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Many of the responses are great books, but what about the subset of ambitious, but awful books? (Like how Plan 9 from Outer Space is an ambitious, but not very good film.) What's on that list? Michael Nielsen

An episode full of insight! BTW, no need to go to aliens for civilizations using bases other than 10. Babylonians and Sumerians used 12 and 60. Maybe they used 24-year durations for benchmarks. The story could be set on the banks of the Euphrates. Joe Weisenthal Tracy Alloway

This is Helene Meisler You might have noticed my account was hacked by some crypto spammer. Getting it back seems unlikely. You can now find me over on Bluesky at hmeisler. If you could could RT this so that the word gets out that Dune is not me, I would really appreciate it

Question for monetarists: will tariffs cause prices to go up immediately, or does the money supply need to increase before this can happen?

Just arrived in the mail. Looking forward to digging Curtis Roads' latest release.