Health and Psychology
Human body and mind: medicine, mental health, neuroscience, ADHD, and everyday psychology.
#5787: Inside the Two Steel Industries
Steel is really two industries wearing one word — and the health and carbon ledgers land in different places.
#5783: Can a Dremel Be Gym Equipment?
A Dremel afternoon left Daniel drenched in sweat. Turns out the research on power tool physical load barely covers his tool at all.
#5763: 500 Days in a Cave: How We Lose Track of Time
Beatriz Flamini spent 500 days underground and thought less time had passed. What isolation science reveals about how we perceive time.
#5762: Why 8 PM Bedtime Feels Wrong for Night Owls
A night-owl dad asks if 8 PM bedtime is "for old people" — and the circadian science on wake maintenance zones says his instinct is right.
#5755: What Makes a School System "Best"?
Korea tops the test scores, Finland skips the pressure. What are we actually measuring when we rank schools?
#5751: Designing Rooms for ADHD Brains
UK standard PAS 6463 and EEG studies reveal how ADHD brains respond to light, noise, and layout — and what that means for home design.
#5750: Neurodesign: Building for the Human Nervous System
What if a building could restore your attention instead of draining it? Inside the emerging field of neuroarchitecture.
#5742: What Neuroarchitecture Says About Your Desk
A technologist and his architect wife disagree about rooms. Turns out neuroscience has a lot to say about who's right.
#5735: The Breaker Protects the Wire, Not You
How service size, load calculations, and the 80% rule actually determine what your outlets can deliver.
#5727: Do We Still Need This Memorial?
Three years after October 7, a quiet question — "do we still need this?" — collides with shame, stigma, and a coming election.
#5725: Why Your Smart Light's Lowest Setting Is a Lie
Dimming range is the spec nobody prints on the box — and it's the one that decides how a light actually feels to live with.
#5723: Task Lighting Spec Sheets: Wattage, CRI, Kelvin & Dimming
What the box tells you, what it hides, and the four numbers that actually predict how a task lamp behaves.
#5719: When Bile Burns Your Stomach Lining
Bile gastritis after gallbladder removal: why fasting makes it worse, what the evidence says about supplements, and how to eat.
#5715: No Phone, No Panic: Safety Without Surveillance
A parent takes a kid out for hours, phone-free. When does check-in become care, and when does it become control?
#5703: Why Hospital Rooms Make You Feel Calm
That vague calm in a hospital room isn't mysterious — it's measurable design. Here's what the evidence actually says.
#5702: Psychosis Isn't One Thing: The 5 Domains Explained
The formal definition of psychosis is narrower than the slang — and the severity label built on top of it misses the disorder that kills the most p...
#5701: When Kids Hear Their Name in an Empty Room
Hallucinations peak in childhood and fade with age — one meta-analysis found 17% prevalence in kids aged 9–12. So what separates a benign blip from...
#5695: Gut-Brain Drugs: Why Old Antidepressants Help Bloating
A listener with post-cholecystectomy bloating asks why an old antidepressant might help — and whether anything better is coming.
#5694: Prokinetics When the Emptying Test Is Normal
A negative gastric emptying study doesn't close the door on prokinetics — because the drugs may not work the way we assumed.
#5693: Head-of-Bed Elevation for Nighttime Reflux
Five trials, 228 patients, and a wedge pillow that was never actually studied. What the evidence really says about sleeping on an incline.