Episodes
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DarkHorse Podcast: The Evolutionary Lens
Steinem’s legacy tests feminism against biology and merit
The episode asks whether feminism can pursue reproductive autonomy and equal opportunity without abandoning biological reality or consistent standards.
Sep 4, 2026 · 1h 42m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
John Miles examines why success can still feel insignificant
The episode frames disconnection and helplessness as problems of meaning and agency, while asking whether change must begin within a person or in their environment.
Sep 4, 2026 · 24 min
Radiolab
A 60-word law powers America’s endless war
The episode shows how a narrowly written post-9/11 authorization became a durable legal basis for detention, drone strikes, and undeclared wars.
Sep 4, 2026 · 1h 7m
The Thyroid (and Hormone) Fixer Podcast: Thyropause, Menopause, Metabolism and How to Fix It
Thyroid nodules can hide behind normal bloodwork
Structural thyroid changes may require imaging and risk assessment even when standard thyroid tests appear normal.
Sep 4, 2026 · 30 min
Science Vs
Protein restriction promises longevity, but human evidence falls short
The stakes are practical: chasing longevity through extreme protein restriction could undermine muscle and independence, especially in older adults.
Sep 3, 2026 · 33 min
Science Friday
Personalized vaccines target melanoma’s return
The approach could make cancer vaccination more precise, but its benefits, risks, cost, and availability remain unsettled.
Sep 3, 2026 · 12 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jared Diamond argues leaders matter when circumstances meet ability
The episode tests whether history turns on indispensable individuals or on opportunities that many capable successors could have seized.
Sep 3, 2026 · 1h 14m
Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD
Mold treatment starts with the building, not the supplement cabinet
The conversation separates plausible environmental concerns from overconfident testing and treatment, stressing source removal, individualized susceptibility, and medically supervised care.
Sep 3, 2026 · 54 min
Something You Should Know
Swearing can ease pain while confidence grows through practice
The episode connects taboo language, emotional regulation, and confidence-building to everyday ways people handle pain, power, and self-doubt.
Sep 3, 2026 · 54 min
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Dermatologist warns hidden melanomas evade visual checks
Early skin cancer can produce no symptoms and look ordinary, making thorough examinations and dermoscopy central to detection.
Sep 3, 2026 · 1h 3m
Huberman Lab Essentials
Sleep architecture dictates how the brain cleans itself and processes trauma
Understanding the distinct phases of sleep reveals how targeted rest protects cognitive longevity, emotional resilience, and daily learning capacity.
Sep 3, 2026 · 34 min
10% Happier with Dan Harris
Angela Duckworth argues circumstances shape success
The conversation challenges the idea that effort alone determines outcomes, showing how environments, relationships, privilege, and crisis can redirect behavior.
Sep 2, 2026 · 1h 5m
Short Wave
Emotional skills can reshape decisions, relationships and health
The episode frames emotional regulation as a learnable skill with consequences for judgment, relationships, coping and long-term health.
Sep 2, 2026 · 13 min
Ologies with Alie Ward — Discard Anthropology (GARBAGE)
Deep-sea microbes reveal life’s hidden possibilities
The deep ocean may contain unfamiliar ecosystems, useful chemistry, and clues to life beyond Earth, yet pollution and mining threaten what science barely understands.
Sep 2, 2026 · 1h 24m
Unexplainable
Scientists urge a moratorium on mirror-life research
Mirror organisms could evade biological defenses and spread through ecosystems, forcing researchers to decide how to govern a technology before it becomes irreversible.
Sep 2, 2026 · 38 min
Science Friday
Fungi challenge the meaning of age and individuality
Fungi blur the boundaries between organism, network, and individual, complicating basic questions about lifespan, growth, and identity.
Sep 2, 2026 · 10 min
The Dr. Hyman Show
Microbiome science moves beyond probiotics and single-microbe fixes
The conversation reframes gut health as a whole-body system shaped by diet, stress, environment, aging, and social connection.
Sep 2, 2026 · 1h 4m
DarkHorse Podcast: The Evolutionary Lens
Grief leads to a defense of rooted, responsible lives
By pairing a dog’s death with Wendell Berry’s agrarian thought, the episode asks how ritual, place, and responsibility resist a culture obsessed with progress.
Sep 2, 2026 · 1h 18m
The Rest Is Science
A human egg cell anchors the universe’s vastest scale
The episode turns an abstract journey from the Planck length to the observable cosmos into a meditation on scale, uncertainty, and scientific curiosity.
Sep 2, 2026 · 50 min
Science of Perception Box
Anil Seth reframes perception as the brain’s useful fiction
The episode connects consciousness, selfhood, social beliefs, and artificial intelligence through one unsettling question: how much of reality is constructed?
Sep 2, 2026 · 44 min
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay Shetty reframes rejection as a path to new possibilities
The episode examines how to make thoughtful decisions and preserve self-respect when careers, relationships, and expectations repeatedly fall apart.
Sep 2, 2026 · 35 min
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Wife School frames marriage as daily mutual responsibility
The conversation tests traditional Christian marriage roles against the practical demands of intimacy, conflict, work, parenting, betrayal, and spiritual leadership.
Sep 1, 2026 · 1h 40m
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Exoplanets challenge what makes a world habitable
The episode tests how scientists can distinguish real evidence of life from misleading signals across an unexpectedly diverse planetary population.
Sep 1, 2026 · 54 min
Short Wave
Seashells reveal oceans under pressure
Shells connect human history and commerce to a measurable warning about how carbon dioxide is changing marine life.
Sep 1, 2026 · 13 min