How Earth’s harshest environments reveal what really matters | Victor Vescovo

How whales became the poets of the ocean | David Gruber

How dark matter and dark energy shape the cosmos | Janna Levin

Attention: The most sacred act of consciousness | Kelly Corrigan

Rainn Wilson explains what is truly sacred

Why Einstein called awe the fundamental emotion | Dacher Keltner

Even AI is self-censoring. Here’s why that matters. | Jacob Mchangama

This research team studies gratitude. Here’s what they’ve found. | Sarah Schnitker

Want to give someone more power? Try censoring them | Jacob Mchangama

So you spend a lot of time alone. Here’s why that’s not a bad thing | Ethan Kross

The case for canceling censorship | Jacob Mchangama

How to wait well, according to neuroscience and psychology | Sarah Schnitker

True free speech, explained in 6 minutes | Jacob Mchangama

When does self-discipline become virtue? | Sarah Schnitker

Is virtue worth pursuing? A psychologist explains | Sarah Schnitker

Debunking “living in the moment” and other bad emotional advice | Ethan Kross

The case for useless knowledge | Betül Kaçar

This one essential trait begins shaping us seconds after birth | Ethan Kross

No, you don’t need a lobotomy | Ethan Kross

Why philosophy needs the Bible (and vice versa) | Meghan Sullivan

The ocean is evolving, and it’s not based on the ‘survival of the fittest’ | Betül Kaçar

A philosopher’s guide to caring deeply | Meghan Sullivan

What it means to search for life we’ve never seen | Betül Kaçar

The moral significance of humanity, and how AI compares | Meghan Sullivan

Meet the survivors of Earth’s worst days | Betül Kaçar

The three laws of love, and how to follow them | Meghan Sullivan

Zero: The key to understanding everything? | Talithia Williams

Find the “inherent beauty” in math, in 2 minutes | Talithia Williams

How math brings order to our universe | Talithia Williams

How do scientists measure—and define—life? | Lee Cronin

Win back your agency from algorithms with data literacy | Talithia Williams

A bold new theory on why the universe keeps expanding | Lee Cronin

Human development has 5 key principles – here’s why they matter | Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

How the universe randomly unfolded from “quantum foam” | Lee Cronin

Yes, you CAN control your emotions — with these techniques | Arthur Brooks

How matter becomes life, in 7 minutes | Lee Cronin

The big problem with how we measure “intelligence” | Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

Sorry, but you DO need suffering in your life | Arthur Brooks

The vibrant colors of Earth’s 4.5 billion year lifespan | Robert Hazen

What well-being is (and isn’t), according to neuroscience | Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

Are non-living things… evolving? Yes, says leading mineralogist | Robert Hazen

The powers of transcendent thinking, explained by a neuroscientist | Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

We’re lonelier than ever — and there’s one big reason | Arthur Brooks

There is a formula for happiness — but it’s highly misunderstood | Arthur Brooks

These minerals are our #1 clue for the existence of other lifeforms | Robert Hazen

The missing law of nature, and how we found it | Robert Hazen

The symmetry that shaped physics: Frank Wilczek on Einstein’s legacy

Words do matter—and you might be using them all wrong | Alan Alda

How ‘mind-uploading’ stands to shake the core of humanity | Steven Kotler

All of the universe’s disorder, explained in 6 minutes | Sean Carroll

What geniuses get wrong about being “smart” | Barbara Oakley

You can change your brain in just 10 minutes. Here’s how | Daniel Goleman

What today’s hunter-gatherers can teach us about modern life | James Suzman

How do black holes actually interact with matter? | Michelle Thaller

Turning scientific constraints into breakthroughs: Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel | Janna Levin

Perception, explained in 3 minutes | Alva Noë

Einstein wasn’t a lone agent. Here’s why that matters. | George Musser

Facts don’t win fights — but this can | Tali Sharot

How should we be thinking about the future? | Dispatches from The Well Ep.7

3 rebellious creators tell us the meaning of life | Dispatches from The Well Ep.6