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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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Episodes about living well.
Handpicked podcast conversations about health, sleep, the body and the mind — evidence over trends.
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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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August 21, 2026
Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6
Freakonomics Radio · Stephen Dubner · 48 min
A quietly unsettling look at how much of medicine rests on numbers nobody re-checked. Not a conspiracy story — a story about how evidence actually accumulates, and how slowly it gets corrected.
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August 15, 2026
Are Bunions Born or Made?
Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman · Katy Bowman · 44 min
A biomechanist takes the most unglamorous subject imaginable and uses it to explain something larger: how the shape of a body records decades of small habits. No supplements, no protocols, no hype. Just careful thinking about how we live in our own feet.
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August 9, 2026
Matthew Walker on sleep, Part I: the dangers of poor sleep
The Peter Attia Drive · Matthew Walker · 1 hr 58 min
Two careful scientists taking their time with a subject most of us treat casually. There is no hype here and no product at the end, which is exactly why it changes behaviour more reliably than a book summary would.
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August 1, 2026
Eyes Wide Open: Part 2
Hidden Brain · Matthew Walker · 36 min
Sleep scientist Matthew Walker explains why the average adult's habit of trading sleep for productivity is a quiet act of self-sabotage. The conversation moves past generic advice into what actually happens in a dreaming brain and why it matters for memory, mood and health. It's the rare health segment that changes behavior without moralizing.
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