Aug 17, 2026
Hi friends! We're still taking a bit of a summer pause. We'll be back at the end of August—in the meanwhile, enjoy this listener favorite from our archives!
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[originally aired September 19, 2024]
There's a bit of a buzz out there, right now, but maybe you haven’t noticed. It's in the water, it's in the air....
Jul 31, 2026
Hi friends! We're taking a bit of a summer pause. We'll be back soon—in the meanwhile, enjoy this listener favorite from our archives!
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[originally aired July 10, 2025]
Childhood is a special time, a strange time. Children are adored and catered to—they're given their own menus and bedrooms. They're considered...
Jul 17, 2026
Hi friends! We're taking a bit of a summer pause. We will be back soon—in the meanwhile, enjoy this listener favorite from our archives!
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[originally aired May 14, 2025]
Some call it the "psychedelic renaissance." In the last decade or so, interest in psychedelic drugs has surged—and not just among Silicon...
Jul 3, 2026
No discipline, no sphere of intellectual life, has been untouched by the work of Charles Darwin. He died in 1882 but his ideas are very much alive; they're now central to how we understand the natural world, the human mind, non-human minds, plants, biogeography, morality and emotion, culture, language, and more. But...
Jun 20, 2026
It’s tempting to see bioluminescence as an oddity, one of those rare eccentricities of life on earth. And, on land, maybe that’s true. But our planet is mostly water, and out in the open ocean bioluminescence is utterly commonplace. Creatures of all shapes and sorts sparkle and glow, glitter and pulse. But what are...