Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGOLD — AFTER THE SHINE
Season 1 Episode 14
Gold has been an object of desire forever. Why? It's shiny! Some birds and humans like shiny things. Gold is also scarce, which adds value. There are…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Electrify Everything: The Path to Zero Carbon
In this episode, we explore one of the most powerful tools in the fight against climate change: electrification. Currently, America runs on millions …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Shrinking Trump - Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (Part 3 of 3)
Season 8 Episode 116
The Real-World Costs
What happens when psychological dysfunction meets ultimate power? In our final episode, we examine the cascading failures already…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Shrinking Trump: Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (Part 2 of 3)
SHOW-NOTES
How does individual psychological dysfunction become mass contagion? This episode explores the transformation from personal pathology to cu…
9 months ago
Shrinking Trump: Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (1 of 3)
SHOW-NOTES
Something disturbing is happening in real time, and mental health experts are sounding urgent alarms. The most powerful person in the world…
9 months ago
Torching the Future: From Cooking to Catastrophe (Part 3 of 3)
The Quintessential Question – Why is the Human Brain so Extraordinary?
Fire made us human through cooking, giving us the energy to build massive brain…
10 months ago
Torching the Future (Part 2 of 3): Living in the Age of Fire
Season 7 Episode 113
Fire has transformed from the simple chemistry Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman once described—oxygen and carbon atoms finding their way home to ea…
10 months, 1 week ago
Torching the Future: Part 1 of 3 – How Fire Forged Human Civilization
For thousands of years, humans and fire had a deal. Fire exists because of the oxygen generated by life. Civilization exists because it partnered wit…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Our Sweet Future Lives After we Solve Climate Change
Season 5 Episode 70
How should we think about a world that doesn’t yet exist?
Can you Imagine what a Post-carb…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Climate Denial: Are you a Luke-Warmer?
Season 1 Episode 10
Most people are not climate deniers. It is an unreasonable and frankly, a stupid position to take.
Recent polling shows that the majority (73%) of …
11 months ago