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1313 - Who won the space race? - Jeff Steers
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Published17 Jul 2026
Duration07:31
Episodes
1313-
Who won the space race? - Jeff Steers
Listened
17 Jul 2026
1312-
The rise and fall of history’s first empire - Soraya Field Fiorio
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17 Jul 2026
1311-
A brief history of video games (Part I) - Safwat Saleem
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17 Jul 2026
1310-
Could we steal the power of a black hole? - Fabio Pacucci
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17 Jul 2026
1309-
RNAi: Slicing, dicing and serving your cells - Alex Dainis
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17 Jul 2026
1308-
Which type of milk is best for you? - Jonathan J. O’Sullivan and Grace E. Cunningham
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17 Jul 2026
1307-
The good news of the decade? - Hans Rosling
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16 Jul 2026
1306-
The hidden treasures of Timbuktu - Elizabeth Cox
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16 Jul 2026
1305-
Taking imagination seriously - Janet Echelman
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16 Jul 2026
1304-
Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt? - Elizabeth Cox
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16 Jul 2026
1303-
Inside an Antarctic time machine - Lee Hotz
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16 Jul 2026
1302-
What if there were 1 trillion more trees? - Jean-François Bastin
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16 Jul 2026
1301-
A warm embrace that saves lives - Jane Chen
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15 Jul 2026
1300-
Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? - Claire Wardle
Listened
15 Jul 2026
1299-
String theory - Brian Greene
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15 Jul 2026
1298-
The dark history of bananas - John Soluri
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15 Jul 2026
1297-
The science behind a climate headline - Rachel Pike
Listened
15 Jul 2026
1296-
What we learn before we're born - Annie Murphy Paul
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14 Jul 2026
1295-
How do steroids affect your muscles— and the rest of your body? - Anees Bahji
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14 Jul 2026
1294-
How to stop torture - Karen Tse
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14 Jul 2026
1293-
How do investors choose stocks? - Richard Coffin
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14 Jul 2026
1292-
Experiments that hint of longer lives - Cynthia Kenyon
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14 Jul 2026
1291-
Why do you get a fever when you're sick? - Christian Moro
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14 Jul 2026
1290-
A map of the brain - Allan Jones
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13 Jul 2026
1289-
Can you solve the giant spider riddle? - Dan Finkel
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13 Jul 2026
1288-
Can sunlight improve your heart health? - Richard Weller
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13 Jul 2026
1287-
Can you outsmart the slippery slope fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
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13 Jul 2026
1286-
Can planting trees actually cool the planet? - Carolyn Beans
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13 Jul 2026
1285-
Haptography: Converting our sense of touch into digital code - Katherine Kuchenbecker
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13 Jul 2026
1284-
Your elusive creative mind - Elizabeth Gilbert
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13 Jul 2026
1283-
How fast is the speed of thought? - Seena Mathew
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13 Jul 2026
1282-
The science of humor - Sasha Winkler
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13 Jul 2026
1281-
Would you raise the baby that devoured your siblings? - Francesca Barbero
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13 Jul 2026
1280-
4 lessons from robots about being human - Ken Goldberg
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13 Jul 2026
1279-
How farming cultivated seeds for the Internet - Patricia Russac
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13 Jul 2026
1278-
Will humanity embrace neo-evolution? - Harvey Fineberg
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13 Jul 2026
1277-
The true cause behind dodo bird extinction - Leon Claessens
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13 Jul 2026
1276-
Ancient wonders captured in 3D - Ben Kacyra
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13 Jul 2026
1275-
Can you solve the Alice in Wonderland riddle? - Alex Gendler
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13 Jul 2026
1274-
The real reason for brains - Daniel Wolpert
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13 Jul 2026
1273-
Which bag should you use? - Luka Seamus Wright and Imogen Ellen Napper
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13 Jul 2026
1272-
A plane you can drive - Anna Mracek Dietrich
Listened
12 Jul 2026
1271-
Why is pneumonia so dangerous? - Eve Gaus and Vanessa Ruiz
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12 Jul 2026
1270-
Trust, morality -- and oxytocin? - Paul Zak
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12 Jul 2026
1269-
The myth of Loki and the deadly mistletoe - Iseult Gillespie
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12 Jul 2026
1268-
How economic inequality harms societies - Richard Wilkinson
Listened
12 Jul 2026
1267-
The most colorful gemstones on Earth - Jeff Dekofsky
Listened
12 Jul 2026
1266-
A prosthetic arm that "feels" - Todd Kuiken
Listened
11 Jul 2026
1265-
The world’s largest organism - Alex Rosenthal
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11 Jul 2026
1264-
Freeing energy from the grid - Justin Hall-Tipping