Podcast Episodes

​Sarah Billington: How we shape our buildings — and how they shape us

Sarah Billington began her career in civil engineering studying concrete, a remarkable material that has literally shaped the world as we know it.

Co…

7 years, 8 months ago

Jeffrey Pfeffer: Your job is killing you

Over the last three-quarters of a century, global corporations have lost sight of their broader role in society and now are focused almost exclusivel…

7 years, 8 months ago

Anna Grzymala-Busse: Lessons from the rise of global populism

Populism can be a powerful force in a democratic society.

But according to Anna Grzymala-Busse, a Stanford professor of political science and senior …

7 years, 9 months ago

​Andrew Grotto: Combating cyberthreats in the age of the cloud

From Bitcoin theft to the embarrassing revelations in the Sony Pictures hacking to the recent assault on the U.S. election, the threats of internatio…

7 years, 9 months ago

Anna Lembke: How do we fight the disease of addiction?

Beginning in the 1980s, medical doctors started treating pain with increasing amounts of opioid medications.

That shift was driven in part by an effo…

7 years, 9 months ago

​Martha Crenshaw: Fighting terrorism in the age of social media

When Stanford’s Martha Crenshaw, senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and an expert on terrorism, is asked if she …

7 years, 10 months ago

Maya Rossin-Slater: Health policy and its impact on families

Can an expectant mother’s exposure to air pollutants or even extreme temperatures impact her unborn child’s earning potential 30 years later?

Can pai…

7 years, 10 months ago

Fred Turner: The 60s counterculture roots of today’s social networks

It may not be widely known, but before he launched Apple, Steve Jobs lived for a year on a commune.

The fact that he became one of the wealthiest cap…

7 years, 10 months ago

Jeremy Bailenson: Taking a grand tour of the latest in virtual reality

From Oculus Rift to Samsung VR, the era of virtual reality is right around the corner, if not already upon us.

But what are the psychological impacts…

7 years, 10 months ago

​Roz Naylor: Changing how — and what — the world eats

As the global population approaches 10 billion and the effects of climate change continue to alter familiar agricultural patterns, the world is alrea…

7 years, 11 months ago