All Episodes

David Germano - Ancient wisdom for modern (and future) flourishing

The Great Askers (episode 2): C Thi Nguyen and Julio Ottino

Introducing Season Nine: Trailer and a meditation on the shadow side of vulnerability

Dennis Snower and David Sloan Wilson - Rethinking economics for flourishing people and planet

Guru Madhavan - Systems consciousness, repairing what is worn, and life-instilling creations

Francesca Samsel - Vulnerability, making a new language, and pursuing the irrational

Malka Older - Worldbuilding creativity

Mette Miriam Böll - Insisting on compassion

Dan Jay - Doubt, collectivity, and transformative creativity

Zachary Ugolnik - Science & spirituality, heightened states of community, and new conceptions of flourishing

Jennifer Wiseman - Ultra-deep fields, the numinous, and an omnipresent call to wonder and awe

Susan Magsamen - Neuroscience, NeuroArts, and the mystery that life really is

Season Eight Trailer: A meditation on conversation and the collective narrative of our time

David Woods - the science of resilience, graceful extensibility, and facilitating insight

Paul Smaldino - Social identities, collective intelligence, and an ambling open life

John Paul Lederach - Peacebuilding, critical yeast, and the language of imagination

Creating encounters with flourishing: A 'salon' at the National Academy of Sciences

Talia Stroud - Digital communities, civic signals, and connective democracy

Simon DeDeo - Studying society, the science of science, and collisions with the strange

Lindy Elkins-Tanton - Recognizing flourishing, leading teams, and an education for living

Jane Hirshfield - Possibility, Poetry, and a Life of Attention

Agustín Fuentes - A master class in anthropology and a life lived among complexity

Albert-László Barabási - Network science, breakthrough orientation, and a life made around discovery

Origins and Ongoingness: Thoughts on Season Seven

The Great Askers (episode 1): Sara Hendren and Krista Tippett

James Evans - Cultural observatories, knowledge communities, and a life resplendent with ideas

Ingrid Daubechies - The "Godmother of digital image" on the beauty of the world

Mark Granovetter - Weak ties, living questions, and the history and future of social science

Tina Eliassi-Rad - A master class in network thinking and the kind of life it makes

Judith Donath - Technology, trust, and what holds society together

C. Thi Nguyen - This conversation will change how you see the world

Paul Wong - Reinventing cybernetics and composing a life

Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn - Understanding curiosity, nourishing a life, and how thoughts move

Julio Ottino - chaos, the capacity for emergence, and timeless ideas

Season Six Trailer: A season of flourishing

Frank White - The Overview Effect and a planetary civilization

Nicole Stott - Ambassador to the cosmos and to our humanity

David Sloan Wilson - Archipelagos of knowledge, commons, and the science of cooperation

Ed Finn - Thoughtful optimism, intellectual voyaging, and a Center for Science and the Imagination

Alex McDowell - A master class in worldbuilding and designing holistic spaces

David Hassler - Leaping thought, authoring a life, and a spirit of passionate inquiry

Alicia Juarrero - the philosopher who will change how you think about complexity

Brandon Ballengée - Biodiversity, muscular hope, and the persistence of life

Origins Season Five Trailer

Sara Hendren - Healthy relationality, how we meet the built world, and the curriculum of the future

Michael Hochberg - mystery and our pivotal moments, innovation, and science from cells to societies

Dave Snowden - Sensemaking, complexity, and frameworks for living

Katy Börner - Networks, noticing what we don't expect, and an atlas for navigating our world

(Best Of) Cecilia Conrad - Steward of the MacArthur Genius Grants, 100 million dollars, and transcendent empowerment

Jessica Flack - Finding the right questions, the wisdom of complexity, and deep physical and cognitive fitness

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin - The AlloSphere, a deeper integration of art and science, and the new senses we need now

Paco Nathan - Thinking in "graphs", a data and tech pioneer on living in a complex world

Caitlin McShea - Meeting places of art and science, interplanetary thinking, and an imaginative life

Anima Anandkumar - Artificial Intelligence and a flourishing society

Dan Goods - design at NASA, life's throughlines of wonder, and the museum of awe

Origins Season Four Trailer

Peter Turchi - Maps of the creative process and designs for life

Ethan Zuckerman - A master-course in how to connect and a syllabus for a spacious life

Richard D. Bartlett: Meaningful work, social fabric, and flourishing

Tomas Björkman - Nature, the Nordic Secret, and what is emerging

Sarah Goodwin - How we need to communicate science in our changing world

Episode 28: Nora Bateson - Interconnectedness, warm data, and the vitality of things

Episode 27: Ed Kearns - Exploring the ocean, generosity, and a culture of data

Episode 26: Alfred Nash - Insatiable curiosity, NASA and Team X, and the return of the Renaissance Man

Episode 25: César Hidalgo - Information and complexity, learning and leading, rethinking technology in society

Episode 24: Melanie Mitchell - The nature of intelligence and following your curiosity

Episode 23: Giorgia Lupi - Harmonizing life and data through design

Episode 22: Elizabeth Anderson - A new equality and the philosopher for this moment in American life

Episode 21: Waleed Abdalati - NASA Chief Scientist and how to live a life led by your curiosity

Episode 20: Cecilia Conrad - Steward of the MacArthurs Genius Grants, 100 Million Dollars, and Transcendent Empowerment

Episode 19: Kristian Lum - Lifelong curiosity and Criminal Justice Reform through data

Episode 18: José Cotto - Creator, inspirer, and cultural entrepreneur across scales

Episode 17: Brian Janosch - Redefining creativity in all spaces

Episode 16: Martin Storksdieck - Visionary of lifelong learning

Episode 15: Rachel Young - Designing cultures of learning

Episode 14: Antti Pulkkinen - The art of explosive learning and blazing new trails in science

Episode 13: Aoife Van Linden Tol - Explosions of art in science, and science in art

Episode 12: Rajesh Gupta - The Didactic Data Scientist and Tireless Change Maker

Episode 11: Bill Diamond - The nexus of Silicon Valley and science

Episode 10: Nicky Fox - Trailblazer of Trans-disciplinary at NASA

Episode 09: Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo - Science's Humanist Entrepreneur

Episode 08: Kirk Borne - Data science storyteller and influencer

Episode 07: Matt Russo - DJ to the Cosmos

Episode 06: Chris Mattmann - NASA's data scientist

Episode 05: Kerry Larkin - Making space for a beautiful life

Episode 04: Professor Jayachandran - The ionosphere entrepreneur

Episode 03: Jacob Bortnik - Pioneer of space physics

Episode 02: Lika Guhathakurta - Space Visionary

Trailer - Origins - Origins Series