1. Everyday Philosophy: Bad at probability? That might be a blessing.

2. Why does it feel like the world is falling apart?

3. Ask Ethan: Do gravitons need to exist?

4. A surprising share of the global elite went to Harvard

5. 10 lessons I learned in 2024

6. Gold, frankincense, and myrrh: one gift was made in a neutron star

7. How we discovered we’re all made of “star stuff”

8. How to disrupt misinformation with the “ladder of misinference”

9. The “Demon Method”: How necromancy once solved everyone’s problems

10. The 16 stories that shaped physics and astronomy in 2024

11. Mapped: The strange link between obesity and corruption

12. Why we ghost

13. The art of outlasting: What we can learn from timeproof Japanese businesses

14. Waves in an Impossible Sea: the 2024 science book of the year

15. 3 philosophy classics that are better than self-help books

16. 5 ways women are redefining leadership

17. The most important lesson from JWST’s “baby Milky Way”

18. Has the US reached “peak obesity”?

19. Silicon Valley’s obsession with AI looks a lot like religion

20. Should we turn the electricity grid over to AI?

21. The “living mirror” theory: Why all living organisms may have consciousness

22. Everyday Philosophy: Are rainbows, farts, and emotions “real”?

23. The philosophy of happiness, explained in 10 minutes

24. Go grudge-free: Use the “Weil method” to deal with insults

25. Ask Ethan: Does quantum computation occur in parallel universes?

26. How emotional intelligence is the best defence against GenAI threats

27. How BioNTech’s “revolutionary” lung cancer vaccine actually works

28. Inside Google’s quantum computing breakthrough

29. The secret reason the USA beat the USSR to the Moon

30. How to reclaim meaning in a changing world

31. Galactic civilizations may be impossible. Here’s why.

32. Emotional intelligence: The 4 domains of high performance

33. The quantum reason behind the solidity of matter

34. The case for Nietzsche’s “Overhuman” as a prophecy of superintelligent AI

35. Blaming our genes: The heritability of behavior

36. The key to techno-scientific progress? “Bubbles”

37. The Big Bang: a series of steps down an energy staircase

38. Why we need a better Turing test for AI art

39. Our population is aging, here’s how to care for it correctly

40. How large is the biggest galaxy in the Universe?

41. Plato’s cave and the stubborn persistence of ignorance

42. The big problems driving nanotech development

43. Starts With A Bang Podcast #112 – Galactic Archaeology

44. Can humans purge the bots without sacrificing our privacy?

45. Everyday Philosophy: If beauty is subjective, is “Shawshank Redemption” no better than “Sausage Party”?

46. How your brain works in an emergency, in 9 minutes

47. Ask Ethan: Will everything eventually succumb to Hawking radiation?

48. America’s workforce desperately needs a data overhaul

49. What long-term investors can learn from John Keats

50. This is what we’ll see when Betelgeuse goes supernova

51. When it comes to life expectancy, there are 10 Americas

52. Ethan Mollick’s 4 guiding principles for leading with AI

53. How B-mesons are threatening to break the Standard Model

54. Dr. AI will see you now

55. In the Baltics, 85 millimeters separate East from West

56. The future in 1939: Microfilm and Elektro the Moto-Man

57. The fabric of space is a Cheshire Cat

58. Trapped under a selfish boss? Try these 3 strategies to regain control

59. What JWST found beneath the Sombrero galaxy’s hat

60. Silicon chips are no longer sustainable. Here’s what’s next.

61. How the Internet Archive’s “Free Digital Library” fell to the “fair use” test

62. Everyday Philosophy: “Are scientists involved in a Satanic plot to undermine religion?”

63. The basics of post-COVID monetary policy, explained by an economist

64. How the “two-day rule” can make your daily work-life much easier

65. Why the number “1/137” appears everywhere in nature

66. Biofuels: feeding the earth or feeding the engine?

67. Confucius vs. Aristotle: What the two philosophers teach us about ethics

68. What we can learn about resilience from the Pantheon

69. What happens when a gravitational wave meets a black hole?

70. Einstein wins again: Exotic gravity theories take a blow from new observations

71. Can we automate science? Sam Rodriques is already doing it.

72. The Steady-State Universe: A viable alternative to the Big Bang?

73. The Arecibo Message fifty years later

74. 3 clues that Stoicism is a religion in disguise

75. Why our “weak-tie” connections are actually super-strong

76. Could dark matter be the same thing as dark energy?

77. You’re made of energy: The strange truth about where mass comes from

78. Why seeing Galileo’s original experiments left me speechless

79. Scalar fields: the secret sauce of theoretical physics

80. Why the USSR and China fell behind the US in the Chip Cold War

81. Are microplastics really destroying our health?

82. Everyday Philosophy: Can you have a “calling” without a caller?

83. The mystery at the heart of consciousness

84. Ask Ethan: Does the CMB really “prove” the Big Bang?

85. The first known animal that’s “immune” to alcohol intoxication

86. How AI is ushering in a creative renaissance

87. How to make peace with the weirdness of quantum mechanics

88. When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow

89. 3 emotional intelligence tips for helping a friend in a rough patch

90. How to break free from your “toxic productivity” cycle

91. What happens if you deep fry a frozen turkey?

92. The pre-life puzzle: Tracing the rise of complexity in a lifeless world

93. Microplastic overload: Is cutting production the only realistic way to curb pollution?

94. Why every long-term investor should study ancient architecture

95. Use this genius Pixar hack to get your career back on track

96. What do JWST’s “red monster” galaxies mean for cosmology?

97. Daniel Goleman: Why emotional intelligence may be the number one indicator of organizational success

98. The mechanized mind: AI’s hidden impact on human thought

99. How leaders can avoid a power-driven descent from hero to villain

100. 5 coincidences that make our existence possible

101. How tech is turning science into a hobby

102. Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting

103. AI is now designing chips for AI

104. New UFO hearings continue an “endless loop” of sensation

105. Everyday Philosophy: When should you try to change your friend’s beliefs?

106. Sam Harris: Your mind is all you have. Is yours working?

107. How “Taleb’s Surgeon” redefines what expertise look like

108. Ask Ethan: How do scientists color the Universe?

109. The next omics? Tracking a lifetime of exposures to better understand disease

110. Are your moral choices driven by logic or emotion?

111. How to win the long game: Fight unfair fights

112. How a nearby supernova could reveal dark matter

113. Two essential questions about life in the Universe

114. This fungus is so humongous that it can be mapped

115. The science of menopause in 13 minutes

116. A new origin story for supernovae after 94 years

117. Internet freedom is fading in the new era of social control

118. Why founders should fight hardwired “hyperbolic discounting”

119. Political realities do not change scientific ones

120. Is this the biggest industrial espionage campaign in history?

121. Signs of “neutrino fog” emerge, complicating searches for dark matter

122. How a companion can change a star’s fate

123. Color is in the eye, and brain, of the beholder

124. Port workers are at war with automation. Can they win?

125. Starts With A Bang podcast #111 – Black hole jets

126. The most detailed brain map ever

127. Everyday Philosophy: Is there such a thing as a “negative emotion”?

128. Ask Ethan: Is antigravity even possible?

129. The Brandt Line gave us the Global North and South. It needs an update.

130. Inside the world’s most important company

131. Why AI could transform all jobs into BS

132. Is “round” the only allowable shape for planets?

133. The Cybathlon: Bionic athletes compete for the gold — and push assistive technologies forward

134. Scientists kill 192 million lab mice each year. Is there a better way?

135. Why “slow productivity” is the key to great work and happy teams

136. Yuval Noah Harari: An AI scenario you should not ignore

137. Why “humanity’s last exam” will ultimately fail humanity

138. Will protons last forever? Why scientists are searching for signs of decay

139. The case for sparing 46 million turkeys this Thanksgiving

140. The one temptation to resist post-election: Good vs. evil

141. Question: Are you asking the “right” questions?

142. JWST compels us to ask: what’s wrong with Vega?

143. 5 beloved fantasy novels based on real history

144. 5 proven CEO strategies for riding any wave of innovation

145. Ryan Holiday on the art of perception and self-reflection

146. The physics behind curly hair

147. Why futurist Amy Webb sees a “technology supercycle” headed our way

148. T-Minus: 10 milestones in commercial spaceflight

149. Everyday Philosophy: Why does heartbreak hurt?

150. What are the consequences of living as a human in an “always on” digital world?

151. Grasp “essentially contested concepts” for smoother productivity

152. Ask Ethan: Why isn’t Richard Feynman your personal hero?

153. How the Europa Clipper will set cameras on a distant icy moon

154. If aliens visit Earth, let’s hope they’ve overcome their savage past

155. Meet the first star system to “solve” the 3-body problem

156. Mark Zuckerberg’s 4 steps to approach life

157. Ken Burns on what we get wrong about Leonardo da Vinci

158. Mars could have lived, even without a magnetic field

159. Is the number of natural disasters increasing?

160. The “magic third” rule: How just one voice can transform a group

161. Why “digital wellbeing” is crucial to our work-life transformation

162. The biggest holes in NASA’s suite of observatories

163. Einstein didn’t say that: How viral misquotes evolve and replicate

164. Creativity is essential. Here’s how it can catalyze social justice.

165. “Founder syndrome”: How to move forward when leaders stagnate

166. The mystery of the Milky Way’s most bizarre supernova

167. The exciting research that may cure Parkinson’s

168. The robotaxis have arrived

169. Everyday Philosophy: Can you self-identify as a different generation?

170. Ask Ethan: What’s the deal with cosmic inflation and the Big Bang?

171. Your cells are dying. All the time.

172. The “peer instinct”: The ancient tribal instinct behind human culture

173. The new ethos permeating the investment world

174. Einstein: the lone genius is pure mythology

175. A new spin on the “Stoned Ape Hypothesis”

176. 3 brilliant critical thinking tools used by Daniel Dennett

177. 8 lessons on lifelong learning from an astrophysicist

178. Holocaust survivor on freeing yourself from the prison of your mind

179. “It’s just like plugging in your phone”: The mindset shift needed to scale EVs

180. “Move fast and break things”? Slow down and go long

181. Indispensable? Why some leaders should embrace succession

182. How has the James Webb Space Telescope changed cosmology?

183. A neuroscientist’s guide to building a more positive reality

184. Tactical leadership: The “Navy SEALs” of Airbnb

185. Euclid mission reveals “page 1” of our cosmic story

186. This $400 genetic test could save your life

187. Why physics is unreasonably good at creating new math

188. Decoding bird flu: New research reveals potential route for human infection

189. Everyday Philosophy: Do emojis help or hurt our language?

190. Yuval Noah Harari’s guidebook for navigating the age of AI

191. The “McNamara fallacy”: When data leads to the worst decision

192. Ask Ethan: Why is the Big Bang shown as a tube?

193. Hell or high water: The wonders and dangers of Earth’s tidal ranges

194. The AI manifesto of a Silicon Valley legend

195. Time: yes, it’s a dimension, but no, it’s not like space

196. How elite rescue swimmers stay calm in life-or-death situations

197. The nuances of “founder mode”: Boundaries and empowerment

198. How NASA’s Europa Clipper helps the hunt for alien life

199. Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight

200. The “friendship divide” explained: How your education affects your ability to connect

201. 10 thoughtful insights about the great cosmic unknowns

202. “Mad King” behavior: A prediction for how 21st-century nuclear war would unfold

203. 6 compelling reasons your work future is “skills-powered”

204. The 3 best locations for astronomy on planet Earth

205. AI chatbots may ease the world’s loneliness (if they don’t make it worse)

206. How much do you have to play with your kids?

207. The master plan to end EV “range anxiety” forever

208. Everyday Philosophy: Are Stoicism and Buddhism unhealthy philosophies?

209. Ask Ethan: Do evolution and natural selection occur cosmically?

210. Can ranked-choice voting heal our poisoned politics?

211. Autocracy, Inc.: Today’s dictators are united — but not by ideology

212. How to create an “idea generation assembly line”

213. Why the black hole information paradox still hasn’t been solved

214. Tap into the “Hemingway effect” to finish what you start

215. This Muslim microstate could soon be the world’s smallest country

216. Why ‘friction thinkers’ see hidden opportunities first

217. How ideas from physics drive AI: the 2024 Nobel Prize

218. A wobble from Mars could be sign of dark matter

219. Timothy Snyder on what Americans get wrong about freedom

220. “Inclusive leadership” redefined: How to “lead bigger”

221. The Kevin Kelly interview: The power of “radical optimism”

222. Infinite Cosmos: The inside story behind JWST

223. The “Whisperverse”: The future of mobile computing is an AI voice inside your head

224. Youngest Milky Way-like galaxy rotates just like we do

225. Navigating autism and loneliness with Kaelynn Partlow

226. Leadership lessons from 3 timeless philosophers

227. Ian Brooke wants to revolutionize flight as we know it

228. What makes a memory real?

229. Starts With A Bang podcast #110 – Optical Interferometry

230. Will AI supercharge hacking — if it hasn’t already?

231. How the search for dinosaurs on Venus exposed a warning for Earth

232. How “umwelt” can make you more creative and productive

233. Ask Ethan: How does the Universe’s temperature change over time?

234. Moon time is a thing now—here’s why It matters

235. Why happiness is not the best indicator of well-being

236. The mountains where Neanderthals forever altered human genetics

237. The thrill is in the hunt — not just the victory

238. What created more light: the Big Bang or stars?

239. Americans don’t understand their government. They’re paying the price.

240. 6 key abilities of strategic thinkers (you can learn them)

241. How to see the comet of the century from all over the world

242. Is discovery inevitable or serendipitous?

243. “Follow the salt”: A new strategy for finding life on Mars

244. Curiosity plus failure is a passport to brilliance

245. Company culture can be hard to define: Here’s a framework

246. Not remotely cool: The science of “Zoom fatigue”

247. Does dark matter interact non-gravitationally at all?

248. Why the ancient power of the Dao De Jing is more important than ever

249. 5 ways to turn curiosity into long-term success

250. Fastest spacecraft ever built to break its own speed record

251. No, LLMs still can’t reason like humans. This simple test reveals why.

252. Crows are even smarter than we thought

253. The startup using balloons to cool the planet

254. Everyday Philosophy: I didn’t tip for a $5 cup of coffee. Was I wrong?

255. Ask Ethan: Is Earth the center of the Universe?

256. Study reveals the benefits and downside of fasting

257. World’s largest solar project will send Australian energy to Singapore

258. The trillion-dollar answer to AI’s biggest question

259. Your head lives a longer life than your feet do

260. “Wonderbringers”: How to dissolve work-life stress with awe

261. How suicide warped David Foster Wallace’s legacy

262. Why hasn’t JWST broken the cosmic distance record by more?

263. Tinder Swindler: How “romance fraud” became a multi-billion dollar cybercrime

264. How “Restoration Networking” can shape our work-life transformation

265. 3 subtle traits of successful late bloomers

266. 5 ways for leaders to evolve with the modern workforce

267. Play it again: The causal link between fun and resilience

268. Shortest-lived quantum particles exhibit quantum entanglement, too

269. Decoding the brain’s dictionary: Scientists map how neurons encode word meanings

270. The man that found purpose after losing his sight

271. “Humanity strikes back”: The 5th industrial revolution

272. JWST shows a new side of planet formation

273. The rise of the semi-autonomous car

274. How we solved the hole in the ozone

275. The future of fertility, from artificial wombs to AI-assisted IVF

276. Everyday Philosophy: 3 rules for discussing controversial topics

277. Use the “Johari Window Model” to improve your conversations

278. Ask Ethan: Does space require dark energy in order to exist?

279. Scientists find neurons that process language on different timescales

280. CERN experiment unlocks new insights into the W boson

281. Big tech fails transparency test: Gary Marcus on what we should demand of AI

282. The essential skill to master across life and business

283. Hidden variable alternative to quantum spookiness fails

284. Sara Imari Walker: Using physics to rethink the definition of life

285. Sara Imari Walker: Using physics to rethink the defintion of life

286. Longest, strongest black hole jets of all-time discovered

287. Happy? Take “psychological ownership” of your job

288. The dirt on biocrusts: Why scientists are working to save Earth’s living skin

289. How Innovation Clusters Generate Endless Great Ideas

290. Richard Dawkins on reverse engineering evolution’s optimal beauty

291. Why hard-wired “power laws” hold the secret to better work

292. Why we’ll never shoot Earth’s garbage into the Sun

293. How Greek surnames reveal their geographic origins

294. What JWST found in the extreme outer Milky Way

295. T-Minus: 10 space stations of the future

296. Divided we stand: The rise of political animosity

297. Beyond screen time: Rethinking kids’ tech use with the “Goldilocks hypothesis”

298. Everyday Philosophy: Can you build an intellectual friendship with someone you’re attracted to?

299. People say altruism is selfish. They’re not wrong

300. Ask Ethan: Could a “copy” of me exist in the Multiverse?