Dispatches: The Secret History of Biosphere 2
What if you could opt out of society and go live in a completely self-contained glass bubble in the desert? You and your team would be cut off from the rest of society. For two years, you’d have to gr...
21 Nov 201727min
Science of Survival: Adrift
What happens to people who are swept out to sea? Some survive for months and even years, alone in lifeboats eating whatever they can catch and drinking rainwater. In this episode we ask you, the liste...
14 Nov 201731min
Science of Survival: Frozen Alive Redux
As we get ready to roll out new Science of Survival episodes beginning November 14, we wanted to replay the one that started it all. This thrilling re-creation of the classic Outside feature by Peter ...
7 Nov 201728min
The Outside Interview: Can’t Hack It? Gene-Hack It
Peak performance has always been about getting as close to your genetic potential as possible. The limits of your training, nutrition, and recovery are dictated by your DNA. But what if they weren’t? ...
31 Okt 201729min
The Outside Interview: Doc Parsley Solves Your Sleep Crisis
If you want to understand sleep deprivation, you want to talk to a member of the Navy SEALs, who go nearly a week without rest during training. And there’s probably no better Navy SEAL to talk to than...
24 Okt 201734min
Dispatches: Can Humans Outrun Antelope?
Several decades ago, radio producer Scott Carrier and his brother Dave tried to chase down an antelope on foot. That might sound crazy, but Dave was an evolutionary biologist and had just come up with...
17 Okt 201747min
The Outside Interview: Dr. Michael Gervais on Mental Mastery
For most athletes, achieving peak performance means training hard, eating right, and maybe some stretching. But when you get to the elite level, where everyone’s doing that, it’s the mental game that ...
10 Okt 201734min
Dispatches: Captain Jackass
Kevin Fedarko is a celebrated and well-heeled journalist, accustomed to dropping in on an exotic place and extracting a story, often in less than a week. But in 2004, he left his job at Outside and we...
3 Okt 201758min
