Arthur Brooks studies happiness for a living, and he says the epidemic of depression and anxiety among young adults comes down to one culprit: a meaning crisis.

How do you unlearn a story about yourself that the whole world seemed to agree on? Margaret Cho has been working on that answer for a long time. This is where she landed.

Jonny Thomson walks through Dietrich Bonhoeffer's 3 conditions for stupidity that destroys societies: outsourcing your thinking to an authority, willful ignorance, and conformity. 

Physician Giulia Enders walks through 5 body parts, explaining what each one reveals about how we work, heal, and recover.

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Psychologist Paul Bloom explains why morality, the thing that makes cooperation and trust possible, is also what drives cruelty, cycles of revenge, and wars where both sides believe they're the moral ones.

RapperIce-T on how his career changed, his life expanded, and his perspective shifted over his last six decades of life.

Why does life keep getting more complex? Why doesn't evolution get stuck? Physicist Stephen Wolfram has been working on this for decades. Turns out the answer is more simple (and more strange) than we expected.

Psychologist Paul Bloom examines why loneliness feels like starvation, why people are drawn to behaving poorly, and why revenge feels righteous until it destroys everything.

Singer, actress, and daughter of Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson, Carnie Wilson reflects on a life of very public transformation — and what it feels like to finally look back and recognize the person she's become.

We experience only one small slice of the ruliad. What’s the ruliad? Stephen Wolfram explains.

What do the laws of physics, biological evolution, and your free will have in common? The same mathematical principle runs through all of them. Stephen Wolfram has spent 40 years finding it.

Steve Brusatte, the paleontologist behind Jurassic World's science and author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, walks through what fossils actually prove versus what Hollywood invented. 

Zena Hitz argues that the real philosophers are taxi drivers, office clerks, and prisoners: Everyday people who exist outside the cult of academia.

In conversation with Kmele Foster, Dan Carlin unpacks the myth of shared reality, the erosion of society, and the history that preceded it.

Classicist Mary Beard explains why you should read The Odyssey before going to see Christopher Nolan's adaptation of the epic.

Most ‘theories of everything’ make the universe feel smaller. Physicist Stephen Wolfram's does the opposite.

Neuroscientist Lisa Genova explains how to protect your brain against Alzheimer's and the science of forgetting.

We often ask how to reach enlightenment, as if it’s a destination. A better question may be: how do we practice enlightened behavior in everyday life? And once we begin, how does our reality evolve?

Tim Spector breaks down the science of how gut microbes produce the chemicals that shape your mood, your immune system, and your cognitive health.