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It’s Never Too Early to Protect Your Hearing (w/ David Owen) and Why You Should Work in 90-Minute Spurts
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2020-03-04
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Fonts Can Send Political Messages, Don’t Always Trust Your First Instinct, and Nucleic Acids Beyond DNA and RNA
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2020-03-03
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History’s Average Commute Time, Fight Procrastination with Emotions, and the Largest Ever Study of Cancer Genomes
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2020-03-02
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Quitting Smoking May Reawaken Healthy Cells, Why You Yawn During Exercise, and Telling the Age of Crime Scene Fingerprints
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2020-02-28
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Lying to Seem Honest, The Physics of the ‘Cheerios Effect,’ and Wasps that Recognize Faces
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2020-02-27
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Pablo Escobar's Hippos Overtaking Colombia, More Phytoplankton Is Good for the Planet, and Seeing Climate Change in Daily Weather
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2020-02-26
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Katherine Johnson’s Legacy, The World’s First Living Robots, and Zinc Doesn’t Cure Colds
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2020-02-25
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Your Dance Style Is as Unique as Your Fingerprint, the Myth of Muscle Confusion, and How Animals Get Color Without Pigment
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2020-02-24
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Why Brussels Sprouts Taste Better Now, Luxury Buying Makes People Feel Fake, and Whether People Think in Words or Pictures
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2020-02-21
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GPS’s Past and Future (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Why It's OK to Nap Without Falling Asleep
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2020-02-20
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How Beauty Sleep Boosts Beauty, Plants Talk to Worms for Self-Defense, and Fighting Deepfakes with Heart Rate
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2020-02-19
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Tips for Happy, Healthy Aging (w/ Daniel Levitin) and a Massive Collision Helped Us Judge the Milky Way’s Age
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2020-02-18
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Employees Should Surf the Web at Work, Hear a 3,000-Year-Old Mummy’s Voice, and Being Cold Makes Us Crave Social Contact
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2020-02-17
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Opposites Don’t Attract, We Like What’s Physically Close to Us, and the History of Last Names
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2020-02-14
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How GPS Clocks Work (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Why Stress Turns Hair Gray
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2020-02-13
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The Academic Benefits of Emotional Intelligence, Atoms Split in Uneven Shapes, and Wolf Puppies Can Play Fetch
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2020-02-12
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A Reason to Reveal Your Failures, the Time Tulips Cost More Than Houses, and the Death of Planet WASP-12b
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2020-02-11
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Stanford Technique for Picking Creative Ideas, Why Whales Are So Big (But Not Bigger), and the First Medical Diagnosis and Treatment in Space from Earth
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2020-02-10
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Measuring the Deadliness of Viruses (Like Coronavirus), Why We Do the Potty Dance, and Depression’s Cousin “Acedia”
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2020-02-07
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The Invention of GPS (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Planning Cheat Days to Achieve Your Goals
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2020-02-06
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