What's Your Problem?
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Subscribers: 627
Reviews: 5
Episodes: 170
Cugel
Nov 29, 2024
Ok, shame the host talks over the guest so much though. And it's not some insightful addition, it's usually just repeating back what the guest has just said.
Rick Laleman
Sep 5, 2024
The story of bee vaccine is amazing. Thanks for finding these innovators. I appreciate you often feature women run business at the edge of new discovery
scott
Jun 25, 2023
I loved Goldstein's book: Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. But his picks for emerging technology and businesses seems a step behind everyone else and most of the founders make it a poor case for their investment.
Podcast Republic User
Jun 3, 2022
jk
Jun 3, 2022
Good
Description
Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better.
iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
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The Ordinary Stuff Behind Technological Breakthroughs
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Carbon Capture at Rock-Bottom Prices
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Ferrari Fandom, Supercharged by AI from Smart Talks with IBM
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Why Amazon Built a Spatula-Wielding Robot
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Drilling Smarter Wells to Unleash Geothermal Energy
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Inventing a Better Pain Pill
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Mapping the Unmappable
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Reinventing Blood
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of Medicine
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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A Billion-Dollar Bet on Carbon Removal
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Giving Old Batteries New Life
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Engineering the Future of Fusion
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Can Robots Fix Recycling?
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Inside the Mind of an AI Model
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Teaching Robots How to Do Everything
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Making a Universal Flu Vaccine
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May 29, 2025 |
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Teaching Computers to Smell
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May 22, 2025 |
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Can a Chatbot Treat Depression?
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Will AI Radically Change the World by 2027?... from Risky Business
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Is the Future of Flight Supersonic?
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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The Secrets of Silk
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Infiltrating an International Ransomware Gang
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Preparing for the Future of War
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Stopping HIV Without a Vaccine
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Harnessing the Heat Deep Beneath Our Feet
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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The Brain Implant That Could Change Medicine
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Building a Mass Market Robot
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Solving Solar’s Biggest Problem
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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How Bubbles Power Breakthroughs
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Teaching AI to Build Stuff in the Physical World
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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NVIDIA: At the Heart of the AI Boom
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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What Claude Shannon Figured Out
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Measles: The Cancer Killer?... from Incubation
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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RoboPod and the Perpetual Money Machine – Cautionary Questions 2… from Cautionary Tales
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Turning Solar Energy Into Fuel (The Solar Era, Part 3)
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Get Happier, Help Others: Some Good Ideas About Giving
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Can Hot Bricks Save the World? (The Solar Era, Part 2)
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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How the Sun Won (The Solar Era, Part 1)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Drugs in Space
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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The World Is Getting Better (Really)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Rabies: When Monsters are Real…from Incubation
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Using Gene Therapy to Help the Blind See
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Bringing Back Mammoths and Dodos*
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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What Elevators Teach Us About Technology, Design, and Human Behavior
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Can the Plant Microbiome Revolutionize Farming?
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Turning Pollution into Jet Fuel
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Reinventing Mining to Power the World
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Inventing a Vaccine for Bees
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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A Better Way to Make the Chemicals in Everything
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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How Refrigeration Changed the World
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Detecting Deepfakes With AI
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Turning Old Cans Into Clean Energy
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Moneyball, Soccer, and the Gap Between Analytics and the Real World
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Using Computer Vision to See What Coaches Can’t
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Scanning Every Muscle to Help Olympians Get Stronger
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Making Blood Vessels in a Factory
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Creating the Second Atomic Age
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Lifetime Terms, Lifetime Bans, and the Return of Roaring Kitty from Risky Business
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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When the Robots Take Over… from Cautionary Tales
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Making Palm Oil Without Palm Trees
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May 30, 2024 |
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Fighting Cancer with CRISPR
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May 23, 2024 |
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How to Start 40 Companies (and Counting)
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May 16, 2024 |
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The Cutting Edge of Energy Storage: Rust
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May 09, 2024 |
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The First Pig to Human Kidney Transplant
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May 02, 2024 |
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Designing a Drone That Delivers
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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How Do Psychedelics Work?
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Building Boundary-Breaking Balloons
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Building a Robot That Can Walk the Walk
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Can Your Phone Tell When You're Getting Sick?
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The High-Stakes Quest to Reinvent Cement
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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How a Battery-Powered Stove Could Electrify America
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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3D Printing a Better Rocket
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Using AI to Help Doctors Save Lives
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Making Dam Good Hydropower
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Using AI to Build Better Robots
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Teaching Computers to See
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Using Oil-Industry Tech to Create Clean Energy
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Understanding Obesity and Alzheimer’s via Epigenomics
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Reinventing the Restaurant
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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The Giant Torch That May Help Save the World
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Fixing Uber’s Broken Culture
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Murder Brokers from Hot Money: The New Narcos
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Using AI for Creative Work
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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The Little-Known Office With $400 Billion to Fight Climate Change
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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How AI Solved a Biological Mystery
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Making Oxygen on Mars
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The sold-out chips at the heart of AI
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Special Episode: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Getting Yeast to Make Medicine
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Could a Robot Make Your Salad?
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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What the Industrial Revolution Teaches Us About the AI Revolution
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Can AI Tutors Help Kids Learn? Khan Academy Thinks So
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Smallpox: Gone but Not Forgotten from Incubation
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Going to the Doctor Sucks. Can AI Make it Better?
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Spotting Wildfires with AI
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Is the Era of Free Returns Over?
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Creative Technology at Pixar
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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How To Make AI Safer & More Reliable
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Quantum Computers Could Change Everything
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The 2023 Unhedged Stock Draft
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Predicting Human Health with AI
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Breastfeeding, Black Market Baby Formula, and Bobbie
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Making Immigration Cheaper & Easier
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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The Wind Power Pioneer Still Pushing the Frontier
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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The Mystery at the Heart of ChatGPT
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Scrubbing Carbon from the Air
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Building a Plane to Help Save the World
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May 25, 2023 |
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The AI that Might Take My Job (And Yours)
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May 18, 2023 |
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The Hottest Thing In Energy Storage
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May 11, 2023 |
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Using Bacteria to Dye Jeans
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May 04, 2023 |
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The Quest for the Factory-Built House
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Building Houses Like Tesla Builds Cars
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Human Bones, Made In the Lab
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Tiny Chips, Giant Stakes
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Problems Solved: Drones, Bananas and Real Estate*
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Faster, Cheaper Drugs with AI
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Creating the Uncrashable Car
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The Electric Truck that Went Viral on TikTok
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Introducing Other People’s Pockets: Mistress Marley, Financial Dominatrix
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Running in Recycled Shoes
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Turning Garbage Into Food
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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The Fake-Meat Frontier
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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From Impossible Burgers to Fake Steak
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Small Pizza Shops Want a Bigger Slice
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Turning Waves Into Electricity
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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From Some of My Best Friends Are: Everything Dope Comes from Chicago
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Flying on Battery Power
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Bringing Back the American Hoodie
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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How to Save the Most Lives
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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From Story of the Week with Joel Stein: Billionaires Prepping for the Apocalypse
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Investors Everybody Ignored
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Sam Bankman-Fried Revisited
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Machiavelli's Tips for Getting Ahead at Work
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Google's Journey to the Edge of Search
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Paying People to Turn Off the Fridge
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Turning Writers into Publishers
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Shopify: The Business That Helps Build Businesses
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Putting Carbon Back Into the Ground
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Patching Together a Quilting Empire
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Revealing How Much Health Care Really Costs
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Saving the World with Poop
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Building an Empire on Free Code
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Selling Billions of Crickets a Year
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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From Patented: Inventing the Wheeled Suitcase
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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How the Nerds Conquered the NBA
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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The Trick to Flying Cheap
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Beer Without the Buzz
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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John Green Tests the Limits of YouTube
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Taking Bets on the Future
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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From Unsung Science with David Pogue: The Man Who Stopped the Spammers
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Building Bespoke Weather Forecasts
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Squeezing the Entire Internet Into a Shoebox
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Facing Fear in the Housing Market
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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From Hot Money: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Going to Venus on the Cheap
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Putting a Car on the Moon
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Sam Bankman-Fried Wants to Save the World
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May 24, 2022 |
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The Quest for the Perfect Avocado
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May 19, 2022 |
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Making Electronics Better
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May 12, 2022 |
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From Slate Money: 37.8% Scammier
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May 10, 2022 |
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Turning Cells into Tiny Factories
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May 05, 2022 |
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Seeing Data From Space
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Growing a Weed Business
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Building a Company that Builds Companies
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Delivering Everything Right Now
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Chatting with the Machine
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Teaching Cars to Think Like People
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Launching Drone Delivery
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Becoming a Dog Ramp Mogul
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Introducing What's Your Problem
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Feb 07, 2022 |