Stuff You Should Know

Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

Borderline Personality Disorder has been described as emotional “third degree burns over ninety percent of your body.” It’s as close to a curse as a personality disorder can be: deep fear of being abandoned creates behaviors that end up driving people off. Learn all about it in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Data Centers: Can't Live With Em, Can't Live Without Em

Data centers are the backbone of our digital world. All the sites you visit and social media you post happen there. A boom in huge data centers to support AI is underway, and they’re taking a big toll on the environment and life for the people around them. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Short Stuff: Did a vampire legend help win the Cold War?

During the Cold War, the CIA used the legend of a vampire named Aswang to scare locals into not helping the communists.  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

West Virginia is home to sensitive radio telescopes that could easily pick up your cell phone’s signal on Mars. And the cell reception on Mars is about as good as it is in the NRQZ, since cell towers are banned in the interest of furthering astronomy. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Selects: How Forgiveness Works

For most of history, forgiveness fell under the domain of religion. But in the 1980s science started investigating it and found that forgiving someone is really, really good for you. Learn how anybody can be the better person in this classic, and really great, episode. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.