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🦠 The Villain That Wasn't: How Science Learned to Read the Body's Distress Signals

Season 6 Episode 64

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There’s a particular kind of humility that only arrives after catastrophic failure. — the re…

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A New Chronology for South American Colonization

Season 6 Episode 63

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For nearly thirty years, a peat bog in southern Chile was the anchor of American prehistory. Monte Verde II told us humans were in th…

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🌡️ The Forest Is Not Silent. It's Screaming in a Language We're Only Just Learning.

Season 6 Episode 62

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On fungal intelligence, climate grief, and what the oldest organisms on Earth know about survival that we don't.

We are learni…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

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Kibale Chimps: The Extinction Arc Is Not What We Thought

Season 6 Episode 61

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For 30 years, scientists in Uganda's Kibale National Park have been watching a community of wild chimpanzees. What they found upends …

3 weeks, 5 days ago

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🌊 The Water Is Already at Your Knees, and what you do next might define the next century of human work

Season 6 Episode 60

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It is a civilizational invitation to redesign what we train human beings to do.

The water is coming. We have a few years — pro…

4 weeks ago

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Dating Apps Make You Feel Worse About Yourself

Season 6 Episode 59

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🌀The Politeness Trap: How AI Flattery Triggers Delusional Spirals

Season 6 Episode 58

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There is a particular kind of danger that arrives softly. Not with alarms or flashing lights, but with a warm affirmation, a …

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Female Roman Gladiators Have Waited 1,800 Years to be Discovered

Season 6 Episode 57

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She walked into the Roman arena voluntarily. A whip in one hand. A dagg…

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🌲 The Forest Knows What the Spreadsheet Forgot

Season 6 Episode 56

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On old growth, carbon debt, and the things we tear down before we understand them

There is a particular kind of confidence tha…

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Eclampsia: How a pregnancy complication may have quietly ended the Neanderthals

Season 6 Episode 55

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