Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRamez Naam: Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity
### Enhancing humans and humanity Beginning with the accelerating pace of biotech tools for human health and enhancement, Naam noted that health issu…
10 years, 9 months ago
Neil Gaiman: How Stories Last
## How stories last Stories are alive. The ones that last, Gaiman said, outcompete other stories by changing over time. They make it from medium to m…
10 years, 10 months ago
Beth Shapiro: How to Clone a Mammoth
## De-extinction science When people hear about “ancient DNA” in fossils, Shapiro began, the first question always is “Can we clone a dinosaur?” Dino…
10 years, 11 months ago
Michael Shermer: The Long Arc of Moral Progress
## Moral Progress Shermer began with Martin Luther King’s statement in Selma, March 1965: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward…
11 years ago
Jonathon Keats: Envisioning Deep Time
Philosophical inquiry and scientific absurdism meet in the conceptual precision and ice dry wit of Jonathon Keats. In his talk at The Interval, Keats…
11 years ago
Paul Saffo: The Creator Economy
### The Creator Economy Media innovations drive economic shifts, Saffo began. “We invent new technology and then use it to reinvent ourselves.” 1\. T…
11 years, 1 month ago
David Keith: Patient Geoengineering
## Practical geoengineering “Temporary, moderate, and responsive” should be the guidelines of responsible geoengineering, in David Keith’s view. For …
11 years, 2 months ago
Jesse Ausubel: Nature is Rebounding
### Why nature is rebounding Over the last 40 years, in nearly every field, human productivity has _decoupled_ from resource use, Ausubel began. Even…
11 years, 3 months ago
Kevin Kelly: Technium Unbound
## Holos Rising When Kevin Kelly looked up the definition of “superorganism” on Wikipedia, he found this: “A collection of agents which can act in co…
11 years, 5 months ago
Larry Harvey: Why The Man Keeps Burning
## The Hundred Year Burn "Burning Man is like one of those birthday candles you can’t blow out,” observed Burning Man’s primary founder and Chief Phi…
11 years, 6 months ago