Podcast Episodes

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 2 months, 2 weeks 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 2 months, 2 weeks 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 2 months, 2 weeks 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 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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 2 months, 3 weeks 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…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

🛡️ 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…

Published on 3 months ago

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 3 months 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…

Published on 3 months ago