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Continued from parts I and II In the early days, there really wasn’t that much difference between the race cars and the road cars; often one and the same would be seen at Monza, Le Mans or Spa or the other endurance road courses. The predecessor to Formula One differed a little since those were […]

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan try to stay alive no matter what occurs as they rewatch the 1992 American epic ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe and directed by Michael Mann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated, underactuated, stochastic, difficult to model situations. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors. Click links...

Continued from part I I think of this set as being full of very distinctive details of a particular era – yet there is crossover and overlap and transition between them. Even though the continuity is present, there’s a very clear looping back to the historical cars after the late 80s/ early 90s – at […]

Now that Zoe and I got our first band photos, we should probably start an actual band, too. Photos by Sina Frantzen.

First things first: our very own Latif Nasser has an exciting new show on Netflix. He talks to Jad about the hidden forces of the world that connect us all. Then, with an eye on the upcoming election, we take a look back: at two pieces from More Perfect Season 3 about Consti...

I had the opportunity to spend a day photographing the cars at the Museo Storico Alfa Romeo just outside Milan. It wasn’t just the famous cars that were interesting – there you already sort of knew what to expect, so it was more a case of finding interesting angles. The real treasures were the ones […]

It’s a full moon, and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt howl into their microphones after they rewatch the 1985 fantasy comedy ‘Teen Wolf’ starring Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, and Susan Ursitti. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin and ESPN’s Mina Kimes lose a baseball signed by some lady named Babe Ruth after rewatching the 1993 classic ‘The Sandlot’ starring Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, and Patrick Renna. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pre-show: Zip ties vs. Velcro cable ties Monoprice 106463 cable ties Follow-up: Apple’s Public Policy Advocacy (via Kyles the Gray) macOS Catalina 10.15.6 can read Big Sur APFS volumes (via Ole Begemann) Would we distribute our iOS apps outside the App Store? (via ...

I am immature enough to know that a giant farting cloud elephant is not that interesting to most people and of zero photographic merit other than it exists and was captured in its transience; but I am mature enough to know that I like a window seat on an airplane because looking out helps pass […]

Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational, evolutionary, biological, and other cross-disciplinary perspectives. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors...

As scientists have been scrambling to find new and better ways to treat covid-19, they’ve come across some unexpected allies. Invisible and primordial, these protectors have been with us all along. And they just might help us to better weather this viral storm. To kick ...

This morning, I had time to play some basketball. So I went to the court to throw a few throws (like I said I would).

I was pleased to notice that my throwing hasn’t gotten completely terrible after years of not playing. I spontaneously recorded 3 minutes of it.

Pre-show: Working on Stuff that Doesn’t Matter CMMI Waterfall Dithering Follow-up: Mac waking up for Reminders Intel is… not in a good place. Tech CEO Testimony to Congress Peter Steinberger on app entitlements Amazon Prime Video deal email Rumored Apple pr...

Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic confinement of plasmas seeking to enable fusion reactions, which is the energy source of the stars, to be used for pract...

Katie Crutchfield is a singer and songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama. She’s been making music under the name Waxahatchee since 2010. Her fifth album, Saint Cloud, came out this past March. Pitchfork named it Best New Music, and The Guardian called it the best album of the year so far. In this episode, Katie breaks down how she made the song “Fire."

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The spirits of The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Amanda Dobbins come back to earth to rewatch the 1990 romantic thriller ‘Ghost’ starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the Turing Award for his research in the theory of algorithms, including the development of the Edmonds–Karp algorithm for solvi...