Episode 14: Alta Charo on Bioethics and the Law
To paraphrase Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park, scientists tend to focus on whether they can do something, not whether they […]
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Episode 13: Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet
For something of such obvious importance, money is kind of mysterious. It can, as Homer Simpson once memorably noted, be
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Episode 12: Wynton Marsalis on Jazz, Time, and America
Jazz occupies a special place in the American cultural landscape. It’s played in elegant concert halls and run-down bars, and
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Episode 11: Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9
Few events in recent astronomical history have had the worldwide emotional resonance as the 2006 announcement that Pluto was no
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Episode 10: Megan Rosenbloom on the Death Positive Movement
We’re all going to die. But while we are alive, it’s up to us how we understand and deal with
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Episode 9: Solo — Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?
It’s fun to be in the exciting, chaotic, youthful days of the podcast, when anything goes and experimentation is the
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Episode 8: Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes
Our understanding of heredity and genetics is improving at blinding speed. It was only in the year 2000 that scientists
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Episode 7: Yascha Mounk on Threats to Liberal Democracy
Both words in the phrase “liberal democracy” carry meaning, and both concepts are under attack around the world. “Democracy” means
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Episode 6: Liv Boeree on Poker, Aliens, and Thinking in Probabilities
Poker, like life, is a game of incomplete information. To do well in such a game, we have to think
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Episode 5: Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life
If you scale up an animal to twice its height, keeping everything else proportionate, its volume and weight become eight
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