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How China Won the Car Industry
Season 1 Episode 186
After spending decades as marginal players in the global auto industry, Chinese carmakers have become the world’s biggest exporters of cars. Chinese …
2 months, 1 week ago
Using Viruses to Fight Disease
Season 1 Episode 185
Phages are viruses that attack bacteria. People have been using phages to treat infections for over a hundred years, but in most cases they just don'…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How AI Could Reduce Inequality
Season 1 Episode 184
David Autor is a labor economist at MIT. He has written about how the arrival of personal computers increased inequality among American workers. But …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Racing Wildfires to Warn the Public
Season 1 Episode 183
John Mills is the CEO and co-founder of a nonprofit called Watch Duty. His problem is this: How do you build an app to warn people when they are in i…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
How AI Could Actually Make the World Better
Season 1 Episode 182
Josh Tyrangiel is the author of “AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter.” On today’s show, Josh tal…
3 months ago
Finding Meaning (and Money) in the AI Age
Season 1 Episode 181
Betsey Stevenson is a labor economist at the University of Michigan, and she was an economic adviser to President Obama. Betsey’s problem is this: Ho…
3 months, 1 week ago
Using Pokémon Go to Map the World
Season 1 Episode 180
Maps have gotten much better over the past few decades. But they're still mostly two dimensional, and they struggle to keep up with a world that is a…
4 months ago
The Company Where Everyone Has Their Own AI Agent
Season 1 Episode 179
Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a company that publishes newsletters about AI, develops AI-related software, and helps other companie…
4 months, 1 week ago
Inventing a Better Apple
Season 1 Episode 178
The apples you can buy at the grocery store have gotten profoundly better over the past few decades. It’s a kind of everyday, hiding-in-plain sight i…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Welcome to Carbon Cowboys | From Drilled
Season 1
Drilled, a new addition to the Pushkin network, is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives bui…
4 months, 2 weeks ago