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Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum - The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
For the first time in history, autocracies are working together to stay in power.
Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad actor, but by sophistic…
2 years ago
World Record Breaking Mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa and Filmmaker Lucy Walker
Lhakpa Sherpa broke a record: she was the first Nepali woman to climb and descend Everest. Then she broke another: summiting for the tenth time, she …
2 years, 1 month ago
Neuroscientist Patrick House - How to Make Sense of Consciousness
Stanford neuroscientist Patrick House joins us with an introduction to the best of our current paradigms for making sense of consciousness. In conver…
2 years, 1 month ago
Pioneering Biologist J Craig Venter - The Future of Life on Earth
A household name following both the mapping of the human genome and, in 2010, the creation of the first synthetic organism, J Craig Venter is a singu…
2 years, 1 month ago
New York Times Bestseller Paolo Bacigalupi - Money and Power in the Fantasy Renaissance
Renowned as a pioneer of climate fiction, Paolo Bacigalupi's novels The Windup Girl and The Water Knife earned him a reputation as one of the essenti…
2 years, 1 month ago
Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell - When the Wild Things Returned
After years of running a failing farm in West Sussex, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell decided to hand back control to nature. Slowly bu…
2 years, 1 month ago
Neuroscientist Kelly Clancy - How Games Change Reality
Kelly Clancy is both a neuroscientist and a physicist, and has held positions at MIT and DeepMind. She's also the author of Playing With Reality, a n…
2 years, 1 month ago
Bestselling Sociologist Sarah Thornton - Why Breasts Matter
After years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. But, after her reconstructive su…
2 years, 1 month ago
Stephanie Harrison - How to Get Happiness Right in a World That’s Got it Wrong
In a society where stress and competition run rampant, how can we find a more fulfilling sense of happiness? Well-being expert and founder of The New…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ruchir Sharma - How Capitalism Went Wrong
What went wrong with capitalism? Drawing on his decades of experience as a world-leading investor and FT columnist, leading financial analyst Ruchir …
2 years, 2 months ago