The Pulse Archive
What Science Says About How Much Our Food Choices Matter
Ahead of Thanksgiving, we take a look at new nutrition research, and what we should — and shouldn’t — be eating.
Air Date: November 21, 2025
Listen 49:34How not to be mistaken for a chatbot
Top signs from researchers that something was written by AI, and how to avoid sounding like a chatbot yourself.
3 days ago
Listen 14:01How to 'Engineer' Your Dreams and End Nightmares
Researcher Michelle Carr explores “dream engineering” in her new book “Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind."
Air Date: November 17, 2025
Listen 31:33An exploration of how AI is changing the way we feel — about ourselves and everything else.
Air Date: November 14, 2025
Listen 49:34How Veterans Find Healing After War
On this Veterans Day episode, we explore healing after combat — from a psychedelic treatment in Mexico to making ceramic mugs.
Air Date: November 7, 2025
Listen 49:34Cybercrime and How Hackers Prey on Human Nature
We hear about the virus that ushered in the age of social engineering attacks, the history of cybercrime, and what led one man to become a hacker.
Air Date: October 31, 2025
Listen 55:24Psychics, ghosts, auras, and the UCLA research lab that studied it all
In the 1970s, UCLA housed The Parapsychology Lab, which became a haven for those with psychic abilities and the researchers who studied them.
3 weeks ago
Listen 19:54Animal skulls and bones get a second life in the art works of Boyertown creator
In Boyertown, PA, artist Charlee Heinz turns bones from forest finds into meaningful artwork that explores death and beauty.
3 weeks ago
Coca-Cola and a Secret Research Operation Meant to Exonerate Sugar
Coca-Cola’s rise to global brand domination, and how the company influenced our habits and perceptions along the way.
Air Date: October 28, 2025
Listen 28:52Searching for Ghosts: The Quest to Prove the Paranormal
From ghosts to ESP, a look at paranormal phenomena and the investigators who chase them.
Air Date: October 24, 2025
Listen 50:04Why urgent care clinics, once derided as ‘doc in a box,’ have spread like wildfire
The number of urgent care centers in the U.S. have doubled, from more than 7,000 to more than 14,000 over the last decade or so.
1 month ago
Listen 9:42Inside the Boom of Urgent Care: How It’s Changing American Medicine
We take a look at the rapid rise of urgent care, what’s fueling it, and how it’s affecting patients
Air Date: October 17, 2025
Listen 48:55How David Fajgenbaum Found His Own Treatment & Launched Every Cure
What if treatments or even cures for devastating rare diseases already existed — and were just waiting to be discovered? On this podcas ...
Air Date: October 14, 2025
Listen 23:03Finding Focus in the Age of Distraction
Why “touching grass” is actually good advice when it comes to taking a break and restoring focus.
Air Date: October 10, 2025
Listen 50:33Chasing giants: One writer’s journey to bring nuance to India’s wild elephant conflict
About 10 years ago, writer Kim Frank set out to learn why wild elephants were trampling people in India. She revealed a complex human-wildlife conflict.
2 months ago
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