Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA palm scan to buy food and the “Promethean moment” now upon us
Season 1
Amazon’s palm-reading technology is being tested in Panera Bread cafes, but what if such advances were used to monitor our every move? Such a surveil…
3 years, 2 months ago
Bill Gates warns that AI could “decide that humans are a threat”
Season 1
Bill Gates recently wrote, “There’s the possibility that AIs will run out of control” and could decide that humans are a threat. Yet, as we develop t…
3 years, 2 months ago
Cities and communities are withdrawing from the US
Season 1
A “scaled secession” is taking place within our country. This is not a “national divorce” but rather “soft separatism” in which communities are dista…
3 years, 2 months ago
Trump deepfakes and TikTok’s troubling algorithm reveal our deepest need
Season 1
While Donald Trump remains a free man as of this writing, that news may come as a shock to millions of people who have already seen pictures of him g…
3 years, 2 months ago
Gwyneth Paltrow’s trial and “Celebrity Worship Syndrome”
Season 1
Gwyneth Paltrow is on trial for a 2016 ski accident after being sued for crashing into a man. She has countersued, claiming he hit her. Our cultural …
3 years, 2 months ago
Why is the Greg Laurie movie “Jesus Revolution” so popular?
Season 1
Jesus Revolution, the movie about a spiritual awakening in California in the early 1970s, is outperforming many Best Picture Oscar nominees at the bo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Will Donald Trump be indicted today? A week “unlike any other in American politics”
Season 1
When will Donald Trump be indicted for an alleged hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels via Michael Cohen? Trump has said his arrest could happen toda…
3 years, 2 months ago
Should the United States get a “national divorce”?
Season 1
Should America get a divorce? Twenty percent of Americans think so, an unsurprising number given rising partisan animosity in the US. Yet depression …
3 years, 2 months ago
Netflix show for preschoolers features nonbinary character “coming out”
Season 1
In “Ridley Jones,” a Netflix show for preschoolers, a character recently came out as nonbinary. Marvel has announced its Pride Month Star Wars comic …
3 years, 2 months ago
March Madness tips off today: How the NCAA tournament became a cultural phenomenon
Season 1
March Madness begins in earnest today, and if you have not yet added your bracket to the more than 80 million that are filled out each year, there ma…
3 years, 2 months ago