🗳️ PodcastsStrict ScrutinyPolitics · Melissa Murray, Leah Litman, Kate Shaw · 2019Three legal scholars dissect the US Supreme Court — its arguments, its opinions, and its evolving constitutional reasoning — with humor and bite.Recommend it?
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🔬 PodcastsDaniel and Jorge Explain the UniverseScience · Daniel Whiteson & Jorge Cham · 2018A physicist and a cartoonist gleefully demystify the biggest questions in physics, astronomy, and cosmology.Recommend it?
🔬 PodcastsThe Naked ScientistsScience · Chris Smith · 2001A Cambridge doctor strips the lab coat off cutting-edge science with celebrity guests, listener questions, and live experiments.Recommend it?
🔬 PodcastsBig Picture ScienceScience · Seth Shostak & Molly Bentley · 2007A weekly science magazine show from the SETI Institute, covering the universe, biology, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.Recommend it?
🔬 PodcastsHi-Phi NationScience · Barry Lam · 2017A narrative-style philosophy podcast that takes a real-world story and unpacks the philosophical and scientific puzzles inside it.Recommend it?
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💻 PodcastsCoRecursiveTechnology · Adam Gordon Bell · 2017Long, story-driven interviews with software engineers about how famous programs got built — beautiful for working developers.Recommend it?
💻 PodcastsPractical AITechnology · Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson · 2018A weekly show covering practical applications of artificial intelligence — focused on the engineering and the use cases, not the hype.Recommend it?
🎤 PodcastsPeople I (Mostly) AdmireInterview · Steve Levitt · 2020The Freakonomics co-author interviews remarkable people — Nobel laureates, athletes, scientists, magicians — about how they think.Recommend it?
🎤 PodcastsGetting CuriousInterview · Jonathan Van Ness · 2018The Queer Eye grooming expert asks experts to teach him about one specific topic per episode — politics, ferns, monarchies, neutrons.Recommend it?
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📚 PodcastsTED Talks DailyEducation · Elise Hu · 2013A new TED Talk in your feed every weekday — the briefest possible window into another field, another expert, another idea.Recommend it?
📚 PodcastsStuff You Should KnowEducation · Josh Clark & Chuck Bryant · 2008A twice-weekly explainer about anything and everything — how cold cases are solved, how octopuses work, how marshmallows are made.Recommend it?
📚 Podcasts99% InvisibleEducation · Roman Mars · 2010A show about the thought and design that goes into the unnoticed parts of the built world — fonts, flags, intersections, public benches.Recommend it?
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📚 PodcastsThe AllusionistEducation · Helen Zaltzman · 2015A short, witty podcast about language — etymology, dialects, naming, slang, and the social history packed inside words.Recommend it?
📚 PodcastsLexicon ValleyEducation · John McWhorter · 2012A Columbia linguist gleefully nerds out about phonology, grammar, slang, and the ever-changing English language.Recommend it?
📚 PodcastsThe History of PhilosophyEducation · Peter Adamson · 2010A long-running chronological tour of the history of philosophy "without any gaps," from the Pre-Socratics through Islamic philosophy and beyond.Recommend it?
📚 PodcastsNo Stupid QuestionsEducation · Stephen Dubner & Angela Duckworth · 2020Two great thinkers ask each other one fundamental question per week about human behavior, motivation, and the way our minds actually work.Recommend it?
📚 PodcastsCoffee Break SpanishEducation · Mark Pentleton & Kara Leite · 2006A long-running Spanish-learning podcast structured around 15-to-20-minute lessons designed for the coffee-break commuter.Recommend it?
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