2026-07-25
The latest addition is A historic home tour of the virtual world, a Marketplace Tech episode touring an Equinix data center in a historic Palo Alto Pacific Telephone and Telegraph building. It adds Equinix, Eddie Espinosa, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, AltaVista, Palo Alto Internet Exchange, Colocation Data Center, and Neutral Internet Exchange, while extending Marketplace Tech, Strategic AI Infrastructure Dependence, AI Compute Continuity, Data Center Power Bottleneck, and Cloud Storage Physicality. Its core synthesis is that the internet and AI are not placeless abstractions: telephone switchboards, early search, exchange-point cages, colocation, fiber, cloud services, and AI traffic all depend on physical sites where networks can meet.
The latest addition is Infrastructure lessons from the dot-com bubble, a Marketplace Tech episode with Paul Vixie on dot-com-era fiber buildout and today’s AI infrastructure boom. It adds Paul Vixie and Dark Fiber, while extending Marketplace Tech, Megan McCarty-Corino, Palo Alto Internet Exchange, Federal Communications Commission, Amazon Web Services, Productive Bubble Spillovers, Technology Installation Cycle, Strategic AI Infrastructure Dependence, AI Compute Continuity, and Data Center Debt Risk. Its core synthesis is that infrastructure bubbles can destroy firms and still leave useful capacity: dark fiber looked wasteful after the dot-com bust, but later became network option value for search, social media, streaming, cryptocurrency, and AI.
The latest addition is Making AI work - for work, a Marketplace Tech episode with Christopher Mims on making AI work inside organizations. It adds Clorox, Hidden Valley Ranch, Microsoft Copilot, and Invisible Classical AI, while extending Marketplace Tech, Megan McCarty-Corino, How to AI, Business-Led AI Transformation, AI Workflow Triage, AI Economic Diffusion, and AI-Generated Advertising. Its core synthesis is that workplace AI value depends on repeatable task selection, workflow redesign, and change management, while many older non-generative AI systems already shape daily choices invisibly; the labor-risk side is that firms may use expected AI productivity to justify layoffs or flat headcount before gains are broadly shared.
The latest addition is What AI fitness apps can and can’t do - for now, a Marketplace Tech episode with Nicole Nguyen on AI fitness apps. It adds Nicole Nguyen, Peloton, Apple Workout Buddy, Fitbit AI Health Coach, AI Fitness Coaching, Computer Vision Form Correction, AI Nutrition Tracking, and AI Fitness Accountability Gap, while extending Apple, Fitbit, AI Health Management, AI Hallucination, and Human Judgment Under AI. Its core synthesis is that AI fitness can help beginners start, personalize workouts from personal data, and add motivating feedback, but it remains bounded by hallucinations, rep-counting errors, cost, and the fact that flexible AI coaching does not create the same accountability as a human trainer.
The latest addition is MLB brings automated ball-strike tech to the Big Leagues, a Marketplace Tech episode with Nola Agha on Major League Baseball’s Automated Ball Strike Challenge System. It adds Nola Agha, University of San Francisco, Hawkeye, Automated Ball Strike Challenge System, Baseball Strike-Zone Automation, and Sports Officiating Automation, while extending Marketplace Tech, Stephanie Hughes, Major League Baseball, and League Stakeholder Alignment. Its core synthesis is that automated sports officiating is not simply replacing human umpires: MLB’s ABS challenge system uses camera tracking and strike-zone calibration to improve fairness, while still depending on challenge rules, two-dimensional rule translation, player and umpire feedback, fan acceptance, and human fallback when tracking fails.
The latest addition is Too much AI in the office is causing "brain fry", a Marketplace Tech episode with Matt Krop of BCG on AI brain fry. It adds Matt Krop and AI Brain Fry, while extending Marketplace Tech, Stephanie Hughes, BCG, AI Managing AI, Agentic Workflow, AI Use Pacing, AI Workflow Triage, Business-Led AI Transformation, and Human Judgment Under AI. Its core synthesis is that workplace AI productivity is a work-design problem: AI can improve morale when it removes repetitive toil, but fast parallel agent supervision can produce cognitive exhaustion, dissatisfaction, and retention risk when humans are left constantly monitoring high-cognitive work.
The latest addition is Meta and Youtube held liable for their addictive products, a Marketplace Tech episode with Eric Goldman of Santa Clara University’s High Tech Law Institute on social-media child-safety verdicts involving Meta, YouTube, and New Mexico. It adds Santa Clara University, High Tech Law Institute, New Mexico, Bellwether Platform Trials, Section 230 Design Workaround, and Platform First Amendment Defense, while extending Marketplace Tech, Eric Goldman, Meta, YouTube, Social Media Product Liability, Platform Legal Causation, Section 230, State AG Platform Litigation, and Internet Liability Spillover. Its core synthesis is that jury acceptance of social-media responsibility is a powerful signal but not a final legal endpoint: appeals may still test whether product-design claims can bypass Section 230 and whether content presentation is protected editorial activity.
The latest addition is 34 days without internet in Iran, a Marketplace Tech episode with Amir Rashidi of Mian Group on Iran’s wartime internet blackout and the National Information Network. It adds Amir Rashidi, Mian Group, National Information Network, Mahsa Alert, Domestic Network Sovereignty, Domestic Service Censorship, and Internet Blackout Public-Safety Risk, while extending Marketplace Tech, Megan McCarty-Corino, Iran, and Digital Infrastructure War Risk. Its core synthesis is that internet shutdowns can be selective political infrastructure: domestic services may keep working under state control while global news, social media, alerting tools, and emergency-service functions fail.
The latest addition is Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX’s IPO, Iran threatens U.S. tech firms and California’s new AI executive order, a Marketplace Tech Bytes episode with Paresh Dave of Wired on SpaceX’s reported confidential IPO filing, Iran-linked threats against U.S. tech infrastructure in the Middle East, and California Governor Gavin Newsom’s AI executive order. It adds Gavin Newsom, Dual-Use Tech Infrastructure Targeting, and State AI Procurement Guardrails, while extending Marketplace Tech, Stephanie Hughes, Paresh Dave, SpaceX, xAI, Iran, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Amazon Web Services, Digital Infrastructure War Risk, AI IPO Valuation, Space Based AI Infrastructure, AI Governance And Compliance, Gulf Strategic Diversification, and Gulf Stability Risk. Its core synthesis is that large tech companies are becoming capital-market vehicles, military-adjacent infrastructure, and public-procurement subjects at the same time.
The latest addition is Would banning teens from social media violate their First Amendment rights?, a Marketplace Tech episode with Aaron Mackey of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on California AB 1709, a proposed under-16 social-media ban modeled on an Australia policy. It adds Aaron Mackey, Electronic Frontier Foundation, California AB 1709, Youth Online Speech Rights, Social Media Age-Gate Speech Burden, and Comprehensive Consumer Data Privacy, while extending Marketplace Tech, California, Australia, United States Constitution, Platform First Amendment Defense, Social Media Product Liability, Platform Data Regulation, Civil Liberties Surveillance Risk, Meta, and YouTube. Its core synthesis is that child-safety regulation can target surveillance-heavy platform business models without using broad age gates that burden lawful speech by minors and adults.
The latest addition is By 2030, EVs could cost the same as their gas guzzling siblings, a Marketplace Tech episode on EV affordability, battery costs, and why China’s EV market has reached sticker-price parity ahead of the United States. It adds Stephanie Valdez Streaty, Cox Automotive, Colin McCarrick, BloombergNEF, CJ Finn, PwC, Electric Vehicle Price Parity, and Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries, while extending Power Battery Industry Chain, Battery Manufacturing Know-How, Economic Climate Tech Adoption, How We Survive, and Amy Scott. Its core synthesis is that EV adoption is an economics and manufacturing-system problem: cheaper LFP chemistry, supply-chain integration, and engineering improvements only matter politically and climatically when they lower the sticker price enough for ordinary car buyers.
The latest addition is Bytes: Week in Review - Anthropic’s new AI model, a referendum on data centers, and NASA livestreams journey to space, a Marketplace Tech Bytes episode with Stephanie Hughes and Joanna Stern on Anthropic’s restricted Claude-Methos Preview rollout, Project Glasswing, Port Washington’s data-center incentive referendum, and NASA’s Artemis 2 livestreaming. It adds Claude-Methos Preview, Project Glasswing, Cisco, Port Washington, Wisconsin, Data Center Incentive Referendum, Cybersecurity AI Supervision, and Space Mission Livestreaming, while extending Frontier Model Release Governance, Frontier Model Access Restrictions, AI Cyber-Defense Utility, Data Center Backlash, Data Center Tax Incentives, Data Center Cost Shifting, AI Metabolic Infrastructure, NASA, Artemis 2, Marketplace Tech, and Stephanie Hughes. Its core synthesis is that powerful infrastructure earns trust through staged access, direct local consent, and public communication as much as through capability.
The latest addition is One way to avoid AI altogether? Retire early, a Marketplace Tech episode using Lauren Weber’s Wall Street Journal reporting to examine older workers retiring as AI becomes more common at work. It adds Lauren Weber, Older Worker AI Retirement, and Institutional Knowledge Transfer, while extending Marketplace Tech, Wall Street Journal, AI Worker Literacy, AI Use Pacing, Business-Led AI Transformation, Workplace Pacing, and Human Judgment Under AI. Its core synthesis is that workplace AI adoption is not only a productivity or reskilling story: when older workers can opt out of another employer-driven transition, companies may lose tacit knowledge that was never online enough for AI to capture.
The latest addition is Bytes: Week in Review - AI companies divided over proposed state law, Amazon buys Globalstar, and Spotify to sell physical books, a Marketplace Tech Bytes episode on the Illinois AI liability bill, Amazon’s planned Globalstar acquisition, and Spotify’s Bookshop.org physical-book partnership. It adds Illinois, Bill Cunningham, Globalstar, Bookshop.org, PageMatch, Illinois AI Liability Bill, State AI Liability Shield, Catastrophic AI Liability, Direct-To-Device Satellite Connectivity, Satellite Connectivity Competition, and Physical Book Platform Bridge, while extending Marketplace Tech, Maria Currie, OpenAI, Anthropic, Wired, AI Governance And Compliance, Internet Liability Spillover, Amazon, SpaceX, Apple, Spotify, Bookstore Buying, Bookstore Serendipity / 书店偶遇感, and Reading As Life Experience. Its core synthesis is that tech companies are trying to enter regulated or partially offline markets while shifting accountability questions onto law, infrastructure access, and platform-channel design.
The latest addition is California buildings must limit "embodied carbon." Here’s what that means, a Marketplace Tech episode on California’s Embodied Carbon Building Code for large non-residential construction. It adds Malibu High School, Vertical Group, BN Builders, Emily English, U.S. Green Building Council of California, Ben Stapleton, American Public Media, Embodied Carbon Building Code, Operational Carbon, Construction Carbon Compliance, and Low-Carbon Construction Materials, while extending Marketplace Tech, Stephanie Hughes, California, Sustainable Construction Carbon Tradeoff, Economic Climate Tech Adoption, Environmental Tradeoff Accounting, How We Survive, and Amy Scott. Its core synthesis is that climate construction policy can work by making embodied emissions visible in ordinary project review: reuse, whole-project reduction, material thresholds, and documentation turn lower-carbon materials into a demand signal for suppliers rather than only a voluntary green-building ideal.
The latest addition is News sites are blocking access to Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a Marketplace Tech episode on news publishers blocking the Wayback Machine because of AI scraping fears. It adds Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, Andrew Deck, Nieman Lab, Mark Graham, Library of Congress, Public Web Archiving, AI Proxy Scraping Risk, Archive Access Tradeoff, Open Web Social Contract Erosion, and Internet History Fragility, while extending Marketplace Tech, Stephanie Hughes, AI Content Licensing, Open Web Traffic Decline, AI Answer Source Attribution, Digital Preservation, Public Service Journalism, and AI Journalism Trust. Its core synthesis is that AI has changed the perceived bargain around public archives: publishers may block crawlers to prevent indirect training-data extraction, but doing so can weaken the public record, accountability reporting, and the very evidence systems journalists rely on.
The latest addition is When do tech companies need to be consistently profitable?, a Marketplace Tech episode with Stephanie Hughes and Sarah Kunst of Clio Capital on Snap layoffs, Path To Profitability, and Activist Investor Pressure. It adds Snap, Sarah Kunst, Clio Capital, Arenic Capital Management, Michael Lynton, Path To Profitability, and Activist Investor Pressure, while extending Marketplace Tech, Stephanie Hughes, Snapchat, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Public Company Transition, Public Market Communication, Shareholder Primacy, and Management Shareholder Alignment Risk. Its core synthesis is that public tech companies can ask for investor patience only when the loss story remains legible: shareholders may tolerate strategic spending, but layoffs, side projects, activist letters, and public-company accountability force CEOs to show how growth spending becomes durable profit.
The latest addition is Anti-AI data center sentiment is becoming a political issue, a Marketplace Tech episode with Stephanie Hughes and Tony Pippa of the Brookings Institution on data centers becoming a political issue. It adds Tony Pippa, Maine, and Data Center Community Consent, while extending Marketplace Tech, Stephanie Hughes, Brookings Institution, National Conference of State Legislatures, Data Center Backlash, Hyperscale Data Center Moratorium, Data Center Cost Shifting, AI Energy Bottleneck, AI Backlash Politics, AI Metabolic Infrastructure, How We Survive, and Amy Scott. Its core synthesis is that AI infrastructure now depends on local political consent: data-center bans, moratoriums, elections, resource terms, and long-term benefit bargaining become part of compute deployment when communities feel outpaced by large technology companies.
The latest addition is Bytes: Week in Review - Apple’s new CEO, Meta’s latest AI play, and Roblox’s safety updates, a Marketplace Tech Bytes episode with Anita Ramaswamy of The Information on Apple succession, Meta employee activity capture for AI training, and Roblox child-safety settlements. It adds Reuters, Matt Kaufman, Alabama, Nevada, West Virginia, Vision Pro, AI Training Data Scarcity, Workplace Behavior Training Data, and Platform Age Estimation, while extending Marketplace Tech, Apple, Tim Cook, John Ternus, Apple Intelligence, iPhone, AI Plus Terminals, Smartphone AI Hub, Meta, Scale AI, AI Workforce Monitoring, Workplace AI Transparency, Office Surveillance And Privacy, Agent Data, Computer Use Agent, Roblox, State AG Platform Litigation, Social Media Product Liability, Social Media Age-Gate Speech Burden, and Platform Data Regulation. Its core synthesis is that AI-era platform strategy now runs through trust-constrained operating surfaces: Apple needs a post-iPhone hardware story, Meta wants employee workflow traces for agents, and Roblox must turn child-safety pressure into age and communication controls.
The latest addition is Peter Reinhardt on Segment’s Pivots and Charm Industrial’s Carbon Removal, a The Social Radars episode with Peter Reinhardt on ClassMetric, Segment, analytics.js, Twilio, and Charm Industrial. It adds Peter Reinhardt, Charm Industrial, ClassMetric, analytics.js, Twilio, Jeff Lawson, Rafael Parker, Chris Surdean, Nat Friedman, Xamarin, Frontier Carbon Removal, Open Source Wedge, Bio-Oil Carbon Removal, Carbon Removal Permitting, and Advanced Market Commitment, while extending The Social Radars, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Hacker News, Segment, Product Analytics, Internal Tool Productization, Customer Evidence Strategy, Product Led Willingness To Pay, Sales As Learnable Skill, Founder-Led Sales, Founder Product Fit, Founder Idea Pivot, Carbon Removal, Carbon Storage Permanence, Carbon Removal Cost Curve, Climate Startup Commercialization Gap, Economic Climate Tech Adoption, and Hard-Tech Regulatory Pathfinding. Its core synthesis is that startup pivots and climate hard tech share the same discipline: real demand has to overpower founder intent, pricing must follow customer value, and physical climate systems need permitting, verification, logistics, and buyer commitments before technical promise becomes scaled removal.
The latest addition is Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel: Silicon Valley Bank Crisis, a The Social Radars episode with Ron Conway on the March 2023 Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the weekend push to guarantee deposits. It adds FDIC, Wally Adeyemo, Graham Steele, Nancy Pelosi, Sherrod Brown, Kamala Harris, Ruth Porat, Marty Gruenberg, Maxine Waters, First Republic Bank, Deposit Guarantee Crisis Response, Moral Hazard Contagion Tradeoff, Systemic Risk Exception, Startup Payroll Systemic Risk, and Civic Relationships As Crisis Infrastructure, while extending Ron Conway, SV Angel, Silicon Valley Bank, The Social Radars, Y Combinator, Gary Tan, U.S. Treasury, Janet Yellen, Barack Obama, Gavin Newsom, Accelerated Bank Runs, Financial Operations Resilience, Crisis Stakeholder Leadership, Founder Crisis Mediation, and Founder Friendly Investor Support. Its core synthesis is that the SVB weekend was not only a bank failure story: modern withdrawal speed, startup payroll concentration, public moral-hazard constraints, and preexisting civic relationships all shaped whether operating cash could be protected before panic spread.
The latest addition is Why Big Tech leaders aligned themselves with White House politics this year, a Marketplace Tech episode with Suyash Pasi of the Human Rights Research Center on major technology leaders’ 2025 alignment with the Donald Trump White House. It adds Suyash Pasi, Human Rights Research Center, Steve Bannon, Federal AI Preemption, Tech-Government Accommodation, H-1B Visa Coalition Fault Line, and Dual-Use Defense Technology, while extending Marketplace Tech, Megan McCarty-Corino, Donald Trump, White House, MAGA / Make America Great Again, Elon Musk, Palantir, AI Governance And Compliance, State AI Procurement Guardrails, MAGA Coalition Fracture, Immigration Backlash Cycle, Merit-Based Immigration Filter, Defense AI Procurement, and Defense Tech Startup Procurement. Its core synthesis is that tech alignment with government power is not one thing: AI deregulation, crypto legitimacy, H-1B labor needs, defense procurement, and midterm politics can pull companies toward accommodation even when parts of the governing coalition remain hostile to their interests.
The latest addition is Mushrooms could help curb plastic waste, a Marketplace Tech episode on Alaska / 阿拉斯加 researchers using Fomes fomentarius and mushroom mycelium to make foam-like boards as a possible alternative to polystyrene packaging and insulation. It adds Anna Holligan, University of Alaska, Filip Amtislavski, Alexandra Ravello, Fomes fomentarius, Wild Source, Chris Sanito, Kodiak Harbour, Mycelium Insulation, Biodegradable Foam Packaging, and Seafood Cold-Chain Packaging, while extending Marketplace Tech, BBC, Alaska / 阿拉斯加, Cold-Chain CPG Constraint, Low-Carbon Construction Materials, Environmental Tradeoff Accounting, Economic Climate Tech Adoption, How We Survive, and Amy Scott. Its core synthesis is that sustainable packaging has to replace polystyrene’s operational virtues, not only its image: mycelium alternatives must satisfy weight, durability, insulation, biodegradability, and shipping economics before plastic-waste reduction can scale.
The latest addition is The year in AI wearables, a Marketplace Tech episode with Will Gottsagen of The Atlantic on AI-enabled wearables as a 2025 technology trend. It adds Will Gottsagen, The Atlantic, Apple AirPods, Apple Watch, and Oura Ring, while extending Marketplace Tech, Megan McCarty-Corino, Meta, Meta AI, Ray-Ban smart glasses, Wearable AI Assistant, AI Plus Terminals, Smartphone AI Hub, Ambient AI Interface, AI Assistant Service Entry, Voice Interaction, Edge-Cloud AI Boundary, AI Translation, Assistive AI, Consumer Camera Surveillance, and Consent-Based Recording. Its core synthesis is that AI wearables can make assistants more contextual through sight, hearing, voice, gesture, and translation, but they do not escape the hard product constraints of latency, cloud dependence, public awkwardness, unclear everyday need, and bystander privacy.
The latest addition is 06.搜神记： 二十四孝这口锅，干宝不背, a 蜜獾吃书 episode rereading 《搜神记》 through 干宝, 李寄斩蛇, 《二十四孝》, omens, ghosts, local cults, harmless or sympathetic nonhuman beings, and later literary motifs. It adds 《搜神记》, 干宝 / Gan Bao, 李寄斩蛇 / Li Ji Slays the Snake, 《二十四孝》 / Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars, 蒋子文 / Jiang Ziwen, Zhiguai Archive Value, Strange Tale Moral Pluralism, and Filial Piety Story Afterlife, while extending 蜜獾吃书, Classic Reading Complexity, Chinese Folk Religion Layering, Story Motif Transmission, Mythic Source Layering, Underworld Bureaucracy, Local Deity Governance, Ordinary People Resistance, and Female Self-Possession. Its core synthesis is that a zhiguai collection can preserve mixed, even conflicting values: later filial-piety packaging should not erase the source’s archive of resistance, superstition, literary prototypes, divine bureaucracy, monster sympathy, and critique of power.
The latest addition is 07.用荣格理论分析《小王子》 永恒少年及其他, a 蜜獾吃书 episode rereading 《小王子》 through 荣格, Marie-Louise von Franz, and 《永恒少年：我们为何拒绝长大》. It adds Carl Jung / 荣格, Marie-Louise von Franz / 玛丽-路易丝·冯·弗兰兹, 《永恒少年：我们为何拒绝长大》 / The Eternal Youth, Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 圣埃克苏佩里, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery / 康苏爱萝, Puer Aeternus / 永恒少年, Jungian Archetypal Reading / 荣格式原型阅读, Mother Complex / 母亲情结, Romantic Death Escape / 浪漫化死亡逃避, Statistical Poisoning Of The Soul / 统计学对灵魂的毒害, and Responsibility Against Romantic Escape / 以责任抵抗浪漫逃避, while extending 《小王子》 / The Little Prince, Children’s Literature Complexity, Classic Reading Complexity, Adult Fairy-Tale Reading, Interpretation And Overinterpretation, Adolescent Alienation Recognition, and 蜜獾吃书. Its core synthesis is that the little prince can be spiritually perceptive and dangerously avoidant at the same time: wonder, death-shadow, maternal attachment, relation, statistics, and boring work all have to be held together before “永远少年” becomes a mature literary value rather than a romantic escape.
The latest addition is 08.老妓抄：老妓不死，甚至不曾凋零, a 蜜獾吃书 episode introducing 冈本加乃子 through 《老妓抄》. It adds 冈本加乃子 / Okamoto Kanoko, 《老妓抄》 / Rogisho, 冈本一平 / Okamoto Ippei, 川端康成 / Kawabata Yasunari, 谷崎润一郎 / Tanizaki Junichiro, 张爱玲 / Eileen Chang, Buddhist Life-Affirming Literature, Subtle Plot Psychological Aftertaste, Gendered Patronage Inversion, and Geisha Life-Cycle Writing, while extending 蜜獾吃书, 秦总, 北明 / 北民, Classic Reading Complexity, Non-Instrumental Literary Reading, Reading As Life Experience, Female Self-Possession, Modern Japanese Interior Discovery, and Literary Gossip As Context. Its core synthesis is that Okamoto’s fiction can be quiet without being empty: Buddhist restraint, old age, female experience, economic dependence, and story arrangement create literary force by aftertaste rather than by strong plot.
The latest addition is 09.阿特拉斯耸耸肩：安兰德只是爽文作家吗？, a 蜜獾吃书 episode giving Ayn Rand / 安·兰德 a sustained reading through The Fountainhead / 《源泉》 and Atlas Shrugged / 《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》. It adds The Fountainhead / 《源泉》, Atlas Shrugged / 《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》, Creator-Parasite Moral Frame / 创造者-寄生者框架, Entrepreneur Strike Myth / 企业家罢工神话, and Anti-Altruism as Moral-Coercion Critique / 反利他主义的道德胁迫批判, while extending Objectivism / 客观主义, Pure Rationality Trap, Ideological Totalization Risk / 主义万能钥匙风险, Classic Reading Complexity, Non-Instrumental Literary Reading, and 蜜獾吃书. Its core synthesis is that Rand’s fiction can genuinely free readers from moral confusion and authority pressure, but only when its creator/parasite drama, anti-altruist critique, and entrepreneur-strike myth remain allegorical tools rather than total diagnostics for real life.
The latest addition is sp.01 宇宙：卡尔·萨根的星辰大海和人类梦想, a 蜜獾吃书 episode on Carl Sagan, 《宇宙》 / Cosmos, 《接触》 / Contact, SETI / Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, the Voyager golden record, and Sagan’s public-science imagination. It adds 《宇宙》 / Cosmos, 《接触》 / Contact, SETI / Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Voyager Golden Record, Humanistic Science Communication, Sagan Effect, Nuclear Winter, and Open Extraterrestrial Civilization Imagination, while extending Carl Sagan, NASA, Applied Astrobiology, Scientific Skepticism, Rational Humility, Science Optimism And Pseudoscience, Science Fiction Realism, and 蜜獾吃书. Its core synthesis is that Sagan’s wonder is evidence-bound and civic: cosmic scale can make people humble without making humanity meaningless, and extraterrestrial imagination can remain open without sliding into pseudoscience.
The latest addition is 10.王尔德奇异故事集：用最会撒谎的嘴唇亲吻天使, a 蜜獾吃书 episode with translator 菲比 on Oscar Wilde / 王尔德, 《王尔德奇异故事集》, 《自深深处》, Lord Alfred Douglas / 波西, and stories including 《阿瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》, 《W.H.先生的画像》, and 《坎特维尔的幽灵》. It adds 《王尔德奇异故事集》 / Wilde Strange Stories, 《阿瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》 / Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, 《W.H.先生的画像》 / The Portrait of Mr. W.H., 《坎特维尔的幽灵》 / The Canterville Ghost, 《自深深处》 / De Profundis, Lord Alfred Douglas / 波西, Andre Gide / 安德烈·纪德, 《道连·格雷的画像》 / The Picture of Dorian Gray, 《快乐王子》 / The Happy Prince, 《夜莺与玫瑰》 / The Nightingale and the Rose, Life Imitates Art / 生活模仿艺术, Art Against Moral Instruction / 反道德说教的艺术, Fictional Evidence Seduction, and Black Comic Moral Inversion, while extending 蜜獾吃书, 秦总, 北明 / 北民, 菲比, Oscar Wilde / 王尔德, William Shakespeare / 威廉·莎士比亚, Classic Reading Complexity, Adult Fairy-Tale Reading, Children’s Literature Complexity, Literary Gossip As Context, Author Myth Deflation, Interpretation And Overinterpretation, Non-Instrumental Literary Reading, and Genre Literary Legitimacy / 类型文学正名. Its core synthesis is that Wilde’s fiction works by turning life, lying, pose, and art into one aesthetic practice: the stories are not just sad fairy tales or quotable wit, but black-comic, ghostly, and evidence-seducing machines that resist direct moral instruction without becoming morally empty.
The latest addition is 11.雍正王朝之大义觉迷：史景迁笔下的千古奇案, a 蜜獾吃书 episode using 史景迁’s 《雍正王朝之大义觉迷》 / Treason by the Book to narrate the 曾静 case from 张熙’s letter to 岳钟琪 through 雍正’s secret-memorial investigation, 吕留良’s posthumous punishment, 《大义觉迷录》, and 乾隆’s later execution-and-suppression reversal. It adds 《雍正王朝之大义觉迷》 / Treason by the Book, 《大义觉迷录》, 雍正 / Yongzheng Emperor, 曾静 / Zeng Jing, 张熙 / Zhang Xi, 岳钟琪 / Yue Zhongqi, 吕留良 / Lu Liuliang, 乾隆 / Qianlong Emperor, 李卫 / Li Wei, 年羹尧 / Nian Gengyao, 清代文字狱 / Qing Literary Inquisition, 清代谣言政治 / Qing Rumor Politics, Imperial Public Rebuttal / 皇帝公开辩驳, 满汉合法性政治 / Han-Manchu Legitimacy Politics, and Political Propaganda Backfire / 政治宣传反噬, while extending 蜜獾吃书, 史景迁 / Jonathan Spence, 康熙 / Kangxi Emperor, 密折政治情报 / Secret Memorial Political Intelligence, Personal Rule Legitimacy Crisis / 个人统治正当性危机, and Historical Memory Contest. Its core synthesis is that a thin conspiracy can become historically consequential when rumor, books, ethnic legitimacy, official self-protection, and imperial self-defense pull in the same direction; official rebuttal and suppression can both preserve the scandal they intend to close.
The latest addition is 13.悲伤的力量：谈谈丧亲之痛, a 蜜獾吃书 episode using Julia Samuel / 朱利亚·萨米尔’s 《悲伤的力量》 / Grief Works to discuss Bereavement Grief Work / 丧亲悲伤工作, Child Death Education / 儿童死亡教育, Grief Companion Support / 丧亲陪伴支持, and Trauma Narrative Integration / 创伤叙事整合. It adds 《悲伤的力量》 / Grief Works, Julia Samuel / 朱利亚·萨米尔, Bereavement Grief Work / 丧亲悲伤工作, Child Death Education / 儿童死亡教育, Grief Companion Support / 丧亲陪伴支持, and Trauma Narrative Integration / 创伤叙事整合, while extending 秦总, 北明 / 北民, 蜜獾吃书, Complex Trauma Recognition, Therapy Relationship And Boundaries, Trauma Numbing, Traumatic Attachment, and the wiki’s broader death-facing care branch. Its core synthesis is that grief is not solved by concealment, slogans, or forced strength: mourners need truth, stable companionship, rituals, and sometimes professional help to turn chaotic pain into a life that can still hold the dead honestly.
The previous addition is 12.慢：当米兰·昆德拉一句正经没有, a 蜜獾吃书 episode using 米兰·昆德拉’s 《慢》 / Slowness to read speed, public moral staging, sex farce, Czech exile, privacy, memory, and anti-kitsch body comedy. It adds Milan Kundera / 米兰·昆德拉, 《慢》 / Slowness, 《玩笑》 / The Joke, 《不可承受的生命之轻》 / The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Czech Republic / 捷克, Prague / 布拉格, Prague Spring / 布拉格之春, Velvet Revolution / 天鹅绒革命, Vera Kundera / 薇拉·昆德拉, Slowness As Modernity Critique / 作为现代性批判的慢, Public Moral Performance / 公共道德表演, Kitsch As Waste Denial / 媚俗作为排泄否认, Anti-Lyricism / 反抒情, Memory Self-Mythologizing / 记忆的自我神话化, Privacy Under Public Gaze / 公共凝视下的隐私, Author As Political Symbol / 作者作为政治符号, and Political Condition As Human Experiment / 政治条件作为人性实验, while extending 蜜獾吃书, Classic Reading Complexity, Author Myth Deflation, and Artistic Achievement Moral Accountability. Its core synthesis is that Kundera’s political history matters, but the episode uses 《慢》 to recover the comic human laboratory of bodies, speed, shame, performance, and self-deception that gets lost when he is reduced to a political label.
The latest addition is 开天窗：摸鱼+感谢+吹大理, a 蜜獾吃书 short “开天窗” update on cross-province moving, listener thanks, and first Dali impressions. It adds Angela Carter, 张全, 《荒野上的大师》, 《武士威廉》, 《仁王》, 《土里不吐气》, and 新移民文学 as source-scoped future leads, while extending 秦总, 北明 / 北民, 蜜獾吃书, Dali, Restorative Creative Pacing, Reading List Pointer Episode, Podcast Release Cadence, Nature Contact And Self-Perception, and Reading As Life Experience. Its core synthesis is that a light maintenance episode can still matter: by explaining disrupted production, acknowledging listener grief responses, and letting Dali’s air, stars, moonrise, and relaxed rhythm reshape future reading interests, the show keeps trust and continuity without overstating undeveloped book previews.
The latest addition is 18.如何识别、逃离并避免成为《精神吸血鬼》, a 蜜獾吃书 episode using 《精神吸血鬼》 to translate the “psychic vampire” metaphor into observable relationship patterns. It adds 《精神吸血鬼》, Rene Spitz / 史匹茨, Psychic Vampire Personality / 精神吸血鬼人格, Emotional Energy Extraction / 情绪能量掠夺, Guilt-Based Relational Control / 内疚式关系控制, Relational Isolation Control / 关系孤立控制, and Self-Generated Emotional Capacity / 造血能力, while extending 蜜獾吃书, Fawn Response, Traumatic Attachment, Complex Trauma Recognition, Communication Boundary Setting, Protection As Control, and Action Against Anxiety. Its core synthesis is that high-drain relationships become dangerous when attention capture, self-blame, guilt debt, isolation, and protective control make the victim doubt their own perceptions; the practical response is to recognize the pattern, preserve outside witnesses, document facts, leave or set firm contact boundaries, and build one’s own capacity for non-extractive emotional nourishment.
The latest addition is 19.荒野上的大师：“我辈于乱世求研究，本为逆流之妄举”, a 蜜獾吃书 live conversation with 张泉 on 《荒野上的大师》. It adds 梁思成, 林徽因, 丁文江, 徐霞客, 赵元任, 傅斯年, 梁启超, 王国维, 陈寅恪, 胡适, 裴文中, 钱理群, 地质研究所/地质调查所, 清华国学研究院, 历史语言研究所, 中国营造学社, 周口店, 殷墟, 西南联大, Fieldwork As Knowledge Method / 田野作为知识方法, Scholarship In Wartime / 乱世求研究, Modern Chinese Academic Institution Building / 中国现代学术制度建设, Cosmopolitan Chinese Scholarship / 世界主义的中国学术, and Spiritual Freedom Under Constraint / 受限处境中的精神自由, while extending 蜜獾吃书, 鲁迅, 清华大学, Academic Freedom, Scholar-Official Public Duty / 士大夫公共责任, Observation Before Inference, and Scientific Self-Correction. Its core synthesis is that the founding generation of modern Chinese scholarship should be read through bodies in the field, institutions under strain, international methods, and spiritual freedom under constraint, not through master worship or celebrity gossip.
The previous addition is 开天窗：摸鱼+感谢+吹大理, a 蜜獾吃书 short “开天窗” update on cross-province moving, listener thanks, and first Dali impressions. It adds Angela Carter, 张泉, 《荒野上的大师》, 《武士威廉》, 《仁王》, 《土里不吐气》, and 新移民文学 as source-scoped future leads, while extending 秦总, 北明 / 北民, 蜜獾吃书, Dali, Restorative Creative Pacing, Reading List Pointer Episode, Podcast Release Cadence, Nature Contact And Self-Perception, and Reading As Life Experience. Its core synthesis is that a light maintenance episode can still matter: by explaining disrupted production, acknowledging listener grief responses, and letting Dali’s air, stars, moonrise, and relaxed rhythm reshape future reading interests, the show keeps trust and continuity without overstating undeveloped book previews.
The latest addition is 20.德米安：该隐的额头上，那神秘的印记, a 蜜獾吃书 episode on Hermann Hesse / 赫尔曼·黑塞’s 《德米安》 / Demian. It adds Hermann Hesse / 赫尔曼·黑塞, 《德米安》 / Demian, 《悉达多》 / Siddhartha, 《荒原狼》 / Steppenwolf, Emil Sinclair / 辛克莱尔, Max Demian / 德米安, Frau Eva / 夏娃夫人, Franz Kromer / 弗朗兹·克罗默, Pistorius / 皮斯托留斯, Abraxas / 阿布拉克萨斯, Cain Mark Reinterpretation / 该隐印记重释, Light And Dark World Duality / 光明与黑暗世界二分, Abraxas Whole-God Symbolism / 阿布拉克萨斯完整神象征, Spiritual Mentor As Self Projection / 精神导师作为自我投射, Self Discovery Against Mass Conformity / 抵抗从众的自我追寻, Hesse Youth Culture Misreading / 黑塞青年文化误读, and Gnosticism / 诺斯替主义, while extending 蜜獾吃书, 秦总, 北明 / 北民, Carl Jung / 荣格, Jungian Archetypal Reading / 荣格式原型阅读, Friedrich Nietzsche / 尼采, Existentialism / 存在主义, Classic Reading Complexity, Non-Instrumental Literary Reading, Reading As Life Experience, and Interpretation And Overinterpretation. Its core synthesis is that Hesse’s “find yourself” language becomes serious when read through war, orthodoxy, shame, desire, and symbolic self-knowledge: the Cain mark and Abraxas do not license mere rebellion, but force Sinclair to outgrow inherited moral binaries and later external mentors.
The latest addition is 21.红与黑：他死于真诚, a 蜜獾吃书 episode rereading 斯汤达’s 《红与黑》 / The Red and the Black. It adds Stendhal / 斯汤达, 《红与黑》 / The Red and the Black, Julien Sorel / 于连·索雷尔, Madame de Renal / 雷奈尔夫人, Mathilde de La Mole / 马蒂尔德·德·拉莫尔, French Restoration / 法国王政复辟, Napoleon Bonaparte / 拿破仑, William Somerset Maugham / 毛姆, Psychological Realism / 心理现实主义, Class Mobility Performance / 阶级上升表演, Sincerity Against Social Hypocrisy / 以真诚抵抗社会虚伪, Passion Against Self-Control / 激情与自我控制, and Female Subjectivity In Classic Reading / 经典阅读中的女性主体性, while extending 蜜獾吃书, 秦总, 北明 / 北民, France, Leo Tolstoy / 托尔斯泰, Sainte-Beuve / 圣伯夫, Classic Reading Complexity, Non-Instrumental Literary Reading, Reading As Life Experience, Literary Gossip As Context, Female Self-Possession, and Moral Suspension In Art Reading. Its core synthesis is that Julien Sorel should not be reduced to a social-climbing villain: Stendhal’s psychological realism makes his ambition, class humiliation, religious and aristocratic performance, love, pride, violence, and final sincerity part of one tragic pressure system.
The latest addition is 22.足球经济学：读者不必是球迷, a 蜜獾吃书 episode on 《足球经济学》 / Soccernomics. It adds 邓老板, Arsene Wenger / 温格, 刘洋洋, Football As Economic Laboratory, Football Analytics Modernization, Football Labor-Market Discrimination, Football Manager Myth Deflation, Open Football Talent Markets, Soft-Budget Football Clubs, and Sports Mega-Event Welfare Accounting, while extending 秦总, Soccernomics / 《足球经济学》, Stefan Szymanski, Simon Kuper, Economic Way Of Thinking, Game Theory, Data-Driven Penalty Preparation, Penalty Shootout Strategy, Football Club As Community Asset, Fat League Economics, Sports Entertainment Flywheel, FIFA World Cup, Premier League, Arsenal FC, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Lionel Messi. Its core synthesis is that football is an unusually useful economics lab: its traditions, loyalty, data, money, prejudice, talent flows, coaching myths, event happiness, and publishing constraints make economic reasoning concrete without reducing sport to accounting.
The previous addition is 14.武士威廉：大航海时代的日本和西方, a 蜜獾吃书 episode using 《武士威廉》 to develop the previously previewed William Adams / 三浦按针 branch. It adds William Adams / 三浦按针, Tokugawa Ieyasu / 德川家康, Tokugawa Shogunate / 德川幕府, Battle of Sekigahara / 关原合战, Konishi Yukinaga / 小西行长, Hasekura Tsunenaga / 支仓常长, England, Portugal, Jesuits / 耶稣会, Early Modern Japan-Europe Contact, Confessional Trade Conflict, Tokugawa Foreign-Trade Ambivalence, Sakoku Dutch Window, and Oceanic Voyage Attrition, while extending Japan, Netherlands, Spain, 《仁王》 / Nioh, 蜜獾吃书, and Scurvy Nutrition Insight. Its core synthesis is that Adams’s foreign-samurai story is best read as a contact-zone case: catastrophic voyages, Protestant-Catholic rivalry, Jesuit influence, Tokugawa state formation, trade desire, and Christian-risk management all matter, but Adams remains mediator and witness rather than a lone person who redirected Japan’s eventual foreign-contact policy.
The latest addition is 串台.「你吃香菜吗」女生版：你愿意和性转之后的自己在一起吗？, a 蜜獾吃书 crossover with 你吃香菜吗 using the question of whether one would date a gender-swapped self to examine intimacy, self-acceptance, and gendered evaluation. It adds 你吃香菜吗, 日光派对播客联盟, 小时, 纸造 / 老爷, 柯子, Gender-Swap Self Thought Experiment / 性转自我思想实验, Self-Similarity In Intimacy / 亲密关系中的自我相似, Complementary Relationship Support / 互补式关系支持, Emotional Co-Regulation Fit / 情绪共调匹配, Relationship Need Diversification / 关系需求分散, and Sincerity As Relationship Trust / 真诚作为亲密关系信任, while extending 秦总, Female Self-Possession, Information Cocoon / 信息茧房, Relationship Optionality, Empathy Boundaries, Social Signal Interpretation, and 相信自己的感受 / Self-Feeling Trust. Its core synthesis is that intimacy cannot be solved by choosing sameness or difference in the abstract: similarity lowers friction and uncertainty, but complementary partners, friends, and broader social ties may supply emotional balance, correction, and growth when shared blind spots would otherwise reinforce each other.