Name: Riddle Us This EP08
Released: 2026-06-07
Duration: 4059

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Riddle Us This EP08

1) How the Königsberg bridge problem changed mathematics - Dan Van der Vieren 2) Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Red-Headed League | Alex Rosenthal 3) Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? | Elizabeth Cox 4) Euclid's puzzling parallel postulate - Jeff Dekofsky 5) Can you solve the wizard tournament riddle? | Alex Rosenthal 6) Can you solve the basketball robot riddle? | Dan Katz 7) Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy? | Elizabeth Cox 8) Can you solve the time traveling car riddle? | Daniel Finkel 9) Can you solve the risky disk riddle? | James Tanton 10) How to defeat a dragon with math - Garth Sundem 11) Can you solve the secret assassin society riddle? | Alex Rosenthal

2026-06-07 23:57:07 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 01:04:46 +0000 UTC(1h7m)

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Morning Motivation EP07

1) What can we learn from shortcuts? | Tom Hulme 2) What would happen if you didn't drink water? - Mia Nacamulli 3) How frustration can make us more creative | Tim Harford 4) How to stop languishing and start finding flow | Adam Grant 5) Know your worth, and then ask for it | Casey Brown

2026-06-08 13:06:46 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 14:06:02 +0000 UTC(59m)

Psych Out EP10

1) What is "normal" and what is "different"? | Yana Buhrer Tavanier 2) A colorful case for outside-the-box thinking on identity | Olivia Vinckier 3) Lessons from losing my mind | Andy Dunn 4) The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT 5) Dear fellow refugees, here's how I found resilience | Chantale Zuzi Leader 6) How we can use the hiring process to bring out the best in people | Gil Winch 7) Pros and cons of public opinion polls - Jason Robert Jaffe

2026-06-08 12:03:50 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 13:06:46 +0000 UTC(1h2m)

Psych Out EP09

1) When is anger justified? A philosophical inquiry | Delaney Thull 2) What to trust in a "post-truth" world | Alex Edmans 3) What doctors should know about gender identity | Kristie Overstreet 4) How to avoid catching prickly emotions from other people | Jessica Woods 5) The truth about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - Helen M. Farrell

2026-06-08 11:04:24 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 12:03:50 +0000 UTC(59m)

Climate Action, Now! EP07

1) What's in the air you breathe? | Amy Hrdina and Jesse Kroll 2) How to transform your climate concern into action | Jane Fonda 3) The last living members of an extinct species | Jan Stejskal 4) We actually have a shot at stopping the climate crisis | Asmeret Asefaw Berhe 5) What's the best fuel for your car? | TED-Ed 6) How can we escape soaring energy bills? Stop using fossil fuels | Tessa Khan

2026-06-08 10:02:50 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 11:04:24 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

Climate Action, Now! EP06

1) What the fossil fuel industry doesn't want you to know | Al Gore 2) An extreme weather report from America's weatherman | Al Roker 3) The wildly complex anatomy of a sneaker 4) A new social contract for global climate justice | Huma Yusuf

2026-06-08 09:05:06 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 10:02:50 +0000 UTC(57m)

Art of the Future EP08

1) Living sculptures that stand for history's truths | Sethembile Msezane 2) How modern audiences can talk about aging art | Margaret Hall 3) Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm 4) The timeless, ancient language of art | Wangechi Mutu 5) Photographing nature beyond the limits of human perception | Doris Mitsch 6) How I use art to bridge misunderstanding | Adong Judith

2026-06-08 08:04:23 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 09:05:06 +0000 UTC(1h)

Art of the Future EP07

1) How film changes the way we see the world | Ava DuVernay 2) How Netflix changed entertainment -- and where it's headed | Reed Hastings 3) How targeted ads might just save your life | Sandersan Onie

2026-06-08 07:09:06 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 08:04:23 +0000 UTC(55m)

Did You Know ... ? EP07

1) The physics of the "hardest move" in ballet - Arleen Sugano 2) If you're scared of snakes, watch this | Andrew Whitworth 3) Why do we eat popcorn at the movies? | Andrew Smith 4) How do pain relievers work? - George Zaidan 5) The infamous overpopulation bet: Simon vs. Ehrlich | Soraya Field Fiorio 6) The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors | Iseult Gillespie 7) How did feathers evolve? - Carl Zimmer 8) The method that can "prove" almost anything | James A. Smith 9) Why bats don't get sick | Arinjay Banerjee 10) Why is it so hard to cure the common cold? | TED-Ed 11) The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece | Iseult Gillespie

2026-06-08 01:04:46 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 02:13:31 +0000 UTC(1h8m)

Riddle Us This EP08

2026-06-07 23:57:07 +0000 UTC→2026-06-08 01:04:46 +0000 UTC(1h7m)

Riddle Us This EP07

2026-06-07 22:55:27 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 23:57:07 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

Overlooked History EP06

1) What really caused the Irish Potato Famine | Stephanie Honchell Smith 2) History vs. Egypt's "most powerful" pharaoh | Jessica Tomkins 3) A day in the life of a Celtic Druid | Philip Freeman 4) One of history's most dangerous myths | Anneliese Mehnert 5) Why did the US try to kill all the bison? | Andrew C. Isenberg 6) How horses changed history | William T. Taylor 7) What few people know about the program that "saved" America | Meg Jacobs 8) How did Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? | Thula Simpson 9) What happened when the United States tried to ban alcohol | Rod Phillips 10) How does impeachment work? - Alex Gendler

2026-06-07 21:45:57 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 22:55:27 +0000 UTC(1h9m)

Overlooked History EP05

1) The most notorious scientific feud in history | Lukas Rieppel 2) When did slavery actually end in the United States? | Karlos Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio 3) The gory history of barber surgeons | Stephanie Honchell Smith 4) The imaginary king who changed the real world 5) The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii | Sydney Iaukea 6) The merciless mercenaries of the Italian Renaissance | Stephanie Honchell Smith 7) History vs. Henry VIII - Mark Robinson and Alex Gendler 8) Why is the US Constitution so hard to amend? - Peter Paccone 9) What caused the Rwandan Genocide? | Susanne Buckley-Zistel 10) The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire - Anne F. Broadbridge

2026-06-07 20:36:25 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 21:45:57 +0000 UTC(1h9m)

Say What? EP10

1) What if advertising was honest? | Sylvester Chauke 2) How to write less but say more | Jim VandeHei 3) What is verbal irony? - Christopher Warner 4) The timeless, ancient language of art | Wangechi Mutu 5) Which box do I check? | Mona Chalabi 6) A rite of passage for late life | Bob Stein

2026-06-07 19:39:59 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 20:36:25 +0000 UTC(56m)

Say What? EP07

1) The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen | Mary Norris 2) Go ahead, make up new words! | Erin McKean 3) Why is there a "b" in doubt? - Gina Cooke 4) How to take the BS out of business speak | Bob Wiltfong 5) What's a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak | Mark Forsyth 6) How computers translate human language - Ioannis Papachimonas

2026-06-07 18:41:59 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 19:39:59 +0000 UTC(58m)

The Future Ahead EP06

1) How CRISPR lets you edit DNA | Andrea M. Henle 2) SpaceX's supersized Starship rocket -- and the future of galactic exploration | Jennifer Heldmann 3) Underwater farms vs. climate change | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis 4) The affordable, 3D-printed bionics of the future | Enzo Romero 5) The future of fashion -- made from mushrooms | Dan Widmaier 6) The promise of quantum computers | Matt Langione

2026-06-07 12:43:59 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 13:44:45 +0000 UTC(1h)

The Business Angle EP06

1) This is what makes employees happy at work | Michael C. Bush 2) How diversity makes teams more innovative | Rocío Lorenzo 3) How millennials and Gen Z can invest in a better future | Miguel Goncalves 4) The myth of bringing your full, authentic self to work | Jodi-Ann Burey 5) 8 lessons on building a company people enjoy working for | Patty McCord 6) Ethical dilemma: The burger murders | George Siedel and Christine Ladwig

2026-06-07 11:46:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 12:43:59 +0000 UTC(57m)

The Business Angle EP05

1) The case for a 4-day work week | Juliet Schor 2) Can the economy grow forever? | TED-Ed 3) How to lead in the new era of employee activism | Megan Reitz 4) Stuck in the gig economy? Try platform co-ops instead | Trebor Scholz 5) Why do airlines sell too many tickets? - Nina Klietsch

2026-06-07 10:46:46 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 11:46:00 +0000 UTC(59m)

The Poetry Corner EP06

1) Poems of war, peace, women, power | Suheir Hammad 2) A lyrical bridge between past, present and future | David Whyte 3) Metaphorically speaking | James Geary 4) Why should you read Dante's "Divine Comedy"? | Sheila Marie Orfano 5) Can a computer write poetry? | Oscar Schwartz

2026-06-07 09:47:38 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 10:46:46 +0000 UTC(59m)

The Poetry Corner EP05

1) Miles from Any Shoreline | Sarah Kay 2) Insults by Shakespeare - April Gudenrath 3) Suddenly, my body | Eve Ensler 4) The power of unconventional thinking | David McWilliams 5) A meditation on Rumi and the power of poetry | Leili Anvar

2026-06-07 08:50:44 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 09:47:38 +0000 UTC(56m)

The Good Life EP07

1) The cost of work stress -- and how to reduce it | Rob Cooke 2) Prepare for a good end of life | Judy MacDonald Johnston 3) What fear can teach us | Karen Thompson Walker 4) Older people are happier | Laura Carstensen 5) Ethical dilemma: What makes life worth living? 6) Remember to say thank you | Laura Trice 7) 8 secrets of success | Richard St. John

2026-06-07 07:50:05 +0000 UTC→2026-06-07 08:50:44 +0000 UTC(1h)

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