Episodes

Tariffs, export and investment controls and the US’s $700 billion trading relationship with China. Raimondo reiterated what many US companies told her : China is becoming uninvestable.

The US is curbing the export of sensitive technology that has dual use - civilian and military. A change in the open globalization policies of the last 20 years.

David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, has had a Rocky few months . Will the board replace him ?

Putin from the start of the Ukraine invasion in 2022 has issued veiled threats of using nuclear weapons. Why now and why Ukraine ? Russia isn’t at existential risk so why threaten to use nukes ?

The Supreme Court’s Merits Docket has given us the landmark decisions that have shaped American society. But the lesser known emergency docket - the Shadow Docket - is playing an increasingly prominent role in the Court’s deliberations.

The San Francisco and Silicon Valley region is home to a majority of the top AI companies. Generative AI has dominated our discourse in 2023. And regulation is looming.

ESG has been in the news through 2023. With S&P dropping its ESG scorecard is ESG under threat ?

California has the highest number of Alzheimer’s patients in the US. The incidence is an increasing as the Baby Boom generation ages. Lifestyle and demographics plays a big role as regards who is likely to develop Alzheimer’s.

The OGR is the successor to the Whitbread Round the World Race: 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the first such race.Tan Raffray Will skipper the 60 foot, 10 person sailboat on the 7 month named the Neptune. Amy Bridge will support the Neptune and its special Parkinson’s mission.

The film is adapted from the book American Prometheus and recounts the life of Robert Oppenheimer, who headed up the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. It was used to end World War II.

Since the 1950s industrial and nuclear waste has left man’s indelible footprint on the Earth, heralding the Anthropocene Age.

When our hunter gatherer ancestors settled in communities they were at their creative, innovative and productive best. Chelsea Follett features 40 cities where human development began.

Stefan is Professor of Marine Engineering at University of Sydney. He talks about the Titan submersible disaster.

Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller set in small town America - Santa Rosa, California. A serial killer hides with his sister’s family to escape being apprehended. But then his niece suspects his true history.

The AI wave of technological innovation is underway. Investors are looking for opportunities.

AI is transforming cardiology in diagnosis and therapy , precision medicine, remote monitoring.

The advent of Artificial Intelligence in Education is facing challenges being integrated into college, high school and elementary school curriculums.

Are America and its Allies stepping back from their deep economic ties with China ?

A controversial ad campaign about Fentanyl use has stirred controversy in San Francisco.

On June June 29, 2023 the US Supreme Court handed down two decisions that profoundly effect Affirmative Action policy.

The life story of 1920s and 30s Hollywood actress Marion Davies and her life with press baron William Randolph Hearst

US and India’s relationship has waxed and waned over the last 76 years. However, PM Modi’s visit was described as a Hinge in Geopolitics by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Was it ?

Over the last 40 years political movements have appropriated the Legitimacy of the Civil Right Movement for their own ends. What effect does it have on our collective memory ?

A new global equality index based on 8 criteria has been developed by the Cato Institute. The media persists in its pessimistic view of global equality despite the data.