Segments From This Episode

• Scarcity vs. innovation: Revisiting the “scholarly wager of the decade”

  by David Brancaccio, Chris Farrell and Nic Perez

  

  The famous Ehrlich-Simon bet on the value of metals showed that prices fell as supply increased, despite population growth.

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• The Arctic vault built to preserve humanity’s data

  by Adrienne Murray

  

  The Arctic World Archive — 300 meters below the permafrost in a demilitarized zone — houses art, music and a copy of the world’s open source code.

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