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166: What if you didn't have any fear?  , alternative link

This Is Actually Happening

“The mind almost has to find a way to prove that it’s not real. This cannot be happening.”

Seeking treatment for anxiety takes a left turn.

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 Adulting with Cowboy Bebop

Imaginary Worlds

The anime series Cowboy Bebop is currently being turned into a live-action series for Netflix, but Cowboy Bebop doesn’t need to be Americanized. In this episode we discuss what it is that continues to make this show a groundbreaking cross-cultural union.

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 Miss North Dakota

Terrible, Thanks for Asking

In 2012. Rosie became the first Black woman to win the Miss North Dakota pageant. Here’s what it’s like being a Black pageant queen in a state that is 90% White.

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Ep.1 - Is It Too Revolutionary?

Resistance

22 year old activist Chi Ossé becomes entrapped in his own apartment. This is the story of what happens next.

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#236 -  Reverb: The Evolution of Architectural Acoustics

99% Invisible

Today, through a combination of passive and active acoustics, architects and acousticians can control the sounds of spaces to fit any kind of need.

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Long Distance

The epic 3-part story of the time a telemarketer called Alex Goldman

Part 1 - #102 Long Distance

Part 2 - #103 Long Distance, Part II

Part 3 - #164 Long Distance: The Real Alex Martin

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From PodcastReview.org some of the best episodes of ReplyAll

#167 America's Hottest Talkline A mysterious recording that has been popping up on government hotlines for years. Emmanuel tries to figure out where this recording is coming from and who's putting it there.

Episode 130: The Snapchat Thief The owner of the Snapchat handle “lizard” finds herself on the wrong end of a group of hackers who covet her account.

Episode 158: The Case of the Missing Hit PJ hears about a man trying to track down a song from the 90’s that is still stuck in his head. Even though he remembers some of the lyrics, nothing comes up on his Google searches.

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In Magdalenian Footsteps

Nocturne

In the Pyrenees of southern France, there is a cave containing some of the world’s most spectacular and deeply hidden secrets. To get there you must crawl on your belly through a long tomb-like passage, with your only light held between your teeth.

Will Hunt explores the deepest darkest places around the world.  An early obsession with finding lost treasures in his own neighborhood has led him to a discovery that goes much deeper than hidden artifacts.

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Song Exploder 

Yo-Yo Ma Revisits Cello Suite No.1

Yo-Yo Ma is perhaps the most famous and well-loved cellist in the world. He was born in Paris in 1955; his family moved to the US when he was 7. He played for President Kennedy that year. He played at Carnegie Hall for the first time when he was 16. He’s won 18 Grammys and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

 And for this special episode of Song Exploder, the last episode of this year, Yo-Yo Ma’s is going to break down this piece—which he didn’t create, but he’s performed so many times. It’s the Prelude from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite Number 1 in G Major. It’s one of the most famous pieces of music written for the cello. Yo-Yo Ma first recorded the Bach Cello Suites in 1983, at age 27. He recorded them again in 1998. Now, at age 62, he’s recorded them for what he says may be the last time. It’s for an album called Six Evolutions: Bach Cello Suites. Yo-Yo Ma talked to me about what’s changed about the way he approaches this piece of music.

Thanks to author Eric Siblin for providing historical context around the Cello Suites. Check out his book The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece.

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Creating God - The Evolution of Religion

An analysis of how religion has adapted over time to suit the changing priorities of civilization.

Let's take a moment to go back in time.

For most of human history, we lived in small groups of about 50 people. Everyone knew everybody. If you told a lie, stole someone's dinner, or failed to defend the group against its enemies, there was no way to disappear into the crowd. Everyone knew you, and you would get punished.

But in the last 12,000 years or so, human groups began to expand. It became more difficult to identify and punish the cheaters and free riders. So we needed something big — really big. An epic force that could see what everyone was doing, and enforce the rules. That force, according to social psychologist Azim Shariff, was the popular idea of a "supernatural punisher" – also known as God.

Think of the vengeful deity of the Hebrew Bible, known for sending punishments like rains of burning sulfur and clouds of locusts, blood and lice.

"It's an effective stick to deter people from immoral behavior," says Shariff.

For Shariff and other researchers who study religion through the lens of evolution, religion can be seen as a cultural innovation, similar to fire, tools or agriculture. He says the vibrant panoply of religious rituals and beliefs we see today – including the popular belief in a punishing God – emerged in different societies at different times as mechanisms to help us survive as a species.

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84. Trammels

Why would you write books or poems or plays with only one vowel? Or in palindromes? Or only using the example sentences in dictionaries? Sometimes you need to force yourself to jump a few hurdles (and perhaps the rest of the obstacle course) before your creativity will be unleashed.

Jez Burrows, author of the book Dictionary Stories, searches for new meaning in the lexicon; and Ross Sutherland, of the podcast Imaginary Advice, goes deep into his subconscious to find...well.

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One Head, Two Brains 

A fresh perspective on the brain binary

February 4, 2019 • This week, we search for the answer to a deceptively simple question: why is the brain divided? Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist explains why popular distinctions between the "left brain" and "right brain" aren't supported by research. He argues that one hemisphere has come to shape Western society — to our detriment. 

This show is so relaxing to listen to.

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Jean Boulton on Complexity Theory & Spirituality

From The Middle Way Society

Jean Boulton has a background in theoretical physics and is a strategy consultant and also a part-time academic at both Bath and Cranfield universities. She is passionate about the implications of complexity theory for management and policy development as well as its connection to spiritual traditions. It is this relationship between complexity theory and spirituality that will be the topic of our conversation today.

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Plasma Physicist’s Perspective on Mars Data

Gordon White Guest Hosts on Skeptico

Every since Gordon White appeared on Skeptiko to talk about his book Star.Ships, I’ve been itching to get him back on to talk about his research into the secret space program and how this conspiratorial view of things might be helpful in understanding science-as-we-know-it. Gordon delivered big time by guest hosting and bringing us this interview with plasma physicist and Mars researcher Dr. John Brandenburg:

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The Brilliance of Kerry James Marshall

Still Processing

Join our field trip to The Met Breuer, the Metropolitan Museum’s new space in New York dedicated to contemporary art, where we give you an audio tour of the painter Kerry James Marshall’s astonishing retrospective. We also have picks for movies to see this weekend. “Almost Christmas” is a film for the whole family; “The Handmaiden” is more of a solo midnight show.

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(via Sleeping Girl / Snap Judgment, "Rose Colored Glasses")

#625 Sleeping Girl

Fiction - Snap Judgment

What if you could live forever--but you had to be asleep the whole time? Would you want to live your life… in a dream?

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Act Three: “You Had One Job”

Fiction - This American Life

A bomb disposal robot is assigned a new and even more complicated task. Fiction by Scott Brown, read by actor Jeremy Shamos. (19 minutes) 

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The Deep Vault by Dead Signals New podcast on its way from Dead Signals, creators of Archive81