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Ideas — 59 episodes
How to brace for a world of unheard-of conditions
Walk with us through a rare old-growth forest in peril
How the Anthropocene is changing the elements — and us
What emerges from the ashes after a wildfire? (Pt 3)
A book prescription for mental health?
Protecting childhood innocence is a disservice to kids, argues expert
Eugenic thinking has never gone away
Are psychopaths real? A review of the science says, no
We believe in artificial intelligence the same way we believe in ghosts
With a decline in reading is our capacity to think eroding?
What if AI had empathy and 'maternal instincts'?
Artificial Intimacy: Love, Grief, and AI Chatbots
Blue jeans have a dark secret
Love or hate math, geometry is embedded in daily life
How casino culture plays with our brains
How Brutalist architecture goes beyond aesthetics
Redeeming swamps from their wasteland reputation
The fear of fire is taking control of us
Suzuki's Survival Guide | How We Got To This Point
Suzuki’s Survival Guide | A Warning
Why oil is a 'complicated saviour' to the world
Reimagining Franklin's quest for the Northwest Passage
Why the 1976 novel Bear is still controversial — and relevant
The best comedians in the U.S. are Canadians
How 4 Makes and Breaks Rules | The Greatest Numbers of All Time
The 33,000 Horsepower Gamechanger | The Greatest Numbers of All Time
27 Club Lore | The Greatest Numbers of All Time
12 is Sublime | The Greatest Numbers of All Time
The Curse of 13 | The Greatest Numbers of All Time
Why moral suffering can be a good thing
What if God is the possibility of the impossible?
From Dua Lipa to Broadway, Houdini never disappears
The unforgivable crime of being queer in Africa
Podcasts in Uganda and Ghana are reclaiming sex and sexuality
Why joy is most valuable when it's in public
'When I'm bad, I'm better' – The revolutionary Mae West
Who's the hero when the choice is impossible?
The Billionaire Age Pt 3 | How oligarchs are taking over the world
Confronting 'Housing Inc.' | Meet the 2026 CBC Massey Lecturer
Weekend Listen: Artificial Intimacy from CBC’s Understood
The most important numbers in the universe
How port cities like Alexandria shaped the world
The Billionaire Age Pt 2 | Disney heiress on the dangers of extreme wealth
Why there's no place like Oz
Escaped slaves, pirates and 'free love' in ancient history?
What North Korea’s personality cult has to do with Jesus
Why laughter is so contagious
He championed a radical dream — a 'United States of Africa'
The origins of celebrity, from medieval divas to Kris Jenner
Believe it or not, romance novels are more popular than ever
How Canada forgot it once had a segregated health system
Pt 2 | What the River Wants to Be
How to measure 'prosperity'
What intellectual influencers teach us, one video at a time
Could the Dust Bowl of the 30s happen again?
Why the world feels like a shipwreck
The 'shocking betrayal' of widespread antisemitism
The Never-Ending Fall of Rome
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