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A groundbreaking podcast for curious kids aged 4-12, and the grown-ups listening with them, that proves philosophy, psychology and religion are anything but dull.

Join our fictional AI hosts Mira, a brilliant 9-year-old, and her younger brother Finn, age 7, as they explore philosophy, psychology and religion as one big family of questions about how we make sense of things. Each episode takes a real thinker or idea seriously, from what makes you the same person you were as a baby to why people across the world believe such different things about the soul, and then lands it somewhere in your actual life.

We don't hand you the answer and move on. Some questions have one; some have several worth comparing; some nobody has ever settled, and we'll tell you which is which. On matters of faith we stay even-handed: we describe what people believe from the outside, and never tell you what to believe yourself. Because philosophy isn't a pile of hard words to memorize. It's learning to ask a better question, and to sit with it honestly, even when it's uncomfortable.

A note on why we use AI. For us, AI allows us to deliver learning at a scale and quality that previously would have been too expensive. If we make the odd technical error, or the sound goes a bit funny, bear with us, we're trying our best. We hope you enjoy the show!

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Have you ever wondered why a toy on sale feels like such a massive deal? Or why the very first number you hear can actually control your brain? Join Mira and Finn on an incredible journey back to 1974 to uncover a sneaky mental glitch called anchoring bias! You will learn about two brilliant psychologists, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, who set up a wild experiment using a giant, rigged carnival wheel of fortune. By spinning the wheel and stopping on a random number like 10 or 65, they sec...
Who was Blaise Pascal?

Who was Blaise Pascal?

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Imagine you are playing a giant, complicated game where you don't know all the rules or if there is even a prize at the end. How do you choose a side? Travel back to 17th-century France to meet a super-smart prodigy named Blaise Pascal! Did you know he wrote a massive mathematical paper on geometry when he was just sixteen years old? Pascal was an absolute genius who helped invent the math of chance and probability. He even built one of the world's very first mechanical calculators, called th...
Who was Iris Murdoch?

Who was Iris Murdoch?

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Have you ever had to spend time with someone who really, really annoyed you? Maybe they chew their food too loudly or always make up the rules in a game! You try your hardest to be polite. You smile, you nod, and you share your toys. But what if you're secretly thinking grumpy thoughts about them inside your head? Are you still being a good person? For a long time, people thought being good was only about your actions. But in 1970, a brilliant philosopher (who also wrote twenty-six novels!)...
Have you ever wondered how your brain knows which body parts belong to you? It sounds like a silly question—obviously, your hands are yours! But what if your brain could be tricked into thinking a fake piece of plastic was actually part of your body? In this mind-bending episode of Philosophy is Not Boring, Mira and Finn explore one of the wildest science experiments ever: The Rubber Hand Illusion! In 1998, scientists Matthew Botvinick and Jonathan Cohen in Pittsburgh set up a crazy test. Th...
Who was Saint Martin?

Who was Saint Martin?

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Have you ever had just one piece of your absolute favorite candy left, and a friend asks for it? It's super hard to share when you don’t have much! But what if you could just snap it in half? In this episode of Philosophy is Not Boring, Mira and Finn explore an amazing 1,700-year-old story about a Roman soldier named Martin who did exactly that—but with something way more important than candy! Martin was a cavalry soldier riding through the freezing winter snow when he spotted a shivering be...
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