Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPeter Schwartz: The Starships ARE Coming
### Starship destiny We now know, Schwartz began, that nearly all of the billions of stars in our galaxy have planets. If we can master interstellar …
12 years, 7 months ago
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow
### On taking thought Before a packed house, Kahneman began with the distinction between what he calls mental “System 1”---fast thinking, intuition--…
12 years, 8 months ago
Craig Childs: Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
### How the world keeps ending “This Earth is a story teller,” Childs began. “And it is not a stable place to live. It is always ending. We think of …
12 years, 9 months ago
Ed Lu: Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them
### The last killer asteroid Kevin Kelly wrote the following about Ed Lu’s Seminar About Long-term Thinking (SALT) titled “Anthropocene Astronomy: Th…
12 years, 10 months ago
Stewart Brand: Reviving Extinct Species
### De-extinction begins The new tools of synthetic biology, I began, are about to liberate conservation in a spectacular way. It is becoming possibl…
12 years, 11 months ago
Nicholas Negroponte: Beyond Digital
### A world of convergence In education, Negroponte explained, there’s a fundamental distinction between "instructionism" and "constructionism." "Con…
13 years ago
George Dyson: No Time Is There
### The digital big bang When the digital universe began, in 1951 in New Jersey, it was just 5 kilobytes in size. "That's just half a second of MP3 a…
13 years, 1 month ago
Chris Anderson: The Makers Revolution
### Desktop manufacturing changes world We’re now entering the third industrial revolution, Anderson said. The first one, which began with the spinni…
13 years, 2 months ago
Terry Hunt & Carl Lipo: The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island
### Easter Island reconsidered In the most isolated place on Earth a tiny society built world-class monuments. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is 1,000 mile…
13 years, 3 months ago
Peter Warshall: Enchanted by the Sun
### Light and beauty “The naturalist’s task,” Warshall began, “is to observe without human-centered thoughts and human-centered agendas, to observe w…
13 years, 5 months ago