3 seasons · 51 episodes
The history of technology, and what it teaches us about now.
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Radar Love
15 October 2026 · 54 min
A secret radar valve crossed the Atlantic in 1940, a candy bar melted in an engineer’s pocket, and the first microwave oven weighed 750…
Price Check
1 October 2026 · 58 min
The first thing ever scanned at a supermarket checkout was a 67-cent pack of Juicy Fruit, in Troy, Ohio, in 1974. Now barcodes get scanned…
Out of Space
24 September 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
For centuries, even millennia, the price of storing important information has gone down as technology advances make each generation…
A (sort of) Clip Show
17 September 2026 · 1 hr 27 min
Prophecy is a poor trade. The pay is parlous and nobody thanks you. A year on we went back to three predictions: precipitation, power, and…
The Meter in the Basement
9 September 2026 · 56 min
The Gas Meter. Wait, what? We're doing an episode about gas meters? That's pretty nerdy even for Renee and Marc isn't it? Yes. It ticks all…
Chips and Chips
2 September 2026 · 49 min
What started out as a text from Marc's brother turned into an investigation into the hundred year history of monosodium glutamate and how…
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