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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…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
📈 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…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
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 …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
🤔 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…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Future of Jobs 2025 WEF
Season 5 Episode 31
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Your job might not exist in 5 years. But here's what will: your ability to adapt, create, and stay hum…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Metastability: The Role of Laughter
Season 5 Episode 30
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In today's episode we explore the multifaceted nature of laughter, examining …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
🍎 When Earbuds become babble fish: Privacy Becomes the Product.
Season 5 Episode 29
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How Apple's latest announcements reveal a different path forward—one where surveillance capita…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Beauty Products: Forever Chemicals and "Clean Cosmetics"
Season 5 Episode 28
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First, understand that risk is not binary. The dose makes the poison, but we don't know what the safe dos…
11 months ago
🔀 How Metaphors Construct the World We Think We Know
Season 5 Episode 27
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We're living inside a linguistic conspiracy so elegant that we can't see it. Every time you s…
11 months ago