Right wing opponents of women’s rights and bodily autonomy cannot win on the facts, so they’ve decided to create a fact-free world. And sadly, they’re winning the battle. Even media coverage of abortion often contains errors, and many of us have mistaken beliefs and ideas about pregnancy termination, even if we identify as pro-choice. Ushma Upadhyay, an abortion researcher, joined the podcast to discuss common misconceptions about abortion, as well as what the research actually reveals. Some of the

You did everything right, but you wake up exhausted and feeling like a failure. Why are millennials so burned out? The truth is: It’s not your fault. It's the psychological aftermath of Boomer parenting.Uploaded 18-07-26In this deep psychological dive, we explore the hidden intergenerational trauma that broke a generation. From the toxic trap of the "Gifted Child Syndrome" to the reality of "Narcissistic Extension" and the great economic gaslighting, we uncover why millennials are battling an

Why do we dream—and do our dreams serve a purpose?Sleep and dream researcher Robert Stickgold joins Robert Lawrence Kuhn to explore the science of dreaming, from the history and content of dreams to what happens in the brain during sleep. They discuss memory processing, emotional regulation, REM sleep, weak associations, nightmares, lucid dreams, creativity, and whether dreams help us explore possibilities and prepare for the future. Subscribe to Closer To

TL;DR. We ran Jev 1.13 — TypeSafe's non-autoregressive model, which answers questions with probabilities and cannot emit text, on the ThinkFast no-CoT suite and Neel Nanda's NCRI. Jev's capabilities are very jagged. As a transcript monitor its AUROC on sabotage and sandbagging detection is level with GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 without CoT, at about 1/200th of Opus 4.7's cost. On multiple-choice questions it ranges from ahead of GPT-5.5 (GPQA-Diamond) to well behind it (Sally-Anne). It does badly on tasks