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September 11, 2026
Opendoor CEO: Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
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
Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
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
The Borrowed Nature of Biomimicry
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
361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together
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
How Feelings Make Us Smarter
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
The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution (with Ben Southwood)
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
385. Saint Patrick: Slave, Rebel, & Ireland’s Patron Saint (Ep 3)
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
Valeria Luiselli : Beginning Middle End
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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September 3, 2026
Nick Bostrom on What Happens if AI Solves All of Our Problems
Odd Lots · Nick Bostrom · 56 min
Instead of asking what goes wrong, Bostrom asks what is left for us if everything goes right. The uncomfortable question underneath the loud one.
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September 1, 2026
How memory changes you
The Gray Area · Sean Illing · 59 min
A conversation about memory as an act of construction rather than storage, and what that means for who you think you have been.
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August 31, 2026
Patient Zero
Radiolab · Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich · 52 min
How a story about the beginning of an outbreak becomes a story about how we assign blame. Radiolab at its most patient and least sensational.
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