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episode 48: The Future of Computer Chips: A Discussion with Julian Kamasa
Microchips are both important and in short supply. So how important? And what can be done to make them more plentiful? Also, what are the geopolitical implications of having the production of microchips concentrated in relatively few hands. Owen Bennett Jones talks microchips with Julian Kamasa of the Centre for Security Studies in Zurich. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer...
episode 27: Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 2)
A Conversation with Diane Paul, Ben Allen, and Steven Pinker
episode 26: Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 1)
A Conversation with Diane Paul, Ben Allen, and Steven Pinker
episode 189: Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
An interview with Elizabeth Kelly Gray
episode 25: Virtually Violent: Are Online Attacks "Violence?"
A Conversation with Erica Chenoweth, Joan Donovan, Oren Segal
episode 15: Postscript: Narrative and Influence Activities in the Russo-Ukraine War
An interview with Jordan Miller
episode 130: Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
An interview with Avi Goldfarb