Podcast Episodes

Dogs Who Think in Verbs and Abstracts

Season 5 Episode 50

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These dogs built mental filing systems where “things you pull” and “things you throw” became umbrella categories so robust they reorganized the dogs’ understandi…

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

The 20-Million-Year Coffee Break: What Quantum Learning Tells Us About Knowledge Itself

Season 5 Episode 49

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There's a moment in the quantum computing story that should make us all stop and stare at our coffee cups. A classical computer …

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

A Legal Crash Course on Divorce/Separation (B.C. Canada Edition)

Season 5 Episode 48

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There's a psychological concept called "coercive control" that helps explain what happened here. It's the use of tactics designed to isolate, intimidate, and…

Published on 3 weeks ago

💔 Solar storms and heart attacks: Geomagnetic Storms and Myocardial Infarction Susceptibility in Women

Season 5 Episode 47

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We've been looking in the wrong direction.

While cardiologists scrutinize cholesterol panels and blood pressure readings, while r…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

How Mobility Predicts Cognitive Health

Season 5 Episode 46

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We are not minds that happen to have bodies—we are integrated systems where every movement carries information, every gesture contains intelligence, every st…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

🔬Diet Signatures in the Gut Microbiome Across 21,561 Individuals

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The future of health might be less about restriction and more about strategic abundance

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Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

What Dinosaur Eggs Tell Us About Our Own Fragile Moment

Season 5 Episode 44

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The precision of this dating technique creates a kind of temporal vertigo. We're looking at eggs laid during a specific geological moment when climate change…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

🗺️ Seeing the Whole Earth: Why AlphaEarth Foundations Matters More Than You Think

Season 5 Episode 43

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We've been trying to see our planet clearly for decades now, and we're still not very good at it.

That's the uncomfortable truth…

Published on 1 month ago

Revenge: Why We Pay to Punish (The Neural Architecture of Justice)

Season 5 Episode 42

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The neuroscience of altruistic punishment reveals both our greatest hope and our deepest vulnerability. We are capable of extraordinary self-sacrifice in ser…

Published on 1 month ago

⚛️ 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: breakthroughs happen suddenly, genius strikes like lightni…

Published on 1 month ago