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⚛️ The Living Machine: What Quantum Computing Teaches Us About Persistence
⚛️ The Living Machine: What Quantum Computing Teaches Us About Persistence

Season 5 Episode 41

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We've been sold a particular story about progress. It goes something like this: breakt…

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Long Covid Global Stats 2025: How We Normalized Mass Disabling
Long Covid Global Stats 2025: How We Normalized Mass Disabling

Season 5 Episode 40

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So instead, we'll continue to normalize the abnormal, to treat a 36% chronic illness rate as just another…

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🔬 The Quiet Revolution: When Medicine Learns to Remember
🔬 The Quiet Revolution: When Medicine Learns to Remember

Season 5 Episode 39

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What if your immune system could borrow another person's cellular memories?…

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Social Thermodynamics: The Physics of Inequality
Social Thermodynamics: The Physics of Inequality

Season 5 Episode 38

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Another team of researchers traced the origins of inequality using what they call the "Energy Hierarchy I…

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🛡️ The Quiet Revolution in AI Safety: When Science Fiction Becomes Engineering
🛡️ The Quiet Revolution in AI Safety: When Science Fiction Becomes Engineering

Season 5 Episode 37

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How the world's most powerful tech companies are treating AI safety like nuclear physic…

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How Extreme Heat Affects Human Emotion: A Global Study
How Extreme Heat Affects Human Emotion: A Global Study

Season 5 Episode 36

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As global temperatures continue rising and our collective mood potentially shifts toward persistent negat…

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📈 The Poetry of Computational Power: What Scaling AI Teaches Us About Human Collaboration
📈 The Poetry of Computational Power: What Scaling AI Teaches Us About Human Collaboration

Season 5 Episode 35

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How the engineering principles behind massive AI systems reveal timeless truths about co…

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The New "Big Five": An Expanded Personality Model
The New "Big Five": An Expanded Personality Model

Season 5 Episode 34

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Perhaps the most interesting revelation is that there's no statistical support for a single, overarching …

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🤔 What SARS-CoV-2 Teaches Us About Human Certainty
🤔 What SARS-CoV-2 Teaches Us About Human Certainty

Season 5 Episode 33

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How a microscopic invader exposed our dangerous addiction to simple stories

We love our neat package…

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Musical Training: A Fountain of Youth
Musical Training: A Fountain of Youth

Season 5 Episode 32

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In today's episode we discuss a research article investigating the impact of long-term musical training o…

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