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ClaraNarratio Brain Candy

ClaraNarratio

Calm, skeptical, and evergreen curiosity deep dives into history, culture, technology, power, and philosophy.

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122 episodes

  1. Trump Was Warned. What Did He Do? 18:02
  2. Who Gets to Decide What Counts as Good Reading? 19:41
  3. The Cost of Impunity: Hegseth and Congress's Next Test 17:51
  4. A City on a Hill: For Whom? 18:37
  5. Always Watched: When Keeping Kids Safe Becomes Surveillance 16:13
  6. What Happens When We Cannot Agree on Reality? 19:28
  7. When the Leader Becomes the Truth 15:20
  8. You Bought the TV. Who Owns the Living Room? 14:43
  9. Election Day Special: Your Vote Still Matters 19:38
  10. The Billionaire Tax Paradox: California's Proposition 40 20:48
  11. The $6 Billion Heist: North Korea’s Crypto War 18:20
  12. Russia’s Closing Exit: Fleeing Before the Call-Up 18:29
  13. Retirement at Sea: What Happens When the Voyage Stops? 15:05
  14. Samhain in the Machine: Halloween's Celtic Roots in the Age of AI 23:40
  15. The Zombie Apocalypse Is a Disaster Preparedness Drill 18:10
  16. Who Writes the AI Rulebook? Anthropic’s Leaked Safety Bill 16:54
  17. What Makes Ultraprocessed Food Unhealthy? 19:26
  18. The Secret Ruling Behind America's Surveillance Debate 18:12
  19. Who Elected the Space Barons? 18:33
  20. The Bees That Check Their Information 19:04
  21. AI Is Rewiring the Electric Grid 20:06
  22. Can a President Decide Which Election Results Count? 16:46
  23. Escaping the Infinite Scroll 18:54
  24. The Faces That Never Existed 16:23
  25. Shadowing a Satellite: How War Reaches into Orbit 17:14
  26. The Price of Silence: Musk, NDAs, and Billionaire Power 13:12
  27. Russia's Invisible Election Campaign: The Machinery of Manufactured Division 13:37
  28. The Sucky Supremes and the One-Way Ratchet of Religious Liberty 20:03
  29. The Bug in OpenAI's Boardroom: Inside an AI Lab Security Scare 21:41
  30. DOGE’s Disaster: How Trump and Musk Hollowed Out Government 18:01
  31. Trump’s Nobel Grievance: Peace Claims Under Scrutiny 15:46
  32. Who Gets to Teach AI Right from Wrong? 15:01
  33. Who Sets the Fall Vaccine Rules? 19:55
  34. How Russia Won: Trump's Dismantling of Election Defenses 19:02
  35. Russian Diesel, American Prices: What Happens When Sanctions Become Negotiable? 13:49
  36. The Return of Public Executions: America and the Spectacle of State Killing 15:18
  37. The Golden Bear: From Merchant Marine Training to a Proposed Deportation Ship 14:37
  38. One Death, No Confirmed Plague: How an Information Vacuum Fuels an Outbreak Rumor 15:53
  39. Agent of Whom? When AI Acts on Your Behalf 10:20
  40. When the Government Buys the President an Ad Campaign 17:54
  41. The Machines Get Rich. What Happens to Everyone Else? 21:30
  42. Canada’s 300,000 Reserve Goal: Separating Readiness from the U.S. Invasion Rumor 15:17
  43. When Does Distrust in Medicine Become Distrust of Science? 18:26
  44. Your Earbuds Need a Privacy Policy Now. That Should Bother You 15:20
  45. Bill Gates Isn't an AI Doomer. So Why Is He This Worried? 18:14
  46. The AI Fear Premium: Safety Warning, Engineering Failure, or Regulatory Strategy? 18:04
  47. Venezuela’s Vanishing Gold: What Happened to the Reserves—and Why New Bars Are Turning Up in America 19:03
  48. Ukraine’s New Long-Range War 19:37
  49. Greenland After the Annexation Threats 20:36
  50. Can the AI Arms Race Be Slowed? 20:16