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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
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 5744How Louis Braille reinvented reading with dots
How Louis Braille reinvented reading with dots
Apr 7, 202621 min
Ep 5742How Katy Perry engineered her survival
How Katy Perry engineered her survival
Apr 7, 202617 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