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A GPU was built to draw video games, yet it ended up running artificial intelligence. What it actually does, and why one company sells most of them.

Nearly every computer chip is made with quartz from one small town in North Carolina. Why that rock is so special, and what happened when a hurricane shut the mines.

Why smart people buy at the top. Every bubble follows the same five steps, and nobody can be sure they are in one until it pops.

Robots can pass exams but still struggle with a T-shirt. Why moving is harder than thinking, and why so many robots are being built in our shape.

Why oil, gas and metals swing from boom to bust. High prices pay for new supply, and when it finally arrives years later, it ends the boom.

Sodium-ion batteries are made from something as common as salt. What they give up, where they fit best, and why they are not cheaper than lithium yet.

Solid-state batteries could change electric cars. What would really get better, what is holding them back, and how to tell real progress from hype.

Evelyn and Alex riff on what actually goes into a reactor — why a single number called enrichment runs the whole industry, and why the fuel everyone's betting on is the one almost nobody can make.

Two hosts unpack how splitting an atom turns a fingertip-sized pellet into a tonne of coal's worth of power — and why a reactor is really just a very fancy way to boil water.