The Untold Stories
By Akshaya
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In a world of specialists, "The Untold Stories" takes a generalist view of the human experience. Join me for explorations that connect the dots between seemingly unrelated fields, from science and art to business and philosophy on every alternate days. Follow to discover the perspectives you didn’t know you were missing.
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The politics of the border between Morocco and Spain.
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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The Big Short’s Empty Swimming Pools — Investors fly over Florida suburbs, counting empty pools, to bet against the entire U.S. housing market.
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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Military spending surge worldwide — what gets cut when defense budgets balloon?
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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The Tech Giants Are Building Private Cities. Seriously.
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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Carbon credits — climate solution or elaborate greenwashing?
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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How solar flares could one day knock out the internet.
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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The 2026 NEET leak, and the strike it set off 🇮🇳.
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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The New Rules of Success.
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Rare earths and lithium as the new spice trade.
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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The Pygmalion effect — expectations shaping performance.
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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The economics of K-pop’s global exports.
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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China’s soft power gamble with Confucius Institutes.
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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How Tuvalu is legally preparing to “move” as a digital nation.
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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Quantum entanglement — Einstein called it “spooky action”.
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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The Barnum effect and why horoscopes feel accurate.
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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CRISPR gene editing: the power to rewrite life, and who controls it.
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Jul 05, 2026 |
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The spotlight effect: everyone is not watching you as much as you think.
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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The Nakba — the Palestinian displacement story rarely told
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Fast fashion’s water footprint — one jeans costs 10,000 liters.
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Human chimeras — people who carry two distinct DNA profiles.
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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The City Built by an Algorithm — Urban planning AI is now designing road networks, zoning, and infrastructure in new developments across Asia.
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Why We Are All Made of Stardust — and Which Specific Types of Stars Made Which Atoms in Your Body✨
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Project-based learning taking over — the end of the traditional classroom exam?
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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The Smell of Space — Astronauts returning from EVAs describe a distinct metallic odour — and scientists have finally identified its chemistry
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Air quality and brain health — how pollution is quietly damaging cognition
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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The Planet Made Entirely of Diamond That Orbits a Pulsar 4,000 Light Years Away; PSRJ1719-1438b is the compressed remnant of a white dwarf. It's roughly the mass of Jupiter.
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Why People Make Better Decisions for Others Than for Themselves; Psychological distance makes you a better advisor than a participant. The bias is systematic and consistent across cultures.
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May 30, 2026 |
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The Gift Card Graveyard: $3 Billion Left Unspent Every Year; The gap between receiving a gift card and using it is called 'breakage.' Companies budget for it. You're funding it.
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May 29, 2026 |
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Humans Are Bioluminescent — We Just Glow Too Faintly to See.
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May 27, 2026 |
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How the Sneaker Industry Manufactured Its Own Scarcity; Nike dropped 500 pairs on purpose. The line was the product.
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May 25, 2026 |
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The Quiet War Being Fought Under the Ocean Right Now; Submarine cables power the internet. Someone keeps cutting them.
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May 23, 2026 |
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How AI Is Diagnosing Cancer Before Doctors Even Suspect It. A retinal scan now predicts heart disease with 90% accuracy.
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May 21, 2026 |
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Why Cats Were Worshipped in Ancient Egypt and Feared in Medieval Europe. One animal. Two civilizations. Two completely opposite conclusions.
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May 19, 2026 |
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How a Tiny Worm in Your Gut May Be Running Your Mood The microbiome-brain axis is stranger than anyone expected.
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May 17, 2026 |
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How Airport Lounges Print Money You Never See. The most profitable square footage in modern infrastructure.
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May 15, 2026 |
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Structural Batteries: Emerging tech is turning the actual frames of cars and laptops into batteries; instead of a separate battery pack, the carbon fiber structure itself stores the electrical energy.
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May 13, 2026 |
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Psychological safety at work — why motivation and recognition are the new productivity metrics.
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May 11, 2026 |
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Pacemakers Were Invented After a Wiring Mistake, Wilson Greatbatch grabbed the wrong resistor and accidentally built a heartbeat.
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May 09, 2026 |
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The Bangladesh model — how one of the world’s poorest nations became a garment superpower.
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May 07, 2026 |
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The 4-day workweek experiments — results from around the world.
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May 05, 2026 |
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Micro credentials vs. degrees — which one actually gets you hired in 2026?
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May 03, 2026 |
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The IKEA Effect; Why we value things more when we've assembled them ourselves — and what it means for design
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May 01, 2026 |
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Why Coca-Cola Is Cheaper Than Water in Mexico; Infrastructure, sugar subsidies, and the geography of thirst.
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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The "Accidental Rise of Botox": How a deadly toxin became a multi-billion dollar beauty tool.
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Banning Unsold Clothes Destruction: The EU banned the destruction of unsold apparel to promote a circular economy.
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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The "Broken Heart" Syndrome: The actual biological condition where emotional stress mimics a heart attack.
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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A janitor who built a Fortune 500 company.
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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The Unclaimed Baggage Center: Where all lost airline luggage goes to be sold.
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Flying Electric Ferries: Stockholm's "flying" electric ferries have been declared a resounding success by Swedish transport authorities for reducing emissions on city waterways.
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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The Rentable Brain: A startup has begun renting access to living human brain cells grown on silicon chips for $300 a week.
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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The Mona Lisa's Mailbox: The painting has its own mailbox at the Louvre to handle the thousands of love letters it receives.
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Hyperloop Trials: China is moving forward with a Hyperloop train designed to exceed 1,000 km/h in 2026.
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Kodak – The company that invented digital cameras… but ignored its own future.
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment – Delayed gratification and success
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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China’s Ghost City Experiment, ‘Ordos’ - The City That Waited
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Life In The Metaverse – The Future Of Digital Worlds
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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The Billion Dollar Fraud ; Rise And Fall Of Theranos.
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Varosha - The Luxury City Abandoned Overnight.
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Auroville - The City Without Money | India’s Real-Life Utopia Experiment
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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MKDecoded - Breaking Down The Most Secret Experiment In History.
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Claudette Colvin - The Teenager Who Refused Before Rosa Parks.
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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The Town Inside One Building - Whittier Alaska.
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Mansa Musa - The Richest Person Ever
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Mar 11, 2026 |