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Latest Episodes

Finding Emilie
March 22, 2024

This is a segment we first aired back in 2011. In it, we hear a story of a very different kind of lost and found. Alan Lundgard, a college art student, fell in love with a fellow art student, Emilie G

Our Little Stupid Bodies
January 12, 2024

Sometimes a seemingly silly question gets stuck in your craw and you cant shake the feeling that something big lies behind it. We are constantly collecting these kinds of questions from our listeners

Stochasticity
January 05, 2024

First aired way back in 2009, this episode is all about a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness, Stochasticity, and how it may be at the very foundation of our lives. Along the way

Zeroworld
December 29, 2023

Karim Ani dedicated his life to math. He studied it in school, got a degree in math education, even founded Citizen Math to teach it to kids in a whole new way. But, this whole time, his whole life, a

Numbers
December 22, 2023

First aired back in 2009, this episode is all about one thing, or rather a collection of things. Whether you love 'em or hate 'em, chances are you rely on numbers every day of your life. Where do they

Death Interrupted
December 15, 2023

As a lifeguard, a paramedic, and then an ER doctor, Blair Bigham found his calling: saving lives. But when he started to work in the ICU, he slowly realized that sometimes keeping people (and their ho

A 4-Track Mind
December 08, 2023

In this short episode that first aired in 2011, a neurologist issues a dare to a ragtime piano player and a famous conductor. When the two men face off in an fMRI machine, the challenge is so unimagin

Boy Man
December 01, 2023

Could puberty get any more awkward? Turns out, yes. Writer Patrick Burleigh started going through puberty as a toddler. He had pubic hair before he was two years old and a mustache by middle school. A

Shrink
November 24, 2023

The definition of life is in flux, complexity is overrated, and humans are shrinking.Viruses are supposed to be sleek, pared-down, dead-eyed machines. But when one microbiologist stumbled upon a GIAN

The Interstitium
November 17, 2023

In this episode we introduce you to a part of our bodies that was invisible to Western scientists until about five years ago; its called "the interstitium," a vast network of fluid channels inside th