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What you know that AI doesn’t | Priyanka Vergadia
AI is good at seeing patterns, but it’s humans who figure out what to do next, says technologist Priyanka Vergadia. She shares three stories of human…
2 months, 1 week ago
Why I want to bring lions back to my village | Seif Hamisi
As a child in rural Kenya, conservationist Seif Hamisi fell asleep to the sound of lions outside his village. Today, the lions are gone, mirroring a …
2 months, 1 week ago
The new science of eyewitness memory | John Wixted
We've built a legal system that distrusts eyewitness memory — backed by cautionary science and high-profile exonerations. John Wixted, a leading psyc…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Sunday Pick: How to find true love (w/ Francesca Hogi) | from How to Be a Better Human
Love coach Francesca Hogi is dedicated to helping daters find “lasting love in the midst of a broken dating culture.” In this episode, Francesca shar…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The AI-generated intimacy crisis | Bryony Cole
Tonight, millions of people will go to bed and whisper to an AI companion. But what are we giving up when we fall in love with machines? Sextech expe…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The doctor on a mission to build a healthier South Sudan | Yohanis Riek
Yohanis Riek went from herding cattle and fighting as a child soldier to becoming the first doctor in his community in South Sudan. He shares his jou…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The pressure that makes Olympians perform worse | Dominique Condo
Why do we celebrate appearance over ability in sports? Performance scientist Dominique Condo explores why so many elite female athletes — women with …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How competition is stifling AI breakthroughs | Llion Jones
Llion Jones cowrote "Attention Is All You Need," the seminal paper that introduced the transformer — the architecture that launched the generative AI…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The 6 essential ingredients of loving relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh
How do you build a lifetime of love? After analyzing 450 couples across more than 40 countries, relational psychotherapist Sara Nasserzadeh discovere…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The brilliance of bridges and roads that repair themselves | Mark Miodownik
Your skin heals after a scratch. What if our roads, bridges and cities could self-repair after getting damaged, too? Scientist and engineer Mark Miod…
2 months, 3 weeks ago