Name: What in the World? EP06
Released: 2026-01-10
Duration: 3942

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What in the World? EP06

1) Can you freeze your body and come back to life? | Shannon N. Tessier 2) How exactly does binary code work? - José Américo N L F Freitas 3) What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher 4) How big is a mole? (Not the animal, the other one.) - Daniel Dulek 5) What on Earth is spin? - Brian Jones 6) If superpowers were real: Invisibility - Joy Lin 7) Is light a particle or a wave? - Colm Kelleher 8) How folding paper can get you to the moon - Adrian Paenza 9) Is there a center of the universe? - Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens 10) One is one ... or is it? - Christopher Danielson 11) How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries - Adam Savage 12) Free falling in outer space - Matt J. Carlson

2026-01-10 22:53:21 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 23:59:03 +0000 UTC(1h5m)

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How The Brain Works EP02

1) Why do we dream? | Amy Adkins 2) Can we edit memories? | Amy Milton 3) How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it | Sabine Doebel 4) What happens when you remove the hippocampus? - Sam Kean 5) What investigating neural pathways can reveal about mental health | Kay M. Tye 6) What happens in your brain when you pay attention? | Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar

2026-01-11 16:02:30 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 17:07:31 +0000 UTC(1h5m)

How The Brain Works EP01

1) What hallucination reveals about our minds | Oliver Sacks 2) What is consciousness? - Michael S. A. Graziano 3) What we'll learn about the brain in the next century | Sam Rodriques 4) How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia 5) The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it | Dan Gartenberg 6) The mysterious science of pain - Joshua W. Pate

2026-01-11 15:00:20 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 16:02:30 +0000 UTC(1h2m)

The Future Ahead EP62

1) Quantum computers aren't what you think — they're cooler | Hartmut Neven 2) How (and why) Russia hacked the US election | Laura Galante 3) What is an AI anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman 4) How community-led research drives social change | Monica Malta

2026-01-11 14:03:49 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 15:00:20 +0000 UTC(56m)

The Future Ahead EP63

1) A mouse with two dads — and a new frontier for biology | Katsuhiko Hayashi 2) Democracy is being tested. Citizen assemblies can help | Ketakandriana Rafitoson 3) K-pop, cutting-edge tech and other ways Asia is shaping the world | Neeraj Aggarwal 4) The next computer? Your glasses | Shahram Izadi

2026-01-11 13:05:47 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 14:03:49 +0000 UTC(58m)

The Business Angle EP62

1) Is safety worth the loss of privacy? | Sarah Stroud and Michael Vazquez 2) Can salad dressing transform capitalism? | Alex Amouyel 3) How distributed work can unlock your potential | Avani Prabhakar 4) The economic opportunity hidden in the climate transition | Marielle Remillard 5) How much does it cost to fly private? | Rachel Yang 6) The clever trick used by sports betting apps | Shannon Odell

2026-01-11 12:05:07 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 13:05:47 +0000 UTC(1h)

The Business Angle EP61

1) Break the bad news bubble (Part 2) | Angus Hervey 2) Why spending smarter beats bigger budgets | Karthik Muralidharan 3) Forget the corporate ladder — winners take risks | Molly Graham 4) Ask dumb questions, embrace mistakes — and other lessons on innovation | Dave Raggio 5) The art of marketing — for good | Raja Rajamannar

2026-01-11 11:06:27 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 12:05:07 +0000 UTC(58m)

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

2026-01-11 10:07:19 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 11:06:27 +0000 UTC(59m)

Secrets of the Wild EP07

1) The fascinating secret lives of giant clams | Mei Lin Neo 2) Licking bees and pulping trees: The reign of a wasp queen - Kenny Coogan 3) What rivers can tell us about the earth's history | Liz Hajek 4) How a dragonfly's brain is designed to kill | Greg Gage 5) How do dogs "see" with their noses? - Alexandra Horowitz 6) Can alligators survive this apex predator? | Kenny Coogan 7) The real reason why mosquitoes buzz | Greg Gage 8) How octopuses battle each other | Greg Gage 9) The link between fishing cats and mangrove forest conservation | Ashwin Naidu

2026-01-11 03:07:21 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 04:11:15 +0000 UTC(1h3m)

Your Body, Explained EP16

1) Should you be able to patent a human gene? | Tania Simoncelli 2) Why it's so hard to cure HIV/AIDS - Janet Iwasa 3) We can start winning the war against cancer | Adam de la Zerda 4) This scientist makes ears out of apples | Andrew Pelling 5) How you could see inside your body — with a micro-robot | Alex Luebke, Vivek Kumbhari

2026-01-11 02:08:37 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 03:07:21 +0000 UTC(58m)

Your Body, Explained EP15

1) What if all US health care costs were transparent? | Jeanne Pinder 2) Why does hitting your funny bone feel so horrible? | Cella Wright 3) My quest to cure prion disease — before it's too late | Sonia Vallabh 4) What happens in your body during a miscarriage? | Nassim Assefi and Emily M. Godfrey 5) Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA? | David R. Liu

2026-01-11 01:12:11 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 02:08:37 +0000 UTC(56m)

What in the World? EP01

1) Zen kōans: unsolvable enigmas designed to break your brain - Puqun Li 2) What if there were 1 trillion more trees? | Jean-François Bastin 3) Mary's Room: A philosophical thought experiment - Eleanor Nelsen 4) What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared? - Dan Kwartler 5) Are we living in a simulation? | Zohreh Davoudi 6) This one weird trick will help you spot clickbait | Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan 7) Which type of milk is best for you? | Jonathan J. O'Sullivan and Grace E. Cunningham 8) The psychology behind irrational decisions - Sara Garofalo 9) Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions | Nina Medvinskaya 10) How big is the ocean? - Scott Gass 11) How do you know you exist? - James Zucker

2026-01-10 23:59:03 +0000 UTC→2026-01-11 01:12:11 +0000 UTC(1h13m)

What in the World? EP06

2026-01-10 22:53:21 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 23:59:03 +0000 UTC(1h5m)

Larger-Than-Life Art EP03

1) How symbols and brands shape our humanity | Debbie Millman 2) The strange history of the world's most stolen painting | Noah Charney 3) A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings | eL Seed 4) Why books are here to stay | Chip Kidd 5) Why should you read Toni Morrison's "Beloved"? | Yen Pham 6) Portraits that transform people into whatever they want to be | Uldus Bakhtiozina 7) Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish - K. Erica Dodge

2026-01-10 21:54:28 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 22:53:21 +0000 UTC(58m)

Larger-Than-Life Art EP02

1) Street art with a message of hope and peace | eL Seed 2) Mind-blowing stage sculptures that fuse music and technology | Es Devlin 3) The pride and power of representation in film | Jon M. Chu 4) A free world needs satire | Patrick Chappatte

2026-01-10 20:57:41 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 21:54:28 +0000 UTC(56m)

How to Be a Better You EP08

1) A 3-step guide to believing in yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph 2) Is it normal to talk to yourself? | TED-Ed 3) The little risks you can take to increase your luck | Tina Seelig 4) 3 ways to measure your adaptability -- and how to improve it | Natalie Fratto 5) What ping-pong taught me about life | Pico Iyer

2026-01-10 15:56:58 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 16:56:12 +0000 UTC(59m)

How to Be a Better You EP07

1) Why specializing early doesn't always mean career success | David Epstein 2) Why people fall for misinformation | Joseph Isaac 3) 6 tips for better sleep | Matt Walker 4) How to tame your wandering mind | Amishi Jha 5) What kids can teach adults about asking for help | YeYoon Kim

2026-01-10 14:58:01 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 15:56:58 +0000 UTC(58m)

Food for Thought EP09

1) How a team of chefs fed Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria | José Andrés 2) The wheat field that could change the world | Guntur V. Subbarao 3) How we can help hungry kids, one text at a time | Su Kahumbu 4) How biochar removes CO2 from the air -- and helps farmers thrive | Axel Reinaud

2026-01-10 14:00:25 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 14:58:01 +0000 UTC(57m)

Food for Thought EP08

1) One of the world's oldest condiments | Dan Kwartler 2) The unsung heroes fighting malnutrition | Shruthi Baskaran-Makanju 3) A transparent, easy way for smallholder farmers to save | Anushka Ratnayake 4) How humanity got hooked on coffee | Jonathan Morris 5) The "greenhouse-in-a-box" empowering farmers in India | Sathya Raghu Mokkapati 6) The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again | Jon Gray 7) How you can make a fruit fly eat veggies | Greg Gage

2026-01-10 12:54:54 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 14:00:25 +0000 UTC(1h5m)

The Future Ahead EP62

2026-01-10 11:58:24 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 12:54:54 +0000 UTC(56m)

The Future Ahead EP61

1) How to end malaria once and for all | Abdoulaye Diabaté 2) 12 predictions for the future of technology | Vinod Khosla 3) A cleaner world could start in a rice field | Jim Whitaker and Jessica Whitaker Allen 4) How to spot authoritarianism — and choose democracy | Ian Bassin

2026-01-10 11:01:40 +0000 UTC→2026-01-10 11:58:24 +0000 UTC(56m)

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