Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchArthur Ganson: Machines and the Breath of Time
### Dancing chairs "You follow the feeling of the piece," Ganson explained, "and then wrestle it into physicality." As long as the idea is nonphysic…
16 years, 7 months ago
Wayne Clough: Smithsonian Forever
### The Smithsonian's long now [Note for those who mentally enunciate words while reading: the last name is pronounced "Cluff."] Secretary Clough rem…
16 years, 8 months ago
Raoul Adamchak & Pamela Ronald: Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future
### Engineered organic Organic farming teacher Raoul began the joint presentation with a checklist for truly sustainable agriculture in a global cont…
16 years, 9 months ago
Paul Romer: A Theory of History, with an Application
### New Cities with New Rules This talk was the first in a series of public discussions of an idea that Romer has been working on for two years. His …
16 years, 11 months ago
Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture
### Making farmers cool again Farming has become an occupation and cultural force of the past. Michael Pollan's talk promoted the premise - and hope …
16 years, 11 months ago
Gavin Newsom & Stewart Brand: Cities and Time
### Sustainable Cities Mayor Newsom began with how moved he was by hosting the UN's World Environment Day in San Francisco in 2005. For that event, …
17 years ago
Daniel Everett: Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future
### Language Revolution The Piraha tribe in the heart of the Amazon numbers only 360, spread in small groups over 300 miles. An exceptionally cheerf…
17 years, 1 month ago
Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices
### Managing social collapse With vintage Russian black humor, Orlov described the social collapse he witnessed in Russia in the 1990s and spelled ou…
17 years, 2 months ago
Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated
### The Terawatt World Engineer Griffith said he was going to make the connection between personal actions and global climate change. To do that he's…
17 years, 3 months ago
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco
### Four Dimensional Cities Cities are designed and built in three dimensions. Watching Prelinger's historic footage of San Francisco last night (to…
17 years, 4 months ago