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Embodied Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid Systems (MIT Press, 2026) explores a radical transformation taking place in intelligence research. Rather than focusing exclusively on brains and computer code, the book examines the importan ...  Show more

Does God exist? This straightforward question has spawned endless debate, ranging from apologists’ supposed proofs of God’s existence to New Atheist manifestos declaring belief in God a harmful delusion. In Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species (Prometheus Book ...  Show more

Everyone has intrusive thoughts. But if you live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? Well, it becomes something much more extreme. You get stuck on your thoughts, and you can’t move past them. And you play those thoughts on a loop, like a broken record. You’ve probably heard abou ...  Show more

Mental health doesn’t just affect the person who has it — it affects their partner too. In this conversation, therapist Eli Weinstein talks about the quiet tradeoffs couples make when OCD or other mental health disorders enters the relationship. The missed moments. The unspoken r ...  Show more

Send us Fan MailThis week on Disordered we're looking at anxiety focused on relationships, specifically a form of OCD known as Relationship OCD (ROCD).ROCD - like all forms of OCD - will glue itself to things that really matter to us. In this case, being in loving, secure, succes ...  Show more

People with obsessive-compulsive personalities can make committed and reliable partners, or they can destroy relationships with their insistence on telling the other how to live. This episode is for partners of people with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), with ...