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Fixable: Kelli - "How do I deal with a communication breakdown?"

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Introducing Good Sport

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How to Find the Comedy in A Messed-Up World (with Maeve Higgins)

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Listen now: Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala

5

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

6

Listen now: WorkLife season 5

7

3 ways to make better decisions

8

Academic research is publicly funded -- why isn't it publicly available?

9

"Aliens built the pyramids" and other absurdities of pseudo-archaeology

10

When local news dies, so does democracy

11

How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration

12

Why students should have mental health days

13

The true cost of financial dependence

14

How to support witnesses of harassment and build healthier workplaces

15

What tech companies know about your kids

16

Who counts as a speaker of a language?

17

The hidden history found in your teeth

18

I let algorithms randomize my life for two years

19

Why I talk to white supremacists

20

The 1-minute secret to forming a new habit

21

How you can use impostor syndrome to your benefit

22

Climate change and the challenge of long-term thinking

23

Surprising ways sea ice affects us all

24

Let's scan the whole planet with LiDAR

25

What COVID-19 reveals about US schools

26

A chef shares her recipe for sustainable future

27

The sports divide

28

Do you bring your full authentic self to work?

29

Democracy needs an update

30

3 myths about racism

31

Why nostalgia for empire persists

32

A new way to define self-worth

33

The downside of digital siloing

34

Why falling behind can get you ahead

35

How stigma shaped modern medicine

36

Why we need archaeology in war zones

37

Racism thrives on silence -- speak up!

38

How artificial light affects our health

39

Biomolecular tales of our ancestors

40

Let's think about archaeology on the moon

41

Poop, power and participation

42

Why do we blame individuals for economic crises?

43

How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight

44

Stop looking for your passion

45

Why we need to reimagine the future

46

Will the right to protest survive its migration online?

47

How to care for your community with radical hospitality

48

The counterintuitive way to be more persuasive

49

Futura, the font that helped launch Apollo

50

"Entrepreneur" is a mindset not a job title

51

How technology connects us to fine art

52

Why language is humanity's greatest invention

53

Are you a chronic problem solver?

54

What is the driving force behind the Nobel Prize?

55

The accidental automation of motherhood

56

What does it really mean to “fit in” at work?

57

How to triage your crazy busy life

58

The intergenerational wisdom of Indigenous storytelling

59

You are a molecular masterpiece

60

Are global trade deals really about trade?

61

How to co-parent as allies, not adversaries

62

Why we need to rethink tourism

63

This is what the metaverse could look like

64

The perks of being a pirate

65

Why we should hire for skills, not "talent"

66

How to be an organizational heretic

67

The potential of green infrastructure

68

The new energy revolution

69

How to revitalize Indigenous languages

70

How to design gender bias out of your workplace

71

Everyone is terrible

72

How you can support a loved one through cancer

73

Extinction, death and memory

74

How to make a decision that could ruin your life

75

Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi

76

How will autonomous vehicles transform our cities?

77

Reclaiming my voice as a transracial adoptee

78

Why should we care about dying languages?

79

Why we all lose when we talk about virginity

80

Can citizen science save us?

81

Why influencers should be imperfect

82

Great White Sharks: individual and misunderstood

83

The role youth can play in climate action

84

Crochet, coral reefs, and collective action

85

Can we make time tangible?

86

When local news dies, so does democracy

87

How I overcame decision paralysis

88

Technology and the future of theater

89

Here's what we can do about catastrophic blackouts

90

Humanizing the refugee crisis

91

Why is talking about sex so hard?

92

Emoji: The language of the future

93

Why does visual literacy matter?

94

Thinking differently about dementia

95

Without farmers, you’d be hungry, naked and sober

96

How the magic of kindness sustains us

97

Break out of hustle culture and find long term success

98

Should you talk with your doctor about climate change?

99

You are enough

100

Making your home, wherever you are

101

Radical accessibility

102

Why we need robust global health infrastructure

103

It’s time to rethink public health

104

Can video games improve your math scores?

105

The surprising connection between brain injuries and crime

106

America’s forced marriage problem

107

Fish sex - it’s weirder than you think

108

How drones are changing healthcare logistics

109

The problem with gerrymandering

110

Why we all need to think like breadwinners

111

Make jokes not war

112

Why we deserve a free and fair internet

113

Reframing the Economic Mindset

114

What it takes to teach and learn a language

115

The five key ingredients of a thriving remote team

116

Boys will be what we teach them to be

117

How I advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women

118

Are your expectations making you unhappy?

119

The 15 minute rule

120

How to design the life you want

121

What does GDP really measure?

122

Why do we sabotage love

123

Green cities are great but what about mosquitoes?

124

Why designing for sustainability is harder than you'd think

125

RBG and Antonin Scalia on Broadway

126

Teen brains are not broken

127

When do children begin to alter behavior to please others?

128

Tackling AI bias head on

129

Empowering seniors to step out from the shadows

130

How to trick leaders into being more empathetic

131

WTF are NFTs?

132

What it’s like to be a parent in a war zone

133

What does archaeology tell us about human migration?

134

How virtual reality can create social change

135

What have you apologized for lately?

136

Don’t blame bots, fake news is spread by humans

137

Democratizing science

138

The dangers of hazing and bullying

139

Designing homes for multigenerational living

140

I support black mediocrity

141

Think you know why dinosaurs dominated? Think again

142

Ending the game of sex trafficking

143

Why I want my voice assistant to speak Spanglish

144

Creative choices in dark days

145

The case for rural tourism

146

Legos for the blind

147

For the love of fangirls

148

Medical clickbait: Are you asking the right questions?

149

What foods did your ancestors love?

150

The value of travel

151

TB or not TB

152

How creative writing can help you through life's hardest moments

153

3 questions we should ask about nuclear weapons

154

How human are we?

155

Richard III: Solving a 500-year-old cold case

156

Shooting blanks: What happens when law can’t keep up with technology?

157

Reimagining the economy to save the climate

158

The promise and peril of our quantum future

159

What is your time really worth?

160

The impact of linguistic bias in education

161

The dangerous ways ads see women

162

How do you keep time in space?

163

Men: how can we talk more about your mental health?

164

Is streaming killing music?

165

The emotional cost of being a Black woman in America

166

Why vaccines work

167

How to save tourism from itself

168

What do smart groups have in common?

169

How flags unite (and divide) us

170

Change my clothes? Change the law

171

Why my parents are glad I married a goy

172

The double standards of fashion policing

173

Vertical ocean farming - the least deadly catch

174

Why are we so obsessed with World War II?

175

Facebook and Rare Cancer Changed My Life

176

Can we use AI to detect disease?

177

How compassion kills dignity

178

What it’s like to be a transgender dad

179

How to thrive in remote work - David Burkus

180

A virus walks out of a factory farm...

181

An AI smartwatch that detects seizures

182

How to fix a (literally) broken heart?

183

Colorism and global standards of beauty

184

Can we be touched by a star

185

When we design for disability, we all benefit

186

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter TRAILER

187

Our history and future in ice

188

Why I want an AI tutor

189

How policing for profit threatens your rights

190

How to fix our broken political conversations

191

Regrowing heart muscle with stem cells

192

Are you a hybrid professional?

193

Why you should embrace your local

194

The complexities of color blindness

195

Why you don’t care about inequality

196

Towards rational and authentic food choices

197

Are we doing Shakespeare wrong?

198

What could a virus sound like?

199

Why empowering men at home is good for gender equality

200

Doing drugs (research) right

201

What animals can teach us about death

202

The inmate, the student, and Tolstoy

203

What did you do in the climate crisis, Grandma?

204

Saving the planet without making it everyone's top priority

205

The case for recognizing Indigenous knowledge as science

206

Why I became a climate activist -- and you should, too

207

End the media coverage mass shooters want

208

How to cope with meeting madness

209

The cost of menstrual shame

210

Let the worms eat your organic waste

211

Elizabeth White - An honest look at the personal finance crisis

212

How to discover a planet from your sofa

213

Dogs for conservation

214

Why do some people fear vaccines?

215

Misogyny in hip hop

216

What homo naledi teaches us about being human

217

Life after dark in the ancient world

218

Black trans lives matter

219

Why Dungeons and Dragons is good for you

220

How justice and climate change are inseparable

221

How doctors can help low-income patients

222

The emotional cost of euthanasia

223

Lessons from the world avoided

224

I am not your Asian stereotype

225

How literature can help us develop empathy

226

What your sleep patterns say about your relationship

227

The keys to a great sex life

228

Why I’m a conservationist — and a zookeeper

229

Who gets to belong?

230

How to improve your brain's executive function

231

I care about disappearing glaciers and you should too

232

Diversity isn’t enough to integrate schools

233

When doctors don't know what's wrong

234

Navigating the multigenerational workplace

235

What COVID can teach us about societal disparities

236

The power of a panda

237

Is music politicized?

238

TED Business: How to Lead in a Crisis

239

The inner work of racial justice

240

Honeybees from Cape Cod to Mars

241

How to build your climate fitness

242

Dina Zielinski - How we can store digital data in DNA

243

Why most parenting advice is wrong

244

Fight for your right to party

245

The history of blackface and why it's still so harmful

246

The mathematics of love

247

Can a conversation reduce prejudice?

248

The pursuit of happiness

249

The virginity fraud

250

Race is a fiction, racism is not

251

How to navigate dual careers in a marriage

252

Why medieval politics was nothing like Game of Thrones

253

Find the courage to come out of your closet

254

To find success, embrace what makes you different

255

How nanoparticles could change the way we treat cancer

256

Does Jim Crow still exist in America?

257

Is pop music stuck on repeat?

258

A gendered world makes a gendered brain

259

First impressions aren't what they used to be

260

Why do we believe things that aren't true?

261

Let's protect the oceans like national parks

262

To detect diseases earlier let's speak bacteria's secret language

263

The science behind Moderna’s vaccine development

264

Increase your self-awareness with one simple fix

265

The dangers of short-termism

266

How to tame your "advice monster"

267

Introducing new podcast "How to Be a Better Human"

268

Why we must confront the painful parts of US history

269

Why I teach world religions

270

Love motels for insects

271

3 reasons you’re not doing what you say you’ll do

272

The surprising consequences of a fast-paced world

273

Immigration prison isn't the answer -- here's why

274

Men, ask your therapists to take you outside

275

What does a star sound like?

276

All the little things

277

The poetry of everyday speech

278

Help America talk again

279

Confessions of a climate scientist

280

Let's get to the root of racial injustice

281

The dangers of whitewashing black history

282

Making the death penalty obsolete

283

Can we choose to fall out of love?

284

Choosing 'radical hospitality'

285

Corinne Fisher & Krystyna Hutchinson - Reclaiming your self-worth

286

Luisa Neubauer - Why I became a climate activist -- and you should, too

287

Rebecca Tallent - A crash course in reporting on Native America

288

Women's sexuality isn't 'complicated'

289

Are you "underbanked"?

290

3 ways to be a more effective fundraiser

291

Ken Dutton-Regester - What an 'escape room' can teach us about cancer

292

How revenge porn turns lives upside down

293

Sam Berns - My philosophy for a happy life

294

Ted Goldstein - Hacking our approach to cancer

295

How singing inspired revolutions

296

Demystifying Tourette's Syndrome

297

The secret to scientific discoveries

298

A glance at HIV in 21st century America

299

What is the future of work? - Bridget Loudon

300

Violence against women is a men’s issue - Jackson Katz

301

Indigenous in plain sight

302

Why we get mad--and why it’s healthy - Ryan Martin

303

How women are the key to economic well-being - Laina Raveendran Greene

304

3 ways women can win in the marketplace - Jennifer Sherman

305

How sexism shapes human knowledge

306

How trust creates diversity in institutions

307

We should all be feminists

308

The bacterial solution to plastic pollution

309

To empower students of color, change English class

310

The toxic footprint of our hospitals

311

Five alarm American democracy

312

3 ways to avoid divorce

313

The case for a purpose-driven university

314

Using language to uncover African roots in Latin America

315

How to motivate people to do good for others

316

How farming fuels antibiotic resistance

317

Making beats from bat sounds

318

A short lesson in political speak

319

Democratize AI now

320

Why most visual effects suck--but some don't

321

Exchanging Mozart for Mario Brothers

322

Crocodile conversations & alligator gossip

323

How we can challenge our own negativity bias

324

Lessons from a teenage polyglot

325

How we’re using dogs to sniff out malaria

326

Refugees as architects of their city and future

327

What is a wellbeing economy?

328

School strike for climate

329

A cartoonist’s guide to life

330

How can we trace African American ancestry?

331

Deciphering the language of emotions

332

Why understand consciousness?

333

What a worm can tell us about consciousness

334

What your digital footprints reveal about you

335

Where in the world is it easiest to get rich?

336

Community-powered criminal justice reform

337

Representative reporting starts in the newsroom

338

What poker bots can teach us about decision-making

339

What can rocks tell us about the origin of life on earth?

340

What we can learn from Arctic people

341

Educating the next generation of jobseekers

342

What to trust in a post-truth world

343

Nudging society toward making better decisions

344

Uncovering the global influence of Latin American cinema

345

Searching for a new cosmic view

346

Compassion Fatigue: What is it and do you have it?

347

Why toddlers are smarter than computers

348

The benefits of talking about sex

349

Why we should all be medical feminists

350

You're writing emails wrong

351

How the Industrial Revolution changed childhood

352

Is it lust or is it love?

353

A simple strategy to reclaim your time

354

3 ways to keep human bias out of AI

355

Want to be more creative?

356

The revolutionary act of listening

357

Why do we hate whistleblowers?

358

Closing the weather gap

359

Is social media bad for diplomacy?

360

What if being ‘soft on crime’ is good for society?

361

A perfect apology in 3 steps

362

How to build a human hive mind?

363

How to eat ketchup on Mars

364

Are all relationships messy?

365

Our brains are wired to collect things

366

The power of dematerialization

367

Does reading make a difference?

368

Breakups don't have to leave you broken

369

Fighting wildfires with finance

370

The midlife crisis needs a rebrand

371

The business of biometrics

372

One teen's journey to get vaccinated

373

How to stop screwing yourself over

374

4 questions you should always ask your doctor

375

How to detect more cancers earlier

376

The perks of living without social media

377

Why we should take laughter more seriously

378

Who belongs in prison?

379

How to give a good toast

380

Parenting for a digital future

381

Why I defend women's rights

382

What to do when tech makes you miserable

383

Let's talk about sex

384

How to find an idea

385

Are you evil?

386

Is the world out of melodies?

387

How to improve your speaking voice

388

How to ADHD in a neurotypical world

389

Three skills for a healthy romantic relationship

390

The fundamental right to seek asylum

391

Forgiveness is hard--but worth it

392

Mass extinctions and the future of life on earth

393

The immigrant I love

394

What science taught me about being a Muslim drag queen

395

Are you really enjoying your free time?

396

Listen to your body's master clock

397

Healthcare innovation needs nurses

398

The case for working from home

399

How to create a genderless voice

400

How some music gives you the chills

401

Plus-size? More like my size

402

How we can save more lives in natural disasters

403

The limits of a personal narrative

404

The language of vogue

405

Why Black activists shouldn't have to lead alone

406

Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word

407

What does slavery have to do with it?

408

Are you clueless about class?

409

How do you see what you can't see?

410

Take an intentional walk

411

The secret soundtrack of the sea

412

How ritual increases social connection

413

Why optimism can be hard

414

Three secrets of resilient people

415

The creativity found in caves and darkness

416

Ethics in the age of technology

417

The end of animal farming

418

Ideas come from everywhere

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