People I (Mostly) Admire
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Pete Docter: “What If Monsters Really Do Exist?” (UPDATE)
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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144. Feeling Sound and Hearing Color
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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143. Why Are Boys and Men in Trouble?
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu on Economics, Politics, and Power (REPLAY)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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142. What’s Impacting American Workers?
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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EXTRA: Using Data to Win Gold
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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141. The Language of the Universe
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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UPDATE: Drawing from Life (and Death)
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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140. How to Breathe Better
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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139. How PETA Made Radical Ideas Mainstream
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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UPDATE: Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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138. Chris Anderson on the Power of TED
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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EXTRA: Remembering Susan Wojcicki
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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137. Richard Dawkins on God, Genes, and Murderous Baby Cuckoos
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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UPDATE: What It Takes to Know Everything
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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136. The World’s Most Controversial Ornithologist
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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135. How to Grow a White Rhino
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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REPLAY Sue Bird: “You Have to Pay the Superstars.”
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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134. Why Do We Still Teach People to Calculate?
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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133. Pay Attention! (Your Body Will Thank You)
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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132. Suleika Jaouad’s Survival Mechanisms
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May 25, 2024 |
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131. Getting Old, Adventurously
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May 11, 2024 |
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UPDATE: What It’s Like to Be Steve Levitt’s Daughters
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May 04, 2024 |
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130. Is Our Concept of Freedom All Wrong?
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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129. How to Fix Medical Research
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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EXTRA: Remembering Daniel Kahneman
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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128. Are Our Tools Becoming Part of Us?
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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127. Rajiv Shah Never Wastes a Crisis
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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126. How to Have Great Conversations
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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125. Is Gynecology the Best Innovation Ever?
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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124. Daron Acemoglu on Economics, Politics, and Power
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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123. Walt Hickey Wants to Track Your Eyeballs
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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122. Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Some Advice for You
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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121. Exploring Physics, from Eggshells to Oceans
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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120. Werner Herzog Thinks His Films Are a Distraction
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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119. Higher Education Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed?
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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118. “My God, This Is a Transformative Power”
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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117. Nate Silver Says We're Bad at Making Predictions
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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116. Abraham Verghese Thinks Medicine Can Do Better
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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EXTRA: Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin on "Greedy Work" and the Wage Gap
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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115. The Future of Therapy Is Psychedelic
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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114. Is Perfectionism Ruining Your Life?
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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113. Do We Have Evidence of Alien Life?
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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112. Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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111. Can a Moonshot Approach to Mental Health Work?
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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110. Drawing from Life (and Death)
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Extra: An Update on the Khan World School
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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109. David Simon Is On Strike. Here’s Why.
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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The Economics of Everyday Things: T. rex Skeletons
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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108. Ninety-Eight Years of Economic Wisdom
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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107. Bringing Data to Life
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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106. Will A.I. Make Us Smarter?
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May 27, 2023 |
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105. Can Data Keep People Out of Prison?
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May 13, 2023 |
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104. The Joy of Math With Sarah Hart
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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103. Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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102. Adding Ten Healthy Years to Your Life
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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101. Celebrating 100 People I (Mostly) Admire
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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100. Chicago’s Renegade Sheriff Wants to Fix Law Enforcement
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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99. Greg Norman Takes On the P.G.A. Tour
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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98. Searching for Our Aquatic Ancestors
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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97. How Smart Is a Forest?
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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96. Steven Strogatz Thinks You Don’t Know What Math Is
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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95. The One Thing Stephen Dubner Hasn’t Quit
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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94. The Price of Doing Business with John List
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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93. Annie Duke Thinks You Should Quit
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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92. John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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91. Jane Goodall Changed the Way We See Animals. She’s Not Done.
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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90. Peter Singer Isn’t a Saint, But He’s Better Than Steve Levitt
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Extra: A Rockstar Chemist Wins the Nobel Prize
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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89. A Cross Between Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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88. Ken Burns on Heroism, Horror, and History
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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87. How Much Are the Right Friends Worth?
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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86. A Million-Year View on Morality
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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85. What It Takes to Know Everything
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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84. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life Is Meaningless and Amazing
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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83. “There's So Many Problems — Which Ones Can I Make a Difference On?”
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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82. Is This the Future of High School?
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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81. Why Bother Searching for Aliens?
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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80. Get Your Share of the Pie
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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79. Solar Geoengineering Would Be Radical. It Might Also Be Necessary.
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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78. Giving It Away
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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77. Can Games Prepare Us for Catastrophes? (Part 2)
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May 28, 2022 |
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76. Is Gaming Good for You?
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May 21, 2022 |
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75. Self-Help for Data Nerds
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May 14, 2022 |
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74. Getting Our Hands Dirty
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May 07, 2022 |
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73. Turning Work into Play
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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72. “Leaving Black People in the Lurch”
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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71. Bombs Away
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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70. You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Experiment
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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69. Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence?
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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68. “No One Can Resist a Jolly, Happy Pig.”
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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67. We Can Play God Now
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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66. The Professor Who Said “No” to Tenure
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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65. A Rockstar Chemist and Her Cancer-Attacking “Lawn Mower”
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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64. How Larry Miller Went from Prison Valedictorian to Nike Executive
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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63. The Only Covid-19 Book Worth Reading
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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62. How Does Historian Brad Gregory Make a Boring Topic So Mind-Blowing?
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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61. Was Austan Goolsbee’s First Visit to the Oval Office Almost His Last?
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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60. Cassandra Quave Thinks the Way Antibiotics Are Developed Might Kill Us
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Why Aren’t All Drugs Legal? (Replay Ep. 28)
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Are We Under Threat from a New Kind of Terror? (Replay Ep. 24)
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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59. Who Gives the Worst Advice?
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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58. Why Is Richard Thaler Such a ****ing Optimist?
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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57. What Makes John Doerr Think He Can Save the Planet?
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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56. Claudia Goldin: What’s “Greedy Work” and Why Is It a Problem?
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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55. Jared Diamond on the Downfall of Civilizations — and His Optimism for Ours
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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54. Andrew Yang Is Not Giving Up on Politics — or the U.S. — Yet
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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53. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rainforest
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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52. Max Tegmark on Why Superhuman Artificial Intelligence Won’t be Our Slave (Part 2)
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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51. Max Tegmark on Why Treating Humanity Like a Child Will Save Us All
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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50. Edward Miguel on Collecting Economic Data by Canoe and Correlating Conflict with Rainfall
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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49. Mathematician Sarah Hart on Why Numbers are Music to Our Ears
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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48. Marc Davis Can’t Stop Watching Basketball — But He Doesn’t Care Who Wins
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Ken Jennings on How a Midlife Crisis Led Him to Jeopardy! (People I (Mostly) Admire, Ep. 4 Replay)
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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Mayim Bialik on the Surprising Risks of Academia and Stability of Show Biz (People I (Mostly) Admire, Ep. 2 Replay)
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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47. Robert Axelrod on Why Being Nice, Forgiving, and Provokable are the Best Strategies for Life
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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46. Amanda & Lily Levitt Share What It’s Like to be Steve’s Daughters
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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45. Leidy Klotz on Why the Best Solutions Involve Less — Not More
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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44. Edward Glaeser Explains Why Some Cities Thrive While Others Fade Away
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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43. Arne Duncan Says All Kids Deserve a Chance — and Criminals Deserve a Second One
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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42. America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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41. Dr. Bapu Jena on Why Freakonomics Is the Best Medicine
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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40. Harold Pollack on Why Managing Your Money Is as Easy as Taking Out the Garbage
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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39. Aicha Evans Wants You to Take Your Eyes Off the Road
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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38. Sendhil Mullainathan Explains How to Generate an Idea a Minute (Part 2)
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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37. Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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36. How Rahm Emanuel Would Run the World
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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35. David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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34. Maya Shankar Is Changing People’s Behavior — and Her Own
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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33. Travis Tygart Is Coming for Cheaters — Just Ask Lance Armstrong
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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32. Angela Duckworth Explains How to Manage Your Goal Hierarchy
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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31. Peter Leeson on Why Trial-by-Fire Wasn’t Barbaric and Why Pirates Were Democratic
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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30. Dambisa Moyo Says Foreign Aid Can’t Solve Problems, but Maybe Corporations Can
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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29. Bruce Friedrich Thinks There’s a Better Way to Eat Meat
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May 29, 2021 |
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28. Professor Carl Hart Argues All Drugs Should Be Legal — Can He Convince Steve?
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May 22, 2021 |
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27. Daniel Kahneman on Why Our Judgment is Flawed — and What to Do About It
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May 15, 2021 |
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26. Memory Champion Nelson Dellis Helps Steve Train His Brain
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May 08, 2021 |
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25. Sam Harris: “Spirituality Is a Loaded Term.”
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May 01, 2021 |
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Nathan Myhrvold: “I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That's Actually a Bad Strategy.” (Episode 6 Rebroadcast)
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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24. Amaryllis Fox: “What Does This New Version of Mutually Assured Destruction Look Like?”
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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23. Greg Norman & Mark Broadie: Why Golf Beats an Orgasm and Why Data Beats Everything
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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22. Sal Khan: “If It Works for 15 Cousins, It Could Work for a Billion People.”
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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21. Pete Docter: “What If Monsters Really Do Exist?”
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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20. John Donohue: “I'm Frequently Called a Treasonous Enemy of the Constitution.”
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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19. Marina Nitze: “If You Googled ‘Business Efficiency Consultant,’ I Was the Only Result.”
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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18. Robert Sapolsky: “I Don’t Think We Have Any Free Will Whatsoever.”
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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17. Emily Oster: “I Am a Woman Who Is Prominently Discussing Vaginas.”
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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16. Joshua Jay: “Humans Are So, So Easy to Fool.”
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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15. Tim Harford: “If You Can Make Sure You're Not An Idiot, You've Done Well.”
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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14. Yul Kwon (Part 2): “Hey, Do You Have Any Bright Ideas?”
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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13. Yul Kwon: “Don't Try to Change Yourself All at Once.”
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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12. Sue Bird: “You Have to Pay the Superstars.”
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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11. Paul Romer: “I Figured Out How to Get Myself Fired From the World Bank.”
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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10. Suzanne Gluck: “I'm a Person Who Can Convince Other People to Do Things”
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Dec 26, 2020 |
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9. Moncef Slaoui: "It’s Unfortunate That It Takes a Crisis for This to Happen"
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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8. Peter Attia: “I Definitely Lost a Lot of IQ Points That Day”
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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7. Caverly Morgan: "I Am Not This Voice. I Am Not This Narrative."
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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6. Nathan Myhrvold: “I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That's Actually a Bad Strategy”
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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5. Susan Wojcicki: “Hey, Let’s Go Buy YouTube!”
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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Steve Levitt: “I'm Not as Childlike as I'd Like to Be” (Bonus Episode)
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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4. Ken Jennings: “Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird”
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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3. Kerwin Charles: “One Does Not Know Where an Insight Will Come From”
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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2. Mayim Bialik: “I Started Crying When I Realized How Beautiful the Universe Is”
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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1. Steven Pinker: "I Manage My Controversy Portfolio Carefully”
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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Introducing “People I (Mostly) Admire”
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Jul 31, 2020 |