137 Episodes

  1. The nature of nurture

    Published: 9/5/2024
  2. The space of (possibly) sentient beings

    Published: 8/22/2024
  3. From the archive: Cities, cells, and the neuroscience of navigation

    Published: 8/7/2024
  4. From the archive: What does ChatGPT really know?

    Published: 7/24/2024
  5. From the archive: Medieval monks on memory, meditation, and mind-wandering

    Published: 7/10/2024
  6. A new picture of language

    Published: 6/26/2024
  7. Climate, risk, and the rise of agriculture

    Published: 6/12/2024
  8. Consider the spider

    Published: 5/30/2024
  9. Can we measure consciousness?

    Published: 5/16/2024
  10. Rehabilitating placebo

    Published: 5/2/2024
  11. Cosmopolitan carnivores

    Published: 4/18/2024
  12. From the archive: Myths, robots, and the origins of AI

    Published: 4/4/2024
  13. The borderlands of perception

    Published: 3/21/2024
  14. Social memory in our closest cousins

    Published: 3/7/2024
  15. Fermentation, fire, and our big brains

    Published: 2/22/2024
  16. Of molecules and memories

    Published: 2/8/2024
  17. Energy, cooperation, and our species' future

    Published: 1/25/2024
  18. Dawn of the smile

    Published: 1/11/2024
  19. From the archive: The point of (animal) personality

    Published: 12/27/2023
  20. From the archive: A smorgasbord of senses

    Published: 12/13/2023

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