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What's Your Problem? — 204 episodes

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How China Won the Car Industry

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Using Viruses to Fight Disease

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How AI Could Reduce Inequality

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Racing Wildfires to Warn the Public

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How AI Could Actually Make the World Better

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Finding Meaning (and Money) in the AI Age

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Using Pokémon Go to Map the World

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The Company Where Everyone Has Their Own AI Agent

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Inventing a Better Apple

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Welcome to Carbon Cowboys | From Drilled

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Building a Business on the Moon

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Building a Robot People Actually Want

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Turning Waste Wood Into Buildings

14

The Great Fusion Debate: How Far Away Are We Really?

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How SharkNinja Keeps Going Viral

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Growing New Livers to Save Lives

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Can the US Break China's Grip on Rare Earths?

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How Quantum Computers Could Change the World

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Fighting Wildfires from Space

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The Killer We Refused to See

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The Startup Run by AI Agents

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Can AI Help Solve Alzheimer’s?

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The New Science of Preventing Heart Attacks

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From Solar Pumps to Everything: Building a Market from Scratch

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Mass-Producing Stem Cells to Cure Disease

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Building a Self-Driving Tractor to Change the Future of Food

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We’re Going to Need a Better Boat

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The App Where Strangers Lend Each Other Money

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Introducing Business History: The Edison Invention People Don't Talk About

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Using Sound Waves to Destroy Tumors

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From Desert Robots to Driverless Trucks

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Is the Future of Fresh Water Under the Sea?

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Could Home Batteries Save the Grid?

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Building a Better Public Bathroom

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Could Autonomous Diggers Unleash a Building Boom?

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Growing Meat from Cells

37

The Ordinary Stuff Behind Technological Breakthroughs

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Carbon Capture at Rock-Bottom Prices

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Why Amazon Built a Spatula-Wielding Robot

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Drilling Smarter Wells to Unleash Geothermal Energy

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Inventing a Better Pain Pill

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Mapping the Unmappable

43

Reinventing Blood

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The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of Medicine

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A Billion-Dollar Bet on Carbon Removal

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Giving Old Batteries New Life

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Engineering the Future of Fusion

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Can Robots Fix Recycling?

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Inside the Mind of an AI Model

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Teaching Robots How to Do Everything

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Making a Universal Flu Vaccine

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Teaching Computers to Smell

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Can a Chatbot Treat Depression?

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Will AI Radically Change the World by 2027?... from Risky Business

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Is the Future of Flight Supersonic?

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The Secrets of Silk

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Infiltrating an International Ransomware Gang

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Preparing for the Future of War

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Stopping HIV Without a Vaccine

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Harnessing the Heat Deep Beneath Our Feet

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The Brain Implant That Could Change Medicine

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Building a Mass Market Robot

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Solving Solar’s Biggest Problem

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How Bubbles Power Breakthroughs

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Teaching AI to Build Stuff in the Physical World

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NVIDIA: At the Heart of the AI Boom

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What Claude Shannon Figured Out

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Measles: The Cancer Killer?... from Incubation

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RoboPod and the Perpetual Money Machine – Cautionary Questions 2… from Cautionary Tales

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Turning Solar Energy Into Fuel (The Solar Era, Part 3)

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Can Hot Bricks Save the World? (The Solar Era, Part 2)

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How the Sun Won (The Solar Era, Part 1)

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Drugs in Space

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The World Is Getting Better (Really)

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Rabies: When Monsters are Real…from Incubation

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Using Gene Therapy to Help the Blind See

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Bringing Back Mammoths and Dodos*

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What Elevators Teach Us About Technology, Design, and Human Behavior

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Can the Plant Microbiome Revolutionize Farming?

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Turning Pollution into Jet Fuel

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Reinventing Mining to Power the World

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Inventing a Vaccine for Bees

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A Better Way to Make the Chemicals in Everything

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How Refrigeration Changed the World

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Detecting Deepfakes With AI

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Turning Old Cans Into Clean Energy

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Moneyball, Soccer, and the Gap Between Analytics and the Real World

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Using Computer Vision to See What Coaches Can’t

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Scanning Every Muscle to Help Olympians Get Stronger

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Making Blood Vessels in a Factory

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Creating the Second Atomic Age

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Lifetime Terms, Lifetime Bans, and the Return of Roaring Kitty from Risky Business

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When the Robots Take Over… from Cautionary Tales

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Making Palm Oil Without Palm Trees

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Fighting Cancer with CRISPR

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How to Start 40 Companies (and Counting)

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The Cutting Edge of Energy Storage: Rust

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The First Pig to Human Kidney Transplant

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Designing a Drone That Delivers

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How Do Psychedelics Work?

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Building Boundary-Breaking Balloons

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Building a Robot That Can Walk the Walk

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Can Your Phone Tell When You're Getting Sick?

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The High-Stakes Quest to Reinvent Cement

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How a Battery-Powered Stove Could Electrify America

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3D Printing a Better Rocket

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Using AI to Help Doctors Save Lives

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Making Dam Good Hydropower

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Using AI to Build Better Robots

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Teaching Computers to See

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Using Oil-Industry Tech to Create Clean Energy

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Understanding Obesity and Alzheimer’s via Epigenomics

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Reinventing the Restaurant

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The Giant Torch That May Help Save the World

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Fixing Uber’s Broken Culture

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Murder Brokers from Hot Money: The New Narcos

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Using AI for Creative Work

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The Little-Known Office With $400 Billion to Fight Climate Change

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How AI Solved a Biological Mystery

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Making Oxygen on Mars

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The sold-out chips at the heart of AI

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Special Episode: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried

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Getting Yeast to Make Medicine

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Could a Robot Make Your Salad?

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What the Industrial Revolution Teaches Us About the AI Revolution

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Can AI Tutors Help Kids Learn? Khan Academy Thinks So

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Smallpox: Gone but Not Forgotten from Incubation

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Going to the Doctor Sucks. Can AI Make it Better?

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Spotting Wildfires with AI

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Is the Era of Free Returns Over?

131

Creative Technology at Pixar

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How To Make AI Safer & More Reliable

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Quantum Computers Could Change Everything

134

The 2023 Unhedged Stock Draft

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Predicting Human Health with AI

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Breastfeeding, Black Market Baby Formula, and Bobbie

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Making Immigration Cheaper & Easier

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The Wind Power Pioneer Still Pushing the Frontier

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The Mystery at the Heart of ChatGPT

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Scrubbing Carbon from the Air

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Building a Plane to Help Save the World

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The AI that Might Take My Job (And Yours)

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The Hottest Thing In Energy Storage

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Using Bacteria to Dye Jeans

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The Quest for the Factory-Built House

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Building Houses Like Tesla Builds Cars

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Human Bones, Made In the Lab

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Tiny Chips, Giant Stakes

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Problems Solved: Drones, Bananas and Real Estate*

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Faster, Cheaper Drugs with AI

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Creating the Uncrashable Car

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The Electric Truck that Went Viral on TikTok

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Introducing Other People’s Pockets: Mistress Marley, Financial Dominatrix

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Running in Recycled Shoes

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Turning Garbage Into Food

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The Fake-Meat Frontier

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From Impossible Burgers to Fake Steak

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Small Pizza Shops Want a Bigger Slice

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Turning Waves Into Electricity

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From Some of My Best Friends Are: Everything Dope Comes from Chicago

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Flying on Battery Power

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Bringing Back the American Hoodie

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How to Save the Most Lives

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From Story of the Week with Joel Stein: Billionaires Prepping for the Apocalypse

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The Investors Everybody Ignored

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Sam Bankman-Fried Revisited

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Machiavelli's Tips for Getting Ahead at Work

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Google's Journey to the Edge of Search

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Paying People to Turn Off the Fridge

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Turning Writers into Publishers

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Shopify: The Business That Helps Build Businesses

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Putting Carbon Back Into the Ground

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Patching Together a Quilting Empire

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Revealing How Much Health Care Really Costs

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Saving the World with Poop

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Building an Empire on Free Code

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Selling Billions of Crickets a Year

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From Patented: Inventing the Wheeled Suitcase

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How the Nerds Conquered the NBA

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The Trick to Flying Cheap

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Beer Without the Buzz

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John Green Tests the Limits of YouTube

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Taking Bets on the Future

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From Unsung Science with David Pogue: The Man Who Stopped the Spammers

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Building Bespoke Weather Forecasts

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Squeezing the Entire Internet Into a Shoebox

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Facing Fear in the Housing Market

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From Hot Money: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie

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Going to Venus on the Cheap

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Putting a Car on the Moon

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Sam Bankman-Fried Wants to Save the World

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The Quest for the Perfect Avocado

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Making Electronics Better

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From Slate Money: 37.8% Scammier

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Turning Cells into Tiny Factories

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Seeing Data From Space

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Growing a Weed Business

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Building a Company that Builds Companies

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Delivering Everything Right Now

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Chatting with the Machine

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Teaching Cars to Think Like People

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Launching Drone Delivery

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Becoming a Dog Ramp Mogul

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Introducing What's Your Problem