| Title | Link | What it's about... | What it's really about... |
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Revisiting... The Fault Line |
A man has brain surgery, and then notices a difference in his sexual preferences. What is happening here? How much is our biology directly responsible for the choices we make? |
Do we only have the illusion of choice? Are our bodies just physics-based systems, and our decisions the result of chemical reactions? Are we just really complicated machines? Say it ain't so... |
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How I Got Into College |
A man completely recounts his childhood, crediting chance and a few key individuals for his unlikely path from war-torn Bosnia to Harvard University. But how much of what he remembers is true? |
Our memories... *sigh* ... it seems that our subconscious creates a narrative, and our mind warps our memories to fit this narrative. And these narratives have deep claws. |
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Imperfect Plaintiffs |
When a social justice cause needs plaintiffs to fight court battles for, but the plaintiffs are less than ideal. |
Getting cases in front of the Supreme Court, and even winning, isn't the process I thought it was, and isn't what it used to be. |
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Saigon, 1965 |
During the Vietnam war, the Pentagon hired a company to interview North Vietnamese captives in order to determine if our war strategy would lead them to surrender. We kept bombing, they didn't surrender. What happened??? |
The harmful effects of not knowing the limitations of your own ability to be objective. Self interest fogs our vision, and can have dire consequences. |
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Dead is Paul |
Show hosts explain an interesting tweet about gorillas and a bizarre conspiracy. |
We see conspiracies when none exist, and that says a lot about us. |
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Amusement Park (Gamebody Grows Up) |
An amusement park worker has to leave his job because it can't support him financially. He clings to and ultimately struggles to give up the thing in life that he is the best at... for adulthood. |
We were all correct... growing up is the dumbest thing we ever did. |
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Rodney Verses Death |
An amazing story about rabies, which typically has a 100% kill rate. |
What we know, and what we think we know, will be fodder for laughter by future generations. |
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The Grand Tapestry of Pepe |
A cartoon character gets co-opted by the Alt Right. |
Nothing is safe on the internet. |
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One Last Thing Before I Go (Really Long Distance) |
A phone booth in a Japanese man's back yard is connected to nothing, but draws people who lost family and friends in the 2011 tsunami. |
Humans grieving... *sigh*... we are fascinating and wonderful creatures. I continue to be amazed by the variety of ways in which we reckon with the world. |
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Episode: Boy in Photo |
The internet sets out to find an awkward-looking teenage kid in an old photo. |
Things aren't often the way they seem. Also, the power and folly of crowd sourcing. |
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Brown, Black, and White |
The amazing story of an adopted child who has grown to become a man. Saying more would spoil it. |
The human capacity for love and depravity is often unexplainable. |