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A sequence of six yellow-gold spheres illustrates stages of cell division against a black background.

Life is older, weirder, and more interconnected than we ever thought

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44 min

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A human cell and the Earth are shown side by side in outer space against a starry background.

The unlikely asteroid collision that made your life possible

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01:11:56 min

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Sean B. Carroll

A woman sits on a chair against a white backdrop, with yellow graphics of brain wave patterns in the background.

Move your body, grow your brain: the science of hippocampal neurogenesis

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01:16:33 min

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Brian Cox: The quantum roots of reality

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01:19:41 min

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An older man sits on a chair in front of a white backdrop, surrounded by rows of hanging beef carcasses in a meat processing facility.

Peter Singer: Animal suffering is human responsibility

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01:55:01 min

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A man in a suit sits on a chair against a white backdrop, with illustrated green skyscrapers, solar panels, and trees in the background.

A liberal critique of liberalism: What needs to change

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01:17:12 min

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A man in a black suit sits on a chair against a white backdrop, surrounded by several monarch butterflies on a bright blue background.

Your life is at the mercy of seemingly random tiny events

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01:36:26 min

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A person sits on a chair in front of a white backdrop in a loft-style room with brick walls, dark flooring, and two windows.

Conflict, crisis, consumption: What’s eating our nation?

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01:18:14 min

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A person sits in front of a white backdrop, surrounded by a cosmic map with galaxies and celestial objects.

Where did our universe come from?

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02:18:31 min

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A person sitting on a chair with legs crossed in front of a white backdrop in a spacious room with wooden floors and large windows.

Love, sex, and happiness, explained by philosophy | Jonny Thomson: Full Interview

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32 min

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A person in a suit sits on a chair against a cosmic background with galaxies and stars.

Searching for aliens and Earth 2.0 | David Kipping: Full Interview

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Person in a red sweater sitting on a stool in a bright studio with white walls and colorful striped rugs.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff: The 3 cognitive scripts that rule over your life | Full Interview

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50 min

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Anne-Laure Le Cunff

A person sits on a chair in a library setting, with bookshelves on either side and a white backdrop behind them.

Hannah Ritchie: We can tackle our biggest environmental problems | Full Interview

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01:17:21 min

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A person in a black shirt and dark blazer poses against a plain background.

Sam Harris: Breaking the spell of propaganda

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1:41:14 min

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A man wearing a black blazer, graphic T-shirt, and backwards cap stands against a plain background with his hands raised in a questioning gesture.

Why Kevin Smith bet $27,575 on a movie no one showed up for

“You might as well go for it. You might as well do the thing that you dream about doing for heaven’s sake.”

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A person sits alone on a bench against a yellow background, looking down at a smartphone.

The great friendship collapse: Inside The Anti-Social Century

“You can debate all sorts of things about how the texture of American life has changed. What you can’t debate is the sheer, objective, existential fact that Americans are more alone than ever.”

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12 min

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A petri dish containing various colorful bacterial colonies growing on agar, viewed from above against a dark background.

Meet the survivors of Earth’s worst days

These microbes endured the unlivable. The NASA astrobiologist who studies them reveals what that means for us today

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7 min

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A sequence of six yellow-gold spheres illustrates stages of cell division against a black background.

Life is older, weirder, and more interconnected than we ever thought

“If we’re related to every living thing on the planet, do we not have a special responsibility for every living thing on this planet? They are really all our relatives.”

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44 min

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A monarch butterfly with orange and black wings rests on water, creating a ripple pattern around it.

The impossibility of control in a butterfly-effected world

“When you think about this interconnection of all these tiny causes and effects which add up to the way the world unfolds, it becomes impossible to imagine that we have complete control.”

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