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Mansplaining Podcast

Welcome to Mansplaining, a podcast about the interesting things you can discover if you just take the time to learn. Mansplaining is brought to you by Mark, Joe, and so far nobody else. Join us as we try to learn a thing or two about a thing or two.

  1. 8 SEPT

    Episode 96: All the Lonely People

    The CDC and Surgeon General recently released reports highlighting twin epidemics that are plaguing young people in our country. For boys, it’s loneliness and social isolation; for girls, it’s persistent sadness and hopelessness. Why are young people so sad and lonely? Mark and Joe discuss whether loneliness is inheritable, how much of the blame we can pin on the distorted view social media provides of reality, and how, in the land of plenty, we can help our kids get the one...

    40 min

  2. 18 AUG

    Episode 95: Fusion Is (Still) Just Around the Corner

    It’s been said that fusion power is 20 years away, and always will be. Why is it taking so long? Well, it turns out that generating temperatures as hot as the sun is hard to do here on Earth, as is controlling the fusion reaction so it doesn’t vaporize everything it touches. Joe and Mark ponder these and other challenges to producing fusion energy, and whether any of us is likely to live long enough to see it become part of a carbon-free electrical grid. (Recorded August 16, 2024.)

    50 min

  3. 10 AUG

    White-Hot Take: Childless Cat Ladies?

    Who knew the Democratic Party was run by "childless cat ladies"? JD Vance's rant has already garnered more than its share of well-deserved opprobrium. But in Mansplaining's first-ever White-Hot Take, Joe takes aim at the right's weird obsession with fertility, what it means for American women, and why, like so many of the right's other weird obsessions, it's likely to end up in the dustbin of history.

    7 min

  4. 27 JUL

    Episode 94: Decoding the Unitary Executive Theory

    The Supreme Court’s recent controversial ruling about presidential immunity appears to rely on a shadowy notion of executive branch power called the unitary executive theory. After gaining currency in conservative circles for decades, the unitary executive may now be poised to go from theory to reality, thanks to the right-wing SCOTUS supermajority. Mark and Joe trace the theory’s lineage, whether evidence for it exists in our founding documents, and the implications of its newfou...

    37 min

  5. 14 JUL

    Episode 93: Fertility and the Elusive Sweet Spot

    It wasn’t so long ago that human fertility was likened to a ticking time bomb, with overpopulation leading to famine and ecological collapse. More recently, we’ve heard that declining fertility rates are the real problem, bringing forth a shrinking workforce and economic ruin. Is negative population growth something to worry about? Joe and Mark examine demographic history and trends, what declining fertility means for women and children, why the Goldilocks “just right” level of fe...

    54 min

  6. 30 JUN

    Episode 92: American Climate Refugees?

    For decades, Americans have moved south chasing cheaper homes and better weather. But after years of unremitting heat and more frequent hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods that have disproportionately devastated those destinations, you might wonder whether people start moving back whence they came. In a follow-up to Episode 74 (The Weather Forecast is Calamitous), Mark and Joe assess the likelihood that a reverse migration of displaced climate refugees will happen anytime soon. (Rec...

    26 min

  7. 17 JUN

    Episode 91: The Vultures Are Circling Around College Athletics

    Just as colleges are finally being forced to pay their long-exploited student-athletes commensurate with the revenue they generate for their schools, we’re beginning to hear about private equity firms investing in college sports programs. Joe and Mark give it the old college try in analyzing the implications of this development on college athletics specifically and higher education generally (hint: they ain’t good). (Recorded June 14, 2024.)

    51 min

  8. 26 MAY

    Episode 90: The (Non-Existent) Connection Between Bail Reform and Crime

    Over the past several years, bail reform laws—changes to the criminal legal system to reduce unnecessary pretrial detention, especially for non-violent offenses—were implemented in jurisdictions throughout the country, and many advocates for criminal justice reform welcomed these changes as long overdue. There ensued a backlash, howerver, in which conservatives blamed recent increases in crime on bail reform and claimed it led to a rash of opportunistic recidivism by folks who should ha...

    35 min
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Welcome to Mansplaining, a podcast about the interesting things you can discover if you just take the time to learn. Mansplaining is brought to you by Mark, Joe, and so far nobody else. Join us as we try to learn a thing or two about a thing or two.

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  • Creator
    Mark and Joe
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    96
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Mansplaining
  • Show Website
    Mansplaining

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