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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 statistic, to let individuals bear the cost of coll…

Published on 1 month ago

🔬 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? Today's breakthrough made me cry—cancer patients cl…

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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 Inequality Hypothesis." They discovered that inequali…

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🛡️ 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 physics—and what that means for the rest of us

The transfor…

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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 negativity, what happens to us? How does chronic heat-ind…

Published on 1 month, 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 cooperation, specialization, and the delicate art of w…

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The New "Big Five": An Expanded Peronality 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 "general factor of personality"—no master trait that…

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🤔 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 packages. Lock and key. Good and evil. Us and them. Simple …

Published on 1 month, 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 on age-related changes in brain activity, specificall…

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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 human. New episode explores the real future of work. 💼✨…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago