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Make senseEntangled Vale
Adam Neely turns what could've been a cranky 'AI is bad' rant into a rich meditation on what music means — to artists, listeners and communities. A careful walkthrough of the culture forming around tools like Suno: why so many musicians recoil, why some lean in, and where the real stakes l
Make senseUnfolding Realm
A century before your favourite productivity guru, neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal handed out devastatingly precise diagnoses for what ails the creatively ambitious but motivationally cursed — six 'diseases of the will,' a lovingly savage taxonomy of minds that can't get out of
Make senseEntangled Vale
A neat fix for a problem every podcast listener knows: you hear something worth remembering, but by the time you try to capture it the moment's gone. Screenshot your player (with a visible timestamp), email it in, and within a minute you get back the clip and a full transcript — no app, no
ImagineSoma Isles
A cute and vaguely ominous short film that begins with the familiar ritual of counting sheep — and then lets the sheep grow progressively more surreal as sleep takes hold, each one a little more distorted than the last. It lives in that liminal drift where the mind does its strange work on
Make senseSoma Isles
Kahneman gave us fast intuition vs. slow reason. Mathematician David Bessis gently rebels, pointing at what's missing: System 3, the inner bridge where intuition and logic learn to talk to each other. 'When my intuition tells me A and my reason tells me B… that's the moment to resort to Sy
Move meSoma Isles
An ethereal star-spirit journeys back to Istanbul for one final celebration — her birthday, with her grieving family. Tender and imaginative, the animated short follows her through winding streets and unexpected detours, holding a liminal moment between worlds where sorrow and love sit tog
Surprise meHearthlands
A disgruntled 79-year-old is gaming UK business-rate exemptions by breeding snails in vacant office blocks (snails are molluscs, molluscs count as aquaculture, farms don't pay rates). That's just the start — there's a claimed mafia connection, an ex-con mollusc wrangler, and councils he ke
Move meMaker's Forge
In his photographs of Chongqing, Ximeng Tu captures both a rapidly changing skyline and the emotional terrain of transformation. Grand infrastructure looms over street vendors and stray stairways; green space yields to grey. In the gaps, he finds people improvising daily life in the midst
Less aloneEntangled Vale
An anxious little octopus watches the colourful world from the safety of her shell. She wants to explore, but fear holds her back — and it's only through small moments of safety and spark that she finds the courage to step into the current. For anyone who hesitates to fully swim, a gentle
Less aloneUnfolding Realm
A stop-motion short about a worm stuck in a soulless remote job — equal parts funny and uncomfortably accurate about corporate claustrophobia. Pairs well with The Cat Empire's Wild Animals, a musical antidote whose chorus ('Don't let them kill the wild animals inside of you') picks up wher
Surprise meEntangled Vale
When Tonga's undersea internet cable was severed by a 2022 volcanic eruption, the island was suddenly snapped off from the digital world — banks froze, remittances halted, families couldn't reach loved ones. The way Tongans responded, falling back on radio, oral communication and local res
Surprise meMaker's Forge
Yoshie Shiratori escaped four times from some of Japan's most secure prisons, each time through sheer ingenuity and a refusal to be broken — in one case corroding his handcuffs by spitting miso soup on them daily, then dislocating his shoulders to squeeze through. Every wild detail is hist