Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”

The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?

There are steps we can take to create a new paradigm that will help shift society's attitude towards women in the workplace.

Lockdowns moved the burden of COVID from the at-risk elderly to the less-at-risk young. Does this sacrifice merit compensation?

The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.

"I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic."

Hundreds of millions of animals get killed for meat every day.

Our intuitive understanding of time is very different from a physicist's understanding of time. How do we reconcile these views?

Stem cells from a fetus can live within the mother for decades — and help her heal.

Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.

When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.

The sooner you can admit what’s swimming beneath the surface, the sooner you can improve your life.

Stories of child prodigies and the naturally gifted hide the fact that success is built on more than talent alone.

Roger Babson wanted a “partial insulator, reflector, or absorber of gravity” — something, anything, that would stop or dampen it.

We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world's greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.

Are we the stories we tell? Kmele sat down with legendary conservationist Jane Goodall, actor Terry Crews and psychologist Dan McAdams to discuss how humanity makes its meaning.

Bo Seo, Esther Perel, and Dan Shapiro share their tips for arguing better.

When the hot Big Bang first occurred, the Universe reached a maximum temperature never recreated since. What was it like back then?

A single knife is sometimes worth more than a thousand armies.

Long before the birth of Julius Caesar, the Roman Republic appointed all-powerful dictators to protect their state in times of crisis. They were remarkably self-restrained and obedient to the Roman Constitution.