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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