Season 5 Episode 34
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Perhaps the most interesting revelation is that there's no statistical support for a single, overarching "general factor of personality"—no master trait that…
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Season 6 Episode 4
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There's something profoundly disorienting about learning that the universe might be fundamentally two-dimensional. Not in the se…
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Season 6 Episode 5
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We've spent centuries drawing a line between humans and every other creature—a line we've used to justify exploitation and exceptionalism. First, we said anima…
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Season 6 Episode 4
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We live in a culture obsessed with control. Productivity hacks. Life optimization. Five-step programs to eliminate uncertainty. …
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Season 6 Episode 3
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For decades, confusion and fear have surrounded menopausal hormone therapy. One landmark trial created such panic that millions of women were denied the most effect…
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Season 6 Episode 2
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There’s a number that should keep us all awake at night: 443 million. That’s how many disability-adjusted life years—healthy yea…
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Season 6 Episode 1
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The ground beneath us is shifting. The UK ranks in the bottom 10% globally for biodiversity. Only 14% of our rivers are healthy. Nearly 3,000 people died durin…
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Season 5 Episode 75
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We're living through something remarkable, though you might not feel it in the daily grind of notifications and deadlines. Across 75 countri…
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Season 5 Episode 74
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When a parent—the person who should be a child's ultimate buffer against stress—becomes the source of fear instead, the damage cascades through every system. …
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Season 5 Episode 73
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There’s a story unfolding in the data that should give us hope, even as we navigate what feels like an increasingly fractured in…
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