Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLazar Kunstmann & Jon Lackman: Preservation without Permission
### Preservation Without Permission Their video showed clandestine urban “infiltration” (trespassing) at its most creative. Paris’s Urban Experiment …
13 years, 5 months ago
Steven Pinker: The Decline of Violence
### The Long Peace “Nothing can be more gentle than man in his primitive state,” declared Rousseau in the 18th century. A century earlier, Thomas Hob…
13 years, 6 months ago
Tim O'Reilly: Birth of the Global Mind
### The global mind is us, augmented As a student of the classics at Harvard in the 1970s, O’Reilly was impressed by a book titled _The Discovery of …
13 years, 7 months ago
Elaine Pagels: The Truth About the Book of Revelations
### War in heaven "The _Book of Revelation_ is war literature," Pagels explained. John of Patmos was a war refugee, writing sixty years after the dea…
13 years, 8 months ago
Cory Doctorow: The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer
### Who governs digital trust? Doctorow framed the question this way: "Computers are everywhere. They are now something we put our whole bodies into-…
13 years, 9 months ago
Benjamin Barber: If Mayors Ruled the World
### City-based global governance Sovereign nation states have conspicuously failed to cooperate well enough to deal with increasingly global problems…
13 years, 10 months ago
Susan Freinkel: Eternal Plastic
### Making plastic even better Plastic is so new, Freinkel began, that among all the objects preserved in the sunken _Titanic_ , none are synthetic p…
13 years, 11 months ago
Charles C. Mann: Living in the Homogenocene
### Bio-blender Earth Tumultuous effects resulted and continue to result from the massive mixing of the world’s biota when European ships reconnected…
14 years ago
Edward O. Wilson: The Social Conquest of Earth
### The real creation story “History makes no sense without prehistory,“ Wilson declared, “and prehistory makes no sense without biology.” He began b…
14 years ago
Mark Lynas: The Nine Planetary Boundaries
### The Quantified Planet “About 74,000 years ago,” Lynas began, “a volcanic event nearly wiped out humanity. We were down to just a thousand or so e…
14 years, 1 month ago