Podcast Episodes
Back to Search119. Howard Bloom — Einstein, Michael Jackson, and Me: A Search for the Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll
Episode 119
Howard Bloom — called "the greatest press agent that rock and roll has ever known" by Derek Sutton, the former manager of Styx, Ten Years After, and …
5 years, 10 months ago
118. Stuart Russell — Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Episode 118
In the popular imagination, superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just jobs and human relationships, but…
5 years, 11 months ago
117. Matt Ridley — How Innovation Works: and Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Episode 116
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in…
5 years, 11 months ago
116. Howard Steven Friedman — Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life
Episode 116
How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underl…
5 years, 11 months ago
115. Matthew Cobb — The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
Episode 115
For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we…
5 years, 11 months ago
114. Katherine Stewart — The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
Episode 114
For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex mar…
5 years, 11 months ago
113. Dave Rubin — Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
Episode 113
The left is no longer liberal. Once on the side of free speech and tolerance, progressives now ban speakers from college campuses, "cancel" people wh…
6 years ago
112. Ann Druyan — Cosmos: Possible Worlds
Episode 112
In this sequel to Carl Sagan's beloved classic and the companion to the hit television series hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the primary author of al…
6 years ago
111. Scott Barry Kaufman — Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
Episode 111
When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow's unfinished theory of transcendence, sprinkled throughout a cache of unpublished journ…
6 years ago
110. Bart Ehrman — Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Episode 110
According to a recent Pew Research poll, 72% of Americans believe in a literal heaven and 58% in a literal hell (more evidence of the over-optimism b…
6 years, 1 month ago