Best Curated Exposure Podcasts (2025)

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📈 The Poetry of Computational Power: What Scaling AI Teaches Us About Human Collaboration 32:30

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Send us a text Please see the corresponding Substack episode How the engineering principles behind massive AI systems reveal timeless truths about cooperation, specialization, and the delicate art of working together There's something almost mystical about watching a thousand chips work in perfect harmony. Each one a specialized genius, none capabl…

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The New "Big Five": An Expanded Peronality Model 20:04

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Perhaps the most interesting revelation is that there's no statistical support for a single, overarching "general factor of personality"—no master trait that ties everything together. Instead, what emerged is a complex three-tiered hierarchy: 28 specific facets at the base, six broader traits in the middl…

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🤔 What SARS-CoV-2 Teaches Us About Human Certainty 16:47

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Send us a text See corresponding substack episode How a microscopic invader exposed our dangerous addiction to simple stories We love our neat packages. Lock and key. Good and evil. Us and them. Simple cause, simple effect. It's how we make sense of a world that often refuses to cooperate with our need for clarity. But what happens when reality ins…

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Musical Training: A Fountain of Youth 18:28

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack In today's episode we discuss a research article investigating the impact of long-term musical training on age-related changes in brain activity, specifically during speech-in-noise perception. The study compares older musicians, older non-musicians, and young non-musicians using functional magnetic reson…

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The Future of Jobs 2025 WEF 20:10

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Send us a text See our corresponding substack. Your job might not exist in 5 years. But here's what will: your ability to adapt, create, and stay human. New episode explores the real future of work. 💼✨ More than half the workforce needs retraining or upskilling. Essentially, yes. The good news is that employers seem to recognize this. 85% say they …

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Metastability: The Role of Laughter 22:18

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Send us a text Read (or listen to) the accompanying article on Substack In today's episode we explore the multifaceted nature of laughter, examining its philosophical underpinnings and neuroscientific mechanisms. It discusses classical theories of humor, such as superiority, relief, and incongruity, and how they relate to both voluntary and involun…

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🍎 When Earbuds become babble fish: Privacy Becomes the Product. 21:47

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Send us a text Read the corresponding Substack episode How Apple's latest announcements reveal a different path forward—one where surveillance capitalism isn't inevitable We're living through a moment that Douglas Adams predicted decades ago in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Remember the Babel fish? That small, yellow creature you stick in y…

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Beauty Products: Forever Chemicals and "Clean Cosmetics" 13:07

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack First, understand that risk is not binary. The dose makes the poison, but we don't know what the safe dose is for most of these chemicals, especially in combination, especially over decades of use. Second, recognize that "clean" is a marketing term, not a scientific one. Read ingredient lists. Understand …

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🔀 How Metaphors Construct the World We Think We Know 21:44

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Send us a text See the corresponding Substack for more. We're living inside a linguistic conspiracy so elegant that we can't see it. Every time you say "time is running out" or describe someone as "looking up to" another person, you're not just using colourful language—you're revealing the secret architecture of human consciousness itself. This isn…

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The Algorithm of Heartbreak: How Social Pain Turns Into Social Intelligence 13:37

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Our brains are actually running two distinct but interconnected learning systems when processing social interactions: Algorithm One: The Social Reward Tracker This system, centered in the brain's reward regions like the ventral striatum, focuses on the immediate question: "Am I in or out?" It's tracking w…

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🕸️ Why AI's Next Breakthrough Isn't About More Data: Multifidelity Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks: 23:35

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Send us a text Please see the corresponding Substack episode 🧠 Just discovered AI that learns from "imperfect" data—like us humans do. Turns out the future isn't about perfect info, but smart partnerships. 🤖✨ The future of scientific AI isn't about feeding machines more perfect information. It's about teaching them to be better partners in the mess…

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The Invisible Architecture of our Reality: Semiotics 22:29

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Send us a text Read article on Substack Your outfit today? It's not fashion. It's a complex semiotic system broadcasting your values, tribal affiliations, economic status, and worldview to everyone you encounter. The researchers examining fashion as "a form of life" aren't being pretentious – they're recognizing that clothing functions as a dynamic…

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🌫️ Global Air Quality, Wildfires, and Health: 2025 Update 18:38

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Send us a text see related Substack episode Every person reading this is participating in the same atmospheric experiment. The air you breathe in New York contains particles from wildfires in Canada, dust from the Sahara, and emissions from factories in China. We're all connected by the same thin layer of atmosphere that surrounds our planet. The p…

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Our Internal Immune Radar: How we Detect Sickness 16:30

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack The most startling finding involved innate lymphoid cells (ILCs)—rapid-response immune sentinels that act like your body's first responders. When participants viewed infectious avatars, these cells showed activation patterns nearly identical to those triggered by actual flu vaccination. Some ILC subtypes …

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🧠 Human Cognitive Diversity: Understanding, Representation, and Explanation 22:35

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Send us a text See related Substack episode. A deep dive into the science that's shattering our assumptions about human minds We stand at a crossroads. We can continue pretending that normal exists, pathologizing difference and forcing square pegs into round holes. Or we can embrace what the science is telling us: human cognitive diversity isn't a …

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USA's Global Games: Lifting the Fog on The Tarriff Strategy 15:39

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Every time you buy groceries, electronics, clothing, or medicine, you're feeling the impact of these decisions. When your company loses export markets due to retaliation, when innovation slows because resources flow to protected industries instead of competitive ones, when our international partnerships c…

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🧬 Mitochondrial Health for Reversing Aging and Disease 16:29

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Send us a text See corresponding Substack episode. At 35, I thought aging was inevitable. Then I learned about the tiny powerhouses in our cells waging war against time itself. 🧬✨ #longevity" We're standing at the edge of what could be a genuine revolution in human health. Not through some magical breakthrough drug or exotic therapy, but through un…

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Why Feeling Good Doesn't Always Pay Good: Emotional Intelligence 15:10

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Send us a text Read article on Substack Can't get promoted? Work on your emotional intelligence. Still underpaid? Maybe you need more EI training. This narrative conveniently ignores the structural factors that actually drive salary differences and instead suggests that workers should invest in developing skills that make them better employees with…

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🌐 Adaptive Mutualism: A New Economic Model 37:22

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Send us a text Please review the corresponding Substack episode. What happens when artificial intelligence looks at our broken economic systems and says, "I can do better than this"? We're living through the economic equivalent of a slow-motion car crash, and most of us are too busy arguing about the radio station to notice we're heading straight f…

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An Ancient Brain in a Modern World: Addiction Isn't About Willpower 15:15

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Here's where our modern predicament becomes clear: we've engineered a world flooded with what scientists call "super stimuli." These aren't the natural rewards our ancestors encountered. They're concentrated, intensified, and deliberately designed to hijack our ancient wiring. Anna Lembke, author of "Dopa…

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The Sacrifice of Mungo McDonald 33:45

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Send us a text See the corresponding Substack episode. The story of Pope Mungo reveals what happens when our comfortable moral categories collapse under the weight of real evil I've been thinking about a question that keeps me awake at night: What happens when love demands something so radical that it becomes unrecognizable as love at all? This isn…

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Noise Sensitivity - Why Your Brain Won't Stop Listening 21:56

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Send us a text Read article on Substack Noise sensitivity was often treated as a "waste paper basket" diagnosis – something to brush off when doctors couldn't find anything "real" wrong with you. Meanwhile, patients developed elaborate coping mechanisms: sleeping with multiple earplugs, avoiding restaurants, choosing apartments based on wall thickn…

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💸 The Hidden Cost of Private Equity 31:25

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Send us a text Please see the corresponding Substack episode. You probably don't know who owns your local hospital. You might not realize that the newspaper you grew up reading is now controlled by a firm that views journalism as a spreadsheet optimization problem. And when your rent suddenly jumps 30% or your neighborhood grocery store closes with…

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The Topology of Taste 18:18

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Research shows that more flavorful foods trigger larger consumption. If your brain constructs more intense flavor experiences, you eat more. Food companies understand this better than most consumers do. They're not just adding sugar and salt randomly—they're engineering specific combinations of taste, sme…

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🧠 Welcome to the curved space of everything 16:12

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Send us a text Please see our corresponding Substack episode. 🧠💥 Just discovered how your brain might be hiding explosive secrets in curved spaces. New research reveals why AI suddenly "gets it" - and it's not what you think. The math that's reshaping memory itself. #NeuralNetworks #AI #BrainScience Interactions in Curved Statistical Manifolds Sour…

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Highest UN Court's Ruling on Climate Change 20:37

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Send us a text Read article on Substack The opinion transforms what was once treated as a moral imperative into a legal obligation. Countries can no longer hide behind the fig leaf of "we're doing our best" when their best demonstrably isn't good enough. The court made it clear that nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreeme…

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AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery 17:39

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Send us a text Please see our corresponding Substack episode We're living through what might be the last era where humans are the limiting factor in AI development. That's not hyperbole—it's the stark conclusion emerging from breakthrough research that should terrify and exhilarate us in equal measure. The future of AI research may no longer be abo…

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Renewables: The Unstoppable Economics of Our Clean Energy Future 23:13

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Send us a text Read article on Substack What makes the renewable transition even more compelling is that we're finally accounting for the true costs of our fossil fuel dependence. The health impacts alone are staggering. In 2024, renewables helped the U.S. avoid an estimated $21.5 billion in health damages from air pollution, on top of $24 billion …

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The Afterlife Industrial Complex: What David Eagleman's Tales Tell Us About Our Desperate Need for Meaning 19:59

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Send us a text see related Substack episode We're living through the death of certainty, and it's making us absolutely feral for answers about what comes next. I spent an hour this week diving into David Eagleman's Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, and honestly? It left me more unsettled than any horror movie could. Not because these afterlife …

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Today's Tribal Societies: Our True Nature's Last Mirror 16:21

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack These aren't primitive people. They're specialists in being human. And here's what really messes with our modern assumptions: they achieved something we're constantly told is impossible. They created societies without bosses, without cops, without prisons, without wealth inequality—and they worked for mil…

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The Book of Rights: A Manifesto for Individual Freedom 21:11

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Send us a text See related Substack Episode "I spent years apologizing for who I was until I realized I'd forgotten who that even was. Today's dive into reclaiming your basic human rights 🎧✨" How we learned to distrust our own inner wisdom—and why reclaiming it might be the most radical act of our time There's a particular kind of violence that hap…

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The God Particle: Quantum Consciousness 22:12

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Send us a text Read article on Substack During deep meditative states, these practitioners showed dramatic increases in gamma wave activity—specifically in the 38-42 Hz range—with statistical significance that would make any researcher sit up and take notice (p < 0.0001). But here's where it gets really interesting: their brains showed remarkable g…

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Nailfold Capillaroscopy: Unveiling Fibrinoid Microclots and Microcirculation Dynamics 17:29

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Send us a text see corresponding Substack 🔬 What if the key to chronic illness has been hiding under our fingernails all along? Ancient wisdom meets AI in this mind-bending medical mystery. 🧬✨ While researchers were discovering these microclots with expensive lab equipment, a diagnostic technique from 1600s was quietly waiting in the wings. Nailfol…

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Centaur AI: Becoming Human 17:11

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack The future is arriving faster than we can process its implications. Centaur isn't just a research breakthrough—it's a preview of coming attractions. And we're all the starring act in this particular show, whether we signed up for it or not. The question isn't whether AI will learn to predict human behavio…

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🔬 Flow Cytometric Detection of Fibrin(ogen) Amyloid Microclots 15:05

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Send us a text see corrisonding Substack episode A breakthrough in detection methods might finally give us the diagnostic tool we've been desperately seeking For years, Long COVID patients have been fighting an invisible war. Not just against their symptoms, but against a medical system that couldn't quite put its finger on what was wrong. "It's al…

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Heliox: Evidence, Empathy, and the Human Tapestry: Season 4 Review 21:52

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Send us a text see the corresponding Substack episode The information age promised that more knowledge would make us smarter. Instead, it's made us anxious, overwhelmed, and paradoxically less informed about what matters. I've been thinking about this problem a lot lately, especially after diving deep into the architecture of a podcast called Helio…

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Early Bird versus Night Owl: Optimizing Your Chronobiology 17:37

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Send us a text Read article on Substack This isn't just about individual suffering—it's about what we're losing as a society. When you force creative, productive night owls to perform during their biological off-hours, you're not getting their best work. You're not accessing their full cognitive potential. You're creating a world where a significan…

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Relationship Fatigue: Why Women Opt Out of Dating 14:46

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Send us a text Read article on Substack "It felt like I was constantly pulling teeth just to get him to talk about his day, let alone his feelings." Meanwhile, she was expected to be his emotional GPS, life coach, and sexual servant—all while maintaining her own career, friendships, and mental health. This isn't an isolated story. It's a pattern so…

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🧬 AlphaGenome: Predicting Variant Effects on Gene Regulation 16:47

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Send us a text see the accompanying substack episode We've been reading our genetic code wrong this whole time. For decades, scientists focused on the 2% of our DNA that codes for proteins—the obvious stuff, the genes that make the building blocks of life. We treated the other 98% like genetic junk mail, regulatory noise that didn't really matter. …

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The Myth of Canine Hierarchy - What Science Tells Us About Dog Intelligence 19:52

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Yes, they found breed differences. But not where you'd expect them, and not in the ways our cultural narratives would predict. Border Collies, those supposed canine Einsteins, excelled at impulse control—which makes sense if you think about it. Herding requires incredible restraint, the ability to resist …

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💨 COVID for Docs ( duty of care ): Science, Spread, and Long-Term Harm 33:26

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Send us a text see epsisode substack There’s a story we should have memorized by now. Today, we call this resistance to new knowledge the “Semmelweis reflex.” A refusal to accept evidence because it feels wrong. Inconvenient. Uncomfortable. In 2020, a new virus entered the room. For a brief moment, we acknowledged its danger. We locked down. We lis…

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Our Planet: A Startup With No Business Plan 25:49

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack The summary is stark: we are already operating outside acceptable risk parameters, with catastrophic impacts likely before 2050. Climate: severe impacts already occurring, with highly likely catastrophic warming pre-2050. Nature: trending toward severe degradation with catastrophic risks by 2050. Society:…

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⚡ How MiniMax M1 Just Rewrote the Rules of AI 19:01

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Send us a text See the corresponding Substack episode Sometimes the most profound changes happen not with fanfare, but with a whisper that echoes through eternity. We're living through one of those whisper moments right now, and most people don't even know it happened. While the tech world obsesses over the latest chatbot drama and which billionair…

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The Conscience Crisis: Understanding Moral Injury 20:14

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack What happens when the deepest wound isn't from what you witnessed, but from what you were forced to do? Or couldn't prevent? What happens when the injury isn't to your sense of safety, but to your sense of self? That's moral injury. It's what happens when someone violates their own deeply held values, wit…

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The Longevity Mirage: A reality check on the promise and peril of our anti-aging obsession 24:36

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Send us a text Go deeper with this episode substack. We're living through the most seductive health mirage in human history. Every week brings breathless headlines about miracle longevity drugs, AI-powered personalized medicine, and genetic therapies that promise to turn back the biological clock. The wealthy are already lining up for $1,350-a-mont…

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Our Oceans: The Fight for The Last Frontier 17:41

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Picture this: a wilderness so vast it covers nearly half the planet's surface, teeming with life that literally keeps our climate stable, yet completely lawless. No rules, no protection, no oversight. Just a free-for-all where the biggest players strip-mine the ecosystem while taxpayers foot the bill. Wel…

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👀 The Naked Truth About Academic Integrity 15:29

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Send us a text See the corresponding substack for this episode How a fictional French exam reveals the uncomfortable realities of modern education There's something deeply unsettling about the story that crossed my feed this week. Not because it's shocking in the way we've come to expect from our endless scroll of outrage content, but because it as…

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The Sleep Industrial Complex Is Failing Us 22:57

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Send us a text Let's start with something that should terrify every parent, teacher, and anyone who gives a damn about social cohesion: sleep loss creates what researchers call "loneliness contagion." When you interact with someone who hasn't slept enough, you walk away feeling lonelier yourself. Think about that for a moment. In a society where we…

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🧠 The Invisible Scars: What COVID is Really Doing to Our Brains 19:01

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Send us a text Want to know more? See our corrisponding Substack episode. We're living through the largest uncontrolled experiment on human cognition in history, and most people don't even know they're subjects. While the world moved on from pandemic panic to whatever fresh hell dominates this week's news cycle, researchers have been quietly docume…

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Solastalgia: Climate Change is Breaking Our Hearts 27:56

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Send us a text Read article on Substack Climate change attacks our mental health on multiple fronts simultaneously. There's the acute trauma of disasters—the immediate psychological injury of losing your home to fire or flood. There's the subacute response—the eco-anxiety that comes from witnessing devastation, even from afar, and understanding wha…