Podcast Episodes

Using Oil-Industry Tech to Create Clean Energy

Season 1 Episode 81

Tim Latimer is the CEO and co-founder of Fervo Energy, a company that is using a new approach to produce carbon-free geothermal energy. Tim and his company are drawing on innovations from the oil and…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Understanding Obesity and Alzheimer’s via Epigenomics

Season 1 Episode 80

Manolis Kellis is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works in computational biology, taking giant datasets relating to genetics and health outcomes and t…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Reinventing the Restaurant

Season 1 Episode 79

After working as a chef for decades, Anthony Strong’s dream came true: He opened his own restaurant. His problem was a classic one: Restaurants are bad businesses. So he set out to open a new kind of…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

The Giant Torch That May Help Save the World

Season 1 Episode 78

Selling hydrogen to make fertilizer is a huge business. It also drives tons of carbon emissions. Rob Hanson, the co-founder and CEO of a company called Monolith is trying to create hydrogen without e…

Published on 2 years ago

Fixing Uber’s Broken Culture

Season 1 Episode 77

Frances Frei and Anne Morriss are the co-founders of a training and consulting company called The Leadership Consortium. Together they specialize in helping leaders build trust within their companies…

Published on 2 years ago

Murder Brokers from Hot Money: The New Narcos

Season 1

When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look like an international assassination plot. Enjoy this episode from Hot Money: The New Narcos, a pod…

Published on 2 years ago

Using AI for Creative Work

Season 1 Episode 76

A few weeks ago, Jacob Goldstein sat down with a writer and a composer on a stage in Chicago to talk about artificial intelligence. The conversation, which was part of the Chicago Humanities Festival…

Published on 2 years ago

The Little-Known Office With $400 Billion to Fight Climate Change

Season 1 Episode 75

Jigar Shah is the director of the Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. Last year, as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress allocated hundreds of billions of dollars for Jiga…

Published on 2 years ago

How AI Solved a Biological Mystery

Season 1 Episode 74

Pushmeet Kohli is vice president of research at DeepMind, an AI research group that is part of Google.

Every protein has a unique shape. And understanding a protein’s shape is key to understanding ho…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Making Oxygen on Mars

Season 1 Episode 73

Forrest Meyen is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Lunar Outpost, a company that builds machines that go to places like Mars and, if everything goes according to plan, the moon. The compan…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago