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Which is better for you: "Real" meat or "fake" meat? | Carolyn Beans
Jan 30, 2024In 2021, a survey of over 1,000 Americans found that nearly two-thirds had eaten plant-based meat alternatives in the past year. Many cited potential health and environmental benefits as their motivat...
The truth about human population decline | Jennifer D. Sciubba
Jan 23, 2024With birth rates falling, the worldwide human population is getting older and smaller. According to traditional thinking, this spells a future of labor shortages, bankrupt social security systems and ...
Why I gave my teenage daughter a vibrator | Robin Buckley
Jan 16, 2024"Why does a vibrator make us uncomfortable, but Viagra does not?" asks cognitive-behavioral coach Robin Buckley. Sharing her own personal story of empowering her teenage daughter to explore the power ...
So much sitting, looking at screens. Can we combat our sedentary lives? | Body Electric
Jan 11, 2024This is an episode we think you might enjoy of Body Electric. TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi investigates the relationship between our technology and our bodies and asks: How are we physically a...
Artificial skin? We made it — here's why | Anna Maria Coclite
Jan 09, 2024Material scientist Anna Maria Coclite unveils "smart skin" — artificial skin technology that responds to touch, temperature and humidity like your very own. (It's actually even more sensitive than hum...
Why you feel anxious socializing (and what to do about it) | Fallon Goodman
Jan 02, 2024In crowds, at meetings, get-togethers with friends, everyday interactions: social anxiety can show up as an unwelcome guest at any time. But why? Psychologist Fallon Goodman digs into the source of so...
The secret to a happy life — lessons from 8 decades of research | Robert Waldinger
Dec 26, 2023The happiest and healthiest people are those who have an abundance of warm connections with others, says psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, who leads the Harvard Study of Adult Development — one of the lo...
Are life-saving medicines hiding in the world's coldest places? | Normand Voyer
Dec 19, 2023Could the next wonder drug be somewhere in Canada's snowy north? Take a trip to this beautiful, frigid landscape as chemist Normand Voyer explores the mysterious molecular treasures found in plants th...
CRISPR's next advance is bigger than you think | Jennifer Doudna
Dec 12, 2023You've probably heard of CRISPR, the revolutionary technology that allows us to edit the DNA in living organisms. Biochemist and 2023 Audacious Project grantee Jennifer Doudna earned the Nobel Prize f...
What did people do before anesthesia? | Sally Frampton
Dec 05, 2023The quest for anesthetics that could induce unconsciousness and enable more meticulous surgeries began around the early 3rd century CE. Before anesthesia was widely used, patients had to consciously e...