Best by SC Zoomers Podcasts (2025)

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Why Feeling Good Doesn't Always Pay Good: Emotional Intelligence 15:10

14h ago15:10

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Send us a text Read article on Substack Can't get promoted? Work on your emotional intelligence. Still underpaid? Maybe you need more EI training. This narrative conveniently ignores the structural factors that actually drive salary differences and instead suggests that workers should invest in developing skills that make them better employees with…

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🌐 Adaptive Mutualism: A New Economic Model 37:22

2d ago37:22

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Send us a text Please review the corresponding Substack episode. What happens when artificial intelligence looks at our broken economic systems and says, "I can do better than this"? We're living through the economic equivalent of a slow-motion car crash, and most of us are too busy arguing about the radio station to notice we're heading straight f…

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An Ancient Brain in a Modern World: Addiction Isn't About Willpower 15:15

5d ago15:15

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Here's where our modern predicament becomes clear: we've engineered a world flooded with what scientists call "super stimuli." These aren't the natural rewards our ancestors encountered. They're concentrated, intensified, and deliberately designed to hijack our ancient wiring. Anna Lembke, author of "Dopa…

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The Sacrifice of Mungo McDonald 33:45

7d ago33:45

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Send us a text See the corresponding Substack episode. The story of Pope Mungo reveals what happens when our comfortable moral categories collapse under the weight of real evil I've been thinking about a question that keeps me awake at night: What happens when love demands something so radical that it becomes unrecognizable as love at all? This isn…

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Noise Sensitivity - Why Your Brain Won't Stop Listening 21:56

9d ago21:56

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Send us a text Read article on Substack Noise sensitivity was often treated as a "waste paper basket" diagnosis – something to brush off when doctors couldn't find anything "real" wrong with you. Meanwhile, patients developed elaborate coping mechanisms: sleeping with multiple earplugs, avoiding restaurants, choosing apartments based on wall thickn…

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💸 The Hidden Cost of Private Equity 31:25

11d ago31:25

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Send us a text Please see the corresponding Substack episode. You probably don't know who owns your local hospital. You might not realize that the newspaper you grew up reading is now controlled by a firm that views journalism as a spreadsheet optimization problem. And when your rent suddenly jumps 30% or your neighborhood grocery store closes with…

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The Topology of Taste 18:18

13d ago18:18

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Research shows that more flavorful foods trigger larger consumption. If your brain constructs more intense flavor experiences, you eat more. Food companies understand this better than most consumers do. They're not just adding sugar and salt randomly—they're engineering specific combinations of taste, sme…

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🧠 Welcome to the curved space of everything 16:12

15d ago16:12

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Send us a text Please see our corresponding Substack episode. 🧠💥 Just discovered how your brain might be hiding explosive secrets in curved spaces. New research reveals why AI suddenly "gets it" - and it's not what you think. The math that's reshaping memory itself. #NeuralNetworks #AI #BrainScience Interactions in Curved Statistical Manifolds Sour…

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Highest UN Court's Ruling on Climate Change 20:37

17d ago20:37

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Send us a text Read article on Substack The opinion transforms what was once treated as a moral imperative into a legal obligation. Countries can no longer hide behind the fig leaf of "we're doing our best" when their best demonstrably isn't good enough. The court made it clear that nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreeme…

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AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery 17:39

19d ago17:39

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Send us a text Please see our corresponding Substack episode We're living through what might be the last era where humans are the limiting factor in AI development. That's not hyperbole—it's the stark conclusion emerging from breakthrough research that should terrify and exhilarate us in equal measure. The future of AI research may no longer be abo…

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Renewables: The Unstoppable Economics of Our Clean Energy Future 23:13

21d ago23:13

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Send us a text Read article on Substack What makes the renewable transition even more compelling is that we're finally accounting for the true costs of our fossil fuel dependence. The health impacts alone are staggering. In 2024, renewables helped the U.S. avoid an estimated $21.5 billion in health damages from air pollution, on top of $24 billion …

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The Afterlife Industrial Complex: What David Eagleman's Tales Tell Us About Our Desperate Need for Meaning 19:59

23d ago19:59

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Send us a text see related Substack episode We're living through the death of certainty, and it's making us absolutely feral for answers about what comes next. I spent an hour this week diving into David Eagleman's Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, and honestly? It left me more unsettled than any horror movie could. Not because these afterlife …

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Today's Tribal Societies: Our True Nature's Last Mirror 16:21

25d ago16:21

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack These aren't primitive people. They're specialists in being human. And here's what really messes with our modern assumptions: they achieved something we're constantly told is impossible. They created societies without bosses, without cops, without prisons, without wealth inequality—and they worked for mil…

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The Book of Rights: A Manifesto for Individual Freedom 21:11

27d ago21:11

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Send us a text See related Substack Episode "I spent years apologizing for who I was until I realized I'd forgotten who that even was. Today's dive into reclaiming your basic human rights 🎧✨" How we learned to distrust our own inner wisdom—and why reclaiming it might be the most radical act of our time There's a particular kind of violence that hap…

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The God Particle: Quantum Consciousness 22:12

29d ago22:12

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Send us a text Read article on Substack During deep meditative states, these practitioners showed dramatic increases in gamma wave activity—specifically in the 38-42 Hz range—with statistical significance that would make any researcher sit up and take notice (p < 0.0001). But here's where it gets really interesting: their brains showed remarkable g…

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Nailfold Capillaroscopy: Unveiling Fibrinoid Microclots and Microcirculation Dynamics 17:29

1M ago17:29

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Send us a text see corresponding Substack 🔬 What if the key to chronic illness has been hiding under our fingernails all along? Ancient wisdom meets AI in this mind-bending medical mystery. 🧬✨ While researchers were discovering these microclots with expensive lab equipment, a diagnostic technique from 1600s was quietly waiting in the wings. Nailfol…

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Centaur AI: Becoming Human 17:11

1M ago17:11

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack The future is arriving faster than we can process its implications. Centaur isn't just a research breakthrough—it's a preview of coming attractions. And we're all the starring act in this particular show, whether we signed up for it or not. The question isn't whether AI will learn to predict human behavio…

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🔬 Flow Cytometric Detection of Fibrin(ogen) Amyloid Microclots 15:05

1M ago15:05

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Send us a text see corrisonding Substack episode A breakthrough in detection methods might finally give us the diagnostic tool we've been desperately seeking For years, Long COVID patients have been fighting an invisible war. Not just against their symptoms, but against a medical system that couldn't quite put its finger on what was wrong. "It's al…

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Heliox: Evidence, Empathy, and the Human Tapestry: Season 4 Review 21:52

1M ago21:52

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Send us a text see the corresponding Substack episode The information age promised that more knowledge would make us smarter. Instead, it's made us anxious, overwhelmed, and paradoxically less informed about what matters. I've been thinking about this problem a lot lately, especially after diving deep into the architecture of a podcast called Helio…

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Early Bird versus Night Owl: Optimizing Your Chronobiology 17:37

1M ago17:37

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Send us a text Read article on Substack This isn't just about individual suffering—it's about what we're losing as a society. When you force creative, productive night owls to perform during their biological off-hours, you're not getting their best work. You're not accessing their full cognitive potential. You're creating a world where a significan…

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Relationship Fatigue: Why Women Opt Out of Dating 14:46

1M ago14:46

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Send us a text Read article on Substack "It felt like I was constantly pulling teeth just to get him to talk about his day, let alone his feelings." Meanwhile, she was expected to be his emotional GPS, life coach, and sexual servant—all while maintaining her own career, friendships, and mental health. This isn't an isolated story. It's a pattern so…

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🧬 AlphaGenome: Predicting Variant Effects on Gene Regulation 16:47

1M ago16:47

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Send us a text see the accompanying substack episode We've been reading our genetic code wrong this whole time. For decades, scientists focused on the 2% of our DNA that codes for proteins—the obvious stuff, the genes that make the building blocks of life. We treated the other 98% like genetic junk mail, regulatory noise that didn't really matter. …

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The Myth of Canine Hierarchy - What Science Tells Us About Dog Intelligence 19:52

1M ago19:52

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Yes, they found breed differences. But not where you'd expect them, and not in the ways our cultural narratives would predict. Border Collies, those supposed canine Einsteins, excelled at impulse control—which makes sense if you think about it. Herding requires incredible restraint, the ability to resist …

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💨 COVID for Docs ( duty of care ): Science, Spread, and Long-Term Harm 33:26

2M ago33:26

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Send us a text see epsisode substack There’s a story we should have memorized by now. Today, we call this resistance to new knowledge the “Semmelweis reflex.” A refusal to accept evidence because it feels wrong. Inconvenient. Uncomfortable. In 2020, a new virus entered the room. For a brief moment, we acknowledged its danger. We locked down. We lis…

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Our Planet: A Startup With No Business Plan 25:49

2M ago25:49

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack The summary is stark: we are already operating outside acceptable risk parameters, with catastrophic impacts likely before 2050. Climate: severe impacts already occurring, with highly likely catastrophic warming pre-2050. Nature: trending toward severe degradation with catastrophic risks by 2050. Society:…

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⚡ How MiniMax M1 Just Rewrote the Rules of AI 19:01

2M ago19:01

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Send us a text See the corresponding Substack episode Sometimes the most profound changes happen not with fanfare, but with a whisper that echoes through eternity. We're living through one of those whisper moments right now, and most people don't even know it happened. While the tech world obsesses over the latest chatbot drama and which billionair…

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The Conscience Crisis: Understanding Moral Injury 20:14

2M ago20:14

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack What happens when the deepest wound isn't from what you witnessed, but from what you were forced to do? Or couldn't prevent? What happens when the injury isn't to your sense of safety, but to your sense of self? That's moral injury. It's what happens when someone violates their own deeply held values, wit…

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The Longevity Mirage: A reality check on the promise and peril of our anti-aging obsession 24:36

2M ago24:36

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Send us a text Go deeper with this episode substack. We're living through the most seductive health mirage in human history. Every week brings breathless headlines about miracle longevity drugs, AI-powered personalized medicine, and genetic therapies that promise to turn back the biological clock. The wealthy are already lining up for $1,350-a-mont…

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Our Oceans: The Fight for The Last Frontier 17:41

2M ago17:41

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Picture this: a wilderness so vast it covers nearly half the planet's surface, teeming with life that literally keeps our climate stable, yet completely lawless. No rules, no protection, no oversight. Just a free-for-all where the biggest players strip-mine the ecosystem while taxpayers foot the bill. Wel…

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👀 The Naked Truth About Academic Integrity 15:29

2M ago15:29

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Send us a text See the corresponding substack for this episode How a fictional French exam reveals the uncomfortable realities of modern education There's something deeply unsettling about the story that crossed my feed this week. Not because it's shocking in the way we've come to expect from our endless scroll of outrage content, but because it as…

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The Sleep Industrial Complex Is Failing Us 22:57

2M ago22:57

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Send us a text Let's start with something that should terrify every parent, teacher, and anyone who gives a damn about social cohesion: sleep loss creates what researchers call "loneliness contagion." When you interact with someone who hasn't slept enough, you walk away feeling lonelier yourself. Think about that for a moment. In a society where we…

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🧠 The Invisible Scars: What COVID is Really Doing to Our Brains 19:01

2M ago19:01

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Send us a text Want to know more? See our corrisponding Substack episode. We're living through the largest uncontrolled experiment on human cognition in history, and most people don't even know they're subjects. While the world moved on from pandemic panic to whatever fresh hell dominates this week's news cycle, researchers have been quietly docume…

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Solastalgia: Climate Change is Breaking Our Hearts 27:56

2M ago27:56

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Send us a text Read article on Substack Climate change attacks our mental health on multiple fronts simultaneously. There's the acute trauma of disasters—the immediate psychological injury of losing your home to fire or flood. There's the subacute response—the eco-anxiety that comes from witnessing devastation, even from afar, and understanding wha…

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🧠 The Invisible Wounds: Why TBI's Social Impact Matters More Than We Think 26:04

2M ago26:04

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Send us a text Please explore our the substack for this episode to go deeper. We live in a culture obsessed with visible recovery. The triumphant athlete returning to the field. The accident victim learning to walk again. The before-and-after photos that make us believe healing is linear and observable. But what happens when the most devastating in…

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Why Awe Might Be Our Most Undervalued Emotion 11:51

2M ago11:51

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Send us a text Read the article When you experience awe—whether it's staring at a starry sky, witnessing an act of extraordinary kindness, or even watching that mesmerizing slow-motion video of a droplet falling into milk—your default mode network quiets down. The default mode network is essentially your brain's "me channel." It's that constant int…

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🧬 The Future Of Discover: What AlphaEvolve Tells Us About the Future of Human Knowledge 20:58

2M ago20:58

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Send us a text Go deeper with this episode substack. There is also a comic. There's something deeply unsettling about watching a machine solve problems that have stumped humanity's brightest minds for over half a century. Not because it threatens our ego—though it certainly does that—but because it forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about t…

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The Brain's Sustain Pedal: How We Make Feelings 15:17

2M ago15:17

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Send us a text Read the article The study suggests that when this timing goes wrong, it might underlie some of our most challenging mental health conditions. Too fast, and you might experience the disconnection and loss of control reported in schizophrenia. Too slow or too persistent, and you could be looking at the intrusive thoughts of OCD, the e…

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📖 The Mind's Journey Through Hell: What Hegel's Map of Consciousness Reveals About Our Modern Crisis 22:33

2M ago22:33

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Send us a text Please see the Substack episode: Haiku, Essay, Resources, Comic, and More. How a 19th-century philosopher's brutal anatomy of human awareness predicted our current psychological and social breakdown We're living through what feels like a collective nervous breakdown. Social media has turned us into perpetual performers seeking valida…

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Mom, The Algorithm Will See You Now: Predicting Postpartum Depression 17:50

2M ago17:50

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Instead of requiring new tests or lengthy questionnaires at discharge (when everyone's already exhausted and overwhelmed), the model uses information that's already been collected during routine care. Age, medical history, pregnancy complications, how long you stayed in the hospital, whether you needed me…

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🍎 Apple WWDC 2025: How Apple Just Rewrote the Rules of Personal Computing 31:02

2M ago31:02

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Send us a text Please see our episode substack for a more detailed breakdown and a comic. Something profound happened at Apple's WWDC 2025, and most people missed it entirely. While the tech press got distracted by shiny new features and incremental updates, Apple quietly orchestrated what might be the most significant shift in personal computing s…

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USA's Global Games: Canada, Ally or Enemy? 16:44

2M ago16:44

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Let's start by demolishing the central premise of Trump's geographical fantasy. The idea that the US-Canada border is somehow artificial or arbitrary reveals a stunning ignorance of centuries of distinct historical development. This isn't just about geography—it's about fundamentally different cultural, p…

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😷 The Hidden Epidemic: What Toronto's Measles Crisis Reveals About Our Broken Health System 18:55

2M ago18:55

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Send us a text See the related Substack Episode, and there is a comic ". ) When a "defeated" disease comes roaring back, it exposes every crack in our public health foundation There's something almost quaint about measles making headlines in 2025. Like hearing that someone still uses a rotary phone, or that a city's traffic lights run on punch card…

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“We can't go on like this”: Nature Needs A Price Tag 11:08

2M ago11:08

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack We're living through what historians will probably call the Great Greenwashing Era. Every corporation has a sustainability report now. Every CEO talks about "purpose-driven business." Every shareholder meeting features carefully crafted slides about carbon neutrality by 2050. Most of it is performative bu…

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The Liquid Economy: How AI Could Finally Pay Us Back 19:37

3M ago19:37

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Send us a text See the related episode for haiku, details and comic Beyond copyright battles lies a revolutionary economic model that could transform how we value human creativity in the age of AI Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 3: Generative AI Training pre-publication version A REPORT of the Register of copyrights May 2025 US Copywrite…

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When Hawks Become Traffic Engineers 15:39

3M ago15:39

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Send us a text Read the article If we're this wrong about hawks—creatures we can observe directly—what does that say about our understanding of other species? What sophisticated behaviors and cognitive abilities are we missing because they don't fit our narrow definitions of intelligence? More importantly, what does this mean for how we design our …

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⚕️The Hearts We Didn't Know We Were Breaking: What We're Learning About COVID's Long Shadow on Our Children 16:21

3M ago16:21

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Send us a text See our episode substack with haiku, details and comic We told ourselves a story about children and COVID-19. It was a comforting story. Like most comforting stories we tell ourselves during crises, this one was both partially true and dangerously incomplete. A massive new study from the RECOVER Consortium has just shattered our comf…

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The Radical Science of Peace: What Dame Kathleen Lonsdale Knew 13:16

3M ago13:16

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Send us a text When World War II came, Lonsdale faced the ultimate test of her convictions. As a conscientious objector, she was imprisoned rather than participate in the war effort. Think about that choice: a woman at the height of her scientific career, choosing prison over compromise. But here's what's remarkable—that experience didn't break her…

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🧠 The Uncomfortable Truth About What You Really Believe 25:19

3M ago25:19

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Send us a text Hummm, go deeper. Comic, haiku, mind maps, essay and more Why your deepest convictions have more in common with falling in love than solving math problems We tell ourselves a comforting lie about how our minds work. We like to imagine that our beliefs are the product of careful reasoning—that we weigh evidence, consider alternatives,…

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The Virus That Hijacks Your Immune System's First Responders 16:13

3M ago16:13

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Send us a text Think of your immune system as a sophisticated military operation. Neutrophils are the rapid response team—they arrive first at any sign of trouble, ready to fight. But what if an invader could somehow reprogram these first responders to work against their own army? That's exactly what researchers led by Shia and colleagues discovere…

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🧪The Hidden Medicine Cabinet: Why One Old Drug Might Hold Keys to Our Chronic Illness Crisis 28:35

3M ago28:35

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Send us a text Corresponding Substack Episode When a 50-year-old addiction medication starts reversing autoimmune diseases, clearing brain fog, and helping cancer patients—maybe it's time we stopped thinking about medicine the way pharmaceutical companies want us to. We live in an age of medical gaslighting disguised as evidence-based care. Million…

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