Tapestry: Why it's not just your brain that makes you smart

Intelligence is the domain of the mind, that much is obvious. What isn't obvious is what makes up the mind. Most people will say the brain, and there are hundreds of books that will endorse this.

Science journalist Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Extended Mind, wants to dispel us of our brain fixation. It's not that the brain isn't important, or even critical, but it isn't acting alone. Paul explores how intelligence is tied to the rest of our bodies, to our circumstances and the company we keep.

New Podcast: White Hot Hate 

 A violent, white supremacist ideology is spreading around the world, with believers trying to create chaos, in order to seize control.

When recruitment posters for a group calling itself The Base start to appear in Manitoba, Winnipeg Free Press journalist Ryan Thorpe decides to go undercover...and infiltrate.

Ryan meets with a Canadian Armed Forces reservist trying to establish a local neo-Nazi cell, and discovers that he is planning attacks and destruction abroad.

This six-part series follows the extraordinary case through Ryan’s perspective as an infiltrator - while host Michelle Shephard, a veteran national security journalist, explores the rise of white supremacist accelerationism.

The Intro: Mighloe 

CBC Music is launching season 2 of The Intro, a bi-weekly feature bringing essential emerging Canadian talent to the world with a brand new look, host and crop of artists. 

On this episode meet Mighloe, the alter ego of Mariah Wheeler, a rising Pickering, Ont. singer who channels stories of heartbreak into R&B anthems. Just five years into her career, Wheeler's voice is untethered to a time or era, channelling the classic and contemporary sounds of everyone from Janis Joplin to Amy Winehouse.