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Marcus du Sautoy - AI and the Secret of Creativity
In Episode 9 of the How To Academy podcast, the nation’s most loved science communicator, Oxford mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy, explores the potential of artificial intelligence to think creatively.…
Published on 6 years ago
Giles Coren - A Man For All Seasons
In Episode 8 of the How To Academy Podcast, Matthew Stadlen meets restaurant critic and raconteur Giles Coren, for a freewheeling and hilarious conversation about truth, love and clean cutlery. Gile…
Published on 6 years ago
Michael Pollan - How to Change Your Mind
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? In Episode 7 of the How To Academy podcast, Michael Pollan tells Matthew Stadlen about his journey to the frontiers of the human mind. For twenty years t…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
Elizabeth Gilbert - On Life and Love
From the dive bars of the Lower East Side to the beaches of Bali, the Connecticut Christmas Tree farm where she was raised to the Mumbai ashram where she sought solace after a difficult divorce, Eliz…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
Preet Bharara - An Insider's Guide to Crime in America
In Episode Five of the How To Academy Podcast, Matthew Stadlen meets Preet Bharara, the former US district attorney who successfully prosecuted some of the most high-profile crimes in America. Along …
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
David Wallace-Wells - How To Survive Climate Change
Once a generation an environmentalist dares to speak truth to power with such force that they cannot be silenced. In Episode 4 of the How To Academy Podcast, Matthew Stadlen meets David Wallace-Wells…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
The Gendered Brain Debate
In this week's podcast, two giants of cognitive science - neuroscientist Gina Rippon and psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen - go head-to-head to debate one of the most contested and controversial ideas i…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Cass Sunstein - How To Make Change Happen
In this podcast, the bestselling author of Nudge, Professor Cass Sunstein, presents a ground-breaking guide for anyone who wishes to fuel – or block – transformative social change. Sometimes all it t…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Simon Sinek - How to Lead in the 21st Century
In this episode of the How To Academy podcast, Matthew Stadlen meets Simon Sinek – perhaps the 21st century’s most acclaimed thinker in the field of business leadership. Simon Sinek’s Start With Why …
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago