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HigherIQ

HigherIQ

One fascinating thing, every morning, in 5 minutes. Why is boarding a plane so slow, and do airlines like it that way? How did Teflon end up everywhere? Who invented kindergarten, and why? HigherIQ is a daily show for curious people who want something worth sharing at dinner tonight. No doom, no politics, no 40-minute commitment. One story, well told, that makes you the most interesting person in the room. New episodes every weekday morning. Press play and learn something.

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294 episodes

  1. Why You Changed Your Clocks Last Night 5:00
  2. How Halloween Became a Candy Holiday 5:00
  3. The Plastic in Your Blood Is From Your Tires 5:00
  4. The Brewers Are Your 2026 World Series Champs!!! And They Were Bought in Bankruptcy Court 5:00
  5. The Election That Was Decided Two Days Early 5:00
  6. The Machine Nobody Else Can Build 5:00
  7. Sickle Cell Has a Cure Now 5:00
  8. Why New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same 5:00
  9. The Chicken Tax 5:00
  10. The Ball Is the Cheapest Lever 5:00
  11. Hello Is a Technology 5:00
  12. Morning Briefing — Oct 21, 2026 5:00
  13. Why School Buses Don't Have Seat Belts 5:00
  14. Why You Can't Tell When Someone Is Lying 5:00
  15. What A Hobby Does To Your Brain 5:00
  16. The Restaurant Failure Statistic Is a Myth 5:00
  17. Sell-By Dates Are Not What You Think 5:00
  18. The 10 Days That Didn't Exist 5:00
  19. Why Old Shows Keep Beating New Ones 5:00
  20. Two-Thirds of Your Life Is on Autopilot 5:00
  21. The Real Reason Eggs Cost Six Dollars 5:00
  22. Norway Wants to Ban Smart Glasses 5:00
  23. Why Your AI Assistant Runs on Gold 5:00
  24. The Planet That Was Born When Its Star Died 5:00
  25. The Deadliest Wildfire in American History 5:00
  26. How Baseball Became a Game of Numbers 5:00
  27. A Nobel Prize for Controlling the Brain With Light 5:00
  28. Vitamin C Doesn't Do What You Think It Does 5:00
  29. The Origin Story of Money That Everyone Learned Is Wrong 5:00
  30. How the Auto Industry Invented the Crime of Crossing the Street 5:00
  31. The Invention of Living Alone 5:00
  32. End Quarterly Earnings Reports? Here's the Debate — Bloomberg | SEC Proposes Amendments to Permit Optional Semiannual Reporting — SEC Press Release | Petition for Rulemaking to Amend Quarterly Reporting Requirements — LTSE (Sept 30, 2025) 5:00
  33. Shakespeare's Starlings: How Invasive Birds Took Over North America 5:00
  34. The Engine That Was Supposed to Run on Peanuts 5:00
  35. AI Killed Nuclear Power. Then It Brought It Back. 5:00
  36. What Quality Time Actually Means 5:00
  37. How Sports Betting Swallowed the Game 5:00
  38. The Economics of Podcasts 5:00
  39. When Kids Grow Up Talking to AI 5:00
  40. Why Leaves Change Color in the Fall 5:00
  41. Th Cavendish Banana is Not The OG 5:00
  42. How Hawaii Became Hawaii 5:00
  43. Upton Sinclair Accidentally Created the FDA 5:00
  44. The Birth of Indoor Rock Climbing 5:00
  45. How the Elevator Flipped the Value of a Building Upside Down 5:00
  46. Why America Can't Build Things Anymore 5:00
  47. Why GPS Is Free 5:00
  48. How Airlines Invented On-Demand Video 5:00
  49. The Business of Laundromats 5:00
  50. Muhammad Ali and His Stolen Red Bike 5:00