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The most important piece of technology in your lifetime is this tiny chip

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Why the search for alien life is about patience, not belief

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The hard problem of consciousness, in 53 minutes

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A woman in a blue outfit and red heels sits on a chair in a studio with a white backdrop, flanked by stylized images of a person's face looking at a phone.

The terrifying ways that social media is altering teenage brains

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A man in a black suit sits on a chair in front of a white backdrop in a modern brick-walled room with large windows and minimal furnishings.

How the Industrial Revolution invented modern computing

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David Alan Grier

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The biggest myth about aging, according to science

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Why Stoicism treats self-control as a form of intelligence

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Massimo Pigliucci

An older man with a white beard sits on a chair against a white backdrop, with a large, colorful DNA double helix illustration in the background.

The evolutionary logic of survival and death, in 54 minutes

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Sean B. Carroll

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Yuval Noah Harari: Why advanced societies fall for mass delusion

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Yuval Noah Harari

A middle-aged man with glasses and long hair, wearing a floral shirt, stands indoors in a warmly lit room with blurred background furniture.

Why the next 25 years will force humanity to reinvent itself

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How early attachment scars can impact us forever

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A man in a suit sits on a chair in front of a white door, surrounded by a vibrant, abstract swirl of red, pink, blue, yellow, and green colors.

How one psychedelic trip can alter an entire lifetime

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Matthew W. Johnson

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How large language models view our world

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A man sits on a chair in front of a white backdrop in a library with brick walls, wooden floor, shelves of books, and large windows.

The strongest arguments for and against the existence of God

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Alex O’Connor

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How innovation reshaped human life in just a few generations

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Why forcing positivity after trauma doesn’t build resilience

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The science of consciousness is solving the biggest illusion in our universe

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The truth of Ancient Rome hides under its myth of decadence

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A man in a light blue shirt sits on a chair in a white studio with a teal background featuring graphs and charts.

How your cognitive biases lead to terrible investing behaviors

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Bessel van der Kolk: Trauma isn’t the event, it’s the response

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Bessel van der Kolk

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Become stronger: Jumpstart your anti-fragile systems

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Richard Reeves: Why working-class men are facing the sharpest decline

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A man sits on a chair in a photo studio, flanked by black-and-white illustrations of an early human ancestor on the left and a modern man running on the right.

The evolution of laziness: Why humans resist the gym

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Daniel Lieberman

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Sean Carroll explains why physics is both simple and impossible

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The neuroscience of extremes: ruthless psychopathy to extraordinary generosity

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The Roman Empire, explained in 39 minute

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An older man in a suit and red tie sits on a chair against a white backdrop, with a colorful outer space scene in the background.

Michio Kaku wants to solve Einstein’s unfinished equation

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What 85 years of research says is the real key to happiness

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Robert Waldinger

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The hidden process of becoming a CIA agent, from a former spy

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Andrew Bustamante

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Are black holes the key to unlocking a quantum theory of gravity?

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A man in a suit and glasses sits indoors, gesturing with both hands while speaking. The setting includes a brick wall, a lamp, a plant, and a window.

The most important piece of technology in your lifetime is this tiny chip

Chris Miller explains the hidden reason that global superpowers are obsessed with Taiwan.

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The brain-deep emotion that matters more than happiness

Happiness collapses the moment hardship arrives. Joy doesn’t. Historian Kate Bowler explains why joy can coexist with pain — and why that makes it a stronger, more fulfilling emotion.

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An older person sits on a chair against a white backdrop, with a colorful outer space scene digitally added around the background.

Why the search for alien life is about patience, not belief

Astronomer Jill Tarter explains why SETI is really about technology, patience, and learning how to tell alien signals from our own.

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Thinking too logically can actually hold you back

“Rationalism is the idea that, in order to truly know something, you have to be able to describe it explicitly.”

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A woman sits on a chair against a white backdrop, gesturing with her hands, with a dynamic black background and white abstract swirl surrounding her.

The hard problem of consciousness, in 53 minutes

“Our conscious awareness is everything. And the fact that it’s still so mysterious to scientists and to all of humanity, the fact that it’s still one of the great unsolved mysteries makes it something that everyone can be excited about and that inspires awe in everyone.”

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