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EP 248 Timothy Clancy on the Israel-Hamas War
Season 1 Episode 248
Jim talks with Timothy Clancy about the Israel-Hamas War following Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel. They discuss the sorting-out period that follo…
1 year, 8 months ago
EP 247 Sergey Kuprienko on Drone Warfare in Ukraine
Season 1 Episode 247
Jim talks with Sergey Kuprienko, CEO and co-founder of Swarmer, about drone warfare in the Russo-Ukrainian War. They discuss the parallels between dr…
1 year, 8 months ago
EP 246 A.M. Hickman on Hitchhiking in America
Season 1 Episode 246
Jim and A.M. Hickman trade stories about the pleasures and tribulations of hitchhiking. They discuss Andy & his wife's recent hitchhiking honeymoon, …
1 year, 8 months ago
EP 245 Bob Levy on the Second Amendment and the Supreme Court
Season 1 Episode 245
Jim talks with Bob Levy about the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms, in the Supreme Court. They discuss Bob's late-career move to law…
1 year, 9 months ago
EP 244 Samo Burja on Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War
Season 1 Episode 244
Jim talks with Samo Burja about lessons military strategists should take from the Russo-Ukrainian War so far. They discuss why military stockpiles ar…
1 year, 9 months ago
EP 243 Yaroslav Trofimov on Ukraine's War of Independence
Season 1 Episode 243
Jim talks with Yaroslav Trofimov about his new book Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence. They discuss the…
1 year, 9 months ago
EP 242 Magatte Wade on a Vision for African Economic Development
Season 1 Episode 242
Jim talks with Magatte Wade about the ideas in her book The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means f…
1 year, 9 months ago
EP 241 Tor Nørretranders on the User Illusion of Consciousness
Season 1 Episode 241
Jim talks with Tor Nørretranders about the ideas in his 1991 book The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size. They discuss the dialogue be…
1 year, 9 months ago
EP 240 Stuart Kauffman on the Construction of Space-Time
Season 1 Episode 240
Jim talks with Stuart Kauffman about cosmology, fundamental physics, and the nature of dark matter, dark energy, and inflation. They discuss how Stua…
1 year, 10 months ago
EP 239 Alex Fink on Improving Information Quality
Season 1 Episode 239
Jim talks with Alex Fink about his company Otherweb, which uses AI to filter out fake news and create a more reliable news ecosystem. They discuss ho…
1 year, 10 months ago