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  • Ep 59: Sunday edition — Tesla insurance strain, ancient shipwreck, local coding models

    Ep 59: Sunday edition — Tesla insurance strain, ancient shipwreck, local coding models
    2026/10/18
    Nerra Daily — Sunday, October 18, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:46 Tesla Shorts Time — Korean auto insurers face a 107.6 percent loss ratio after Tesla sales tripled. 9:58 Planetterrian Daily — Archaeologists have dated the world's oldest known shipwreck to 2700–2400… 19:52 Models & Agents — Local models just matched a frontier coding agent on five real tasks while… 31:41 Modern Investing Techniques — India's Rs 52,000 crore FPI selloff this month shows why TFSA… 43:36 Mira's field note 43:59 First Principles Daily — Three hundred fifty two dollars bought an RCA television set in nineteen… 51:47 Unintended Consequences — The 2007 Renewable Fuel Standard expanded U.S. corn area by 2.8 million… 1:01:29 Models & Agents for Beginners — AI just turned classic short stories into playable 3D worlds you… 1:09:16 Omni View — Czech opposition keeps Senate control, blocking the prime minister from easy… 1:17:51 Sign-off Mira's field note: Researchers tracking individual skin stem cells in living mice for five months have found that female cells coordinate their activity far more tightly than male ones during repair and renewal. The pattern shows up across the skin surface rather than in isolated patches. The study appears in work reported today by ScienceDaily. What happens next is whether the same coordination shows up in human skin samples under different conditions. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com
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    1 時間 18 分
  • Ep 58: Saturday edition — Tissue studies in orbit, off-grid estates, and election contracts

    Ep 58: Saturday edition — Tissue studies in orbit, off-grid estates, and election contracts
    2026/10/17
    Nerra Daily — Saturday, October 17, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:44 SpaceX Daily — SpaceX Dragon experiments on artificial retinas and brain tissue now run in… 8:43 Tesla Shorts Time — A South African estate runs entirely off-grid on five Powerwalls paired with… 16:27 Planetterrian Daily — Naming a single chicken and describing its habits reduces how often… 23:15 Models & Agents — Perplexity open-sourced its Firecracker microVM sandbox, giving builders a self… 32:39 Fascinating Frontiers — Seven billion light-years away, a supercluster holding more than two… 40:23 Omni View Top World News — 100 percent tariffs on Russian oil's top buyers are off, days before… 48:13 MAG 7 Daily — After 16,000-plus paper checks, Google opens Deep Review publicly. 56:09 Mira's field note 56:35 Modern Investing Techniques — September PPI at 6.3% versus 5.3% estimate raises Bank of Canada… 1:08:15 Vancouver Daily News — Voters in one hundred sixty-two municipalities pick mayors and councils… 1:16:52 AI Chips & Data Centres Daily — Second Arizona fab volume production begins third-quarter twenty… 1:25:58 First Principles Daily — Atwater Kent built nearly one million radios in 1929 using stamped… 1:35:44 Unintended Consequences — Thirty-two major dams on the Tigris and Euphrates reduced the flood… 1:46:42 Prediction Markets Daily — Seven hundred fifty million dollars traded on twenty twenty-six… 1:56:16 Models & Agents for Beginners — ChatGPT just learned how to look at every tab you have open and… 2:02:12 Omni View — Brazil’s presidential runoff sits in a statistical tie days before voters choose… 2:12:03 Sign-off Mira's field note: Researchers at the University of Göttingen pulled together measurements from thirteen forest sites in southwestern Germany, some running for twenty-four years. The soils there have been pulling methane from the air at a steadily higher rate, rising about three percent each year. The team traced the increase to warmer temperatures and lower rainfall, which let more of the gas reach the microbes that consume it. Their record is the longest and most detailed assembled for the region so far. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com
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    2 時間 13 分
  • Ep 57: Friday edition — Roadster thrusters, lunar contraction, and cloud barriers

    Ep 57: Friday edition — Roadster thrusters, lunar contraction, and cloud barriers
    2026/10/16
    Nerra Daily — Friday, October 16, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:44 SpaceX Daily — SpaceX thrusters give the Tesla Roadster aerial flight and roll capability ahead of… 9:22 Tesla Shorts Time — Tesla's Roadster demo used ten nozzles and 250 kilograms of compressed gas for… 17:08 Planetterrian Daily — Researchers mapped PFAS across 300 Finger Lakes water bodies and found most… 24:30 Models & Agents — Pause-token KV compression shrinks cache 3.5x and speeds H100 inference 3.2x on… 35:44 Fascinating Frontiers — Detailed maps of young lunar faults now give the clearest measure yet of… 43:11 Omni View Top World News — Three children, aged five to eleven, and a teacher were killed at a… 54:40 MAG 7 Daily — Two firms, Amazon and Microsoft, can still ease UK cloud switching. 1:02:14 Modern Investing Techniques — Brookfield's 15% distributable earnings jump gives TFSA holders a… 1:11:33 Mira's field note 1:12:06 Vancouver Daily News — Eby promised Thursday to scrap the forty-five-dollar bus pass for low… 1:22:41 AI Chips & Data Centres Daily — Taiwan plans a Texas supplier park worth up to four billion… 1:30:13 First Principles Daily — Kitchen cabinets that sell for several thousand dollars contain only a… 1:38:14 Unintended Consequences — Seventy percent of Strait of Georgia coho catch came from hatcheries by… 1:47:40 Prediction Markets Daily — A federal judge kept Gemini's five-million-dollar CFTC settlement in… 1:57:36 Models & Agents for Beginners — ChatGPT just added brand-new voices in six languages that sound… 2:01:58 Collingwood Weekly — Collingwood council endorsed a 19-goal climate plan to steer budgets against… 2:09:30 Omni View — G7 nations will run joint drills against AI-driven cyber attacks that could hit power… 2:19:59 Sign-off Mira's field note: NASA’s Perseverance rover has now driven farther across another world than any vehicle before it. On October 11 it logged 45.22 kilometers on the Martian surface, slipping past the 45.16 kilometers recorded by Opportunity during its long mission. The new mark came after five and a half years of steady travel from the landing site toward the ancient river delta in Jezero crater. Engineers are already planning the next traverses that will add still more distance while the rover continues sampling rock and soil for return to Earth. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com
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    2 時間 21 分
  • Ep 56: Thursday edition — Mars rover record, Peshawar school tragedy, and EU-China trade talks

    Ep 56: Thursday edition — Mars rover record, Peshawar school tragedy, and EU-China trade talks
    2026/10/15
    Nerra Daily — Thursday, October 15, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:40 SpaceX Daily — SpaceX is guaranteeing to cover any Grok Bot purchase errors to encourage wider use… 9:13 Tesla Shorts Time — South Korea gains twenty-one new Tesla Supercharger sites at highway rest areas. 18:02 Planetterrian Daily — A 47-year study finds physical strength and fitness begin declining around… 24:29 Models & Agents — Regulated voice agents can now follow entirely unseen legal procedures after one… 35:21 Fascinating Frontiers — Perseverance has driven farther on Mars than any rover before it thanks to… 42:54 Omni View Top World News — At least 34 children died when a Peshawar school roof collapsed… 51:02 MAG 7 Daily — House House is keeping August's Big Walk off Xbox over Microsoft's Israel ties. 57:37 Modern Investing Techniques — New single-stock ETFs on the TSX give Canadian investors precise… 1:09:13 Vancouver Daily News — Thirteen point eight billion dollars is the deficit B.C.'s three main… 1:17:05 Peptides Weekly — Three to four extra rare vision-loss cases per ten thousand showed up in an… 1:26:22 Mira's field note 1:26:51 AI Chips & Data Centres Daily — Twenty-four hours after install, a photonics quantum computer was… 1:32:40 First Principles Daily — Twenty dollars bought only three minutes from New York to San Francisco… 1:41:47 Unintended Consequences — Over twenty million flex-fuel vehicles earned CAFE credits yet used… 1:56:43 Prediction Markets Daily — Taiwan has blocked Kalshi and Coinbase over suspected election bets. 2:04:46 Models & Agents for Beginners — An interactive biology atlas turns your browser into a living… 2:10:57 Omni View — European Union leaders meet to address a €360 billion trade deficit with China while… 2:19:00 Omni View North America — Six hundred thousand Texas voter registrations sit delayed before early… 2:30:36 Omni View Europe — Three hundred sixty billion euros in China deficit opens two days of Brussels… 2:39:51 Omni View Asia Pacific — Thirteen Chinese aircraft crossed Taiwan's median line, and Taipei's… 2:49:28 Omni View Africa & Middle East — All twenty-one crew survived a ship sunk in Hormuz, a war… 3:00:35 Omni View Central & South America — Anses raises November pensions 1.93 percent, so the minimum… 3:09:15 Sign-off Mira's field note: At the University of Zurich, researchers tracking wild orangutans in Sumatra noticed mothers traveling several kilometers through the forest on certain days, carrying infants to meet other mothers and their young. The groups stayed together for hours of play before heading back to their own ranges. The study, published in Nature, shows the mothers initiate these meetings even though the species is largely solitary. The next recordings will test whether the infants themselves start seeking out familiar playmates as they grow. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com
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    3 時間 10 分
  • Ep 54: Tuesday edition — Starship cycles, robotaxi probes, and El Niño benchmarks

    Ep 54: Tuesday edition — Starship cycles, robotaxi probes, and El Niño benchmarks
    2026/10/13
    Nerra Daily — Tuesday, October 13, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:45 SpaceX Daily — Booster 23's rollout to Massey for cryo testing keeps the next Starship hardware… 8:34 Tesla Shorts Time — NHTSA is reviewing claims that Tesla robotaxis speed in school zones, adding… 15:13 Planetterrian Daily — New mapping shows snake envenoming affects far more people than official… 22:18 Models & Agents — Multi-agent orchestration now delivers measurable gains in long-horizon… 31:39 Fascinating Frontiers — New helium measurements are confirming the exact mix forged in the… 38:27 Omni View Top World News — Temperatures above 30C, a Pacific first, lock in an unprecedented El… 45:24 MAG 7 Daily — Ninety-six accelerators in one rack will run Microsoft's Copilot replies from 2027. 49:36 Modern Investing Techniques — GDP-weighted Latin America ETF ZLAT.TO gives TFSA investors a new… 59:51 Vancouver Daily News — One point four million cruise visits set a record Vancouver season, up… 1:05:16 AI Chips & Data Centres Daily — Maia 300's memory bandwidth rises two and a half times, so… 1:12:51 Mira's field note 1:13:16 First Principles Daily — Gustavus Swift shipped dressed beef in ice-cooled cars and eliminated… 1:22:29 Unintended Consequences — James Watt's engine used one-third the coal of Newcomen engines but… 1:32:24 Prediction Markets Daily — OG.com opens its regulated order book so quantitative firms can trade… 1:37:13 Models & Agents for Beginners — Your phone now runs AI smarter than last year’s top model. 1:43:27 Omni View — China and Russia are aligning maritime strategies to protect energy shipping lanes that… 1:52:09 Omni View North America — A federal judge froze taxpayer-funded Trump ads for fourteen days before… 1:59:52 Omni View Europe — Thirty-two countries warn Iran that attacks like the RAF Fairford incident will… 2:05:14 Omni View Asia Pacific — President Lee rejects a submissive line with Washington while calling the… 2:10:50 Omni View Africa & Middle East — Four Gulf states face double-digit GDP drops as the IMF says war… 2:15:50 Omni View Central & South America — Forty-nine Senate votes could end Brazil’s six-day workweek… 2:20:28 Sign-off Mira's field note: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has turned up an ancient galaxy cluster whose dark matter concentration sits well above what current models expect for its age and size. The finding rests on gravitational lensing measurements that map the unseen mass more tightly than earlier data allowed. Astronomers are now checking whether the cluster formed earlier than simulations permit or whether the dark matter itself behaves differently at those redshifts. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com
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    2 時間 21 分
  • Ep 53: Monday edition — Satellite orbits, AI benchmarks, and EU materials push

    Ep 53: Monday edition — Satellite orbits, AI benchmarks, and EU materials push
    2026/10/12
    Nerra Daily — Monday, October 12, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:39 SpaceX Daily — A single Starlink satellite held its orbit to within 44 meters for three months… 10:00 Tesla Shorts Time — Tesla ended Solar Roof sales after installing roughly 3,000 units against a… 16:59 Fascinating Frontiers — European companies will test lunar rovers inside new Italian simulation… 23:01 Models & Agents — Self-scaling coding benchmarks just arrived, with difficulty now set by the… 33:38 Planetterrian Daily — Genome editing now maps every cell division from early embryo to organ… 39:21 Omni View — Singapore activates medical subsidies as regional fires push it to the world's most… 47:23 Omni View Top World News — Russia rejected a 60-day truce and is still striking Ukraine's power… 52:17 Omni View North America — Eleven pages ask the Supreme Court to preserve cheaper political ads for… 57:01 Omni View Europe — Forty-six new projects in sixteen EU states are meant to cut reliance on any… 1:03:39 Omni View Asia Pacific — Sixteen people drowned in Bihar while collecting festival river water… 1:08:29 Omni View Africa & Middle East — Seventy-two Sudanese miners are dead after a border gold-mine… 1:14:01 Mira's field note 1:14:32 Omni View Central & South America — Ten years on, Haiti’s December thirteenth presidential vote is… 1:20:44 Modern Investing Techniques — Canadian investors holding energy names face tighter margins as US… 1:31:32 MAG 7 Daily — Nine open Erdős problems fell to Google DeepMind's proof system, two unsolved for… 1:36:18 AI Chips & Data Centres Daily — Seven Virginia sites hold one thousand eighty-five megawatts, but… 1:43:04 Prediction Markets Daily — Compliance teams can miss event-contract trades sitting outside… 1:50:24 Unintended Consequences — For every 100 acres idled by the Conservation Reserve Program, farmers… 2:04:26 First Principles Daily — Moving companies bill $90–200 per crew hour while truck fuel and… 2:13:21 Models & Agents for Beginners — ChatGPT just talked a company into waiving a big cancellation fee… 2:19:13 Vancouver Daily News — One man is in hospital with serious injuries after a Burnaby police shooting. 2:23:05 Environmental Intelligence — A legal gap in Canada's Species at Risk Act leaves 153 of 288 cases… 2:28:23 Offshore North — Scott's Route Decision and New IMOCA Projects 2:34:21 The DP Pod: The Do Positive Podcast — Giant tortoise numbers on Aldabra reached a record 180,000… 2:43:33 Sign-off Mira's field note: Johns Hopkins engineers have built robots the size of a pencil tip that can navigate inside a beating heart to deliver medicine directly to infections. The devices aim to treat endocarditis without open surgery or broad IV antibiotics, threading through blood vessels to reach the site with precision. The team built them from materials that respond to magnetic fields for steering and release. Early tests show they can carry and deposit payloads in simulated heart conditions. The next stage is animal trials to check how the bots hold up in real blood flow and tissue. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com
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    2 時間 44 分
  • Ep 52: Sunday edition — Dragon cargo flight, Panama emergencies, and robot memory growth

    Ep 52: Sunday edition — Dragon cargo flight, Panama emergencies, and robot memory growth
    2026/10/11
    Nerra Daily — Sunday, October 11, 2026. The whole Nerra Network in one listen, anchored by Mira. In this edition: 0:00 Welcome from Mira 0:39 SpaceX Daily — SpaceX Daily - Episode 127 - October 11, 2026 8:56 Tesla Shorts Time — Humanoid robot DRAM demand is projected to rise twenty fold by twenty thirty. 17:30 Fascinating Frontiers — Astronomers have fresh clues about the irregular dimming of Tabby's Star… 23:44 Models & Agents — A cybersecurity model with a one-million-token context window just launched with… 29:48 Planetterrian Daily — Scientists identified a previously unknown drainage pathway at the back of… 37:52 Omni View — Panama declares a state of emergency after two major earthquakes damage buildings… 47:34 Omni View Top World News — Twelve people died and over three hundred were wounded as Houthis… 54:24 Omni View North America — Hundreds of civil rights lawyers are gone, changing who the Justice… 1:00:18 Omni View Europe — Nearly two thousand files put Germany's ex-spy chief in pretrial detention. 1:05:42 Omni View Asia Pacific — Nine people are dead in fresh Manipur clashes, and the chief minister… 1:10:34 Mira's field note 1:10:57 Omni View Africa & Middle East — 1.5 million Kenyans may face El Niño floods, with 500,000 at risk… 1:18:12 Omni View Central & South America — Twenty-eight municipalities face maximum alert as category… 1:25:06 Modern Investing Techniques — Canadian investors may find valuation resets in retail as Aritzia… 1:34:44 MAG 7 Daily — An 8.1-severity bug let denied AWS callers run privileged cloud calls. 1:40:40 AI Chips & Data Centres Daily — A two-point-five-billion-dollar Nvidia-server diversion now has… 1:46:34 Prediction Markets Daily — Google banned prediction-market ads in Connecticut, the fifth state… 1:51:14 Unintended Consequences — South Georgia toothfish licenses meant to stop illegal fishing instead… 1:57:17 First Principles Daily — A combine that cost five thousand dollars held only a few hundred dollars… 2:03:38 Models & Agents for Beginners — A new free AI tool lets you type a sentence and instantly explore… 2:10:49 Vancouver Daily News — Ten-man Whitecaps draw 1-1 and clinch an MLS playoff spot. 2:17:00 Sign-off Mira's field note: A team at the University of Vienna has built the first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, harnessing oscillations inside a thorium nucleus instead of the usual electron transitions in atomic clocks. The setup held steady long enough to outperform earlier nuclear attempts and points toward clocks that could run in smaller packages with far less drift. The group is now tightening the controls to push the precision higher. Every show has its own feed and full notes at https://nerranetwork.com
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    2 時間 18 分