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(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

(7:27) Who needs oxygen - The Navy's experimental underwater habitat(9:00) The hearing edge - Why Do Mammals Have Outer Ears?

"I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong." Frederick Douglass

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(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 some animals appear to mourn their dead

(9:30) A natural orchestra - Natural Version of Colombia’s National Anthem

"As an afterthought, it seems hardly proper to write of life without once mentioning happiness; so we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?" Hunter S. Thompson, 1955

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(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 write - Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for

(7:50) Telling the truth - Whistleblowers Who Changed History

(9:12) Armed with eight brains - Why every arm of an octopus moves with a mind of its own

“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.” Vincent Van Gogh

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(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 can talk

(8:15) Step away from the phone - Why do we still have to use airplane mode?

(9:26) Nature smiling - Comedy wildlife photography awards 2024 – in pictures

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” Albert Camus

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(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 - Farmers Are Using Wool To Save Water in the Drought-Ridden West

(8:39) Because it’s fun - Why Do Humans—and Some Animals—Love to Dance?

(9:40) It’s art if we do it - Can animals make ‘art’? These examples from nature suggest so

"It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" Jiddu Krishnamurti

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(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 Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries

(8:53) Remember to look up - The Lost Art of Eye Contact

(10:03) Will reality fade? - Striking images of 2024

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” Dale Carnegie

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(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 things - What would happen to the human body moving at near light speed?

(8:42) Inside working hard - Foundational Facts About the Liver

(9:45) How we left the sea - Meet the mudskipper: The remarkable fish that lives on la

"The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." Rainer Maria Rilke

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(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 no money

(9:40) Real - Things You Might Not Know About Reindeer

"And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another."
Hermann Hesse

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(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 Australian town where people live underground

(6:52) Not so unrelated - Neanderthals: More knowable now than ever

(7:49) There are levels in the survival game - Will Cockroaches Outlive Humans?

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." Josh Billings

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(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

(5:38) Followers are not friends - The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic

(6:45) Snake oil is always on sale - What Were We Thinking? Most Dangerous Ads

(7:52) Able to label food - Smartest Animals in the World

“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” Leonardo da Vinci

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