Podcast Episodes
Back to Search150. His Brilliant Videos Get Millions of Views. Why Don’t They Make Money?
Episode 150
Hank Green is an internet phenomenon and a master communicator, with a plan to reform higher education. He and Steve talk about the video blog that l…
1 year, 4 months ago
149. Stanford’s President Knows He Can’t Make Everyone Happy
Episode 149
Jonathan Levin is an academic economist who now runs one of the most influential universities in the world. He tells Steve how he saved Comcast a bil…
1 year, 5 months ago
Why 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 7 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, 7 months ago