All Episodes

#85 – Stanisław Ulam: Von Neumann – The Interaction of Mathematics and Computing

#84 – Robert Pirsig: On Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Quality – Minneapolis, 1974

#83 – Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky: Jane Street Singularity Debate

#82 – William Leonard Pickard, George Church, Glenn Cohen, Ruth L. Okedij, Tina Liu, and Alex Zhavoronkov: Petrie-Flom Center Open House – Health Law, Biotechnology, and the Future (09/19/2024)

#81 – Daniel Greenberg: Schools of the Future

#80 – James T. Farrell: Radio France for North America Interview

#79 – Marvin Minsky: MIT Infinite History Project Interview

#78 – Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

#77 – Jaak Panksepp: Notre Dame Symposium on Human Nature and Early Experience

#76 – Peter Higgs: The Annual Higgs Lecture 2012, Kings College London – Putting Maxwell in his Place

#75 – Lawrence Lessig: 2002 OSCON Speech – Free Culture

#74 – Paul Dirac: Four Lectures at Christchurch, New Zealand, 1975 – Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Electrodynamics, Magnetic Monopoles, and Does 'G' Vary? (Large Numbers Hypothesis)

#73 – John Hopfield: Artificial Neural Networks and Speech Processing (1988)

#72 – Arthur Conan Doyle: Brief Interview on the Origins of the “Monstrous Growth” Sherlock Holmes and the Importance of Psychic Matters (1929)

#71 – Noam Chomsky: Foundations of World Order: the UN, World Bank, IMF & Declaration of Human Rights 1999

#70 – Peter Thiel: Scruton Lectures 2023 – The Diversity Myth

#69 – Bertrand Russell & Frederick Copleston: The Famous Debate Over the Existence of God (1948)

#68 – Michael Polanyi: Full History and Hope Lecture Series – The Destruction of Reality, The Realm of the Unspoken, The Vindication of Realities, and A Society of Explorers

#67 – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow

#66 – Saul Bellow

#65 – Margaret Mead & James Baldwin: A Rap On Race Conversation (1971)

#64 – Karl Friston: Stony Brook Provost's Lecture 2019 – I Am Therefore I Think

#63 – Melvin Calvin: A Brief Oral Autobiography of the Life and Work of Melvin Calvin

#62 – René Girard: Mimetic Desire and the Mythological Implications of Christianity

#61 – Arthur C. Clarke: Three Short Stories – Transit of Earth, The Nine Billion Names of God, and The Star: Narration By Arthur C. Clarke

#60 – Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web

#59 – Anthony Giddens: Globalization and Communication

#58 – Gilbert Ling: On the Back of a Tiger Interview

#57 – E. O. Wilson: John M. Prather Lecture in Biology 2010 – Consilience

#56 – Edward Said: Dual Interviews – Orientalism + Life and Work in Palestine

#55 – Albert Einstein: The Common Language of Science

#54 – Douglas Adams: Parrots, the Universe and Everything

#53 – John Mearsheimer: Full Henry L. Stimson Lecture Series – The Roots of Liberal Hegemony, The False Promise of Liberal Hegemony, and The Case for Restraint

#52 – Sheldon Glashow: Serendipity – Does Science Evolve by Blind Chance or through Intelligent Design?

#51 – Peter Higgs: My Life as a Boson

#50 – Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin: Future of the Brain Symposium Lecture 2005 + Interview With Luc Sala

#49 – William Leonard Pickard: Underground Histories and Overground Futures + Interview with Julian Vayne

#48 – Edward Teller: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. – The Responsibilities of the Scientists

#47 – Cornelius Lanczos: A Life Story

#46 – Aldous Huxley: One Hour Radio Dramatization of Brave New World, Narrated by Aldous Huxley

#45 – Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi: The Famous "Spiritual Message" Speech at Kingsley Hall 1931

#44 – J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings - BBC Interview (1964)

#43 – Albert Bandura: Association for Psychological Science Interview

#42 – Sir James Chadwick: A Brief Account of His Discovery of the Neutron (1944)

#41 – Carl Sagan: A Candid BBC Radio Interview 1980

#40 – Isaiah Berlin: Interview on Freedom + The First Attack on Enlightenment (#2 of the Romanticism Lectures)

#39 – Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition

#38 – Ayn Rand: The Philosophy of Objectivism

#37 – Linus Pauling: The Role of Scientists in the Peace Movement

#36 – Peter Singer: Bryan Magee Interview on Hegel & Marx (1987)

#35 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy vs Richard Nixon: First Presidential Debate (1960)

#34 – Daniel Kahneman: Maps of Bounded Rationality

#33 – Carl Jung: The "Face To Face" Interview

#32 – Richard "rms" Stallman: For A Free Digital Society

#31 – Tayeb Salih: On Growing Up in the Sudan, and “Season of Migration to the North”

#30 – Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society

#29 – Robert Anton Wilson: Preparing for the 21st Century (1988)

#28 – A.S. Neill: Summerhill Founder Shares His Wisdom

#27 – Frank Lloyd Wright: A Conversation with an Icon of Architecture (1953)

#26 – Bertrand Russell: 80 Years of Changing Beliefs and Unchanging Hopes (1952)

#25 – Andrew Wiles: 2016 Abel Prize Interview

#24 – Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and Elegance in Physics

#23 – John Steinbeck: 1962 Nobel Prize Speech

#22 – Richard Feynman: The Famous "Fun to Imagine" Interview

#21 – Karl Popper: The Three Worlds (1989)

#20 – Viktor Frankl: On Finding Meaning in Difficult Times

#19 – Kary Mullis: On Science

#18 – Isaac Asimov: Predicting the Future and Science Fiction

#17 – John F. Kennedy: The President Reading The Declaration of Independence

#16 – Isadore Singer and Michael Atiyah: 2004 Abel Prize Interview

#15 – Erwin Schrödinger: Do Electrons Think?

#14 – Abraham Maslow: The Hallmarks of Self Actualization

#13 – Milton Friedman: The Energy Crisis - A Humane Solution

#12 – Albert Einstein: 1940 Radio Interview

#11 – Paul Dirac: 1982 Interview

#10 – Frederick Copleston: Bryan Magee Interview on Arthur Schopenhauer (1987)

#9 – Aldous Huxley: Sum of Substance

#8 – Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke: The Time Before Time Began, the Universe, Black Holes, God, and the Laws of Science

#7 – Friedrich von Hayek: Leo Rosten Interview

#6 – Itzhak "Ben" Bentov: From Atom To Cosmos

#5 – David Deutsch: The Unity Of The Universe

#4 – B. F. Skinner: Philosophy of Behaviorism (1988)

#3 – James Watson and Francis Crick: Horace Freeland Judson Interview

#2 – Terence Tao, Jacob Lurie, Simon Donaldson, Maxim Kontsevich, Richard Taylor, and Yuri Milner: 2015 Breakthrough Math Panel

#1 – Edward Witten, Abdus Salam, Dennis Sciama, and Paolo Budinich: An Unadulterated Conversation Between Four World-Class Physicists