Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLewis Dartnell: ORIGINS - How Earth’s history shaped human history
From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, the human story is the story of environmental forces, from plate tectonics …
6 years, 5 months ago
Brittany Cox: Horological Heritage: Generating bird song, magic, and music through mechanism
From kings and philosophers to craftsmen and inventors, horology has been prized as an extraordinary marriage between art and science. Antiquarian Ho…
6 years, 5 months ago
Gurjeet Singh: The Shape Of Data And Things To Come
Big Data promises unparalleled insights, but the larger the data, the harder they are to find. The key to unlocking them was discovered by mathematic…
6 years, 6 months ago
Suhanya Raffel: World Art Through The Asian Perspective
Coming to the fore in this century is Asian perspective on everything. A thrilling place to watch the shift is in art. Extraordinary contemporary art…
6 years, 6 months ago
Nicola Twilley: Exploring the Artificial Cryosphere
The invisible backbone of our food system is a man-made, distributed, and perpetual winter of refrigeration we've built for our food to live in. It h…
6 years, 8 months ago
Monica L. Smith: Cities: The First 6,000 Years
“Cities were the first Internet,” says archaeologist Monica Smith, because they were the first permanent places where strangers met in large numbers …
6 years, 8 months ago
Neal Stephenson: Neal Stephenson - Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Neal Stephenson author of _Fall, or Dodge in Hell_ in conversation with Long Now Board Member, Kevin Kelly. Tickets included a signed copy of _Fall, …
6 years, 8 months ago
Marcia Bjornerud: Timefulness
We need a poly-temporal worldview to embrace the overlapping rates of change that our world runs on, especially the huge, powerful changes that are m…
6 years, 8 months ago
Kim Stanley Robinson: Learning From Le Guin
The legacy of [Ursula K Le Guin](http://www.ursulakleguin.com/) lives beyond the page in generations of writers who have learned from her. She used f…
6 years, 9 months ago
Mariana Mazzucato: Rethinking Value
What happens when we confuse price with value? We end up undervaluing care. We pollute more. And the financial sector is allowed to brag about how pr…
6 years, 9 months ago