Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 21 days 15 hours 31 minutes
I talk with biologist and architect Gizem Gumuskaya about building robots out of human cells.
I talk with intellectual historian Stefanos Geroulanos about the stories we tell ourselves about our prehistoric humanity.
I talk with computer scientist Leslie Valiant about learning and educability in computers and people.
I talk with physicist Claudia de Rham about cosmologically interesting ways to modify Einstein's theory of general relativity.
I think through some of the ways that technology is changing the world, exploring the possibility of an upcoming singularity marking the shift to a new equilibrium of human existence.
I talk with Sahar Heydari Fard about viewing social change through the lens of complex-systems theory.
I talk with physicist Matt Strassler about fundamental physics and the ways that we often talk about it.
I talk with historian Benjamin Breen about Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and their involvement with psychedelics.