Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Byrne: Good News & Sleeping Beauties
David Byrne has become a scholar and promoter of new good ideas that work in the world. He finds them in health, education, culture, economics, clima…
6 years, 10 months ago
Brian Behlendorf: A Foundation of Trust: Building a Blockchain Future
An Open Source pioneer, [Brian Behlendorf](https://twitter.com/brianbehlendorf) now leads the effort to build the infrastructure for trust as a servi…
6 years, 10 months ago
Judy Wajcman: Time Poverty Amidst Digital Abundance
Technology’s promise is to “save” time. Its track record in real and psychological terms is often the opposite. A sociologist of science and technolo…
6 years, 11 months ago
Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me
In his new novel, _[_Machines Like Me_](https://smile.amazon.com/Machines-Like-Me-Ian-McEwan/dp/0385545118/ref=sr_1_1)_, Ian McEwan uses science fict…
6 years, 11 months ago
Elizabeth Lonsdorf: Growing Up Ape: The Long-term Science of Studying Our Closest Living Relatives
Studying primates offers insight into human evolution and behavior. Primatologist Elizabeth Lonsdorf shares her ongoing work with wild chimpanzees an…
6 years, 11 months ago
Maya Tudor: Can Nationalism be a Resource for Democracy?
A political scientist examines how foundational nationalisms affect democracy globally, using countries like India and Myanmar to illustrate that som…
6 years, 11 months ago
Alexander Rose, Kevin Kelly, & Stewart Brand: Siberia: A Journey to the Mammoth Steppe
In August of 02018, Long Now founder Stewart Brand, renowned geneticist George Church, and a delegation of observers and scientists traveled to one o…
7 years ago
Christopher Bryan: The Evolving Science of Behavior Change
Human civilization is used to being saved by technology. The 20th century was defined by humanity’s ability to invent a pill, vaccine, or device to o…
7 years ago
Hannu Rajaniemi: The Spirit Singularity: Science and the Afterlife at the Turn of the 20th Century
Scifi author, scientist, and entrepreneur Hannu Rajaniemi discusses the real life late Victorian attempts to map the afterlife which inspired _Summer…
7 years ago
Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come
The ocean is not just filling up, it’s swelling up. Half of sea-level rise comes just from the warming of the water. No matter what humans do next, w…
7 years ago