The country’s increasingly unpopular president, Yoon Suk Yeol, backed down six hours after his shocking move of imposing martial law. South Korea’s democracy has held firm (https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/12/03/martial-law-in-south-korea-and-then-not-next-constitutional-crisis?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners)—so far. Brazil’s gangsters have found a neat way to launder assets through the legal economy: by getting involved with politics (https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/11/14/brazils-gangsters-have-been-getting-into-politics?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) (7:26). And the hefty computations going into the design of breeze-free badminton arenas (https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/11/13/physics-reveals-the-best-design-for-a-badminton-arena?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) (15:17).
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