Name: Your Body, Explained EP61
Released: 2026-01-14
Duration: 3839

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Your Body, Explained EP61

1) Can you transplant a head to another body? | Max G. Levy 2) What's the best way to treat the common cold? | TED-Ed 3) What does appendix pain feel like? | David R. Flum 4) What staying up all night does to your brain | Anna Rothschild 5) Why is Alzheimer's disease so difficult to treat? | Krishna Sudhir 6) Why your body fights weight loss | Katherine Saunders 7) How to manage your stress more effectively | Shannon Odell 8) What actually causes high cholesterol? | Hei Man Chan

2026-01-14 00:29:54 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 01:33:53 +0000 UTC(1h3m)

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The Creative Zone EP62

1) Star Wars changed visual effects — AI is doing it again | Rob Bredow 2) How can creativity help us heal? A doctor and a cartoonist answer | Amy Baxter and Navied Mahdavian 3) Forget hustle culture. Behold the Artist Corporation | Yancey Strickler

2026-01-14 03:35:14 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 04:31:03 +0000 UTC(55m)

The Creative Zone EP61

1) How I imitate nature's voices | Snow Raven 2) The secret to telling a great story — in less than 60 seconds | Jenny Hoyos 3) How my (slightly annoying) art went viral | Joshua Schachter 4) The fine art of fibbing | Athena Kugblenu 5) What if you could give a TED Talk? An inside look at “My Big Idea,” an original series from TED | TED 6) The tale of the Monkey King and the Buddha | Ji Hao 7) The myth of Medusa | Laura Aitken-Burt

2026-01-14 02:34:42 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 03:35:14 +0000 UTC(1h)

Your Body, Explained EP17

1) How play helps a kid's brain grow | Jesse Ilhardt 2) Why is it so dangerous to step on a rusty nail? | Louise Thwaites 3) A better way to talk about abortion | Aspen Baker 4) Why autism is often missed in women and girls | Kate Kahle 5) The medical potential of AI and metabolites | Leila Pirhaji 6) How do doctors determine what stage of cancer you have? | Hyunsoo Joshua No and Trudy Wu

2026-01-14 01:33:53 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 02:34:42 +0000 UTC(1h)

Your Body, Explained EP61

2026-01-14 00:29:54 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 01:33:53 +0000 UTC(1h3m)

Overlooked History EP61

1) The tragedy of the one guy who was right about the Trojan Horse | Noah Charney 2) Why did people wear powdered wigs? | Stephanie Honchell Smith 3) Ugly History: The Armenian Genocide | Ümit Kurt 4) The woman who broke the Great Wall of China | Juwen Zhang 5) The tragic romance of Tristan and Isolde | Iseult Gillespie 6) The dark history of arsenic | Neil Bradbury 7) The history of the world according to rats | Max G. Levy 8) A day in the life of a martial artist in medieval China | Peter Lorge 9) One of the most controversial medical procedures in history | Jenell Johnson

2026-01-13 23:24:29 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 00:29:54 +0000 UTC(1h5m)

Overlooked History EP07

1) The Nazis recruited to win the Cold War | Brian Crim 2) Four sisters in Ancient Rome - Ray Laurence 3) From enslaved to kingmaker: Malik Ambar's legendary rise to power | Stephanie Honchell Smith 4) How could so many people support Hitler? | Joseph Lacey 5) History vs. Augustus - Alex Gendler and Peta Greenfield 6) What happened when these 6 dictators took over | Stephanie Honchell Smith 7) Einstein's miracle year - Larry Lagerstrom 8) From slave to rebel gladiator: The life of Spartacus - Fiona Radford 9) History vs. Tamerlane the Conqueror | Stephanie Honchell Smith

2026-01-13 22:17:32 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 23:24:29 +0000 UTC(1h6m)

How The Brain Works EP10

1) A powerful new neurotech tool for augmenting your mind | Conor Russomanno 2) How does alcohol cause hangovers? | Judy Grisel 3) What it's really like to have autism | Ethan Lisi 4) How do we smell? - Rose Eveleth 5) What's the connection between sleep and Alzheimer's disease? | Matt Walker 6) How testosterone and culture shape behavior | Carole K. Hooven

2026-01-13 21:16:25 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 22:17:32 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

Ocean Wonders EP06

1) A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it's not what you think) | Hamish Jolly 2) The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico | Nancy Rabalais 3) Human sperm vs. the sperm whale - Aatish Bhatia 4) Why the octopus brain is so extraordinary - Cláudio L. Guerra 5) How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution | Alasdair Harris 6) Why you should care about whale poo | Asha de Vos

2026-01-13 15:18:56 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 16:18:38 +0000 UTC(59m)

Ocean Wonders EP05

1) The secrets I find on the mysterious ocean floor | Laura Robinson 2) The fish that walk on land | Noah R. Bressman 3) Can seaweed help curb global warming? | Tim Flannery 4) Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures | David Gruber 5) Can the ocean run out of oxygen? | Kate Slabosky

2026-01-13 14:20:38 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 15:18:56 +0000 UTC(58m)

Under the Microscope EP10

1) How COVID-19 transformed the future of medicine | Daniel Kraft 2) How does ultrasound work? | Jacques S. Abramowicz 3) How we're using DNA tech to help farmers fight crop diseases | Laura Boykin 4) The incredible cancer-detecting potential of photoacoustic imaging | Lei Li 5) How stem cells orchestrate healing — and how to speed it up | Kevin Stone 6) A new type of medicine, custom-made with tiny proteins | Christopher Bahl 7) The uncertain location of electrons - George Zaidan and Charles Morton

2026-01-13 13:20:16 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 14:20:38 +0000 UTC(1h)

Under the Microscope EP09

1) Are life-saving medicines hiding in the world's coldest places? | Normand Voyer 2) A life-saving device that detects silent heart attacks | Akash Manoj 3) What are stem cells? - Craig A. Kohn 4) How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop it | Rob Reid 5) 5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins | David Baker

2026-01-13 12:23:39 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 13:20:16 +0000 UTC(56m)

Get Smart(er) EP04

1) Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong | Julia Galef 2) How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas | Manoush Zomorodi 3) Who decides what's in the dictionary? | Ilan Stavans 4) Where do your online returns go? | Aparna Mehta 5) The secret weapon that let dinosaurs take over the planet | Emma Schachner 6) Why is yawning contagious? - Claudia Aguirre

2026-01-13 11:19:08 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 12:23:39 +0000 UTC(1h4m)

Get Smart(er) EP03

1) Aliens built the pyramids and other absurdities of pseudo-archaeology | Sarah Kurnick 2) How architecture helped music evolve | David Byrne 3) Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world | Roger Antonsen 4) The mathematical secrets of Pascal's triangle | Wajdi Mohamed Ratemi 5) Why should you listen to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"? - Betsy Schwarm

2026-01-13 10:17:55 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 11:19:08 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

Did You Know ... ? EP62

1) Have we reached the limit of computer power? | Sajan Saini and George Zaidan 2) Why don't we get our drinking water from the ocean? | Manish Kumar 3) What would happen if the Amazon Rainforest disappeared? | Anna Rothschild 4) How are microchips made? | George Zaidan and Sajan Saini 5) Why are there two tides a day? | Elise Cutts 6) Rocks could save the world (Yes, rocks) | Elise Cutts 7) One of the animal kingdom's strangest relationships | Niko Zlotnik 8) What Earth in 2125 could look like | Iseult Gillespie 9) How much would it cost to buy the Sun? | Cella Wright 10) How reliable is fingerprint evidence? | Theodore E. Yeshion

2026-01-13 09:09:44 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 10:17:55 +0000 UTC(1h8m)

Best of the Best EP15

1) How doctors can help low-income patients (and still make a profit) | P.J. Parmar 2) How does caffeine keep us awake? - Hanan Qasim 3) Why I protest for climate justice | Jane Fonda 4) Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler 5) Inside the mind of a former radical jihadist | Manwar Ali

2026-01-13 04:06:52 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 05:05:43 +0000 UTC(58m)

The Business Angle EP64

1) The hidden cost of the green transition's mineral rush | Galina Angarova 2) The big idea funding forest conservation | Andika Putraditama 3) What is true confidence? A photographer and a brand builder answer | David Suh and Molly Graham

2026-01-13 03:12:34 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 04:06:52 +0000 UTC(54m)

The Business Angle EP63

1) Solar energy is even cheaper than you think | Jenny Chase 2) The rise of China's homegrown brands — and why they matter | Roger Hu 3) Why joy and flexibility are good for business | Rosie Sargeant 4) How to handle grief at work and beyond | Meredith Wilson Parfet 5) How to finance the future of farming | Berry Marttin 6) How industrial fishing sinks communities | Lamin Jassey

2026-01-13 02:11:52 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 03:12:34 +0000 UTC(1h)

The Art of Being Human EP08

1) My mission to change the narrative of mental health | Glenn Close 2) A reframing of masculinity, rooted in empathy | Gary Barker 3) The science of laughter | Sasha Winkler 4) How to turn moments into momentum | Renee Montgomery 5) Confessions of a bad feminist | Roxane Gay 6) The princess who rewrote history | Leonora Neville

2026-01-13 01:10:48 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 02:11:52 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

The Art of Being Human EP07

1) How film captures the space between hope and despair | Mounia Akl 2) The power of women's anger | Soraya Chemaly 3) The genius of Marie Curie - Shohini Ghose 4) The beautiful, hard work of co-parenting | Joel Leon 5) The life-changing power of assistive technologies | Jane Velkovski

2026-01-13 00:11:50 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 01:10:48 +0000 UTC(58m)

Afternoon Snack EP12

1) What are the most important moral problems of our time? | Will MacAskill 2) Why doctors are offering free tax prep in their waiting rooms | Lucy Marcil 3) The most lightning-struck place on Earth - Graeme Anderson 4) You may be accidentally investing in cigarette companies | Bronwyn King 5) 3 ways to be a more effective fundraiser | Kara Logan Berlin

2026-01-12 23:15:24 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 00:11:50 +0000 UTC(56m)

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