What Comes Next_
Thoughts on AI, predictive text, technological metaphors, and the string of thought.
🧠What Is Complexity?
Explore the intriguing world of complexity, where chaos meets order and simple systems reveal bewildering possibilities.
🧠What Is Religious Cognition?
Explore how beliefs in the divine shape our lives and decisions, in this deep dive into the underexplored field of religious cognition.
🙏Gratitude
Insights and open questions from within the science of gratitude
🎯What Is Fine Tuning?
Explore the enigmatic concept of fine tuning, where the universe's precise constants intriguingly align to support life, sparking debates across science and philosophy.
🌍What Is Cultural Evolution?
Explore how cultural evolution shapes societies and predicts future changes, from songbirds' trills to the spread of lactose tolerance.
🦕The Bone Wars
A bitter rivalry that unearthed dinosaurs and ignited a national obsession.
🤔What Is Intellectual Humility?
Explore the nuanced realm of intellectual humility, a vital virtue that balances curiosity and conviction, enhancing our understanding and discourse.
⛓️The Church Kidnaps Edgardo Mortara
A fascinating, tragic tale.
🕊️Bayard Rustin Marches Free
Pacifist Bayard Rustin marches free this week in 1946. Fresh from prison, his path leads to Gandhi and mentoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
🌟Anna May Wong Steps into the Spotlight
Explore the glamorous yet singular journey of Anna May Wong, Hollywood's first Chinese American movie star to shine globally.
🗳️Reconstruction IV - Voting Rights At Last
A century after the 15th Amendment, the Civil Rights movement challenges Congress to finally deliver on the promise of voting rights for all Americans.
✊🏾Reconstruction III - W.E.B. Du Bois' Black Reconstruction
Uncover W.E.B. Du Bois' revolutionary 1935 critique, *Black Reconstruction*, which reframed the post-Civil War era and challenged biased histories.
👨The Dangerous Myth of the Male Breadwinner
Explore how the myth of the male breadwinner, backed by historical and academic narratives, shaped societal views on family roles and gender dynamics.
⚖️Reconstruction I - Secession on Trial
Jefferson Davis's capture ignites a crucial question — How do you put secession itself on trial?
🗺️Dividing the Desert
A ceremonial pickaxe blow launches the audacious project to divide the desert and link two seas via the Suez Canal.
🕯️What the World Has to Learn from the Philosophy of Afro-Brazilian Religions
Explore how Afro-Brazilian religions blend diverse spiritual elements to address modern life’s complexities.
🕊️‘The Best Form of Self-Interest’
Explore the profound acts of forgiveness within religious communities as they confront unfathomable tragedies with grace and compassion.
⚖️Ethel Rosenberg's Day in Court
Courtroom drama as Ethel Rosenberg faces espionage charges, awaiting a verdict that seals her and her husband's fate.
🌳A Family Tree With 27 Million Branches
A new technique lets researchers plumb oceans of human genetic data to produce the largest ever family tree — and they’re just getting started.
⚖️A Serial Killer Helps Abolish the Death Penalty
1950s London serial killer John Christie unexpectedly played a role in ending capital punishment in Britain.
🕌Religious but Not Spiritual
Explore how "Never Have I Ever" blends humor with the complexities of Hindu identity in modern America, through the eyes of its vibrant protagonist, Devi.
✊Claudette Colvin Didn't Give Up Her Seat
The 15-year-old arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks' famous act.
⚖️Hitler Stands Trial
Hitler faced treason charges in a Munich courtroom in 1924 after a near-successful coup.
📜Inequality and the Constitution
Explore how James M. Buchanan's public choice theory intersects with Madison's constitutional ideals, highlighting tensions in America's founding principles.
⚾️Black Baseball Goes Pro
On Feb 13, 1920, Rube Foster led the charge against exclusion, gathering owners to forge a professional league exclusively for Black baseball players.
🔮East Asia’s Religious Futures
Explore how six East Asian countries shape the future of global religion in a groundbreaking survey revealing trends and transformations.
🚬Ancestral Smoking Is Bad for You, Too
A new study links present-day health with childhood tobacco use three generations prior
🚫The Great Comic Book Scare
Explore the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s, as figures like Fredric Wertham clash over whether comics truly corrupt America's youth.
🤝‘Together in Our Differences’
New Pluralists are uniting activists, storytellers and funders to explore the paradox and promise of American diversity
🌍Six Continents, 22 Countries, 240,000 Voices - Creating an Unprecedented Window on How Humans Can Flourish and Change
Discover how a groundbreaking study explores global human well-being through the diverse lenses of 240,000 individuals from 22 countries.
👮How ‘Policing for Profit’ Disproportionately Affects Poor and Minority Groups
Explore the impact of Philadelphia's civil forfeiture program, which targeted Black and low-income residents, revealing systemic injustices in asset seizure practices.
😰How Lincoln Almost Lost it All
Union hopes hang on a risky bridge at Fredericksburg in December 1862. Discover how this desperate battle nearly costs Lincoln everything.
🤝The Evolution of Cooperation
Explaining the evolution of cooperation — one of life’s most common, complex, and paradoxical phenomena
🤔Thanksgiving Reconsidered
Reconsider Thanksgiving's history by exploring the Wampanoag story and a crucial 1970 protest challenging the traditional narrative.
🎈Defying Gravity and Monarchy
Defy gravity in 1783 Paris! Relive the tension and triumph of the first human hot air balloon flight, featured on The History Channel's podcast.
🌀What Does a 1,800-year-old Buddhist Classic Have to Say about Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality?
A renowned physicist discusses the philosophy of emptiness with the Dalai Lama’s doctor
💣Remember, Remember the 5th of November
Unravel the mystery of the anonymous tip that foiled the Gunpowder Plot. Revisit the tense search beneath Parliament on November 4th, 1605.
📉Social Hostility Towards Religion Declined in 2019, According to Recent Research
A Decline in Terrorism Led the Reduction, while Government Hostility Remained Steady
🌍The Sky is Falling
Learn about the day Mario Molina won the Nobel Prize for proving the sky *was* falling, detailed in a fact-checked History Channel podcast episode.
🔬Is One of Biology’s Perennial Themes Ready For a Fresh Look? Alan Love on the Science of Purpose.
University of Minnesota philosopher Alan Love studies the interplay between philosophy and biology.
🌌Paul Davies on ‘What’s Eating the Universe?’
Paul Davies explores the universe's deepest mysteries, from the origins of the cosmos to the possibility of time travel, in his latest thought-provoking book.
🔭Early-Career Astrophysicists and Social Scientists Will Have a Front-Row Seat for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Groundbreaking Night Sky Survey
Early-career scientists gain unprecedented access to the stars with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s groundbreaking sky survey.
🙏The Strangest Gathering of Men
Explore the 1893 Parliament of World Religions where a Hindu monk holds a Chicago audience spellbound. A truly strange, historic gathering.
🕰️Quantum biology and the arrow of time
Jellyfish and migratory birds may help physicists understand the mysterious shift from quantum to classical mechanics
🐻The True Winnie-the-Pooh
Discover the true WWI story behind Winnie-the-Pooh! Learn how a real Canadian bear cub named Winnie inspired A.A. Milne's beloved character.
🧩India’s Patchwork Pluralism
A groundbreaking nationwide survey explores what Indians believe about their own and their fellow citizens’ religious faiths
🧐The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
The story begins with a discarded doorknob...
🏴Pop Music Pirates
Pirate ships blast pop music across 1960s England from the high seas. Explore this rebellious radio history chapter, featured by The History Channel.
🌳The Road Less Traveled
Journey back to August 1915 as Robert Frost publishes "The Road Not Taken," forever changing American poetry with its famous diverging roads.
🥇Jesse Owens Takes Germany
Jesse Owens challenges Hitler's Nazi regime at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, running into history and defying racial hatred on the world stage.