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“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”Makoto Hoshino, CEO of Makoto Co., Ltd. and Galactic Hitchhikers, shares his journey of pursuing heart-moving experiences and embracing the unknown. In 2017, he summited Everest and all Seven Summits and completed the 250km Gobi Desert Ultramarathon.
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Scientists Added New Letters to DNA — Does Life Have to Be Written in Four? (opens the original)
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This episode looks at a recent research story: scientists have expanded DNA's four-letter alphabet — A, T, G, and C — by adding four artificial letters invented by humans, creating an eight-letter DNA. In 2026, when the cellular machinery inside E. coli was given this expanded version to read, it could recognize the new letters too. There's a moment of pause around what that actually means — that for nearly four billion years, all life on Earth has run on the same four characters, and that the s
Something in the Dark — Have We Finally Seen Dark Matter? (opens the original)
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This episode looks at a science story that proved difficult to set aside: the possibility that dark matter may have been directly detected for the first time — not in space, but 1.5 kilometers underground in South Dakota, inside a facility called LUX-ZEPLIN, surrounded by roughly ten tonnes of ultra-pure liquid xenon. The detection itself was a single collision event. One candidate interaction, sitting at 2.6 sigma — well short of the 5 sigma threshold physics requires to call something a discov
Mercury Is Close, but Getting There Is Hard — A European-Japanese Spacecraft Arrives After 8 Years and 9.9 Billion Kilometers (opens the original)
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This episode looks at BepiColombo, a joint ESA and JAXA spacecraft that spent eight years and 9.9 billion kilometers traveling to one of the solar system's most counterintuitively difficult destinations: Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun. It touches on why "closest" doesn't mean "easiest" — because any spacecraft launched from Earth already carries Earth's orbital momentum, and the Sun's gravity only accelerates it further, making it nearly impossible to slow down enough to stop. According
TSMC: Fifty Years of Becoming the Only Option (opens the original)
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This episode looks at how TSMC came to occupy its singular position in the global semiconductor industry — and what it actually took to get there. It traces the story back to a breakfast meeting in Taiwan in 1974, where three people quietly began planning for a country with no natural resources and no large domestic market. The government that followed through on that conversation spent decades building research institutions, sending engineers abroad, and creating the conditions for something th
Terafab: The Largest Building on Earth Is Coming to Texas (opens the original)
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This episode looks at the announcement of Terafab — a planned semiconductor factory in Texas backed by SpaceX and Tesla, with a total projected investment of up to $119 billion. It touches on Musk's note that the facility will be "surprisingly beautiful," and what it means that someone building a factory thinks to mention beauty at all — the idea that form itself carries meaning, not just function. There's also a comparison to an earlier piece about Intel burning through $170 million in cash per
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