Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy Numbers are Music to Our Ears (Update)
Episode 104
Sarah Hart investigates the mathematical structures underlying musical compositions and literature. Using examples from Monteverdi to Lewis Carroll, …
1 year ago
148. How to Have Good Ideas
Episode 148
Sarah Stein Greenberg runs Stanford’s d.school, which teaches design as a mode of problem solving. She and Steve talk about what makes her field diff…
1 year ago
147. Is Your Gut a Second Brain?
Episode 147
In her book, Rumbles, medical historian Elsa Richardson explores the history of the human gut. She talks with Steve about dubious medical practices, …
1 year ago
Turning Work into Play (Update)
Episode 73
How psychologist Dan Gilbert went from high school dropout to Harvard professor, found the secret of joy, and inspired Steve Levitt's divorce.
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1 year, 1 month ago
146. Is There a Fair Way to Divide Us?
Episode 146
Moon Duchin is a math professor at Cornell University whose theoretical work has practical applications for voting and democracy. Why is striving for…
1 year, 1 month ago
145. Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Still Starstruck
Episode 145
The director of the Hayden Planetarium is one of the best science communicators of our time. He and Steve talk about his role in reclassifying Pluto,…
1 year, 1 month ago
Pete Docter: “What If Monsters Really Do Exist?” (Update)
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…
1 year, 2 months ago
144. Feeling Sound and Hearing Color
Episode 144
David Eagleman is a Stanford neuroscientist, C.E.O., television host, and founder of the Possibilianism movement. He and Steve talk about how wrists …
1 year, 2 months ago
143. Why Are Boys and Men in Trouble?
Episode 143
Boys and men are trending downward in education, employment, and mental health. Richard Reeves, author of the book Of Boys and Men, has some solution…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu on Economics, Politics, and Power (Replay)
Episode 124
Daron Acemoglu was just awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics. Earlier this year, he and Steve talked about his groundbreaking research on what m…
1 year, 2 months ago