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How to Be a Super Ager, with Eric Topol
The world today is oversaturated with trends, tips, and treatments for how to live long and be healthy while doing it. But it can be hard to...
Why Women Live Longer Than Men
Women tend to live longer than men, even under the most difficult conditions like famines and epidemics. While it’s true that women tend to...
Why Haven’t We Solved Alzheimer’s?
We’ve known about Alzheimer’s and its devastating effects for more than 100 years, and have been predicting an imminent cure for at least th...
We’re Underestimating Older Brains
A forgotten name, misplaced keys, feeling overwhelmed by some new technology. Classic signs of a brain beginning its long, inexorable descen...
The Truth About Biohacking
Blood transfusions, cryotherapy, experimental drugs and intermittent fasting are just a few of the measures so-called biohackers are taking...
The Billion Dollar Bet: Will Humans Live to 150?
In 2000, two scientists — Steve Austed, a biologist and Jay Olshanksy, a biostatistician — made a bet. Would a person live to the age of 150...
Introducing: The Future of Aging
Human beings are living longer than ever. Thanks to advances like vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurized milk and clean water, we’ve added more...
Can We Pull Carbon Out of the Air?
The Paris Climate Agreement says we need to reach “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050. That means for every new carbon molecule we put in th...
Has the Moment for Hydrogen Finally Arrived?
Hydrogen has long been the great hope of the environmental movement. Hydrogen-powered cars; airplanes; even home heating. A single molecule...
Keeping Cool Without Warming the Planet
Heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather event, and scientists expect the earth to continue to get hotter. Unfortu...
Is the U.S. Ready for a New Nuclear Age?
The United States was once on track to be a world leader in nuclear power, building more than 100 plants in the 1970s and 1980s. But cost an...
The Great American Road Trip, Reimagined
Americans drive more, drive further, and pay less for fuel than people in other developed countries. Partly for this reason, our vehicles ar...
Climate Change and the Surprising Success of Solar Power
In the past 50 years, solar energy has surpassed all expectations. Even early solar experts couldn’t predict how affordable and widespread i...
Introducing: The Great Rebuild
We’re currently involved in one of the most ambitious projects we, as humans, have ever attempted: Rebuilding the world, pretty much from th...
The Race to Control AI
In our final episode, Host Gary Marcus shares his hopes for and fears about an AI-driven future. On the one hand, AI could accelerate soluti...
When Bots Become Our Friends
Some people use chatbots for therapy. Others have fallen in love with them. And some people argue that AI systems have become sentient and a...
AI Took My Career!
The emergence of generative AI threatens to automate millions of jobs, potentially ushering in a new and unprecedented wave of job displacem...
How AI Will Turbocharge Misinformation
Misinformation has already influenced our elections, ruined reputations and fundamentally changed society’s relationship with the truth. Now...
Can AI Make You Laugh?
New large language models are capable of writing essays, drafting marketing pitches and having human-like exchanges on chat apps. But can th...
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