Episodes
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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Personalized training beats one-size-fits-all programming
The episode argues that sustainable progress depends on matching training stress to a person’s goals, limitations, lifestyle, and recovery capacity.
Oct 8, 2026 · 28 min
From First Principles
How chemistry amplifies one molecular mirror image
The chemistry that can produce purer medicines may also illuminate life’s origins and create unfamiliar biological risks.
Oct 7, 2026 · 1h 21m
The Rest Is Science
Doggerland reveals how a lost world vanished beneath the North Sea
The episode connects submerged landscapes and ancient human traces with the cultural and sensory science behind everyday reactions and ideas.
Oct 7, 2026 · 43 min
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Dara Horn challenges modern categories for Jewish identity
The conversation examines how antisemitism adapts across ideologies and why understanding Jewish civilization requires more than Holocaust remembrance.
Oct 7, 2026 · 1h 40m
That UFO Podcast
Elizondo’s secrecy claims meet Bledsoe’s October prediction
The episode weighs competing UFO narratives against questions of evidence, institutional secrecy, timing, and accountability.
Oct 7, 2026 · 53 min
DarkHorse Podcast: The Evolutionary Lens
Cornell case tests consent, agency and institutional responsibility
The episode examines how conflicting accounts of a sexual encounter collide with civil liability, institutional duties and the limits of safety-based rules, then applies the same risk framework to a possible plague death.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2h 14m
Science Friday
Antarctic ice turns neutrinos into a deep-space telescope
IceCube uses a vast detector beneath the South Pole to study particles that can reveal both cosmic sources and physics beyond accelerator energies.
Oct 7, 2026 · 13 min
The Dr. Hyman Show
Skin health starts with metabolism, hormones, and daily habits
The conversation connects common skin conditions and visible aging to systemic factors while separating foundational care from emerging treatments with limited evidence.
Oct 7, 2026 · 1h 22m
Unexplainable
Repetition turns familiar songs into emotional discoveries
The episode connects music’s physical and emotional force to prediction, attention, memory, and the social experience of listening together.
Oct 7, 2026 · 34 min
Science of Perception Box
Sam Harris challenges the self and free will
The episode connects a constructed sense of self to debates over agency, responsibility, meditation, psychedelics, and personal change.
Oct 7, 2026 · 43 min
10% Happier with Dan Harris
Four Buddhist phrases turn distraction into presence
The conversation shows how brief contemplative reminders can meet anxiety, suffering, and the need for compassionate action without retreating from reality.
Oct 7, 2026 · 1h 2m
Short Wave
Lethal injection can cause suffering before death
The episode challenges lethal injection’s image as humane by examining how drugs, procedures, and untrained administration can produce pain and injury.
Oct 7, 2026 · 15 min
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Healthy love starts where familiar patterns end
The conversation offers a framework for recognizing when attraction reflects old wounds rather than mutual compatibility, consistency, and care.
Oct 7, 2026 · 1h 28m
We're Out of Time
Psychiatry debates where normal distress becomes illness
Diagnostic labels and medication can help when distress causes significant impairment, but may also reshape identity and prolong unnecessary treatment.
Oct 6, 2026 · 39 min
Science Friday
Why breakthrough ideas disappear—and return
The episode examines why valuable ideas can be ignored for years, and how persistence, visualization, timing, and champions bring them back.
Oct 6, 2026 · 16 min
Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD
AI pushes healthcare from reaction toward prevention
The episode examines whether AI can turn scattered health data into earlier, more personalized decisions while confronting unreliable outputs and unequal access.
Oct 6, 2026 · 1h 3m
The Thyroid (and Hormone) Fixer Podcast: Thyropause, Menopause, Metabolism and How to Fix It
Gut problems can hide behind thyroid and midlife symptoms
The episode argues that fatigue, brain fog, hormone changes, and thyroid challenges may require addressing digestion, elimination, and nutrient absorption together.
Oct 6, 2026 · 53 min
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Menopause reshapes gut health beyond constipation
New bowel changes, persistent bloating, bleeding, or anemia can signal conditions that deserve medical evaluation rather than normalization.
Oct 6, 2026 · 1h 37m
Short Wave
Science shifts the screen-time debate from minutes to context
Families get a more useful framework for digital habits by weighing content, circumstances, and what screens replace instead of chasing one universal limit.
Oct 6, 2026 · 13 min
This Podcast Will Kill You
Inherited dementia tests identity, family and hope
The conversation shows how inherited frontotemporal dementia turns genetic uncertainty, caregiving and early detection into deeply personal stakes.
Oct 6, 2026 · 50 min
Something You Should Know
Tyson maps the universe’s biggest unknowns
The episode separates testable knowledge from speculation while confronting how little of the cosmos familiar science can explain.
Oct 6, 2026 · 29 min
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Cosmic ideas meet the limits of observation
The episode shows how evidence, relativity, and statistics separate useful explanations of the universe from seductive but misleading analogies.
Oct 6, 2026 · 1h 0m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Burnout May Begin With a Crisis of Mattering
The episode connects burnout, loneliness, exhaustion, and disconnection to the consequences of feeling invisible or insignificant.
Oct 6, 2026 · 23 min
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Arthur Brooks argues meaning matters more than happiness
The conversation examines why comfort and freedom have not delivered lasting fulfillment, and how love, faith, reflection, and purpose might restore it.
Oct 6, 2026 · 56 min