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The Ghost Economy: Poverty Determinants in Single U.S. Households

Season 6 Episode 47

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Two families. Identical income on paper. Completely different lives.

One …

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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🏹 Why Your Brain Sabotages Modern Dating

Season 6 Episode 46

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There is something Doris Lessing once observed about the human tendency to live inside our conditioning as though it were the…

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The Paleo Diet Is a Lie: How A 7,000-Year-Old Pot Revealed The Real Prehistoric Cuisine

Season 6 Episode 45

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

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📜 The Print Shop Rebels: Why History's Steering Wheel Isn't Out of Reach

Season 6 Episode 44

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There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with living through a time of monsters. You know the feeling—when you open…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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We Already Live in Utopia. So Why Are We So Miserable?

Season 6 Episode 43

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If your income was guaranteed — if you knew, as a fact, that you would not starve no matter what — what would you do?

The unrea…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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BLOOM: The Biodevelopmental Model of Female Sexual Desire

Season 6 Episode 42

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You've heard the joke. Men are wired to want sex constantly. Women? Not so much. It's been the …

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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The Lost King: An Ancient Scrap of Paper Rewrites African History

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

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The Good Wolf We Keep Starving: Why Our Cynicism About Human Nature Is Killing Us

Season 6 Episode 40

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There's an old parable about two wolves fighting inside us—one evil, one good. The grandson asks which will win. The grandfath…

7 months ago

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The Millet Bomb and Other Neolithic - Bronze Age Mysteries Solved

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In north-central Poland, the soil is so acidic it erases almost everything — grave goods, clothing, and oft…

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⚖️ We Are All Middle Managers of Aliens Now: On the 2026 International AI Safety Report — and why you should read it

Season 6 Episode 38

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I want you to do something uncomfortable.

Look at your phone. The one on your desk right now, screen-down,…

7 months, 1 week ago

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