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September 23, 2026
233. How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future
Freakonomics Radio · Philip Tetlock · 47 min
The researcher behind decades of forecasting studies explains why experts are often wrong and how ordinary people get better.
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September 22, 2026
#102 Long Distance
Reply All · PJ Vogt & Alex Goldman · 48 min
A scam call becomes an unexpectedly human journey across the world. Funny, surprising and kinder than you expect.
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September 21, 2026
The Secret History of Thoughts
Invisibilia · Lulu Miller & Alix Spiegel · 56 min
A beautifully made episode about the dark, strange thoughts we all have, and how much weight we choose to give them.
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September 20, 2026
Tutankhamun
The Rest Is History · Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook · 49 min
Two historians turn the most famous tomb ever opened into a story about luck, obsession and what survives us.
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September 19, 2026
Understanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke
Huberman Lab · Dr. Anna Lembke · 2 hr 0 min
A psychiatrist explains, plainly and without judgement, how pleasure and pain balance each other in the brain.
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September 17, 2026
Mary Oliver — “I got saved by the beauty of the world.”
On Being · Mary Oliver · 50 min
A rare, unhurried conversation with the poet who spent a lifetime paying attention. Quiet, funny, and completely without pretence.
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September 16, 2026
Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
Sean Carroll's Mindscape · Robert Sapolsky · 1 hr 29 min
A neuroscientist walks backward from a single action, through seconds, years and millennia, to show how much stands behind every choice.
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September 15, 2026
Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer, a Forgotten Sect, and Underrated Artists
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
The Gondolier
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 vanishing pleasures of daily life
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
21. Majapahit - Empire of the Islands
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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