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The Future Ahead EP64

The Future Ahead EP64

1) Ethical dilemma: Should knowledge be free? | Michael Vazquez and Will Kanwischer 2) How digital culture is reshaping our faces and bodies | Elise Hu 3) AI won't plateau — if we give it time to think | Noam Brown 4) How AI can bridge the Deaf and hearing worlds | Adam Munder 5) Lessons from history for a better future | Roman Krznaric 6) How to see the future coming — and prepare for it | Jane McGonigal

2025-12-21 18:47:18 +0000 UTC2025-12-21 19:47:35 +0000 UTC (1h)
Your Body, Explained EP12

Your Body, Explained EP12

1) The miracle of organ donation — and a breakthrough for the future | Abbas Ardehali 2) The new science of personalized vaccines | Ofer Levy 3) Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler 4) The agony of opioid withdrawal -- and what doctors should tell patients about it | Travis Rieder 5) How did we get fertility so wrong? | Mona Chalabi 6) How I'm using biological data to tell better stories -- and spark social change | Heidi Boisvert

2025-12-21 07:02:53 +0000 UTC2025-12-21 08:01:53 +0000 UTC (59m)
Your Body, Explained EP62

Your Body, Explained EP62

1) Why body language is the key to self-expression — and hot selfies | David Suh 2) Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? | Shannon Odell 3) Yes, tiny mites live on your face — but is that a bad thing? | M. Alejandra Perotti 4) Can you "see" images in your mind? Some people can't | Adam Zeman 5) My Big Idea (Ep. 3): The monthly miracle packed with scientific potential | Karli Büchling 6) How do drugs make you hallucinate? | Anees Bahji

2025-12-21 06:02:20 +0000 UTC2025-12-21 07:02:53 +0000 UTC (1h)
What in the World? EP04

What in the World? EP04

1) How tsunamis work | Alex Gendler 2) Whoever builds something here will be rich beyond measure | Fabio Pacucci 3) How to grow a glacier | M Jackson 4) How light technology is changing medicine | Sajan Saini 5) How do ocean currents work? | Jennifer Verduin 6) What makes volcanoes erupt? | Steven Anderson 7) If superpowers were real: Immortality | Joy Lin 8) The science of symmetry | Colm Kelleher 9) Why is this 2,500 year old shipwreck so well-preserved? | Helen Farr and Jon Adams 10) Dark matter: The matter we can't see | James Gillies 11) The sonic boom problem | Katerina Kaouri

2025-12-21 04:54:35 +0000 UTC2025-12-21 06:02:20 +0000 UTC (1h7m)
What in the World? EP03

What in the World? EP03

1) Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas? | Elizabeth Cox 2) The case of the vanishing honeybees | Emma Bryce 3) How do viruses jump from animals to humans? | Ben Longdon 4) The wild world of carnivorous plants | Kenny Coogan 5) Iceland's superpowered underground volcanoes | Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl 6) The world's largest organism | Alex Rosenthal 7) How fast are you moving right now? | Tucker Hiatt 8) The most colorful gemstones on Earth | Jeff Dekofsky 9) The world's slimiest animal | Noah R. Bressman and Douglas Fudge 10) When is a pandemic over?

2025-12-21 03:48:11 +0000 UTC2025-12-21 04:54:35 +0000 UTC (1h6m)