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She redefined what it means to be human, kicked off a 60-year career as the most famous scientist on the planet, and started with no formal scientific training, just a notebook and a stuffed chimpanze...

6 Maj 22min

Modern AI feels like weather, an unpredictable storm of new models and breakthroughs. It is not weather, it is architecture, and the man who drew most of the blueprints did so before 1970. This episod...

6 Maj 18min

Imagine a mind so sharp it can see the invisible mathematical scaffolding underneath human behavior, then so wired for pattern that it starts constructing terrifying alternate realities that do not ex...

6 Maj 22min

Most historical turning points are loud, a war or a revolution. The one in this episode was silent. While Victorian London looked up at the sky for an invisible killer, one quiet anesthetist looked do...

6 Maj 20min

Nikola Tesla once stood in the Colorado wilderness and shot 135-foot bolts of artificial lightning into the night sky. About 400 years earlier, the Inca built an entire stone metropolis directly on to...

6 Maj 55min

Before social media and 24-hour news, one man ran a vaccine field trial involving 1.8 million children, ended a terror that was paralyzing the globe, and became so famous that pilots announced his pre...

6 Maj 21min

A computer can pass the bar exam, but until very recently it could not answer a question a five-year-old gets right: did the rooster's crow cause the sun to rise, or did the sun cause the rooster to c...

6 Maj 18min

You walk into a pristine white-cube gallery expecting polite Victorian paper silhouettes, the kind you might find in a 19th-century nursery scrapbook. You step closer and the illusion shatters: those ...

6 Maj 16min