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Back in the old days, if your species was faced with an existential threat, you were stuck hoping fo
Every time he sees a triangle these days, my 10-year-old son points and says “Gasp! the illuminati!”
Once upon a time, there was a rabbit. No...Not a rabbit. Lewis Carroll already did that… How about a
How do you know that you’re really where you are right now? I mean, where are you getting this sense
Wherever you are right now, take a look around you. Let your eyes rest on the first thing that catch
A listener commented the other day on Twitter that on two completely different recent episodes of th
All through the day… I, me mine, I me mine, I me mine… That George Harrison song on the Beatles’ las
All of us—you, me, everybody—we’re living our lives subject to often invisible forces beyond our con
100,000 or so years of human history and young adulthood is still getting weirder. Jason Gots: My g
When was the last time you were bored? I mean really, well and truly, staring at the patterns in the
Jason Gots: I want to read you a quote: “For reasons which can certainly use close psychological inq
Jason Gots: As far back as we’re able to peer into human history, way past the written or pictoral r
Jason Gots: What happens in your brain when I say the word “Jellyfish”? If you’re not a marine biol
Jason Gots: Let’s cast our minds back to June 2015, before Donald Trump as president seemed even a r
Jason Gots: It’s 150,000 years ago. You’re a Homo sapiens, hanging out in a really cozy clearing pro
Jason Gots: I want to tell you a story. It’s November 5, 2016, a few days before Election Day. I’m s
What do Rachel Carson, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ernest Shackleton, and Abraham Linco
For thousands of years, all over the world, tales of monsters and the undead have populated the "whi
An ancient, one-and-a-half-page-story that just won't let us go. Humanities scholar Stephen Greenbla
Orthodox kookiness: the true American exceptionalism? Writer Kurt Andersen and host Jason Gots discu
