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Uncomfortably Curious
Some conversations make you more certain. These ones don't.Uncomfortably Curious is a long-form conversation podcast hosted by Aidan Mill, exploring psychology, science, health, philosophy, history, and the questions underneath modern life — through conversations with researchers, thinkers, and practitioners who've gone deep on something.The goal isn't easy answers. It's questions worth sitting with.
Episodes
Uncomfortably CuriousDeath Literacy: What Caring For The Dying Teaches The Living
Most of us will care for someone dying, and almost none of us are taught how. Psychologist and researcher Kerrie Noonan wants to change that.Kerrie coined the…
Uncomfortably CuriousHomer, Nolan’s The Odyssey & Ancient Greece
What is The Odyssey actually about — and why has it survived for nearly 3,000 years?Christopher Gribbin joins me to explore Homer’s Odyssey, the complicated…
Uncomfortably CuriousWhy Grandparents Made Us Live So Long — with Dr. Paul Turke
Dr. Paul Turke calls himself the world’s first Darwinian paediatrician. Before medical school, he spent months doing fieldwork on the tiny Micronesian atoll of…
Uncomfortably CuriousWe're Telling Boys They’re The Problem — with Gautam Raju (Movember)
Gautam Raju leads global policy and advocacy at Movember, sitting at the point where men's health research meets government and the algorithm. We get into why…
Uncomfortably CuriousAre Dads Really Hard To Engage? Fatherhood, Mental Health & Identity
Are dads actually "hard to engage", or have we just been building the wrong kinds of support?I'm joined by Simon Moore, a Geelong‑based registered nurse…
Uncomfortably CuriousOur Lonely Speck
Extinction might be the rule in the universe, not the exception.Charley Lineweaver studied history and English before switching to physics — and ended up on…
Uncomfortably CuriousPsychedelics: Legal But Still Misunderstood
A Melbourne psychiatrist spent decades building the case for psychedelic therapy — and became one of the psychiatrists pushing for Australia to legalise…
Uncomfortably CuriousConcussion, CTE and Football’s Brain Crisis – with Prof Alan Pearce
Concussion isn’t just “getting your bell rung” — it’s a mild traumatic brain injury that disrupts how your brain’s electrical system works, often long after…
Uncomfortably CuriousStaring Into The Past
What does it mean that the universe is dying — slowly, quietly, running out of usable energy? How does where a galaxy grows up shape what it becomes? And how…
Uncomfortably CuriousBusy Is Not The Same As Living
You can spend years building something impressive and still wonder if it's what you actually wanted.Izzy Di Domenico is a lecturer, unit chair, and nine-year…
Uncomfortably CuriousPassenger Parenting: Why New Dads Can Feel Involved But Not In Control
Most new dads want to be present and involved. Many quietly become passengers in their own family — and don't realise until it's already happened.Norma Barrett…
Uncomfortably CuriousHow Long Have We Been Here?
Billy Griffiths, author of Deep Time Dreaming, is a historian who has spent years thinking about what it means to inhabit a continent where people have lived…
Uncomfortably CuriousTrailer — Welcome to Uncomfortably Curious
Some conversations make you more certain. These ones don't.Uncomfortably Curious is long-form conversations with researchers and thinkers who are more…