The Drug To Master Reality
AdultsBiologyHealthPsychologySocietyFrom study sessions to dance floors, amphetamines can feel like a shortcut to superhuman focus and energy. Why do they work so well? What happens to your body once you take them? And what toll does it take on your health?
South Korea's Demographic Collapse
AdultsCultureEconomySocietySouth Korea is heading toward a demographic collapse unlike anything the world has seen before. With the lowest fertility rate ever recorded and a rapidly aging population, the country faces a future of economic decline, shrinking cities, cultural erosion, and a vanishing workforce.
Presidential Historian Answers Presidency Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
AdultsEducationHistoryInternet CulturePoliticsSocietyPresidential historian and head of the George Washington Presidential Library Lindsay Chervinsky joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the American Presidency.
Demographics Expert Answers Population Questions
AdultsEconomyEducationSocietyDemographer Jennifer Sciubba joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about population and demographics. What is demography? What perspective can demographics provide about populations and societies? Do fertility rates really matter?
Tired of Doomscrolling?
AdultsHealthHumanLifeEnvironmentMental HealthSocietyTechnologyBeing a human in the 21st century often feels frustrating. We are clearly at the high point of our species, while at the same time life is incredibly hard! We are divided, unable to solve our problems while creating new ones, destroying our world in the process.
America is rife with political traps. What’s your escape route? | The Dilemma Ep. 3
AdultsEducationPoliticsPsychologySocietyCan we let go of the need to win arguments without losing a part of who we are?
Why loneliness feels so real, even when it’s not | Kasley Killam
AdultsHealthHumanPsychologyMental HealthSocietyChallenging the loneliness stigma can change your life. Here’s how to start.
How should we measure intelligence? | Mary-Helen Immordino Yang
AdultsHumanPsychologySocietyEducationOur society has an obsession with quantifying everything, often applying measurements and numerical values where they aren't necessary.
Why Korea is Dying Out
AdultsHistoryHumanScienceSocietyPoliticsEvery two years one million Japanese disappear, China’s population will halve by the end of the century, the median age in Italy has reached 48. All around the world birth rates are crashing – Is humanity dying out? What is going on and how bad is it?
Blindness Isn't a Tragic Binary — It's a Rich Spectrum | Andrew Leland | TED
AdultsBiologyHumanScienceDisabilityHealthSocietyWhen does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness -- and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world.