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Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely
Episode 48
Claire Lehmann is the founding editor of Quillette, an online magazine dedicated to free thought and open inquiry. Founded in 2015, the magazine has …
7 years, 6 months ago
Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics
Episode 47
Michael Pollan has long been fascinated by nature and the ways we connect and clash with it, with decades of writing covering food, farming, cooking,…
7 years, 7 months ago
Michelle Dawson on Autism and Atypicality
Episode 46
Perhaps no one else in the world more appreciates the challenges facing a better understanding of autism than Michelle Dawson. An autistic herself, s…
7 years, 7 months ago
Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
Episode 45
At the intersection of programming, economics, cryptography, distributed systems, information theory, and math, you will find Vitalik Buterin, who ha…
7 years, 8 months ago
Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust
Episode 44
Travel writer Juan Pablo Villarino had visited 90 countries before making the trek to exotic Arlington, Virginia for this chat with Tyler. Amazingly …
7 years, 8 months ago
Elisa New on Poetry in America and Beyond
Episode 43
Elisa New believes anyone can have fun reading a poem. And that if you really want to have a blast, you shouldn't limit poetry to silent, solitary re…
7 years, 9 months ago
David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason)
Episode 42
For two hours every morning, David Brooks crawls around his living room floor, organizing piles of research. Then, the piles become paragraphs, the p…
7 years, 9 months ago
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan)
Episode 41
Though what Taleb was really after was a discussion with Bryan Caplan (which starts at 51:50), the philosopher, mathematician, and author most recent…
7 years, 10 months ago
Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)
Episode 40
"No single paper is that good", says Bryan Caplan. To really understand a topic, you need to read the entire literature in the field. And to do the k…
7 years, 10 months ago
Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain
Episode 39
When Balaji Srinivasan sat down for his conversation with Tyler he was the CEO of Earn.com. Today he is the CTO at Coinbase, which acquired his compa…
7 years, 11 months ago