With so many confusing narratives unfolding around a fire that is still raging out of control, I wanted to talk to somebody I knew and trusted to get stories like this right. Robinson Meyer is the founder and editor of Heatmap News and a former staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covered climate news and related disasters. We talk about why this Los Angel ... Show More
Feb 27
How Metrics Make Us Miserable
The modern world swims in numbers: work metrics, fitness metrics, health metrics, social media metrics. Sometimes the quantification of life can make things better. But very often, I think they force us to play the games we can measure rather than the games we value. The quantifi ... Show More
1h 3m
Jan 2025
LA fires: “It was like watching the end of the world”
It’s been a week since wildfires started sweeping through Los Angeles, California, destroying swathes of the city and reducing communities, homes and schools to little more than rubble and ash. The inferno has now ravaged an area larger than Manhattan. Some fires have been exting ... Show More
26m 35s
Jan 2025
Des incendies ravageurs en plein hiver: Los Angeles, une ville bientôt inhabitable?
<p>Los Angeles ravagée par les flammes. Depuis le 7 janvier, la ville connaît ce qui pourrait être la catastrophe naturelle la plus destructrice de son histoire. Sécheresse, canicules, feux... Ces phénomènes, intensifiés par le réchauffement climatique, menacent de plus en plus l ... Show More
14m 28s
Jan 2025
What Can We Do About Wildfires? With Convective Capital’s Bill Clerico
This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with Bill Clerico, founder of Convective Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on technology-driven solutions for wildfire mitigation and climate resilience. The wildfires in Los Angeles have caused unprecedented property dam ... Show More
37m 59s