Nobel Prize
set of annual international awards, primarily 5 established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
Episodes
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#5358: Ivy League Is a Sports ConferenceThe Ivy League is an athletic conference, not an academic body — and that tells you everything about how university rankings actually work. -
#5126: The Volunteers Who Let Science Shock ThemCharles Dalziel's volunteers endured muscle-locking shocks to create the safety standards we rely on today. What do we owe them? -
#5809: What If Israel Had Never Fallen? A 2,000-Year Thought ExperimentHannah's question: what would Israel look like if it had stayed under Jewish rule for 2,000 years — and was antisemitism structural or circumstantial? -
#5336: Cholera and the 3.4 Billion Without Safe SanitationCholera is fast, cheap to treat, and entirely preventable — yet 3.4 billion people lack safe sanitation. Here's why the numbers don't add up. -
#5184: AI Is a Number Factory, Not a WordsmithUnder the prose, every AI model is just matrices of floating-point math. So where does the randomness actually come from? -
#5168: Ten Inventors You've Never Heard OfFrom the yellow traffic light to the geoid model behind GPS — ten inventors whose quiet work reshaped daily life, and why we forgot them.