All Episodes

#61 - She Couldn’t Cross the Berlin Wall. Then She Built Tech to Make Distance Disappear | Klara Nahrstedt

#60 - Peter Abbamonte: See the World as It Is, Think for Yourself, and Learn How Science Really Works

#59 - Should You Live for Yourself or Should You Live to Help Other People? | Yaron Brook Talk at UIUC

#58 - Yaron Brook: What to Study in College, Why You’ll Have Multiple Careers, & How to Think for Yourself

#57 - We Have Hunter-Gatherer Emotions and Star Wars Technology: An Archaeologist Explains Our Future with Brett Kaufman

#56 - Leslie Looney – Why a Truly Advanced Civilization Is Defined by Curiosity, Aliens, and Astronomy

#55 - A Bankruptcy Expert Explains Why Millions Can Never Repay Their Student Loans with Robert Lawless

#54 - Space Race: How a Laser Scientist Built a Midwest Rocket Factory—who wins by 2030—China or SpaceX?

#53 - Geoffrey Challen: Insubordinate by Design

#52 - When Empathy Becomes a Weapon: How a Master Diplomat Saves Nations with Stu Eizenstat

#51 - The Real Reagan: Max Boot on Life, Legend, and Leadership After 10 Years of Research

#50 - The Lost Voice of 60 Million: How Marie Arana Is Writing a New Chapter for Latinos in America

#49 - Why College Won’t Change Your Life—Only You Can: Margaret Fleck & David Forsyth on AI, Love, and Artful Rebellion

#48 - The Untold Story of The Mind Behind KAMS, Hubbard Inn, Red Lion, Joy District & Chicago's Top Venues

# 47 - Inside the Mind of Illinois Coach Bret Bielema

#46 - This Professor Made Nuclear Physics Viral on YouTube: David Ruzic on Explosives, Love, and Crocs

#45 - Carla Scaletti & Kurt Hegel: Sonifying the Human Condition, WALL•E, and Kyma

#44 - Pulitzer Prize, Fighting Discrimination, Washington Post, & Humility

#43.5 - After Hours w/ Jolim Chiu

#43 - Jolim Chiu: Christianity, After-Life, and Video Games

#42 - Charles Gammie: Capturing Black Hole Image, Astrophysics, and Interstellar

#41 - Inside Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome

#40 - Firdos Cambatta: Entrepreneurship, Investments, and Nature

#39 - Chancellor Robert Jones: $2.7 Billion, Education, and Grammy Awards

#38 - Karrie Karahalios: Social Media, MIT, Algorithmic Control & Suing Government

#37 - Tim Killeen: U of I President, Salary, Education's Future, & Human Potential

#36 - Mark Wolters: How Not to Travel, Uno Cards, and Getting Married in Rwanda

#35 - Jenny Johnson: Mapping Fate, Cartographic Passions, and Stealing Hearts

#34 - Axel Hoffmann: Magnetism, Flying, and Neuromorphic Computing

#33 - Tony Leggett: Nobel Prize, Don't Study Quantum Mechanics, & Paradigm Shifts

#32 - Martin Gruebele: Childlike Curiosity, Ultraracing, & the Art of Fully Living

#31 - Gene Robinson: Sequencing Genomes, Bees, and Evolution

#30 - Indranil Gupta: Immigrant Computer Scientists, Music, & the Value of College

#29 - Stephen Wolfram: College, Avoiding CS, and Building a Computational Universe

#28 - Adrienne Antonson: A Journey Through Science, Art, and the Education System

#27 - Stephen Boppart: Future of Medicine, Surviving Cancer, & Interdisciplinarity

#26 - Botond Bognar: Japanese Architecture, Meaning Behind Buildings, and Modernism

#25 - Arend van der Zande: Nanotechnology, Everything is a Wave, and Moore's Law

#24 - Bruce Berndt: Srinivasa Ramanujan

#23 - Gary Swenson: NASA, von Braun, and Remote Sensing

#22 - Yash Rathod: Dropping Out, Startups, and Religion

#21 - Neal Davis: Urbit, Sentience, and DAOs

#20 - Paul Kwiat: Quantum Information, Photons, and Swing Dancing

#19 - Samuel Steiner: The Most Venezuelan Guy at UIUC

#18 - Savannah Pagan: Multipotentialist, The Tyranny of Majors, and Steve Jobs

#17 - Jesse Ekanya: Being a Nonchalant, Uganda, and Civil Engineering

#16 - Arya Desai: Astrophysics, Crying, and Neil deGrasse Tyson

#15 - Lt Col Joseph Timberlake: The US Space Force

#14 - Kiruba Haran: Building an Electric Aircraft and Back to the Future

#13 - Cesar Monsalud and Aidan Finn: UIUC Reddit, Daily Illini, and Getting Funky

#12 - Juan David and Aaryaman: Mid-Season Update

#11 - Husna Hussaini: Languages, Future goals, and the Billion Dollar Question

#10 - Jason Chambers: History of Advertising, "True Fans", and Curiosity

#9 - Reuben A. Buford May: Rapping on the Quad & Exploring the Social Sphere

#8 - Charles Ndungu: Life in Kenya, Kindness, and a Path to Self-Discovery

#7 - Carlos Torelli: The Collective Genius, Engineers doing Business, and Food

#6 - Evan Struck: Speed Painting

#5 - Lelys Bravo: Statistics, Climate Change, and Venezuela

#4 - Nora Swinford: Video Game Music, Secret Admission to UIUC, and 500 Tabs

#3 - Jont Allen: Reductionism, Machine Learning Science, and Endless Curiosity

#2 - Jaden Thompson: Growing up in Indonesia, Engineering, and Faith

#1 - Kareem Habayeb: Misperceptions as an Engineer and Not Knowing What You Want

#0 - Welcome to the UIUC Talkshow!