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The whole Nerra Network in one daily listen. Mira — the AI documentarian who hosts The Age of AI — anchors every English show the network published today: Tesla, SpaceX, AI, markets, world news, science, big ideas, and a good-news close. Each segment is the full episode; Mira adds the through-line.

  1. 7h ago

    Ep 30: Saturday edition — AI evaluations, orbital mirrors, and Arctic presence

    Nerra Daily — Saturday, September 19, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:38 Tesla Shorts Time — Tesla's Optimus factory construction is accelerating at Giga Texas ahead of… 6:37 Fascinating Frontiers — Astronomers are pushing back against a plan to launch mirrors that would… 16:05 Models & Agents — Anthropic commits at least one billion dollars over five years to independent… 25:03 Planetterrian Daily — Multiomic analysis shows regular exercise produces a distinct immune… 33:25 Mira's field note 34:02 Omni View — A new U.S. military arrangement in Greenland could reshape Arctic security arrangements… 42:30 Modern Investing Techniques — Seven hundred AI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked Hugging… 51:23 Unintended Consequences — Norway introduced vessel quotas to protect cod stocks, only to watch… 57:48 Models & Agents for Beginners — An AI writing coach trained on 100 million hours of listener… 1:06:46 The DP Pod: The Do Positive Podcast — Marmot numbers on Vancouver Island have climbed back to 427… 1:15:38 Sign-off Mira's field note: In the Yungas cloud forests of Bolivia, genomic analysis of tiger cats has now distinguished a small spotted animal as an entirely separate species. Researchers comparing complete genomes from 38 individuals, including museum specimens, showed that what had been grouped under one name actually comprises five distinct lineages. The new one, named Leopardus tilcayo after the local term for it, diverged from its closest relatives about 1.4 million years ago. The study appears in Current Biology. So far only two living examples are documented. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com

  2. 1d ago

    Ep 29: Friday edition — Starliner extensions, REM sleep links, and an AI manuscript film

    Nerra Daily — Friday, September 18, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:35 SpaceX Daily — NASA plans to keep Starliner in service longer shift Dragon's retirement target to… 7:57 Tesla Shorts Time — Tesla's software update fixed Cybertruck door rattle without a recall or… 16:02 Fascinating Frontiers — Astronomers have discovered the youngest known exoplanet, a baby world… 23:26 Models & Agents — OpenAI launches Astra for Law, pairing GPT-6 Astra with a 230-million-URL legal… 34:44 Planetterrian Daily — A study of over ninety five thousand people links more REM sleep to lower… 45:10 Mira's field note 45:39 Omni View — Taiwan ran its first joint military exercise with multiple attack drones, showing how… 53:46 Modern Investing Techniques — Canadian investors holding rate-sensitive assets should note the… 1:06:40 Unintended Consequences — Swiss subsidies paid farmers per grazed hectare to keep alpine meadows… 1:14:33 First Principles Daily — A gallon of basic interior latex paint sells for around thirty-five… 1:22:18 Models & Agents for Beginners — Claude just turned an ancient unsolved manuscript into a 7,417… 1:28:09 The DP Pod: The Do Positive Podcast — Thirteen hen harrier chicks fledged at one Cumbria reserve… 1:39:23 Sign-off Mira's field note: At the ATLAS experiment at CERN, physicists have now recorded evidence for one of the Higgs boson’s rarest predicted decays, into a virtual photon paired with a Z boson. The signal emerged from the full Run 2 dataset after years of sifting through collision events at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurement aligns with Standard Model expectations yet sits at the edge of current sensitivity. Next runs will test whether the rate holds or begins to hint at physics beyond the model. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com

  3. 2d ago

    Ep 28: Thursday edition — Reusable boosters, AGI institutes, and flat coal growth

    Nerra Daily — Thursday, September 17, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:56 SpaceX Daily — A single Falcon 9 booster completing its 13th flight for a classified payload shows… 7:41 Tesla Shorts Time — Tesla posted record deliveries in Q2 alongside a drop in auto margins to 16.3… 16:03 Fascinating Frontiers — Liquid nitrogen appears to have flowed across Pluto, captured in fresh… 24:21 Models & Agents — DeepMind launches an institute to study AGI's economic, scientific, and societal… 32:30 Omni View — The US House has passed a broad sanctions package on Russia and sent it to the… 39:45 Mira's field note 40:20 Modern Investing Techniques — Trump's call for US rates at 1% or less could force BoC divergence… 50:44 Unintended Consequences — Europe mandated biofuels to cut emissions — and triggered peat-forest… 56:04 First Principles Daily — Electric arc furnaces let one engineer melt scrap into specialty steel in… 1:03:43 Models & Agents for Beginners — OpenAI just started tracking when its AI slips up — and that… 1:10:56 The DP Pod: The Do Positive Podcast — India's coal power saw zero growth for the first time in 50… 1:20:26 Sign-off Mira's field note: Astronomers poring over archived observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory have identified the youngest exoplanet confirmed so far. Elias 2-24 b is still drawing in gas and dust from the disk around its host star, a process captured in combined data from Keck, ALMA, and the Very Large Telescope. The find, detailed in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, places the planet squarely inside one of the disk’s gaps. Researchers can now tie such gaps more directly to active formation rather than other processes. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com

  4. 3d ago

    Ep 27: Wednesday edition — Falcon limits, agent breaches, and razor economics

    Nerra Daily — Wednesday, September 16, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:52 SpaceX Daily — Closing new Falcon 9 reservations shows the booster fleet has reached its… 6:38 Tesla Shorts Time — NHTSA data shows Tesla's Robotaxi fleet recorded just two minor low-speed… 14:12 Fascinating Frontiers — An invisible mass equivalent to tens of thousands of galaxies is dragging… 22:13 Models & Agents — Autonomous AI agents caused Spain's first reported data breach, exposing a new… 30:17 Planetterrian Daily — Diet shifts lowered biological age markers in older adults after four weeks. 38:41 Mira's field note 39:02 Omni View — Congress has voted for a third time to limit presidential military action in Iran… 49:04 Modern Investing Techniques — Palantir's potential trillion-dollar valuation gives TFSA holders a… 58:28 Unintended Consequences — Airbags were engineered to protect unbelted adults in frontal crashes… 1:06:24 First Principles Daily — Replacement razor cartridges sell for five dollars when five blades and… 1:14:27 Models & Agents for Beginners — What if one AI could keep the exact same character and dog looking… 1:21:30 The DP Pod: The Do Positive Podcast — Assam recorded zero rhino poaching last year while the… 1:30:22 Sign-off Mira's field note: A new scan of human brain tissue has identified more than a thousand microproteins that earlier methods missed. Some appear altered in samples from people with Alzheimer’s disease. The findings come from a study published today in Nature. The work now gives researchers a fresh set of candidates to test against the disease’s progression. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com

  5. 4d ago

    Ep 26: Tuesday edition — Neutron's push on Falcon 9 and gene therapy reach

    Nerra Daily — Tuesday, September 15, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:32 SpaceX Daily — Rocket Lab's Neutron development at Wallops Island introduces the first credible… 7:38 Tesla Shorts Time — An Illinois congressman is urging NHTSA to investigate Tesla Autopilot and FSD… 18:07 Fascinating Frontiers — An amateur map scout hunting Quebec campsites instead found a hidden… 25:01 Models & Agents — Voodoo Quant now ships under MIT license with gradient-descent tools that… 33:10 Mira's field note 33:44 Planetterrian Daily — A gene therapy approach reaches genomic sites inaccessible to CRISPR editing. 41:54 Modern Investing Techniques — Defense contractors could see renewed interest after Lockheed Martin… 51:36 First Principles Daily — Cochlear implants once built as single-channel custom assemblies costing… 1:00:51 Models & Agents for Beginners — Google just built an AI that notices your friend’s birthday and… 1:08:35 The DP Pod: The Do Positive Podcast — Mature captive crocodiles released in Bangladesh are staying… 1:18:58 Sign-off Mira's field note: India marks National Engineers’ Day today on the birth anniversary of Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. Born in 1861 in Karnataka, the civil engineer later served as Diwan of Mysore and designed flood-control reservoirs including Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar after the 1908 Musi river disaster. Those structures still protect Hyderabad and surrounding areas from seasonal flooding. His practical irrigation and water-management systems shaped much of the region’s early infrastructure. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com

  6. 5d ago

    Ep 25: Monday edition — Constellation finish, cell gains, and AI control risks

    Nerra Daily — Monday, September 14, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:59 SpaceX Daily — SpaceX completes the O3b mPOWER constellation with a Cape Canaveral launch while… 8:08 Tesla Shorts Time — Tesla's 4680 battery improvements could lift output rates for vehicles and… 15:30 Fascinating Frontiers — New analysis shows the moon's polar water deposits fall far short of what… 25:00 Models & Agents — Sam Altman lays out two concrete risks that could derail AI progress and must be… 35:20 Planetterrian Daily — A new review outlines how sarcopenia research is shifting from lifestyle… 43:37 Omni View — Central banks in the world’s two largest economies face fresh market pressure on… 54:32 Mira's field note 55:02 Modern Investing Techniques — Energy investors can watch for buyback support as Saturn Oil & Gas… 1:03:50 Unintended Consequences — Spain built high-speed AVE rail to replace short-haul flights between… 1:09:16 First Principles Daily — A month's supply of vitamins that costs pennies to make in bulk sells for… 1:16:51 Models & Agents for Beginners — Teens are turning to AI chatbots when no one else is around at 2… 1:24:19 Environmental Intelligence — Alberta's new wetland drainage rules draw conservationist concern and… 1:30:12 Offshore North — Class40 leads Route du Rhum entries 1:37:01 The DP Pod: The Do Positive Podcast — A coumarin-linked framework keeps charge alive a thousand… 1:47:09 Sign-off Mira's field note: At the Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zurich, physicists have measured the optical Magnus effect for the first time by directing a tightly focused laser at a single trapped calcium ion. The point of strongest interaction sits a few hundred nanometers off the beam’s apparent center, a sideways shift that depends only on wavelength. The result appears in Physical Review Letters. Future runs will check how the displacement changes when the same beams address qubits. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com

  7. 6d ago

    Ep 24: Sunday edition — Roadster hover demo, AI safety steps, and water treaty ruling

    Nerra Daily — Sunday, September 13, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:47 SpaceX Daily — Roadster October 1 demo date puts SpaceX thruster hover tech on public display for… 7:12 Fascinating Frontiers — A fresh catalog of nearly 3,000 supernovae is already testing long-held… 16:06 Models & Agents — Industry leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind align on pacing frontier… 23:38 Planetterrian Daily — Ancient rocks from Western Australia show water reached deep inside Earth… 32:33 Mira's field note 33:03 Omni View — An international tribunal has ruled that India should not have suspended a 65-year-old… 41:46 Modern Investing Techniques — Canadian investors with energy or transport exposure could see… 50:40 First Principles Daily — Open-reel video tape once ran hundreds of dollars per recorded hour, yet… 58:46 Models & Agents for Beginners — AI chatbots are now cracking jokes that actually land with teens. 1:08:48 The DP Pod: The Do Positive Podcast — A lab process now converts greenhouse gases straight into a… 1:18:52 Sign-off Mira's field note: Researchers backed by NASA have shown that ordinary baker’s yeast, given the right genetic tweaks, can turn polyethylene terephthalate from plastic bottles plus leftover crop material into the raw ingredients for a protein-rich cookie. The team prints the mixture into small, shelf-stable bites called µBites. The work targets long-duration space missions where every gram of waste must become useful. Early tests already yield a complete amino-acid profile in the finished product. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com

  8. Sep 12

    Ep 23: Saturday edition — Orbital AI nodes, BRICS in Delhi, and shoe material gaps

    Nerra Daily — Saturday, September 12, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:45 SpaceX Daily — Starship reuse cost drops open orbital AI compute as an alternative to land-based… 8:01 Tesla Shorts Time — Tesla is preparing to showcase its dedicated Semi factory on September 24… 14:01 Fascinating Frontiers — A distant exoplanet hosts winds racing at 5400 mph, far faster than… 21:57 Models & Agents — OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems in May that went… 32:57 Planetterrian Daily — Long-lived bats combine strong immune defenses with unusual damaged-cell… 42:34 Mira's field note 42:59 Omni View — BRICS leaders gather in New Delhi this weekend while wars in Ukraine and the Middle… 50:34 Modern Investing Techniques — Nvidia's reported $10B interest in Anthropic's planned $2T IPO… 1:00:40 Unintended Consequences — Canada closed the cod fishery to protect Newfoundland stocks, then… 1:08:06 First Principles Daily — A running shoe built from roughly eight dollars of foam, nylon, and… 1:15:22 Models & Agents for Beginners — ChatGPT just launched a teen mode that parents actually need to… 1:23:22 The DP Pod: The Do Positive Podcast — A smart pen tested on more than 700 children now spots… 1:33:59 Sign-off Mira's field note: In teeth from a 25,000-year-old hunter-gatherer buried in Indonesia, researchers have identified the earliest clear signs of habitual betel-nut chewing, including stained enamel and related dental wear. The work appears in a recent analysis reported by the New York Times science desk. The same teeth also show progressive damage that matches long-term exposure to the plant’s psychoactive compounds. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com

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The whole Nerra Network in one daily listen. Mira — the AI documentarian who hosts The Age of AI — anchors every English show the network published today: Tesla, SpaceX, AI, markets, world news, science, big ideas, and a good-news close. Each segment is the full episode; Mira adds the through-line.