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Speech interjections aren't throwaway lines
Bonus episode: Knowable Magazine Podcast co-host Adam Levy talks with linguists Mark Dingemanse and Martina Wiltschko about the importance of the little "throwaway" utterances we use during…
S3E4 Quantum entanglement's long journey from 'spooky' to law of nature
Quantum mechanics has always included mind-bending ideas. But the concept of quantum entanglement, famously termed "spooky at a distance" by Albert Einstein in a 1947 letter, seemed to challenge the…
S3E3 How the placebo effect went mainstream
Sloppy by modern standards — and maybe even those back then — a 1955 article on the placebo effect by Harvard anesthesiologist Henry K. Beecher was nonetheless remarkable and influential. It paved…
S3E2 The fossil that launched a dinosaur revolution
The fossil Archaeopteryx forever changed our understanding of dinosaurs and the origin of birds, but it took a century after its discovery and a one-page paper to shift scientific consensus. Here's…
S3E1 Scientists warned about climate change in 1965. Nothing was done.
A key report to President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 warned that humankind was "unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment" through the burning of fossil fuels and a consequent buildup of…
S2E6 How antidepressants changed ideas about depression
Serendipitous discoveries led to drugs like Prozac and to new insights into the physical basis of this debilitating disorder. But scientists continue to search for deeper understandings and therapies…
S2E5 How particle accelerators came to be
PODCAST: They started out so small, one could fit on the palm of your hand, but to make groundbreaking discoveries, physicists had to think really big — as in, vast machines with the power and…
S2E4 The history of climate change offers clues to Earth's future
Digging — quite literally — into our planet's past to study its paleoclimate has shed light on bygone ice ages and hints at trouble ahead for our now-warming planet.
S2E3 Structural biology: How proteins got their close-up
The journey to understanding these critically important molecules, in their thousands of different flavors, began with a chance discovery. Today, after decades of painstaking lab work and dizzying…
S2E2 The search for exoplanets
Not that long ago, scientists found evidence that our Sun wasn't unique — other stars have their own orbiting bodies. It was a discovery centuries in the making. What does this mean for Earth today…
S2E1 The science of dreams
Freud thought that dreams were the gateway to our unconscious mind. Today, many scientists think the opposite: that the dreaming brain is quite similar to our awake, conscious state. But dreaming is…
S2E1 Season two trailer
What are the limits to what's knowable — and how has our thinking about big questions in science and technology has evolved over time? Knowable Magazine's science history podcast returns on February…
S1E4 Memory, the mystery
Memory, the mystery: Just in the past half-century, our understanding of how exactly our brains remember has taken huge leaps. Amazingly, this is just the beginning. The Knowable Magazine podcast…
S1E3 The dazzling history of solar power
The dazzling history of solar power: Once fringe and futuristic, this renewable energy shines brightly today as a cheap and efficient source of energy. Still, it remains controversial — for much…
S1E2 The heart of invention
Replacing or assisting the human heart with a machine would save countless lives. But the quest to build an artificial heart has had many gruesome missteps and caused researchers to reimagine how to…
S1E1 How black holes morphed from theory to reality
Black holes, from theory to reality: Physicists were mostly skeptical when the idea of black holes emerged a century ago from Einstein's work. This podcast episode tells the story of how the evidence…
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