2026-10-23 · For the curious
Traction!
by Jennifer R Vail
0:00 / 27:22 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-10-20 · For the curious
How Intuitions Work
by Marc A Moffett
What gives an unexplained gut feeling the same authority as something you see with your own eyes?
0:00 / 31:29 · Narrator Charon
2026-10-12 · For the curious
Is Everything Conscious?
by Sam Kimpton-Nye
If a collection of atoms cannot create a mind, does that mean the atoms themselves are conscious?
0:00 / 32:19 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-10-02 · For the curious
Life on a Hair Trigger
by Megan Kang
0:00 / 14:17 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-10-01 · For the curious
Reason is More Than a Tool
by Sasha Mudd
If a machine can find the fastest route, who decides if the destination is worth reaching?
0:00 / 27:31 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-09-29 · For the curious
Don’t Use the ‘C-word’
by Matthew R Cooperberg
0:00 / 41:07 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-09-27 · For the curious
Reasoning Together
by Emilie Prattico
If right and wrong depend on people arguing things out, what happens when everyone leaves the room?
0:00 / 20:44 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-09-22 · For the curious
The Taming of Black Thought
by Takeshi Morisato
Does putting a radical philosopher on a syllabus change the university, or just tame the thinker?
0:00 / 26:58 · Narrator Algieba
2026-09-19 · For the curious
Cosmic Amnesia
by Richard Dyer
0:00 / 41:54 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-09-13 · For the curious
How We Meet the Future
by Tom Ralston
Why does the mind use the same mental shortcut to catch a bus and stereotype a stranger?
0:00 / 25:06 · Narrator Charon
2026-09-09 · For the curious
Our Eloquent Hands
by Alison Bashford
When doctors check the lines on a newborn's palm, what are they actually reading?
0:00 / 20:51 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-09-03 · For the curious
More Nothing Now
by Justin Neuman
When there is no way to win, do you still know how to play?
0:00 / 20:20 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-09-01 · For the curious
A Philosophy of Home
by Sandrine Bergès
If a city is built from homes, why does philosophy stop at the front door?
0:00 / 23:06 · Narrator Algieba
2026-08-21 · For the curious
How Art Invented Humanity
by J F Martel
Why did early humans spend thousands of years painting animals before they ever painted a human face?
0:00 / 30:20 · Narrator Charon
2026-08-19 · Future-gazing
Worm Munch Matters
by Ella Browning
If you bury a microphone in the ground, what does healthy soil sound like?
0:00 / 21:10 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-08-12 · For the curious
A Second Sexual Revolution
by Rosa Campbell
0:00 / 1:09:11 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-08-07 · For the curious
Sasquatch Science
by Andrew Bartlett & Jamie Lewis
How do you build a science around an animal that never leaves a body behind?
0:00 / 24:25 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-07-23 · For the curious
Loitering Towards War
by Anton Cebalo
How did the talk in a poet’s cafe and a radical’s coffeehouse lead a continent toward war?
0:00 / 29:25 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-07-13 · For the curious
Skill Nostalgia
by Joshua Habgood-Coote
0:00 / 35:13 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-07-07 · For the curious
What Shape is the Earth?
by Miguel Ohnesorge
Why would generations of scientists spend decades trying to measure the Earth’s bumpy shape?
0:00 / 23:15 · Narrator Charon
2026-07-03 · For the curious
The Anguish of Choice
by Skye C Cleary
0:00 / 36:24 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-07-02 · Future-gazing
Illegible Benefits
by Carlo Cordasco
How can the value of a discovery be judged before the language to describe it even exists?
0:00 / 27:06 · Narrator Charon
2026-06-27 · For the curious
Therapy for Billionaires
by Alexa Clay
Does someone have to step out from the shadow of wealth to find a sense of belonging?
0:00 / 32:51 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-06-21 · For the curious
The Joy of Autism
by Sarah Hendrickx
How does a mind built for detail find its sense of belonging in a world made for others?
0:00 / 18:58 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-06-10 · For the curious
Flickering Enlightenment
by Eliane Glaser
How do we rescue the Enlightenment's enduring wisdom from its own contradictions?
0:00 / 28:23 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-05-29 · For the curious
Can Ecosystems Malfunction?
by John Drake
How did we start thinking of ecosystems as having jobs they can fail at?
0:00 / 39:34 · Narrator Charon
2026-05-24 · For the curious
Beneath Our Human Shallows
by James Dinneen
If we are truly the architects of a new geological age, why do we feel so small when we look beneath our own feet?
0:00 / 21:13 · Narrator male
2026-05-23 · Behind the news
Rights Require Money
by Attiya Waris
If a city’s public transit system is broken, is it really a failure of engineering or a failure of justice?
0:00 / 23:18 · Narrator female
2026-05-23 · For the curious
Being Small
by Tom Wooldridge
How do you stop living out the unresolved childhood of the person who raised you?
0:00 / 28:03 · Narrator male
2026-05-23 · Behind the news
Make Immigration Boring
by Alan Manning
What if we stopped treating immigration as a moral battleground and started treating it like a policy puzzle?
0:00 / 18:39 · Narrator male
2026-05-23 · For the curious
Gen Z but Two Centuries Ago
by Emily Herring
If we stopped treating our anxiety as a personal failing, could we finally see it as a symptom of the world we live in?
0:00 / 19:45 · Narrator female
2026-05-23 · For the curious
Mathematics is Out There
by Steve Nadis
If the laws of mathematics were waiting to be found, did we discover them or simply invent the tools to see them?
0:00 / 27:17 · Narrator male