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The Future Ahead EP61

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

2026-02-01 14:14:01 +0000 UTC2026-02-01 15:10:45 +0000 UTC(56m)
Did You Know ... ? EP62

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

2026-02-02 03:40:43 +0000 UTC2026-02-02 04:48:54 +0000 UTC(1h8m)
Did You Know ... ? EP61

Did You Know ... ? EP61

1) Can steroids save your life? | Anees Bahji 2) What really happened to Oedipus? | Stephen Esposito 3) Why is it so dangerous to step on a rusty nail? | Louise Thwaites 4) When will the next mass extinction occur? - Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard 5) Could we build a miniature sun on Earth? | George Zaidan 6) The most dangerous elements on the periodic table | Shannon Odell 7) Why don't companies want you to repair your stuff? | Aaron Perzanowski 8) The real reason polio is so dangerous | Dan Kwartler 9) How do kidney transplants work? | Alexander H. Toledo 10) The world's longest-burning fires | Emma Bryce

2026-02-02 02:32:44 +0000 UTC2026-02-02 03:40:43 +0000 UTC(1h7m)
Riddle Us This EP04

Riddle Us This EP04

1) Can you steal the most powerful wand in the wizarding world? | Dan Finkel 2) Can you solve the killer robo-ants riddle? | Daniel Finkel 3) Can you solve the alien pyramid riddle? | Henri Picciotto 4) Can you solve the rebel supplies riddle? | Alex Gendler 5) Can you solve the counterfeit coin riddle? | Jennifer Lu 6) Can you solve the giant iron riddle? | Alex Gendler 7) Can you outsmart Fate and break her ancient curse? | Dan Finkel 8) Can you solve the human cannonball riddle? | Alex Rosenthal 9) Can you solve the temple riddle? | Dennis Shasha 10) Can you solve the river crossing riddle? | Lisa Winer 11) Can you solve the alien probe riddle? | Daniel Finkel 12) Can you solve the bridge riddle? | Alex Gendler

2026-02-02 01:22:46 +0000 UTC2026-02-02 02:32:44 +0000 UTC(1h9m)
Riddle Us This EP03

Riddle Us This EP03

1) A riddle of ice and fire dragons | Henri Picciotto 2) Can you solve the honeybee riddle? | Dan Finkel 3) Can you solve the riddle and escape Hades? | Dan Finkel 4) Can you solve the logician's rave riddle? | Edwin Meyer 5) Can you solve the Trojan War riddle? | Dennis Shasha 6) Can you solve the control room riddle? - Dennis Shasha 7) Can you survive the creation of the universe by solving this riddle? | James Tanton 8) Can you solve the fortress riddle? | Henri Picciotto 9) Can you solve the rogue AI riddle? - Dan Finkel 10) Everything changed when the fire crystal got stolen - Alex Gendler 11) Can you solve the rogue submarine riddle? Difficulty level: Master | Alex Rosenthal

2026-02-02 00:14:06 +0000 UTC2026-02-02 01:22:46 +0000 UTC(1h8m)
Overlooked History EP61

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

2026-02-01 23:08:40 +0000 UTC2026-02-02 00:14:06 +0000 UTC(1h5m)
Overlooked History EP07

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

2026-02-01 22:01:44 +0000 UTC2026-02-01 23:08:40 +0000 UTC(1h6m)
The Poetry Corner EP02

The Poetry Corner EP02

1) First Kiss | Tim Seibles 2) Chasms | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes 3) The Second Coming | William Butler Yeats 4) A Bird Made of Birds | Sarah Kay 5) Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class by Clint Smith 6) You Have the Rite | Marc Bamuthi Joseph 7) Jabberwocky: One of literature's best bits of nonsense | Lewis Carroll 8) What happens when you die? A poetic inquiry | Emily Dickinson 9) 4 powerful poems about Parkinson's and growing older | Robin Morgan 10) Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa 11) Romance and revolution: the poetry of Pablo Neruda - Ilan Stavans 12) The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

2026-02-01 11:11:17 +0000 UTC2026-02-01 12:19:02 +0000 UTC(1h7m)
Your Body, Explained EP61

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

2026-02-01 03:05:01 +0000 UTC2026-02-01 04:09:00 +0000 UTC(1h3m)
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?

2026-02-01 00:57:47 +0000 UTC2026-02-01 02:04:11 +0000 UTC(1h6m)
What in the World? EP02

What in the World? EP02

1) You could have a secret twin (but not the way you think) | Kayla Mandel Sheets 2) How optical illusions trick your brain - Nathan S. Jacobs 3) Schrödinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics - Chad Orzel 4) Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down? | Laurence Hurst 5) How fast is the speed of thought? | Seena Mathew 6) What if every satellite suddenly disappeared? | Moriba Jah 7) Why do people join cults? - Janja Lalich 8) Earth's mysterious red glow, explained | Zoe Pierrat 9) What is phantom traffic and why is it ruining your life? - Benjamin Seibold 10) 3 bizarre (and delightful) ancient theories about bird migration | Lucy Cooke 11) Would you sacrifice one person to save five? - Eleanor Nelsen

2026-01-31 23:44:11 +0000 UTC2026-02-01 00:57:47 +0000 UTC(1h13m)
Larger-Than-Life Art EP09

Larger-Than-Life Art EP09

1) A video game to cope with grief | Amy Green 2) How hip-hop helps us understand science | Danielle N. Lee 3) Everything you need to know to read "The Canterbury Tales" - Iseult Gillespie 4) The symbols of systemic racism -- and how to take away their power | Paul Rucker 5) Why people of different faiths are painting their houses of worship yellow | Nabila Alibhai 6) The Herds, a vast act of theater to spark climate action | Amir Nizar Zuabi

2026-01-31 22:42:34 +0000 UTC2026-01-31 23:44:11 +0000 UTC(1h1m)