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Episodes
Nancy Walecki
The Guitar Sounds New Again
The grungy, extraterrestrial “Mk.gee tone” is everywhere and depends on a decades-old device.
7 mins
Alex Reisner
The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities
It involves 4chan, of all places.
8 mins
Lynn Sherr
Hold Onto Moon Joy
Artemis II humanized the moon. Can we capture the same sentiment back on Earth?
7 mins
Nicholas Florko
America Has a New GLP-1 Playbook
First a shot to lose weight, then a pill to keep it off.
6 mins
Rebecca Boyle
A Different Moon From the One We’ve Known
NASA’s Artemis II mission is bringing home a view of the moon unlike any humanity has seen before.
7 mins
Kaitlyn Tiffany
The Great Travel Meltdown of 2026
Airports are suffering a perfect storm of actual problems and passenger anxieties.
8 mins
Lila Shroff
Is Schoolwork Optional Now?
Education is on the verge of becoming fully automated.
9 mins
Matteo Wong
Claude Mythos Preview Is Everyone’s Problem
What happens when AI can hack everything?
7 mins
Katherine J. Wu
Scientists Are Finally Unlocking a Cancer Treatment’s Full Potential
CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases.
9 mins
Charlie Warzel
An Incredibly Weird Time to Be Alive
The world witnessed the best and worst of humanity in a single week.
6 mins
Ross Andersen
The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission
It’s all in a name.
5 mins
Trisha Pasricha
How the Whole-Grain Trend Went Wrong
Many whole-grain foods behave in the body much the same as the refined products they were meant to replace.
9 mins
Sage Lazzaro
The ChatGPT Symptom Spiral
Be careful asking chatbots about your health.
11 mins
Tom Bartlett
The Man Holding MAHA Together
Can RFK Jr.’s book publisher keep the movement alive?
12 mins
Lila Shroff
Silicon Valley Is in a Frenzy Over Bots That Build Themselves
How close are we really to self-improving AI?
8 mins
Alexander C. Kaufman
Who Gets to Block the Sun?
Stardust sold geoengineering to investors. Now it needs to sell it to the public.
10 mins
Ross Andersen
Why Doesn’t Anybody Realize We’re Going Back to the Moon?
On the ground at the Trump era’s most important space launch
12 mins
Nancy Walecki
It’s Not Gambling, It’s ‘Girl Math’
Prediction markets are trying to woo women through matcha memes and #girlboss ads.
9 mins
Katherine J. Wu
HHS Is Exiling Top Officials to the Indian Health Service
The Indian Health Service needs more clinical workers. The federal health officials being transferred to the agency don’t fit that bill.
10 mins
Hana Kiros
If You Need a Laptop, Buy It Now
Electronics are getting more expensive and worse. Blame the AI boom.
