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Feeling Stuck? Here’s How To Achieve a Breakthrough, with Adam Alter
Jun 27, 2024We've all been stuck at some point in our lives — whether we've been stuck at a job and wanting to make a career change, stuck in a location and wanting to move somewhere new, or stuck in relationship...
What Makes Something Memorable (or Forgettable?) with Wilma Bainbridge
Jun 13, 2024There is a science to what we remember and what we don't. For instance, why do we remember certain pieces of artwork, some brands’ logos, or even people's faces? University of Chicago psychologist Wil...
Learning To Speak To Whales Using AI, with David Gruber
May 30, 2024If aliens landed on Earth tomorrow, how would we talk with them? Well, we already have a kind of creature on this planet we could attempt to talk to first, and in the last few years a team of renowned...
Storm Warning: Why Hurricanes Are Growing Beyond Measure, with Michael Wehner
May 16, 2024We all know that extreme weather events like hurricanes are getting worse due to climate change, but what scientists would really like to know is: By how much worse exactly? This year a team of resear...
How To Manifest Your Future Using Neuroscience, with James Doty
May 02, 2024We've all heard the phrase "Manifest Your Destiny" when it comes to wanting that new promotion, figuring out a new career path or just trying to achieve that long-term goal. It turns out that the act ...
Why We Die—And How We Can Live Longer, with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
Apr 18, 2024They’re perhaps the oldest questions in the science: Why do we die? And could we find a way to live forever? But for decades, anti-aging research was a “backwater” of the scientific community, conside...
What Dogs Are Teaching Us About Aging, with Daniel Promislow
Apr 04, 2024Every dog owner has faced the hard realization that their dog won’t live as long as they do, but we’ve all probably wondered: Why do some dogs live longer than others? It turns out that several factor...
Where Has Alzheimer’s Research Gone Wrong? with Karl Herrup
Mar 21, 2024For more than a century, scientists have been studying Alzheimer’s disease and developing theories about its underlying cause. The leading theory for decades has been that abnormal amyloid plaques in ...
Why Breeding Millions of Mosquitoes Could Help Save Lives, With Scott O'Neill
Mar 07, 2024Mosquito-borne diseases are one of the greatest global health threats, infecting around 700 million people every year with Zika virus, dengue fever, malaria and yellow fever — which can all be deadly ...
Why Shaming Other Countries Often Backfires, with Rochelle Terman
Feb 22, 2024How do you stop a government from continuing to commit human rights abuses? You could take them to an international court of justice, or file a complaint at the UN. But none of those bodies have any e...