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Hollywood’s latest “anxiety hack” isn’t a new miracle drug — it’s an old medication with a new spotlight. Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden dig into the celebrity buzz around beta blockers with Dr. Nasser Ghaemi, an academic psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Tufts Univer ...  Show more

Waymo’s self-driving cars look futuristic — but what’s really happening behind the scenes may surprise you. On Really? No, Really., Missy Cummings — former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, MIT-trained engineer, and one of the world’s leading AI and robotics safety experts — explains why ...  Show more

This week, we check out the small, upstate New York town of Otisco, where a woman began her career of arson, and murder that would extend across the area, and the years. She escaped justice for over 20 years, before finally having to face her horrible crimes. Along the way, we ...

Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Today we’re talking about a place that NYC has tried to erase from its maps: Hart Island. Since the day it was discovered, it has been used as a prison, a war training camp, and even an insane asylum. Today, millions of dead bodies are kept on ...  Show more

This week, we check out the old fashioned town of Eaton, Ohio, where a man's sudden disappearance leads to an investigation that uses some crafty police work to get a confession in the case. This concludes with a gruesome discovery, that was right under everyone's nose, the wh ...

This week, in Denio, Nevada, multiple bloody bodies are found in the desert, near the underground dwelling of a very odd hermit, who is later called "one of the most dangerous men ever". He has a history of withdrawing from society, eating from the dump, living in a hole, tryi ...