#86 Why a Harvard Professor Walked Away · And What the University Can’t Say Out Loud
Send Jim a Topic to Explore After forty years at Harvard, historian James Hankins quietly walked away. Not in protest. Not in anger. But with a diagnosis. In this episode of Think First, we examine Ha...
3 Jan 21min
#84 The 150-Terabyte Moment No One Talks About
Send Jim a Topic to Explore Every human carries the most advanced backup system on Earth — and it’s not your phone, your cloud account, or anything designed in Silicon Valley. It’s older, denser, more...
9 Des 202524min
#83 The Video That Crossed the Line · Congress, the Military, and the Fog Between Them
Send Jim a Topic to Explore When six lawmakers released a highly polished “You can refuse illegal orders” video aimed at America’s troops, the official explanation was simple: It was just a reminder. ...
1 Des 202547min
#82 The Shift No One Explained · Inside the LGB → LGBTQIA+ Break
Send Jim a Topic to Explore Something happened to the movement that began as L-G-B. It expanded — then expanded again — until the letters outgrew the definitions they were built on. This Think First i...
24 Nov 20251h 3min
#81 Something Is Killing the Cows
Send Jim a Topic to Explore A rancher finds his best bull bloodless at sunrise. No tracks. No struggle. No answers. From the 1970s panic to the Oregon cases making headlines today, “cattle mutilations...
13 Nov 202533min
#80 DNA and the Soul · The Architecture of Continuity
Send Jim a Topic to Explore What if DNA isn’t just a code of flesh, but the anchor of something older? In this episode, Jim Detjen explores the thin line between biology and belief — from inherited tr...
6 Nov 202523min
#78 Diversity Is Our Strength — Until You Disagree
Send Jim a Topic to Explore At 3:31 a.m. in Minneapolis, a sound echoes through the dark — a call that now defines a city’s new idea of “inclusion.” From that single moment, this episode unpacks the s...
22 Okt 202530min
#77 Weight of the World · Is the Obesity Epidemic a Side Effect or a Strategy?
Send Jim a Topic to Explore Something about the obesity epidemic doesn’t add up. Despite decades of “awareness,” our population keeps getting sicker, younger, and more dependent — while the system bui...
13 Okt 202527min
