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from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:12) Embracing nonsense - The “Nietzsche Thesis”: Why we don’t really care about truth (3:02) In our image - Humanoid Robots in Use Right Now (4:16) Genius abused - Alan Turing: Creator of modern computing (5:43) March 27, 1915 - Mary Mallon - Typhoid Mary quarantined for life (6:50) As yet unknown - Science Mysteries No One Has Figured Out (7:32) Winter rai...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:20) Recording thoughts - Meta’s brain-to-text tech is here. We are not remotely ready. (3:13) Exalting questions - Why Kids Are Afraid to Ask for Help (4:51) Being more - Harriet Tubman (6:01) February 21, 1958 - Peace symbols - From hippies to ubiquity (7:14) The innovations of threat - The most important computer you’ve never heard of (8:44) Inside inform...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:10) All of it - What Percentage of the Human Brain Is Used? (2:28) Words have meaning - Gaslighting, Narcissist, and More Psychology Terms You’re Misusing (4:01) See what you’re doing - Use your imagination to prepare for any task (5:28) February 4–11, 1945 - Yalta Conference - Rearranging the pieces (6:37) More than shelter - How Igloos Work (8:19) Winter...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:17) Giving luck a chance - These Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain Why (2:26) Herding time - Use Time Blocking (3:25) What’s the connection? - Descartes and the Discovery of the Mind-Body Problem (5:05) February 1, 1884 - Oxford English Dictionary - Many Words (6:27) Being heard - What to Do If Your Doctor Doesn’t Take Your Symptoms Seriously...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:16) The robot unknown - Why AI Progress Is Increasingly Invisible (2:51) Put down the fiddle - Why procrastination is about managing emotions, not time (4:10) More is less - Lewis Dartnell, biologist: ‘One of the problems with the modern world is a loss of scarcity in many things’ (5:43) January 15, 2001 - Wikipedia - The Rabbit Hole (6:45) The dying of the...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:05) Nowhere to park - How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths (1:59) Has to be haunted by now - This Istanbul house was built in four historical eras (3:00) It would do just fine - Without humans, what would happen to Earth? (3:54) Wiki Rabbit Hole - November 8, 1895 - X-rays - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 4:4...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:04) Villains and their enemies - Whistleblower: Definition and Examples (2:05) Not what it seems - Optical illusions and why they trick your brain (2:48) Working together - Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto Mount St Helens For 1 Day. 40 Years Later, The Effect Is Astonishing (3:28) Wiki Rabbit Hole - November 14, 1889 - Nellie Bly - Around the world in 80 (72...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:07) Manipulating reality - Neuroscientist Rafael Yuste could play your brain like an instrument (1:58) Right from the source - Is raw milk safe? (2:54) He’s Batman - Teach Yourself to Echolocate (3:51) Wiki Rabbit Hole - November 19, 1995 - Toy Story - First entirely computer-animated feature film ( 5:09) More crayons in the box - The red and green speciali...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:02) Do you now have the time? - How railroads inspired the creation of time zones (2:29) The right to bear fools - How to Accept Criticism with Grace and Appreciation (3:43) Perhaps less could be more - Why the simple life is not just beautiful, it’s necessary (4:55) Wiki Rabbit Hole - November 26, 1917 - National Hockey League - Greatest sport on earth (5:...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:03) Against long odds - How did life on Earth begin? (2:13) Driving is complicated - Why are ‘driverless’ cars still hitting things? (3:26) No minds eye - I can’t picture things in my mind. I didn’t realize that was unusual (4:36) Wiki Rabbit Hole - Coronation of Napoleon - December 2, 1804 - It's better to be emperor (5:38) No fear of closed spaces - The A...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:07) Because he can - Why the old man dances (2:44) More hours awake - The ones who need little sleep (4:06) What we really worship - How Electricity Works (5:45) Wiki Rabbit Hole - December 9, 1965 - A Charlie Brown Christmas - If Winnie the Pooh levelled up (7:13) From the water - Why do humans like to swim? (8:44) A way of life - How to start farming with...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:26) The sum of our parts - Humans may not have survived without Neanderthals (2:50) Reading the past - The Rosetta Stone Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Egypt (4:11) The robot’s first words - A series of mysterious bleeps and bloops defined the early days of the internet (5:38) December 18, 1865 - Thirteenth Amendment - Slavery Abolished (6:50) Very weird t...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:13) The past preserved - Bear-leather shoes and Roman 'good-luck' coins: The lost worlds emerging from glaciers (3:20) Bugs tap out - What do insects do all winter? (4:43) The ancient cow - The Story of the Aurochs Is More Complicated Than We Thought (6:11) December 28, 1869 - Chewing Gum - Patent filed by dentist (7:40) For purposes unknown - The Mysteriou...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:07) Much to learn - Why Are You So Smart? Thank Your Mom & Your Difficult Birth (2:20) The right time in space - Do we live in a special part of the universe? (4:10) Can you explain? - How to Learn Anything with the Feynman Technique (5:36) January 1, 1818 - Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (7:15) Nature has answers - Fa...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:14) Trying to regenerate - Stem cells: What they are and what they do (2:51) Flying in empty - How Voyager 1 is still bringing us surprises from the very edge of our solar system (4:18) Calmly breathing - What is box breathing? (5:32) January 6, 1907 - Maria Montessori - Casa dei Bambini (6:58) As long as they don’t talk back - The people who believe plants...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:10) Your car knows - What Data Does My Car Collect About Me and Where Does It Go? (2:18) Food paint - The Right Chemistry: The colourful history of food dyes (3:50) From parts unknown - Some Scientists Believe All Life Started on Mars (5:05) January 24, 1984 - Macintosh 128K - The OG PC (6:24) Not built to last - Why do we age? (7:50) Feeling loss - Why som...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:10) The robot decides - AI's "Trolley Problem" Problem (2:22) But why? - The Pyramids at Giza were built to endure an eternity—but how? (3:43) The animal workout - Why isometric exercises are so good for you (4:53) February 5, 1917 - Constitution of Mexico - Revolutions (6:03) It would be too weird - Why don’t you remember all your dreams? (7:02) A not so s...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:13) Born to cooperate - Are we naturally good or bad? (2:33) Just right - The Swedish philosophy of lagom: how “just enough” is all you need (3:47) More than words - Simplicity or style: what makes a sentence a masterpiece? (5:01) February 25, 1964 - Muhammad Ali - Champion (6:33) Robot fixes - Like babies and dancers, this robot learns from studying itself...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:16) Unprepared - The Breakthrough Problem, or Why the Drugs Don’t Work Like They Used To (3:35) Recycling dreams - The Science of Recurring Dreams Is More Fascinating Than We Ever Imagined (5:25) Paying for convenience - The hidden cost of AI: Trading long-term resilience for short-term efficiency (7:31) March 8, 1917 - February Revolution - The End of the...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (0:57) The origins of nothing - Why nothing matters (2:23) So you say - The Origins of 21 Common Phrases (3:23 Inventing ease - The forgotten story of the woman who invented the dishwasher (5:05) March 15, 44 BC - Ides of March - Assassination of Julius Caesar (6:03) The knowing ape - When Bonobos Know What You Don’t, They’ll Tell You. (7:48) Less is enough -...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:22) The robot is listening - Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon (2:53) Not what it seems - Optical illusions you can find in nature (3:55) IHurting boys - The Pressure to ‘Act Like a Man’ Starts in Preschool (5:33) March 17, 1992 - South African Apartheid Referendum - Not so long ago (6:26) Building relativity - How Einstein Learned Phys...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:02) Everything and Nothing - Lao Tzu only wrote a single sentence about Yin and Yang, but it changed philosophy forever (2:11) Stretch for life - Ways to improve your mobility (3:29) Not guessing - When I lost my intuition (4:57) April 4, 1975 - Microsoft - The main reason Linux was needed is founded (5:57) Competing diversions - A Brief History of Sports (...

from the walls of the digital cave Hi (1:11) All aware - Panpsychism: The Trippy Theory That Everything From Bananas to Bicycles Are Conscious (3:05) Art from the sea - Biography of Joseph Conrad (4:38) Listen to the beat - What is a normal heart rate? (5:19) April 7, 1948 - World Health Organization - Caring collectively (6:30) More than a box - World-Famous Architects and Their Impact (7:37) Bef...