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What's Your Problem? — 204 episodes
How China Won the Car Industry
Using Viruses to Fight Disease
How AI Could Reduce Inequality
Racing Wildfires to Warn the Public
How AI Could Actually Make the World Better
Finding Meaning (and Money) in the AI Age
Using Pokémon Go to Map the World
The Company Where Everyone Has Their Own AI Agent
EInventing a Better Apple
Welcome to Carbon Cowboys | From Drilled
Building a Business on the Moon
Building a Robot People Actually Want
Turning Waste Wood Into Buildings
The Great Fusion Debate: How Far Away Are We Really?
How SharkNinja Keeps Going Viral
Growing New Livers to Save Lives
Can the US Break China's Grip on Rare Earths?
How Quantum Computers Could Change the World
Fighting Wildfires from Space
The Killer We Refused to See
The Startup Run by AI Agents
ECan AI Help Solve Alzheimer’s?
The New Science of Preventing Heart Attacks
From Solar Pumps to Everything: Building a Market from Scratch
EMass-Producing Stem Cells to Cure Disease
Building a Self-Driving Tractor to Change the Future of Food
We’re Going to Need a Better Boat
The App Where Strangers Lend Each Other Money
EIntroducing Business History: The Edison Invention People Don't Talk About
Using Sound Waves to Destroy Tumors
EFrom Desert Robots to Driverless Trucks
Is the Future of Fresh Water Under the Sea?
Could Home Batteries Save the Grid?
Building a Better Public Bathroom
Could Autonomous Diggers Unleash a Building Boom?
Growing Meat from Cells
The Ordinary Stuff Behind Technological Breakthroughs
Carbon Capture at Rock-Bottom Prices
Why Amazon Built a Spatula-Wielding Robot
Drilling Smarter Wells to Unleash Geothermal Energy
Inventing a Better Pain Pill
Mapping the Unmappable
Reinventing Blood
The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of Medicine
A Billion-Dollar Bet on Carbon Removal
Giving Old Batteries New Life
Engineering the Future of Fusion
Can Robots Fix Recycling?
Inside the Mind of an AI Model
Teaching Robots How to Do Everything
Making a Universal Flu Vaccine
Teaching Computers to Smell
Can a Chatbot Treat Depression?
Will AI Radically Change the World by 2027?... from Risky Business
Is the Future of Flight Supersonic?
The Secrets of Silk
Infiltrating an International Ransomware Gang
Preparing for the Future of War
Stopping HIV Without a Vaccine
Harnessing the Heat Deep Beneath Our Feet
The Brain Implant That Could Change Medicine
Building a Mass Market Robot
Solving Solar’s Biggest Problem
How Bubbles Power Breakthroughs
Teaching AI to Build Stuff in the Physical World
NVIDIA: At the Heart of the AI Boom
What Claude Shannon Figured Out
Measles: The Cancer Killer?... from Incubation
RoboPod and the Perpetual Money Machine – Cautionary Questions 2… from Cautionary Tales
Turning Solar Energy Into Fuel (The Solar Era, Part 3)
Can Hot Bricks Save the World? (The Solar Era, Part 2)
How the Sun Won (The Solar Era, Part 1)
Drugs in Space
The World Is Getting Better (Really)
Rabies: When Monsters are Real…from Incubation
Using Gene Therapy to Help the Blind See
Bringing Back Mammoths and Dodos*
What Elevators Teach Us About Technology, Design, and Human Behavior
Can the Plant Microbiome Revolutionize Farming?
Turning Pollution into Jet Fuel
Reinventing Mining to Power the World
Inventing a Vaccine for Bees
A Better Way to Make the Chemicals in Everything
How Refrigeration Changed the World
Detecting Deepfakes With AI
Turning Old Cans Into Clean Energy
Moneyball, Soccer, and the Gap Between Analytics and the Real World
Using Computer Vision to See What Coaches Can’t
Scanning Every Muscle to Help Olympians Get Stronger
Making Blood Vessels in a Factory
Creating the Second Atomic Age
Lifetime Terms, Lifetime Bans, and the Return of Roaring Kitty from Risky Business
When the Robots Take Over… from Cautionary Tales
Making Palm Oil Without Palm Trees
Fighting Cancer with CRISPR
How to Start 40 Companies (and Counting)
The Cutting Edge of Energy Storage: Rust
The First Pig to Human Kidney Transplant
Designing a Drone That Delivers
How Do Psychedelics Work?
Building Boundary-Breaking Balloons
Building a Robot That Can Walk the Walk
Can Your Phone Tell When You're Getting Sick?
The High-Stakes Quest to Reinvent Cement
How a Battery-Powered Stove Could Electrify America
3D Printing a Better Rocket
Using AI to Help Doctors Save Lives
Making Dam Good Hydropower
Using AI to Build Better Robots
ETeaching Computers to See
Using Oil-Industry Tech to Create Clean Energy
Understanding Obesity and Alzheimer’s via Epigenomics
Reinventing the Restaurant
The Giant Torch That May Help Save the World
Fixing Uber’s Broken Culture
Murder Brokers from Hot Money: The New Narcos
Using AI for Creative Work
The Little-Known Office With $400 Billion to Fight Climate Change
How AI Solved a Biological Mystery
Making Oxygen on Mars
The sold-out chips at the heart of AI
Special Episode: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried
Getting Yeast to Make Medicine
Could a Robot Make Your Salad?
What the Industrial Revolution Teaches Us About the AI Revolution
Can AI Tutors Help Kids Learn? Khan Academy Thinks So
Smallpox: Gone but Not Forgotten from Incubation
Going to the Doctor Sucks. Can AI Make it Better?
Spotting Wildfires with AI
Is the Era of Free Returns Over?
Creative Technology at Pixar
How To Make AI Safer & More Reliable
Quantum Computers Could Change Everything
The 2023 Unhedged Stock Draft
Predicting Human Health with AI
Breastfeeding, Black Market Baby Formula, and Bobbie
Making Immigration Cheaper & Easier
The Wind Power Pioneer Still Pushing the Frontier
The Mystery at the Heart of ChatGPT
Scrubbing Carbon from the Air
Building a Plane to Help Save the World
The AI that Might Take My Job (And Yours)
The Hottest Thing In Energy Storage
Using Bacteria to Dye Jeans
The Quest for the Factory-Built House
Building Houses Like Tesla Builds Cars
Human Bones, Made In the Lab
Tiny Chips, Giant Stakes
Problems Solved: Drones, Bananas and Real Estate*
Faster, Cheaper Drugs with AI
Creating the Uncrashable Car
The Electric Truck that Went Viral on TikTok
Introducing Other People’s Pockets: Mistress Marley, Financial Dominatrix
Running in Recycled Shoes
Turning Garbage Into Food
The Fake-Meat Frontier
From Impossible Burgers to Fake Steak
Small Pizza Shops Want a Bigger Slice
Turning Waves Into Electricity
From Some of My Best Friends Are: Everything Dope Comes from Chicago
Flying on Battery Power
Bringing Back the American Hoodie
How to Save the Most Lives
From Story of the Week with Joel Stein: Billionaires Prepping for the Apocalypse
The Investors Everybody Ignored
Sam Bankman-Fried Revisited
Machiavelli's Tips for Getting Ahead at Work
Google's Journey to the Edge of Search
Paying People to Turn Off the Fridge
Turning Writers into Publishers
Shopify: The Business That Helps Build Businesses
Putting Carbon Back Into the Ground
Patching Together a Quilting Empire
Revealing How Much Health Care Really Costs
Saving the World with Poop
Building an Empire on Free Code
Selling Billions of Crickets a Year
From Patented: Inventing the Wheeled Suitcase
How the Nerds Conquered the NBA
The Trick to Flying Cheap
Beer Without the Buzz
John Green Tests the Limits of YouTube
Taking Bets on the Future
From Unsung Science with David Pogue: The Man Who Stopped the Spammers
Building Bespoke Weather Forecasts
Squeezing the Entire Internet Into a Shoebox
Facing Fear in the Housing Market
From Hot Money: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie
EGoing to Venus on the Cheap
Putting a Car on the Moon
Sam Bankman-Fried Wants to Save the World
The Quest for the Perfect Avocado
Making Electronics Better
From Slate Money: 37.8% Scammier
Turning Cells into Tiny Factories
Seeing Data From Space
Growing a Weed Business
Building a Company that Builds Companies
Delivering Everything Right Now
Chatting with the Machine
Teaching Cars to Think Like People
Launching Drone Delivery
Becoming a Dog Ramp Mogul
Introducing What's Your Problem