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PopTech Audio: PopCasts — 369 episodes

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1

Anil Dash: Holding to account

2

Helen Fisher: What we want

3

Paola Antonelli: Walk the walk

4

Erin McKean: Slow rebellion

5

David Agus: Disease data

6

Jim Olson: Tumor paint

7

Jennifer Leaning: Keys to human security

8

Ann Masten: Inside resilient children

9

Moran Cerf: Hacking the brain

10

Sandro Galea: Rebounding after trauma

11

David Eagleman: Brain over mind?

12

Burnham & Jónsson: Freeing Internet innovation

13

Adrian Anantawan: Accessible music

14

Asenath Andrews: The school for self reliance

15

Amanda Ripley: Ask the kids

16

Young Guru: Capitalizing on "free"

17

Young Guru borrows a beat

18

Jay Silver: Art everywhere

19

Jer Thorp: Data and oil

20

Andri Magnason: Questioning growth

21

Bill Shore: Break the rules

22

Young Guru: Piracy and invention

23

Dean Karlan: Poverty measures

24

Peter Kareiva is upbeat on the environment

25

Vicki Arroyo on climate disasters

26

Kelly Benoit-Bird: Marine acoustics

27

Laurie Leitch and Loree Sutton: Tapping social resilience

28

Eiríkur Hrafnsson: Iceland’s start-up scene

29

Yossi Sheffi: The resilient enterprise

30

Mohammed Rezwan: Floating schools

31

Víðir Reynisson: Iceland's disaster response

32

George Bonanno: Measuring human resilience

33

Didier Sornette: Predicting risk

34

Alyson Warhurst: Risk mapper

35

Kári Stefánsson: Decoding genetics

36

Margrét Pála: Educating children differently

37

Steve Lansing: Bali's water temples

38

Eben Upton: Raspberry Pi

39

John Thackara: The end of endless growth

40

Judith Rodin: Why resilience

41

Simonetta Carbonaro: Liquid societies

42

Andri Magnason: Iceland, human experiment

43

amiina: Mixing it up, Iceland style

44

Silja Ómarsdóttir: Iceland’s constitution co-author

45

Joy Reidenberg: Weird whales

46

Tim Harford: Preventing financial meltdowns

47

Energy disruptors: Johanna Wellington on clean energy technologies

48

Energy disruptors: Arun Majumdar on disruptive energy innovation

49

Energy disruptors: Jay Keasling on plant-based fuels

50

Unity Dow: Rethinking Africa

51

Tony Orrico: Choreography’s shape on paper

52

Fortune and Biewald: Crowdsourcing TB cell annotation

53

Robert Neuwirth: Free markets vs. flea markets

54

Tresset and Leymarie: Aikon II: Personal robotics

55

Milenko Matanovic: Art as community builder

56

The Egyptian revolution on film

57

Jan Chipchase: Design anthropology

58

Gideon Obarzanek and Reuben Margolin: A meeting of the minds

59

Erik Hersman: Africa on the rise

60

eL Seed: The art of calligraffiti

61

Desney Tan and Scott Saponas: Our bodies as the interface

62

David Wax Museum: Mexo-Americana music

63

Dava Newman: A better built space suit

64

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Synthetic aesthetics

65

Bhagwan Chowdhry's Financial Access at Birth

66

Arvind Subramanian: China’s ascendance

67

Lloyd and Zimbalist: Memory mapping the news

68

Aidan Dwyer: Better solar designs

69

Adriane Herman: Art of the list

70

Jonathan Greenblatt: New models for social progress

71

Shahidul Alam: Photography's power

72

Nils Gilman: Deviant globalization

73

Bernard Lietaer: Money diversity

74

Stephanie Coontz: Gender gaps

75

Hayat Sindi launches i2

76

Porter and Mykleby: A grand strategy for the nation

77

Sameer Kalwani: Safe drinking water

78

Rose Goslinga: Farmer microinsurance

79

Paul Needham: Owning electricity

80

Nithya Ramanathan: Nexleaf Analytics

81

Michael Murphy: Buildings that heal

82

Megan Mukuria: Keep girls in school

83

Krista Donaldson's Design Revolution

84

Jake Porway: Data Without Borders

85

Erika Block's Local Orbit

86

Dominic Muren's Humblefactory

87

David Mikkelsen's Refugees United

88

Chris Marianetti's Found Sound Nation

89

Bryan Doerries' Theater of War

90

Amy Sun: Unlocking capacities

91

Shaily Mahendra: Bioremediation

92

Pardis Sabeti: Genome clues

93

Milton Garcés: Primordial sounds

94

Katherine J. Kuchenbecker: Haptic interfaces

95

Jessika Trancik: Clean energy

96

Iain Couzin: Collective behavior

97

Alysson Muotri: Uncovering autism links

98

Adrien Treuille: Crowdsourcing science

99

Jonathan Rothberg: DNA Testing

100

Arbabi and Hosseini: “The Daily Show” of Iran

101

Daniel Kish: Blind vision

102

Amy Cuddy: Power poses

103

Olafur Grimsson: Iceland bounces back

104

Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster

105

Asil Abulil, Nour Al-Arda, Asil Shaar, and Jameela Khaled innovate from the edge

106

Stephen Vitiello: Intimate listening

107

Patrick Flanagan: Robot drums

108

Kevin Dunbar on unexpected science

109

Nathan Eagle: Global mobile workforce

110

Reggie Watts: Humor in music

111

John Legend: Wake Up

112

OK Go's synchronized sounds

113

April Smith and The Great Picture Show

114

Vijay Anand: Combating corruption

115

Eli Pariser on the Filter Bubble

116

Donald Ingber: Serendipitous science

117

David de Rothschild and the Plastiki expedition

118

Carlo Ratti: Oil-absorbing robots

119

Michael Blum: Failure and resiliency

120

Tom Darden: Make It Right

121

Chris Chabris: When intuition fails

122

Ned Breslin: Fixing the water crisis

123

Daryl Collins on $2 a day living

124

Susan Casey: In awe of waves

125

Dan Ariely: Adaptive responses

126

Orlagh O'Brien: Illustrating how you feel

127

Simon Hauger and Azeem Hill on building bad-ass hybrids

128

Kevin Starr: Lasting impact

129

Riley Crane: Crowdsource win

130

Thompson & Cotton forgive

131

Adrian Owen: Search for consciousness

132

Patrick Meier & Josh Nesbit: The Haiti 4636 story

133

Stephanie Coontz: On marriage

134

Kathryn Schulz: Being wrong

135

Ben Goldacre talks Bad Science

136

Larry Smith's six word project

137

Colin Rich's near space images

138

Lisa Gansky: The future is sharing

139

Elizabeth Dunn: Happiness and money

140

Alan Rabinowitz: Saving big cats

141

Imogen Heap: Hide and seek

142

Deborah Kenny's fixing education

143

Pieter Hoff's Groasis waterboxx

144

Siddhartha Mukherjee: The cancer puzzle

145

Graham Hill: Life Edited

146

Yasser Ansari: Citizen science

147

Sinan Aral: Social contagion

148

Sean Gourley: Tracking innovation

149

Sarah Fortune: Fighting TB

150

Salinee Tavaranan: Micro-energy

151

Ryan Smith: Sewage into plastic

152

Kel Sheppey: Fighting HIV/AIDS

153

Rush Bartlett: Safe drug delivery

154

Raj Panjabi: Post-conflict health

155

Nina Dudnik: Seeding Labs

156

Matthew Berg: Mobiles for health

157

Leila Janah: Jobs fight poverty

158

Lauren Abramson: Better justice

159

Laura Stachel: Solar saves lives

160

Kim Cobb: How climate changes

161

Justin Gallivan: Custom bacteria

162

Gidon Eshel: The impact of food

163

Casey Dunn: Evolving diversity

164

Brooke Betts Farrell: Waste as treasure

165

Brian Elliot: Friend power

166

Brian Hare: Peaceful as a bonobo?

167

Beth Shapiro: What goes extinct?

168

Ben Lyon: Mobile microcredit

169

Ben Dubin-Thaler: Science by bus

170

Amro Hamdoun: Cell self-defense

171

Amishi Jha: Building attention

172

Gale McCullough citizen scientist

173

Sound and science with Jad Abumrad

174

David Eagleman on possibilianism

175

Mike Wesch: Lessons from YouTube

176

Aydogan Ozcan: Mobile microscopes

177

Naif Al-Mutawa: The new superheroes

178

Peter Diamandis: Awarding big ideas

179

Kurt Andersen: Renewing America

180

John Fetterman: Reviving Braddock

181

Jay Rogers: Open source your car

182

Beth Shapiro: Species extinction

183

H. Sebastian Seung: Connectomics

184

Christen Lien: Viola interpretations

185

Christen Lien: Viola expressions

186

Justin Gallivan: Hacking bacteria

187

Yasser Ansari: Networked organisms

188

Massoud Amin: A smart grid

189

Dan Ariely: Irrational economics

190

Laura Kurgan: Mapping justice

191

Rinku Sen: Locating justice

192

Kyna Leski: Creative processes

193

Chris Jordan: Polluting plastics

194

Assaf Biderman: Sentient cities

195

Reihan Salam: New conservatism

196

Mark O'Connor and Ruby Jane Smith: More fiddles

197

Mark O'Connor and Ruby Jane Smith: Fiddles

198

Logan Richardson: Improvisations

199

Logan Richardson: Jazz musings

200

Zach Lieberman: Interactive Art

201

Nick Bilton: Smart content

202

Nicholas Felton: Tracing our lives

203

Jonah Lehrer: Creative insights

204

Kacie Kinzer: Robot love

205

Esther Duflo: Ending poverty

206

George Church: Know your genes

207

Dean Ornish: Healthy connections

208

James Fowler: Power of networks

209

Willie Smits: Saving rainforests

210

Katy Payne: Elephant songs

211

Luis von Ahn harnesses brainpower

212

Zoë Keating: Avant-cello

213

Zoë Keating: Radical cello

214

Zee Avi: YouTube sensation

215

John Forté: An impresario returns

216

Laura Kurgan: Human geographies

217

Dan Nocera: Personalized energy

218

Nicole Kuepper: Low-cost solar

219

Ashley Merryman on parenting

220

Dennis Littky on Big Picture ed

221

Steve Barr fixes failing schools

222

Gideon Obarzanek’s digital moves

223

Reuben Margolin's kinetic art

224

Neri Oxman: On designing form

225

Anthony Doerr: Am I still here

226

Anthony Doerr: Butterflies

227

Robert Guest: On U.S. power

228

Paul van Zyl: Legacy of torture

229

Alec Ross on statecraft 3.0

230

Erica Williams on youth politics

231

Lorrie Vogel: Pioneering designs

232

Tony Hey: Citizen science

233

Marije Vogelzang: Dine by design

234

Michael Pollan: Sustainable food

235

Will Allen on urban farming

236

Nigel Waller on the mobile cloud

237

Taylor Stuckert and Mark Rembert: Green ideas

238

Hayat Sindi: Accessible health

239

Emily Pilloton: Design for change

240

James O'Brien: Hands-on education

241

Josh Nesbit: Mobile healthcare

242

Derek Lomas: Open source games

243

Deb Levine: 21st century sex ed

244

Paula Kahumbu: Conservation 2.0

245

Eben Bayer: Bio-packaging

246

Jason Aramburu: New energy

247

Aiden and Van Vuuren: Dirt power

248

Janine Benyus: Biomimicry design

249

Barry Schwartz on happiness

250

Mark Lynas: Environmental journalism

251

The Yes Men on practicing "identity correction"

252

Robert Neuwirth on resilience

253

Suketu Mehta: Looking to the future through the lens of Mumbai

254

John Priscu: Below the Antarctic ice

255

Frank Warren: PostSecret

256

David Rakoff on cultural excess

257

K. David Harrison: Revitalizing linguistic diversity

258

Carl Safina: Fishing with long lines

259

Laura Waters Hinson: As We Forgive

260

Gary Slutkin: From conflict to Ceasefire

261

Eric Dawson: Peace First

262

Ransler and Sinha: Husk Power

263

Abby Falik: Global service

264

Erik Hersman: Mapping crises

265

Melanie Edwards: Counting lives

266

Priti Radhakrishnan: Health access

267

Tevis Howard: Microforestry

268

Tshewang Dendup: Evolving Bhutan

269

Sigworth and Thompson: Secure meds

270

Brian McCarthy: Container homes

271

Peter Whybrow: When more is not enough

272

Jay Parkinson's medicine 2.0

273

Laurie Garrett: Our failing global health system

274

Ian Lipkin: Diagnostic tech

275

Kelly Dobson: Machine therapy

276

Stephen Badylak: Regenerative medicine

277

Heather Fleming: Design for good

278

Ken Banks: Mobile-enabled change

279

Saul Griffith audits energy use

280

Imogen Heap: Electronic chanteuse

281

Chandler Burr: Astonishing smells

282

Pamela Ronald: Plant genomics

283

Clay Shirky: Designing for generosity

284

Bill Bishop: The Big Sort

285

Rufus Cappadocia: Uncategorizeable cellist

286

Benjamin Zander: A world of possibility

287

Marian Bantjes on the infinity of inspiration

288

The Project Masiluleke story

289

Matt Mason: Pirate radio

290

Malcolm Gladwell: Human potential

291

Zainab Salbi on Women for Women

292

Jay Keasling: Metabolic engineering

293

Bill Shannon: Dancing with crutches

294

Elizabeth Streb's extreme moves

295

Nina Jablonski: Power of touch

296

Enric Sala: Marine ecology

297

Cary Fowler's seeds

298

Bob Freling: Solar-powered pumps

299

Sarah Otterstrom: Biodiversity conservation

300

Stefano Merlin: Renewable waste

301

Kelly Joe Phelps: Poignancy and passion

302

John Legend: Show me

303

Vanessa German: Raucous jazz

304

Zoë Keating: Electronic cello

305

Davy Rothbart - PopTech 2007

306

Jonathan Harris on web stories

307

Carl Honoré - PopTech 2007

308

Dan Gilbert on a capricious culture

309

Jessica Hagy: Indexed art

310

Sheila Kennedy: Upcycled lighting

311

Caleb Chung on designing toys

312

Daniel Pink: A whole new mind

313

Louann Brizendine: The female brain

314

Steven Pinker: Thought structures

315

Adrian Bowyer: Rapid prototyping

316

Paul Polak: Alleviating poverty

317

Jessica Flannery: Microfinance

318

Christian Nold: Bio mapping

319

Chris Jordan: Running the numbers

320

Victoria Hale: Nonprofit pharmaceuticals

321

Van Jones on starting a Green Revolution

322

Kwame Anthony Appiah: Deconstruction of a monolith

323

Ivan Marovic: Gaming a virtual revolution

324

Eloma Simpson Barnes channels Martin Luther King

325

Ben Saunders: Exploring the Arctic

326

Richard Alley: Climate change

327

Brian Fagan: Adapt or die

328

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the wisdom of “I don’t know.”

329

African Fellows: Roundtable to the future

330

Malcolm Gladwell: Psychology of business

331

Craig Venter on sequencing the human genome

332

Clifford Ross: Magnificent images

333

Alex Steffen: Building a sustainable planet

334

Bruce Sterling: Web semantics

335

Neema Mgana: Architecture for Humanity

336

Yungchen Lhamo: A voice from Tibet

337

Stewart Brand on environmentalism

338

Education Fellows: PopTech 2006

339

Jason Moran: Experimental jazz

340

Losang Rabgey: Technology in Tibet

341

Kevin Kelly: Collective intelligence of technology

342

Hasan Elahi lives in public

343

Blaine Brownell: Sustainable building

344

Will Wright on Sims and Spore

345

Bob Freling: Solar power

346

Rodrigo y Gabriela: Fingers to strings

347

Brian Eno on a roadmap for human culture

348

Homaro Cantu: Visionary cuisine

349

Lester Brown: A world in balance

350

Marcia McNutt: Ocean potential

351

Jonathan Coulton: Code monkey balladeer

352

Theo Jansen: Kinetic skeleton sculptures

353

Bunker Roy: Barefoot College

354

Marianne Weems: Extraordinary theater tech

355

Chris Anderson: The Long Tail

356

Kent Nichols: Ask a ninja

357

Erin McKean: Dictionaries

358

Martin Marty on religion

359

Richard Dawkins: Arrogance of faith

360

Sinikithemba Choir: Give us hope

361

Zinhle Thabethe: Stories of survival

362

A comedic trip with Reggie Watts

363

Juan Enriquez on a history of borders

364

Sullivan and Kuiken: The world’s first non-fictional bionic man

365

Thomas Barnett: National security

366

Serena Koenig: Global healthcare inequalities

367

Neil Gershenfeld: MIT’s Fab Lab

368

Carolyn Porco on the Cassini mission to Saturn

369

Thomas Friedman: Energy in crisis