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5. Susan Wojcicki: “Hey, Let’s Go Buy YouTube!”
Episode 5
She was the sixteenth employee at Google — a company once based in her garage — and now she's the C.E.O. of its best-known subsidiary, YouTube. But despite being one of the most powerful people in th…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Steve Levitt: “I’m Not as Childlike as I’d Like to Be”
Steve Levitt has so far occupied the interviewer chair on this show, but in a special live event — recorded over Zoom and presented by WNYC and the Greene Space — the microphone is turned toward him.…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
4. Ken Jennings: “Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird”
Episode 4
It was only in his late twenties that America’s favorite brainiac began to seriously embrace his love of trivia. Now he holds the “Greatest of All Time” title on Jeopardy! Steve Levitt digs into how …
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
3. Kerwin Charles: “One Does Not Know Where an Insight Will Come From”
Episode 3
The dean of Yale’s School of Management grew up in a small village in Guyana. During his unlikely journey, he has researched video-gaming habits, communicable disease, and why so many African-America…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
2. Mayim Bialik: “I Started Crying When I Realized How Beautiful the Universe Is”
Episode 2
She’s best known for playing neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory, but the award-winning actress has a rich life outside of her acting career, as a teacher, mother — and a real-lif…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
1. Steven Pinker: "I Manage My Controversy Portfolio Carefully”
Episode 1
By cataloging the steady march of human progress, the Harvard psychologist and linguist has become a very public intellectual. But the self-declared “polite Canadian” has managed to enrage people on …
Published on 5 years ago
Introducing “People I (Mostly) Admire”
Steve Levitt has spent decades as an academic economist, “studying strange phenomena and human behavior in weird circumstances.” Now he’s turning his curiosity to something new: interviewing some of …
Published on 5 years ago