Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPreserving Digital History: How to Close the Web's 'Memory Hole'
Episode 578
More than 98% of the information on the web is lost within 20 years, and huge gaps exist in our digital and cultural history. Zoran Basich and Alex P…
5 years, 7 months ago
Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 2) – Climbing and Entrepreneurship
Episode 577
In part 1 of our series on human performance, we looked at the limits of human potential in climbing and other sports – and how we push those limits …
5 years, 7 months ago
Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 1) – Where's the Limit?
Episode 576
Is there a limit to what humans can do? And if so, how do you know when you've reached it? Welcome to part one of a two-part series on human performa…
5 years, 7 months ago
Why We Shouldn’t Fear AI in Healthcare
Episode 575
"Why We Shouldn’t Fear the ‘Black Box’ of AI (in Healthcare and Everywhere)" by Vijay Pande. First published in the New York Times, January 2018.
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5 years, 7 months ago
When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China
Episode 574
"When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China" by Connie Chan. First published August 2015.
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5 years, 7 months ago
Every Company Is a Fintech Company
Episode 573
"Why Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company -- The Next Era of Financial Services and the 'AWS Phase' for Fintech" by Angela Strange.
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5 years, 7 months ago
Read-Alouds, Continued
Episode 572
Today we're continuing a series we started a while ago of read-alouds (for more context on the why and why now check out episode #500 on how we podca…
5 years, 7 months ago
Journal Club: Revisiting Eroom's Law
Episode 571
Eroom’s Law is Moore’s Law spelled backwards. It’s a term that was coined in a Nature Reviews Drug Discovery article by researchers at Sanford Bernst…
5 years, 7 months ago
Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology
Episode 570
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the visibility of scientists and the scientific process to the broader public; suddenly, scientists working on vi…
5 years, 8 months ago
Journal Club: Therapeutic Video Game on Trial
Episode 569
In this episode of the a16z bio journal club, we cover one of the key clinical trials that supported the recent FDA approval of the first prescriptio…
5 years, 8 months ago