Podcast Episodes
Back to Search11 | What does Democracy get us?
Episode 12
Does Democracy have intrinsic value or is it only as good as what it helps us achieve? We sit down with Kristina Vasic and chat about what Democracy …
2 years ago
10 | Investigating systemic corruption
Episode 11
How can we build better tools to identify and predict large scale corruption? We sit with Irene Tello Arista and chat about everything from what corr…
2 years, 1 month ago
9 | How does art impact cognition?
Episode 10
Should we consider art beyond its utility? We sit down with Emily Kay Williamson to chat about what aesthetics can tell us about art's role in societ…
2 years, 1 month ago
8 | Should different scientific fields work to integrate?
Episode 9
How we as a species define ourselves and what we do? We sit down with Aleksandra Knežević and chat about the work to integrate different fields in sc…
2 years, 2 months ago
7 | On Culture: From systems to components
Episode 8
How do cultures change over time? We look at the framework of cultural evolution, picking apart some of its aspects and trying to build a framework w…
2 years, 2 months ago
6 | Can we hold machines accountable?
Episode 7
Who is responsible for the actions of machines? Questions around who is responsible for the behavior of generative statistical algorithms, like large…
2 years, 2 months ago
5 | How did cooperation evolve?
Episode 6
What can evolutionary anthropology teach us about ourselves? We sit down with Nikhil Chaudhary and chat about everything from the formation of the se…
2 years, 3 months ago
4 | Can anything ever really be fair?
Episode 5
What does it mean for a situation to be fair and how does this relate to notions of equality, equity, and justice? We sit down with Angarika Deb, a c…
2 years, 3 months ago
3 | How is identity constructed?
Episode 4
What makes us who we are? We discuss definitions of identity, how it helps us understand the phenomenon of selfhood, and what it means for us as we n…
2 years, 4 months ago
2 | What does it mean to have power?
Episode 3
We talk about power. What it is, its different forms, and all of the related tangents: from beliefs, to social dynamics, to one's conception of thems…
2 years, 5 months ago