Snapshot · This Week in Tech (Audio)
Moses Brown School in Providence now costs $46K–$52K per year, a figure that exceeds what Leo Laporte paid for college and exemplifies how unaffordable education has become.
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The episode's final news story is its most surreal: Salamanca City Central School District in New York is deploying an AI robot named Sally as a classroom tutor, manufactured by Realbotics — a company that rebranded from Tokens.com after acquiring hyper-realistic sex doll maker RealDoll in 2024. Leo shows the picture and the panel's stunned reactions provide the comedic finale. Harper quips that Sally is what he'll look like 'once I get on all the peptides,' launching a brief tangent about Chinese research peptides in Silicon Valley. Alex Wilhelm, who just had his third child, closes on a more serious note: he's changing his long-term financial strategy to backstop his children against an AI-disrupted labor market. Harper quotes a John Quincy Adams line about warriors, merchants, and poets — and the show closes with gratitude.
U.S. college enrollment surged from just 14% in the 1970s to roughly 60% by the 1990s, extending the educational and exploratory phase of young adulthood and delaying commitment.
Kavak's internal Jedi Academy trains every employee — from CEO to mechanics — to build and deploy AI agents to production in 6 weeks.
May, a 33-year-old with $69,000 in combined debt, is considering a forensic pathologist career that would require 11–13 years of medical school training.
Boys are twice as likely to be suspended for the exact same behavior as a girl, and five times as likely if the boy is Black.
A person can become a psychiatrist, therapist, or coach without completing even one hour of grief education, which Kessler calls a critical gap.
Godin illustrates sunk cost fallacy with a parking example: even after pre-paying $35 for a lot, passing a free street space triggers irrational hesitation to switch — yet the rational choice is always the free space.
Citing Daniel Kahneman's work on loss aversion, Bartlett explains that humans need to find £20 to emotionally offset the pain of losing £10 — pleasure and pain are not symmetrical.
College students who saw an age-progressed photo of their future selves were more motivated to start a savings account, demonstrating imagination's real behavioral impact.
Nearly 300 top researchers have applied for scientific asylum in France as the Trump administration threatens to defund billions in university research.
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