Erik Hoel on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
Neuroscientist and author Erik Hoel talks about his book, The World Behind the World, with…
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Lydia Dugdale on the Lost Art of Dying
Physician and author Lydia Dugdale wants to teach us a better way to die. She…
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James Rebanks on the Shepherd’s Life
James Rebanks‘s family has raised sheep in the same small English village for at least…
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Michael Munger on Obedience to the Unenforceable
Civilization and the pleasantness of everyday life depend on unwritten rules. Early in the 20th…
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Rebecca Struthers on Watches, Watchmaking, and the Hands of Time
Called “a poem in clockwork,” the self-winding Breguet watch made for Marie Antionette was meant…
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Luca Dellanna on Risk, Ruin, and Ergodicity
Author and consultant Luca Dellanna talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the importance of…
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Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI
Eliezer Yudkowsky insists that once artificial intelligence becomes smarter than people, everyone on earth will die. Listen…
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Michael Munger on the Perfect vs. the Good
Is the perfect really the enemy of the good? Or is it the other way…
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Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and Mortality
When he was a child, poet Dana Gioia’s mother would come home from a long…
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Megan McArdle on the Oedipus Trap
When physician Walter Freeman died in 1972, he still believed that lobotomies were the best…
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