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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

Breaking the Code: Alan Turing, the WWII Codebreaker and Father of Artificial Intelligence

Apr 15, 202645 min

The True Story of the Viking Age: Raiders, Traders, and Explorers

Apr 15, 202636 min

The Gut-Brain Axis: How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Mind

Apr 15, 202644 min

The Printing Press: Johannes Gutenberg & The Revolution of Mass Communication

Apr 15, 202642 min

Unpacking the Benin Bronzes: Looted African Art and the Global Restitution Debate

Apr 15, 202648 min

DIRT METROPOLIS! How 3-billion-unit bacterial teaspoon populations run a "God Game" & the 1996-unit "glue" that holds Earth together

Apr 15, 202641 min

GHOSTS IN THE DNA! How 1300-BCE-unit war trauma haunts your genes, the 830,000-unit-scale Vietnam crisis & the 20-percent-unit shrunken brain

Apr 15, 202636 min

CLIMATE BOMB! How a 2020-unit-aged cloud suffocated a town, the 900-million-unit-scale "honor system" audit & the 70-percent-unit failure rate

Apr 15, 202650 min

BRAIN COPIES! How macaque monkeys, peanuts & a "flight simulator" in your head reveal the secret of human empathy

Apr 15, 202623 min

Cognitive Dissonance: Theory, Paradigms, and Psychological Consistency

Apr 15, 202623 min

BOILING THE OCEAN!: The Science of Desalination

Apr 15, 202649 min

MOVE 37! How a 13-unit-aged chess master built a "God Game," mapped amnesia & solved the 50-year-unit protein puzzle

Apr 13, 202636 min

The Ultimate Guide to Sourdough – History, Science, and Wild Yeast Fermentation

Apr 13, 202648 min

Ep 5743How Keira Knightley survived her fame

How Keira Knightley survived her fame

Apr 7, 202619 min

Ep 5742How Katy Perry engineered her survival

How Katy Perry engineered her survival

Apr 7, 202617 min

Ep 5744How Louis Braille reinvented reading with dots

How Louis Braille reinvented reading with dots

Apr 7, 202621 min

Ep 5745How Machines Learn In Real Time

How Machines Learn In Real Time

Apr 7, 202624 min

Ep 5746How Machines Learned to Recognize Speech

How Machines Learned to Recognize Speech

Apr 7, 202623 min

Ep 5747How Machines Master the Grey Area

How Machines Master the Grey Area

Apr 7, 202621 min

Ep 5748How Margaret Atwood predicts our breaking point

How Margaret Atwood predicts our breaking point

Apr 7, 202620 min

Ep 5749How Marlon Brando Rewired Modern Acting

How Marlon Brando Rewired Modern Acting

Apr 7, 202622 min

Ep 5750How Math Taught Machines to Speak

How Math Taught Machines to Speak

Apr 7, 202624 min

Ep 5751How Maya Angelou rewrote the American autobiography

How Maya Angelou rewrote the American autobiography

Apr 7, 202620 min

Ep 5752How Meryl Streep Weaponized Empathy

How Meryl Streep Weaponized Empathy

Apr 7, 202619 min

Ep 5753How Multi-Task Learning Makes AI Smarter

How Multi-Task Learning Makes AI Smarter

Apr 7, 202621 min

Ep 5754How Nicole Kidman Rewrote Hollywood s Rules

How Nicole Kidman Rewrote Hollywood s Rules

Apr 7, 202619 min

Ep 5755How Panic Shaped the 2008 Bank Bailout

How Panic Shaped the 2008 Bank Bailout

Apr 7, 202620 min

Ep 5756How Percentages Lie to Your Brain

How Percentages Lie to Your Brain

Apr 7, 202619 min

Ep 5757How Perplexity Measures AI Surprise

How Perplexity Measures AI Surprise

Apr 7, 202621 min

Ep 5758How Peter Jackson became a tech billionaire

How Peter Jackson became a tech billionaire

Apr 7, 202623 min

Ep 5759How Prolog Taught Machines to Reason

How Prolog Taught Machines to Reason

Apr 7, 202622 min

Ep 5760How Q-learning turns guessing into strategic mastery

How Q-learning turns guessing into strategic mastery

Apr 7, 202620 min

Ep 5761How Ramanujan Saw the Thoughts of God

How Ramanujan Saw the Thoughts of God

Apr 7, 202620 min

Ep 5762How Randomness Makes Random Forests Precise

How Randomness Makes Random Forests Precise

Apr 7, 202624 min

Ep 5763How Ray Charles outsmarted the music industry

How Ray Charles outsmarted the music industry

Apr 7, 202619 min

Ep 5764How Reggie Dwight became Elton John

How Reggie Dwight became Elton John

Apr 7, 202620 min

Ep 5765How Regularization Stops AI Overfitting

How Regularization Stops AI Overfitting

Apr 7, 202625 min

Ep 5766How SAT Solvers Cheat the Exponential Wall

How SAT Solvers Cheat the Exponential Wall

Apr 7, 202623 min

Ep 5769How Samuel L Jackson Flipped the System

How Samuel L Jackson Flipped the System

Apr 7, 202617 min

Ep 5767How Sade Defied the Music Industry

How Sade Defied the Music Industry

Apr 7, 202620 min