What Was the Biggest Dinosaur? Fragmentary Fossils Make It Hard to Tell
Why are the biggest dinosaurs the hardest ones to find in one piece?
0:00 / 11:04 · Narrator Gacrux
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2026-10-04
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Instinct and Reason
If a physical gag reflex can act as a moral compass, and the brain evolved by wiring automatic survival instincts directly to conscious thought, where exactly does the body end and the mind begin?
Scientists Say the Human Brain Might Be Made of Two Distinct Nervous Systems That Got Squished Together × When You Feel Moral Disgust, What’s the Emotion Telling You?
0:00 / 20:12 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
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Sons and Mothers
by George Packer
How do you find your own words when your mother is reading over your shoulder?
0:00 / 1:04:38 · Narrator Charon
‘Golden Kamuy’ and Modern Russo-Japanese Relations
by Marin Ekstrom and Wilder Alejandro Sánchez
Can a comic book about hidden gold change how Japan remembers the people it nearly erased?
0:00 / 9:38 · Narrator Algieba
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The Hardest Thing to Say: on Neurodivergence and Work
by Taylor Harris
How do you stop apologizing for a brain that refuses to work a full-time job?
0:00 / 11:31 · Narrator Sulafat