Ben discusses the Algonquian and Iroquois people who first settled what would one day become New York State, the coastal geography of New York City, a...

Ben talks about the twelve fermions and six bosons that apparently constitute everything.

Ben argues that facts are mental models and proposes what he calls the spectrum of variability of independently-arrived-at ideas to help explain why s...

Ben explores how our minds trick us into achieving larger, hidden goals by inspiring us to pursue a series of seemingly unrelated proximal, local goal...

Ben describes a clever study that made use of the ability of Russians to more quickly discern between shades of blue.

Throwin’ My Life Away by Teenage Ninja Kids

Ben tells the story of Pompeii. He begins by exploring the sources of heat that drive plate tectonics and volcanism, then describes the Scramble for t...

Ben surreptitiously brags about correcting an elite academic while explaining that the Three-Fifths Compromise isn’t what you probably think it is and...

Ben learns that if you kick a quantum field hard enough, fermions come out; sleepwalks 3 mph on the night side of Mercury so that he never has to wake...

Ben makes good on his threat. Livin’ in a dump is the first Teenage Ninja Kids recording in about a decade.