Previous episodes
One choice for each day. Nothing to catch up on — browse if you like, or wait for tomorrow.
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September 15, 2026
Conversations with Tyler · Andrew Graham-Dixon · 57 min
Someone who has looked at paintings professionally for decades explains what he actually sees. It will change how long you stand in front of things.
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September 14, 2026
Radiolab · Latif Nasser · 1 hr 13 min
A story that starts somewhere very specific and ends up somewhere much larger. The kind of episode you describe badly and remember for years.
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September 13, 2026
The Gray Area · Sean Illing · 48 min
A conversation about the small ordinary pleasures that quietly left, and whether we traded them or lost them. Calm, and slightly bruising.
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September 12, 2026
Fall of Civilizations · Paul Cooper · 4 hr 31 min
Paul Cooper tells the story of a maritime empire most of us were never taught, with the pace of a long novel and no hindsight cleverness.
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September 11, 2026
The Knowledge Project · Kaz Nejatian · 55 min
A short, unsentimental hour about the boring middle of getting good at something. No hacks, which is why it lands.
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September 10, 2026
Dwarkesh Podcast · Adam Brown · 1 hr 38 min
The clearest introduction to general relativity you are likely to hear spoken aloud, from a physicist who refuses to hide behind the maths.
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September 9, 2026
99% Invisible · Roman Mars · 32 min
Designers love the phrase learn from nature. This looks at what that borrowing actually costs and who gets credit.
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September 8, 2026
Sean Carroll's Mindscape · Bonnie Bassler · 1 hr 16 min
Bacteria hold conversations, count each other and act together. Bassler explains it with the delight of someone who still cannot believe her luck.
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September 7, 2026
Hidden Brain · Peter Salovey · 48 min
The case that emotion is not the opposite of reason but part of the machinery. Careful, unhurried, and quietly useful.
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September 6, 2026
EconTalk · Ben Southwood · 1 hr 14 min
A patient argument that the biggest change in human material life had causes we still misread. Roberts pushes back, which is the point.
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September 5, 2026
Empire · William Dalrymple & Anita Anand · 55 min
A kidnapped teenager becomes a national symbol, and almost none of it happened the way the parade suggests. History as an argument about who owns a story.
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September 4, 2026
Between the Covers · Valeria Luiselli · 2 hr 45 min
David Naimon gives a serious writer the time serious writers rarely get. Slow, generous, and about form as a moral choice.
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