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139 Episodes

  1. 128. Are Our Tools Becoming Part of Us?

    Published: 3/30/2024
  2. 127. Rajiv Shah Never Wastes a Crisis

    Published: 3/16/2024
  3. 126. How to Have Great Conversations

    Published: 3/2/2024
  4. 125. Is Gynecology the Best Innovation Ever?

    Published: 2/17/2024
  5. 124. Daron Acemoglu on Economics, Politics, and Power

    Published: 2/3/2024
  6. 123. Walt Hickey Wants to Track Your Eyeballs

    Published: 1/20/2024
  7. 122. Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Some Advice for You

    Published: 1/6/2024
  8. 121. Exploring Physics, from Eggshells to Oceans

    Published: 12/23/2023
  9. 120. Werner Herzog Thinks His Films Are a Distraction

    Published: 12/9/2023
  10. 119. Higher Education Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed?

    Published: 11/25/2023
  11. 118. “My God, This Is a Transformative Power”

    Published: 11/11/2023
  12. 117. Nate Silver Says We're Bad at Making Predictions

    Published: 10/28/2023
  13. 116. Abraham Verghese Thinks Medicine Can Do Better

    Published: 10/14/2023
  14. BONUS: Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin on "Greedy Work" and the Wage Gap

    Published: 10/9/2023
  15. 115. The Future of Therapy Is Psychedelic

    Published: 9/30/2023
  16. 114. Is Perfectionism Ruining Your Life?

    Published: 9/16/2023
  17. 113. Do We Have Evidence of Alien Life?

    Published: 9/2/2023
  18. 112. Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars

    Published: 8/19/2023
  19. 111. Can a Moonshot Approach to Mental Health Work?

    Published: 8/5/2023
  20. 110. Drawing from Life (and Death)

    Published: 7/22/2023

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