Speaking to Oprah Winfrey, Shaka Senghor says that "The most powerful prisons aren't built with concrete and steel—they're made from anger, shame, trauma, and self-doubt." Real freedom starts with journaling your way out of the cages in your mind. podpulse.ai/podcast-notes-…

Your eyes consume 1/3 of your brain's energy budget. That means vision training doesn't just improve sight, it rewires your entire nervous system. Researchers are using this to push people from normal (20/20) to supranormal (20/12) vision. Tim Ferriss podpulse.ai/podcast-notes-…

3 million Britons started gardening in 2020. But gardens aren't innocent—every English country estate was built with empire money. Yet gardens can also be spaces of resistance and community healing. Novara Media podpulse.ai/podcast-notes-…

James Dyson worked 15 years on his vacuum, thousands of prototypes. His take on vision: "For vision, one might equally well read stubbornness." Not genius. Just stubborn persistence. David Senra podpulse.ai/podcast-notes-…

Congress can literally arrest you and hold you in their own cell if you ignore a subpoena. Even Nixon couldn't hide behind executive privilege when the Supreme Court demanded those Watergate tapes. Stuff You Should Know @josh_um_clark Movie Crush Podcast podpulse.ai/podcast-notes-…

At 102, Dr. Gladys McGarey's marriage of 46 years ended with a divorce letter. Her response? Changed her license plate to "GLAD" and started looking for joy instead of pain. "Love is medicine, not metaphor. Loneliness affects you like smoking 15 cigarettes daily." Lisa Bilyeu

97% of all life on Earth disappeared 250 million years ago. Ocean temps spiked 10°C. Forests collapsed. The seafloor suffocated. But a few burrowing creatures survived underground, and life spent 15 million years rebuilding into something entirely new. Sometimes catastrophe

Love Is Blind's Meg & Kieran Holmes-Darby lived as a secret married couple for a YEAR after filming. While fans waited for the show to air, they were building a real life together, creating fake backstories, learning to trust without cameras. Real love happens when no one's watching.

Sept 2, 2004: A bomb exploded outside Jakarta's Australian embassy while diplomat Grant Dooley was inside for language training. 11 dead. 200+ injured. What haunts him most isn't the blast—it's realizing he couldn't save everyone. His memoir reveals diplomacy's hidden human cost.

Leonard Peltier: 50 years in prison, even after his own prosecutor admitted there was no solid evidence. At boarding school (age 9), kids were beaten for speaking their native language. Leonard joined "the Resistors" - sneaking behind the gym to pray in their language. That

In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb by candlelight and saw 5,000+ objects meant for eternity. 100 years later, only 30% have been fully studied. The Egyptian team who did the actual digging? History barely remembers their names. In Our Time

You can't understand the global economy without looking at what happens on the "wrong side" of borders. Senior citizens buying medications in Canada? Technically drug trafficking under US law. Cigarette smuggling often bigger than actual drug trades. States define "illicit" while

Frederick Douglass publicly supported Lincoln in 1860 but privately voted for abolitionist Garrett Smith. Newly discovered letters reveal the strategic thinking behind his public positions, understanding that transforming a nation requires both moral clarity and political

"A nation can be a people united by a common mistake about their history." We don't just remember the past—we curate it. India's Aryan debates, Poland's "crucified nation" narrative, Britain turning Beethoven into enemy propaganda during WWI. National myths aren't about truth.

Tom Braziel bought Mt. Gox bankruptcy claims for $80/Bitcoin when everyone thought crypto was dead. 7 years later: 38x return. His secret? "Stake and sizzle"—buy solid protection with massive upside potential. The best opportunities hide where others fear to look My First Million

6 out of 10 wigs worldwide come from Xuchang, China. 300,000 workers. 4,000 companies. $1B+ in cross-border sales in 2022. What started in the Ming Dynasty as theater props now powers a $23B industry projected to hit $42B by 2030. From hiding hair loss to daily self-expression.

That's how Kamala Harris knew what to expect from Trump in the debate. The playbook: say something outrageous (Haitians eating pets), manipulate emotion, distract from policy. Her move? Don't take the bait. Steven Bartlett podpulse.ai/podcast-notes-…

There is no "original yoga." Professor Jim Mallinson says yoga evolved through Hindu, Buddhist, Jain & tantric traditions over centuries, constantly borrowing, adapting, reinventing. The search for a pristine origin misses the point. Ancient History Hit Tristan Hughes