Podcast Episodes

A Food Crisis Is Brewing. Are We Ready?

Caleb is joined by Sam Kass, former senior food policy advisor to President Obama and the chef who cooked dinner for the first family most nights. Now a partner at a venture capital firm investing in…

Published on 17 hours ago

The Future Is Going to Be Great

Dave Blundin has co-founded 23 companies, co-hosts the Moonshots podcast, runs the VC firm Link Ventures, teaches at MIT, and has been building neural networks since the 1980s. His take: “[AI is] und…

Published on 1 week ago

PRIMAL INTELLIGENCE: You’re Smarter Than You Realize

Angus Fletcher has a PhD in literature from Yale and teaches English at Ohio State. He’s passionate about Shakespeare. He probably owns a tweed jacket. In other words, he’s the last person you’d expe…

Published on 2 weeks ago

STEVEN PINKER: How Common Knowledge and Rationality Make the World Go Round

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker shares five key insights from his brand new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. He reveals how “common knowledge” — the hidden force of knowing what othe…

Published on 3 weeks ago

AI & THE BRAIN: How Different Are They?

Today's AI runs on neural networks, a design originally inspired by the human brain. As these systems grow more sophisticated, they're raising a profound question: Even if they don't work exactly lik…

Published on 4 weeks ago

'The Next Big Idea Daily': The A.I. Will See You Now

We’re used to hearing “the doctor will see you now,” but in the not-so-distant future, that doctor may not be human. That’s because human docs are prone to misdiagnosis, burnout, and bias — making ou…

Published on 1 month ago

Best Of: Jonathan Haidt on What Social Media Is Doing to Our Kids

It’s rare these days for a book to go viral, but that’s exactly what happened with The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Hai…

Published on 1 month ago

ARTHUR C. BROOKS: Success Won’t Make You Happy — Here’s What Will

Arthur C. Brooks is an unlikely happiness guru.

He’s not a psychologist, philosopher, or mystic. He’s an economist and public policy analyst who, for years, ran a prominent think tank.

But rubbing sh…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

'The Next Big Idea Daily': How to Turn Anxiety Into Your Superpower

Anxiety can be painful and embarrassing, even downright debilitating. But author and podcaster Morra Aarons-Mele says it's also a force that you can use to your advantage. She's here today to teach y…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

THE FUTURE OF WRITING: A Conversation with Ethan Mollick and Steven Johnson

What if, thanks to AI, you can now research and write a book two, three, or even four times faster? For authors and AI pioneers Steven Johnson (Editorial Director, NotebookLM and Google Labs) and Eth…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago