2026-08-15

The latest addition is You bet your life insurance, a Planet Money episode on life settlements, the viatical settlement origin during the AIDS crisis, and the way death benefits became a tradable investment market. It adds Scott Page, Greg (Scott Page’s partner), Frank (life-settlement seller), Coventry (life settlements), Jonah Conn, Evergreen Settlements, Life Settlement, Viatical Settlement, Life Insurance Secondary Market, Mortality Risk Pricing, Death-Benefit Portfolio, Life Settlement Pricing Opacity, and Insurable Interest Boundary, while extending NPR, Planet Money, Insurance Risk Transfer, Family Protection Insurance Planning, Savings-Style Insurance, Asymmetric Information, and Portfolio Suitability. Its core synthesis is that finance can turn a future family-protection promise into present liquidity, but the same conversion makes human mortality into pricing input, portfolio return, and a consumer-protection problem when sellers cannot easily know what their policies are worth.

The latest addition is EP274 如何找到适合自己的“更年期答案”？, a Talk三联 episode with 萧楚舟, 孙若曦, and 南希 of 万象更新 on how to find a menopause answer that fits one’s actual life. It adds 南希 / Nanxi, 万象更新, 李洪军 / Li Hongjun, Menopause Clinical Shared Decision-Making / 更年期临床共同决策, Menopause Information Triage / 更年期信息辨别, Menopause Life Reconstruction / 更年期生活重构, Menopause Family Support / 更年期家庭支持, Male Menopause Visibility / 男性更年期可见性, and Workplace Menopause Support / 职场更年期支持, while extending Menopause As Freedom / 更年期作为自由, Gendered Medicalization, Embodied Aging, Female Self-Possession, Female Body Freedom, Doctor-Patient Communication, Medical Knowledge Boundary, Mosuo, Women Workplace Progress Stall, and Workplace Pacing. Its core synthesis is that menopause is neither a single prescription nor a simple empowerment slogan: usable answers come from prepared clinical conversations, risk-benefit judgment, symptom language, relationship support, workplace accommodation, and repeated life-priority adjustment.