Episodes
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Ologies with Alie Ward — Discard Anthropology (GARBAGE)
Patrick Dougherty turns saplings into living architecture
The episode shows how renewable materials, communal labor, and site-specific art can reconnect people with nature without separating making from the landscape.
Sep 24, 2026 · 1h 14m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Hard questions turn conversation into courage
The episode argues that questions about meaning, identity, and relationships can create agency and connection, but cannot be meaningfully outsourced to technology.
Sep 24, 2026 · 60 min
Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD
Fiber diversity reshapes the gut’s role in metabolic health
The episode connects everyday fiber choices with microbiome function, glucose regulation, cholesterol, inflammation, and health across life stages.
Sep 24, 2026 · 53 min
Huberman Lab Essentials
Galpin separates strength from muscle growth—and shows where they overlap
The episode turns broad resistance-training goals into programming choices that can support performance, physical function, health, and longevity.
Sep 24, 2026 · 38 min
Something You Should Know
Optimism can be practiced, while cereal’s health halo gets unpacked
The episode connects deliberate emotional habits with a close look at how breakfast marketing shaped beliefs about nutrition and necessity.
Sep 24, 2026 · 53 min
10% Happier with Dan Harris
Amanda Knox turns wrongful imprisonment into a philosophy of repair
Knox examines how to face public vilification and lasting trauma without surrendering agency, excusing harm, or becoming trapped by victimhood.
Sep 23, 2026 · 1h 8m
Short Wave
Measles can erase immune memory before outbreaks spread
The episode explains why rising susceptibility could threaten measles elimination in the United States and why vaccination remains the decisive safeguard.
Sep 23, 2026 · 14 min
Unexplainable
Giant insects expose the limits of the oxygen theory
The mystery of prehistoric insect gigantism reveals how much remains unknown about both ancient ecosystems and today’s insect declines.
Sep 23, 2026 · 30 min
Science Friday
Submerged landscapes rewrite early American history
Underwater sites preserve evidence from vanished Ice Age environments, offering a crucial test of how and when people reached the Americas.
Sep 23, 2026 · 18 min
The Dr. Hyman Show
Why food choices outlast willpower
The episode reframes eating behavior as an interaction between biology, stress, learned patterns, culture, and emotional needs rather than a simple test of discipline.
Sep 23, 2026 · 1h 9m
DarkHorse Podcast: The Evolutionary Lens
Evolutionary trade-offs shape cats, bears, and frogs
Across three very different animals, the episode examines how habitat, competition, reproduction, and information overload shape survival and mate choice.
Sep 23, 2026 · 1h 53m
The Rest Is Science
Fountain pens turn fluid dynamics into a personal ritual
The episode shows how capillary action, air pressure and nib design make an everyday writing tool a compact lesson in engineering and preference.
Sep 23, 2026 · 1h 7m
Science of Perception Box
Chronic stress narrows perception and accelerates aging
The episode connects chronic vigilance to biological wear while showing how recovery, connection, and manageable challenge can rebuild resilience.
Sep 23, 2026 · 46 min
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay Shetty reframes purpose as direction, not destination
The episode addresses how to make meaningful choices when illness, divorce, career change, creativity, education, and family responsibilities unsettle a previously stable life.
Sep 23, 2026 · 29 min
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Mike Rowe argues purpose begins with useful work
The conversation challenges college-first status thinking and links meaningful work, practical competence, and responsibility to personal and civic health.
Sep 22, 2026 · 1h 6m
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
StarTalk turns cosmic science into a chaotic game night
The episode shows how games, visual design, and playful explanations can make difficult ideas in astronomy and physics memorable.
Sep 22, 2026 · 42 min
Short Wave
Memory reconsolidation offers a route to stronger self-worth
Low self-esteem can shape how people experience rejection, illness, love, and success, while memory reconsolidation may help revise the expectations behind those reactions.
Sep 22, 2026 · 13 min
This Podcast Will Kill You
Newborn vitamin K prevents a dangerous return of bleeding
Newborns start with little vitamin K, making a simple, highly effective intervention crucial against potentially catastrophic bleeding.
Sep 22, 2026 · 1h 9m
Science Friday
Warmer oceans raise Hawaiʻi’s hurricane stakes
Hawaiʻi’s reefs, shorelines, and communities face compounding pressure from stronger storm risks, sea-level rise, erosion, drought, and wildfires.
Sep 22, 2026 · 13 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Smart investors still fall for the same human biases
The episode shows why expertise and abundant data cannot replace skepticism about stories, consensus, and the information markets overlook.
Sep 22, 2026 · 1h 4m
Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD
Evidence-based nutrition replaces rigid diet rules
The conversation offers a practical framework for improving nutrition, body composition, and fitness without sacrificing flexibility or enjoyment.
Sep 22, 2026 · 1h 23m
Something You Should Know
Why Bad News Outweighs Good—and How to Use It
Recognizing the negativity effect can improve judgment, relationships, teaching, and responses to alarming news without ignoring genuine problems.
Sep 22, 2026 · 27 min
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Why muscle may matter more than body fat for longevity
The conversation reframes aging health around muscle quality, metabolic function, and protein needs rather than weight alone.
Sep 22, 2026 · 56 min
The Thyroid (and Hormone) Fixer Podcast: Thyropause, Menopause, Metabolism and How to Fix It
Perimenopause reveals the health debt behind stubborn symptoms
The conversation argues that fatigue, weight changes, libido loss, and disrupted cycles may reflect depleted capacity—not a need for ever more restriction or supplements.
Sep 22, 2026 · 45 min