Podcast Episodes

Growing Meat from Cells

Season 1 Episode 152

Justin Kolbeck is the co-founder and CEO of Wildtype, a company making seafood without killing fish.

Their first product is cultivated salmon, which is made from real salmon cells that are grown in a…

Published on 8 hours ago

The Ordinary Stuff Behind Technological Breakthroughs

Season 1 Episode 151

 Ed Conway is an economics journalist and author of the book “Material World: The Six Raw Materials that Shape Modern Civilization.”

On today’s show, Ed reveals how three of those often-overlooked ma…

Published on 1 week ago

Carbon Capture at Rock-Bottom Prices

Season 1 Episode 150

Shashank Samala is the CEO and co-founder of Heirloom, a carbon capture start-up.

His problem is this: Can you use crushed up rocks to permanently suck carbon out of the atmosphere? And can you do it…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Ferrari Fandom, Supercharged by AI from Smart Talks with IBM

Season 1

Today we're sharing an episode from another Pushkin podcast, Smart Talks with IBM. Scuderia Ferrari and IBM are redefining fan engagement with AI-driven insights, and cutting-edge digital tools. Lear…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Why Amazon Built a Spatula-Wielding Robot

Season 1 Episode 149

Aaron Parness is a director of applied science at Amazon Robotics.

His problem is this: How do you build a robot that can put stuff on shelves.

Today on the show, Aaron explains why this is a surprisi…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Drilling Smarter Wells to Unleash Geothermal Energy

Season 1 Episode 148

In many places on Earth, there’s steam just below the surface. We don’t know where those places are — but if we could figure it out, we could unlock a lot of clean energy.

Carl Hoiland is the co-found…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Inventing a Better Pain Pill

Season 1 Episode 147

 Dr. Stephen Waxman is a professor of neurology, neuroscience and pharmacology at Yale. His research on pain helped pave the way for a newly approved, non-addictive pain drug called suzetrigine.

On t…

Published on 1 month ago

Mapping the Unmappable

Season 1 Episode 146

 Philipp Kandal is the chief product officer of Grab, an app that serves several countries across Southeast Asia. Two of Grab’s main businesses are delivery and mobility – like a combination between …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Reinventing Blood

Season 1 Episode 145

Dr. Allan Doctor is the co-founder and chief scientific officer at Kalocyte, a company that is developing dried red blood cells that can be rehydrated and used in medical emergencies.

On today’s show…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of Medicine

Season 1 Episode 144

Jakob Uszkoreit is the CEO and co-founder of Inceptive, a biotech start-up. He’s also a co-author of “Attention is All You Need,” the paper that created transformer models. Today, transformers power …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago