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Feeling Stuck? Here’s How To Achieve a Breakthrough, with Adam Alter

Feeling Stuck? Here’s How To Achieve a Breakthrough, with Adam Alter

Jun 27, 2024

We'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...

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What Makes Something Memorable (or Forgettable?) with Wilma Bainbridge

What Makes Something Memorable (or Forgettable?) with Wilma Bainbridge

Jun 13, 2024

There 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...

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Learning To Speak To Whales Using AI, with David Gruber

Learning To Speak To Whales Using AI, with David Gruber

May 30, 2024

If 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...

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Storm Warning: Why Hurricanes Are Growing Beyond Measure, with Michael Wehner

Storm Warning: Why Hurricanes Are Growing Beyond Measure, with Michael Wehner

May 16, 2024

We 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...

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How To Manifest Your Future Using Neuroscience, with James Doty

How To Manifest Your Future Using Neuroscience, with James Doty

May 02, 2024

We'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 ...

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Why We Die—And How We Can Live Longer, with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

Why We Die—And How We Can Live Longer, with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

Apr 18, 2024

They’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...

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What Dogs Are Teaching Us About Aging, with Daniel Promislow

What Dogs Are Teaching Us About Aging, with Daniel Promislow

Apr 04, 2024

Every 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...

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Where Has Alzheimer’s Research Gone Wrong? with Karl Herrup

Where Has Alzheimer’s Research Gone Wrong? with Karl Herrup

Mar 21, 2024

For 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 ...

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Why Breeding Millions of Mosquitoes Could Help Save Lives, With Scott O'Neill

Why Breeding Millions of Mosquitoes Could Help Save Lives, With Scott O'Neill

Mar 07, 2024

Mosquito-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 ...

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Why Shaming Other Countries Often Backfires, with Rochelle Terman

Why Shaming Other Countries Often Backfires, with Rochelle Terman

Feb 22, 2024

How 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...

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