The days of robbing banks at gunpoint are gone. It's much more profitable to hijack networks. To better protect themselves companies hire people to test their security, but no firewall is going to stop a social engineer. Especially not one like Chris Hadnagy.

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One of the most fascinating and unknown fields of science is human psychology. In this season of Prodigy we'll cover interesting topics like human hacking, lucid dreaming, penetration testing, narcissism and a lot more.

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There's a lot of misinformation going around about a "brand new" vaccine, but mRNA vaccines have been worked on since the 1970's. Luckily they were perfected just in time for the biggest crisis in modern history. Learn about how mRNA vaccines work and what one dedicated pediatrician has gone through in order to administer it to her community.

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Speedrunners are gamers that want to beat a game as fast as possible, but it isn’t just about speed. It’s about love. It’s about obsession... over all the ins and outs of a game, down to the very programming.

Alex Cardinale

@alexc_journals

Weldon Green

https://twitter.com/mindgamesweldon?lang=en

Eric Zimmerman

http://www.ericzimmerman.com/

DannyB

https://www.twitch.tv/dannyb

https://www.youtube.com/c/dannyb21892

https://twitter.com/dannyb21892

Chaos Drifter

https://www.twitch.tv/chaosdrifter

BeefChief

https://www.twitch.tv/beefchief33

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Conversation with Alex Rivers, a professional busker and late bloomer trying to make a name for himself as a violinist. I also spoke with Noel Brown, an executive producer, podcast host and musician whose father forced him to learn violin at an early age.

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Joshua Bell debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra at 14. Since then he's received a ton of awards and played with nearly every major orchestra in the world. His performance radiates emotion and rings with precision as the notes from his legendary Gibson Ex-Huberman Stradivarius spin through the halls.

Joshua gives us an inside look at his upbringing, the story behind his violin, the washington post experiment, how he practices, his favorite composers and more.

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I was diagnosed with ADHD at 35 years old. I describe my experience, the testing and the disorder. I also speak with a student with ADHD and Dr Gail Saltz about medication.

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Synesthesia is a connection between senses. It could be the key to understanding brilliance. Most people are born with it, but in a few rare cases people have acquired it after a traumatic brain injury. We'll also cover the neurodiversity of autism with Dr Simon Baron-Cohen.

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https://www.prodigypodcast.com/

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John von Neumann made major contributions to multiple fields including computers, physics, mathematics, economics and statistics. He helped design the atomic bomb, created game theory, provided the architecture for the modern computer, pioneered the concept of mutually assured destruction and developed the foundation for quantum physics.

Daniel Whiteson, particle physicist and host of the show Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe, joins us to describe the significance of von Neumann's work.

For more about his life, Stuff you Missed in History Class did an excellent episode on him.

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Ted Kaczynski had a higher IQ than Einstein and used the postal service to deliver handmade bombs to targets over the course of a 17 year long domestic terrorism campaign. It became the longest and most expensive manhunt in FBI history. 

The question is not what he did, but why...

This episode was written by Gabe Luzier

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