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What is biophilic design?
Biophilic design is all about bringing the outside in. But it’s also much more than that. Open your windows and have a listen!
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What Is the World’s Oldest Book?
Books are both fragile physical objects and conceptual works as eternal as storytelling itself. Learn about the quest to find the oldest book in this…
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What Earth Looked Like 3.2 Billion Years Ago
Encore episode. The surface of the Earth is constantly recycled through the motion of plate tectonics. So how do researchers study what it used to…
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#71: Make Dopamine While the Sun Shines
In this 71st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the…
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Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished?
Americans are so accustomed to the standard intersection that we rarely consider how dangerous it can be — as well as costly, time-wasting, and polluting.…
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Can We Tell Whether a Dinosaur Was Male or Female?
We can learn a lot from dinosaur fossils, but the sex of the animal in question is frequently a mystery. Learn why in this episode…
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Dragons: As Real as Mermaids
Dragons are like mermaids in that they’re not real. And that’s about where the comparison ends. Learn all about dragons today.
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Stuff You Missed in History Class
Zoë & Theodora, Byzantine Empresses
Over almost 30 years in 11th-century Constantinople, sometimes Zoë ruled alongside one of her husbands, sometimes she and Theodora ruled together, and in the end,…
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Magnets: The Hidden Objects Powering Your Life
Magnets are hidden everywhere here on earth — they’re in cars, phones, computers, televisions — the list goes on. Not to mention the fact that…
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What Will Farming 4.0 Look Like?
The human population is expected to increase by a couple billion people in the next 30 years and those who are paying attention are wondering…