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8. Peter Attia: “I Definitely Lost a Lot of IQ Points That Day”
Episode 8
He’s been an engineer, a surgeon, a management consultant, and even a boxer. Now he’s a physician focused on the science of longevity. Peter Attia ta…
5 years, 3 months ago
7. Caverly Morgan: "I Am Not This Voice. I Am Not This Narrative."
Episode 7
She showed up late and confused to her first silent retreat, but Caverly Morgan eventually trained for eight years in silence at a Zen monastery. Now…
5 years, 4 months ago
6. Nathan Myhrvold: “I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That's Actually a Bad Strategy”
Episode 6
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…
5 years, 4 months ago
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 d…
5 years, 4 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 G…
5 years, 5 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 Ti…
5 years, 5 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, com…
5 years, 5 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 ac…
5 years, 6 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 …
5 years, 6 months 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…
5 years, 7 months ago