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The Sleep Industrial Complex Is Failing Us

Season 4 Episode 61

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Let's start with something that should terrify every parent, teacher, and anyone who gives a damn about social cohesion: sleep loss c…

9 months ago

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🧠 The Invisible Scars: What COVID is Really Doing to Our Brains

Season 4 Episode 60

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We're living through the largest uncontrolled experiment on human cognitio…

9 months, 1 week ago

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Solastalgia: Climate Change is Breaking Our Hearts

Season 4 Episode 59

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Climate change attacks our mental health on multiple fronts simultaneously. There's the acute trauma of disas…

9 months, 1 week ago

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🧠 The Invisible Wounds: Why TBI's Social Impact Matters More Than We Think

Season 4 Episode 58

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We live in a culture obsessed with visible recovery. The triumphant ath…

9 months, 1 week ago

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Why Awe Might Be Our Most Undervalued Emotion

Season 4 Episode 57

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When you experience awe—whether it's staring at a starry sky, witnessing an act of extraordinary kindness, or even wa…

9 months, 1 week ago

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🧬 The Future Of Discover: What AlphaEvolve Tells Us About the Future of Human Knowledge

Season 4 Episode 56

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There's something deeply unsettling about watching a machine solve proble…

9 months, 1 week ago

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The Brain's Sustain Pedal: How We Make Feelings

Season 4 Episode 55

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The study suggests that when this timing goes wrong, it might underlie some of our most challenging mental health con…

9 months, 1 week ago

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📖 The Mind's Journey Through Hell: What Hegel's Map of Consciousness Reveals About Our Modern Crisis

Season 4 Episode 54

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How a 19th-century philosopher's brutal anatomy of human aw…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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Mom, The Algorithm Will See You Now: Predicting Postpartum Depression

Season 4 Episode 53

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Instead of requiring new tests or lengthy questionnaires at discharge (when everyone's already exhausted …

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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🍎 Apple WWDC 2025: How Apple Just Rewrote the Rules of Personal Computing

Season 4 Episode 52

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Something profound happened at Apple's WWDC 2025, and most …

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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