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Sir Alexander Fleming: The Messy Truth Behind Penicillin
May 4, 202622 min
Carl Friedrich Gauss: The Mislabeled Brain of Carl Friedrich Gauss
May 4, 202623 min
Gregor Mendel: The Monk Who Cracked the Genetic Code
May 4, 202624 min
Virginia Hall: The One Legged Spy the Gestapo Feared
May 4, 202620 min
Hilma af Klint: The mystic who invented abstract art
May 4, 202622 min
Herbert A. Simon: The Nobel Winner Who Invented AI
May 4, 202621 min
The Pacifist Spy Noor Inayat Khan
May 4, 202619 min
Erwin Schrödinger: The Conflicted Architect of Wave and Shadow
May 4, 202619 min
Richard Feynman: The Physicist Who Picked Nature's Locks
May 4, 202622 min
Klaus Fuchs: The Physicist who Armed Stalin
May 4, 202621 min
The radical endurance of Marina Abramovic
May 4, 202622 min
Whitfield Diffie: The Rebel Who Encrypted the Internet
May 4, 202619 min
Duško Popov: The Playboy Architect of the Double Cross
May 4, 202621 min
The Radical Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
May 4, 202625 min
The Relentless Reinvention of Lee Krasner
May 4, 202624 min
Elizabeth Van Lew: The Richmond socialite who outsmarted the Confederacy
May 4, 202617 min
The Scars and Earthworks of Maya Lin
May 4, 202621 min
Sophie Germain: The Secret Mathematician Behind the Eiffel Tower
May 4, 202623 min
The Secret Notebooks of Louis Pasteur
May 4, 202623 min
Mark Rothko: The Tragic Architect of the Human Soul
May 4, 202612 min
Toussaint Louverture: The Slave Owner Who Outmaneuvered Napoleon
May 4, 202619 min
Belle Boyd: The Teenage Spy Who Weaponized Victorian Manners
May 4, 202620 min
Willem de Kooning: The Stowaway Who Painted $300 Million Masterpieces
May 3, 202622 min
The Tragic Prosecution of Aaron Swartz
May 3, 202621 min
Paul Erdős: The wandering genius who connected mathematics
May 3, 202624 min
Julia Morgan: The Woman Who Built Hearst Castle
May 3, 202619 min
Treating Poverty as a Medical Emergency
May 3, 202621 min
Valentina Tereshkova From Space to Sanctions
May 3, 202620 min
Violette Szabo: the Shopgirl & Saboteur Spy
May 3, 202622 min
Ignaz Semmelweis: The Tragic Architect of Modern Hygiene
May 3, 202624 min
Why destroying the Amazon is financial suicide
May 3, 202641 min
Geoffrey Hinton: Why the AI Godfather fears his creation
May 3, 202619 min
The Fermi Paradox: Why the galaxy is so silent
May 3, 202622 min
Why the Gestapo Feared Nancy Wake
May 3, 202621 min
Why Smart People Defend Terrible Ideas
May 3, 202652 min
Why sailors chose the black flag
May 3, 20261h 3m
Why Yoshua Bengio fears his own creation
May 3, 202617 min
Why the Viking Age actually started
May 3, 202636 min
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why you misjudge your own abilities
May 3, 202624 min
Why unfinished tasks haunt your brain
May 3, 202650 min
Yann LeCun's billion dollar world model bet
May 3, 202615 min
Why the Western Roman Empire Never Fell
May 3, 20261h 0m
Zaha Hadid and the 89 degree angle
May 3, 202621 min
Your purpose is not a job
May 3, 202622 min
Why your brain sees faces everywhere
May 3, 20261h 3m
How Nirvana Accidentally Changed Music Forever
May 1, 202633 min
Whiskey Myers: How the "Yellowstone Effect" built a multi-platinum southern empire
May 1, 202636 min
George Jones: How an 8 mile lawnmower ride & a bridge crash built the greatest voice in Country Music
May 1, 202649 min
Molly Tuttle: How a prodigy shattered the "Guitar God" glass ceiling & hacked her own Grammy-winning formula
May 1, 202635 min
Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire: India's Golden Age & Architectural Marvels
Apr 15, 202651 min