Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDrew Endy: The iGEM Revolution
## Massively collaborative synthetic biology Natural genomes are nearly impossible to figure out, Endy began, because they were evolved, not designed…
11 years, 7 months ago
Anne Neuberger: Inside the NSA
## The NSA reaches out Of her eight great-grandparents, seven were murdered at Auschwitz. “So my family’s history burned into me a fear of what occur…
11 years, 8 months ago
Adrian Hon: A History of the Future in 100 Objects
### Future artifacts Speaking from 02082, Hon described 5 (of 100) objects and events from this century’s history he felt most strongly evoked the as…
11 years, 9 months ago
Stefan Kröpelin: Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle
### The Sahara and civilization “Almost everything breaks in the desert,” Kröpelin began. He showed trucks mired in sand, one vehicle blown up by a l…
11 years, 10 months ago
Sylvia Earle & Tierney Thys: Oceanic
### Oceans alive Neither of them eats fish. Both marine biologists applaud the improved regulation of American fishing and the resulting recovery of …
11 years, 11 months ago
Tony Hsieh: Helping Revitalize a City
### The downtown company The business advice that Tony Hsieh most took to heart came from an ad executive: “A great brand is a story that never stops…
12 years ago
Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State
### Government as radical, patient VC The iPhone, Mazzucato pointed out, is held up as a classic example of world-changing innovation coming from bus…
12 years, 1 month ago
Danny Hillis & Brian Eno: The Long Now, now
### Make the next legal U-turn "Bitching Betty," they call the robotic voice of the car’s GPS guidance system. Eno and Hillis, on their road trips, a…
12 years, 3 months ago
Richard Kurin: American History in 101 Objects
### American objects Figuratively holding up one museum item after another, Kurin spun tales from them. (The Smithsonian has 137 million objects; he …
12 years, 5 months ago
Adam Steltzner: Beyond Mars, Earth
### Mighty daring on Mars Engineer Steltzner took his rapt audience striding with him through the wrong solutions for landing a one-ton rover on Mars…
12 years, 6 months ago