Hidden Brain

The Past is Never Dead

anthropologist Joseph Henrich says the impact of culture goes even further, reaching into our bodies and our minds. He takes us on a journey through time to show how human cultures create a "collective brain," and how that shared knowledge profoundly shapes who we are and how we live.

Mixed Signals

Angel Studios Is Crowdsourcing A “Values-Based” Alternative To Hollywood

If storytelling is like upstream from culture, if our culture is going to look this way in 20 years, we're not super excited about that prospect.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

Software brain is powerful stuff. It's a way of thinking that basically created our modern world. But software thinking has also been turbocharged by AI in a way that I think helps explain the enormous gap between how excited the tech industry is about the technology and how regular people are growing to dislike it more and more over time.

Fresh Air

Malala Yousafzai

When my brothers moved to the UK, they switched to jeans right away. Nobody had any problem with it. But as soon as a girl decided to wear a pair of jeans, it became a whole issue.

The a16z Show

Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar

the most important thing America can do right now is inspire its latent heretics to step forward

Code Switch

The Scouts are too woke, according to Pete Hegseth

Like these are issues that have been with scouting almost since the beginning and that is what we're going to get into today. Like how these questions and controversies over race and gender have shaped the world of scouting back in the day and now.