenhouse Gases and Fungibility Questions
In this Climate 201 episode, we introduce the different greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, analyse how their different lifetimes and ability to absorb radiation an...
Softbank's Singularity with Edward Ongweso Jr. of This Machine Kills Podcast
To close our series on Softbank's Vision Fund, I interviewed tech journalist and scholar Edward Ongweso Jr. of "This Machine Kills" podcast about Softbank, the corrosive nature of ...
Softbank's Blurry Vision VI: What We Lost In The Hype
Over the course of this series, we've described how Softbank's $100bn Vision Fund promised to invest in the future and failed to deliver. In this episode, we ask: why should we car...
Softbank's Blurry Vision V: The Next Financial Crisis?
In this episode of our series on Softbank's Vision Fund, we talk about how their investment in fintech company Greensill Capital is potentially part of a series of investments that...
TT Stonks III: Stocks Divorced from Reality, the Great Accelerator, Future of the Show, and Listener Mailbag
In this episode, we talk about why the stock market is increasingly divorced from economic reality, and the fact that COVID-19 is proving to be a great accelerator rather than a gr...
Softbank's Blurry Vision, IV: Identifying as a Tech Company
We go further into Softbank's investments, including the $2bn-valued company that promised to develop an army of robots to cook and deliver pizzas and ended up just creating a roun...
TT, Stonks I: FinCEN Files and the Story of Fake Tesla
In this episode, we discuss the leaked FinCEN files - which illustrate trillions of dollars in suspicious financial flows - as well as Nikola, the wannabe Tesla whose "hydrogen tru...
The Button: The Threat From Nuclear Weapons and What We Can Do About It, with Tom Collina
Very excited to say we have a special guest on the show today. Tom Collina has had a long and storied career in nuclear disarmament for many years, in the Director of Policy at th...
Modern Monetary Theory with the MMT Podcast II: What Your Economy Can Do For You
Hello and welcome to this episode of Physical Attraction. We have a special couple of guests on the show today. Listeners to our episodes about QE for the People will remember that...
Modern Monetary Theory with the MMT Podcast I: Where Does Money Come From?
We have a special couple of guests on the show today. Listeners to our episodes about QE for the People will remember that we briefly mentioned Modern Monetary Theory as a new per...
Thermonuclear Takes: China Goes For Net Zero
In this episode of Physical Attraction, we'll be discussing the recent announcement by China that they will aim for zero net CO2 emissions by the year 2060 - a massive upgrade to t...
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