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29. Bruce Friedrich Thinks There’s a Better Way to Eat Meat
Episode 29
Levitt rarely interviews advocates, but the founder of the Good Food Institute is different. Once an outspoken — and sometimes outlandish — animal-ri…
4 years, 7 months ago
28. Professor Carl Hart Argues All Drugs Should Be Legal — Can He Convince Steve?
Episode 28
As a neuroscientist and psychology professor at Columbia University who studies the immediate and long-term effects of illicit substances, Carl Hart …
4 years, 7 months ago
27. Daniel Kahneman on Why Our Judgment is Flawed — and What to Do About It
Episode 27
Nobel laureate, best-selling author, and groundbreaking psychologist Daniel Kahneman is also a friend and former business partner of Steve’s. In disc…
4 years, 8 months ago
26. Memory Champion Nelson Dellis Helps Steve Train His Brain
Episode 26
He’s one of the world’s leading competitors, having won four U.S. memory tournaments and holding the record for most names memorized in 15 minutes (2…
4 years, 8 months ago
25. Sam Harris: “Spirituality Is a Loaded Term.”
Episode 25
He’s a cognitive neuroscientist and philosopher who has written five best-selling books. Sam Harris also hosts the Making Sense podcast and helps peo…
4 years, 8 months ago
Nathan Myhrvold: “I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That's Actually a Bad Strategy.” (Episode 6 Rebroadcast)
He graduated high school at 14, and by 23 had several graduate degrees and was a research assistant with Stephen Hawking. He became the first chief t…
4 years, 8 months ago
24. Amaryllis Fox: “What Does This New Version of Mutually Assured Destruction Look Like?”
Episode 24
She spent nearly a decade as an undercover C.I.A. operative working to prevent terrorism. More recently, she hosted The Business of Drugs on Netflix.…
4 years, 9 months ago
23. Greg Norman & Mark Broadie: Why Golf Beats an Orgasm and Why Data Beats Everything
Episode 23
Steve Levitt is obsessed with golf — and he’s pretty good at it too. As a thinly-veiled ploy to improve his own game, Steve talks to two titans of th…
4 years, 9 months ago
22. Sal Khan: “If It Works for 15 Cousins, It Could Work for a Billion People.”
Episode 22
Khan Academy grew out of Sal Khan’s online math tutorials for his extended family. It’s now a platform used by more than 115 million people in 190 co…
4 years, 9 months ago
21. Pete Docter: “What If Monsters Really Do Exist?”
Episode 21
He’s the chief creative officer of Pixar, and the Academy Award-winning director of Soul, Inside Out, Up, and Monsters, Inc. Pete Docter and Steve ta…
4 years, 9 months ago