Manifold

144 Episodes

1. Timothy Searchinger: Biofuels vs Foods and Major Climate Change Policy Errors – #23

   Published: 11/14/2019
2. Jamie Metzl on Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity – #22

   Published: 10/31/2019
3. Tyler Cowen on Big Business, Socialism, Free Speech, and Stagnant Productivity Growth – #21

   Published: 10/17/2019
4. Betsy McKay on Trends in Heart Disease and How to Avoid It – #20

   Published: 10/3/2019
5. Ted Chiang on Free Will, Time Travel, Many Worlds, Genetic Engineering, and Hard Science Fiction – #19

   Published: 9/19/2019
6. Rebecca Campbell on Identifying Serial Perpetrators, Rape Investigations and Untested Rape Kits – #18

   Published: 9/5/2019
7. Mark Moffett on the Life and Death of Human Societies – #17

   Published: 8/22/2019
8. John Schulman: OpenAI and recent advances in Artificial Intelligence – #16

   Published: 8/8/2019
9. Daniel Max on Writing a Literary non-Fiction Classic and Prion Diseases Then and Now – #15

   Published: 7/25/2019
10. Stuart Firestein on Why Ignorance and Failure Lead to Scientific Progress – Episode #14

    Published: 7/11/2019
11. Joe Cesario on Political Bias and Problematic Research Methods in Social Psychology – #13

    Published: 6/27/2019
12. James Cham on Venture Capital, Risk Taking, and the Future Impacts of AI – Episode #12

    Published: 6/13/2019
13. Joe Cesario on Police Decision Making and Racial Bias in Deadly Force Decisions – Episode #11

    Published: 5/30/2019
14. Ron Unz on the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, The Unz Review, and the Harvard Admissions Scandal – Episode #10

    Published: 5/16/2019
15. Philosopher Sam Kerstein on the Morality of Genome Engineering, Inequality, and Star Trek – Episode #9

    Published: 5/2/2019
16. Sabine Hossenfelder on the Crisis in Particle Physics and Against the Next Big Collider – #8

    Published: 4/18/2019
17. David Skrbina on Ted Kaczynski, Technological Slavery, and the Future of Our Species – Episode #7

    Published: 4/4/2019
18. John Hawks on Human Evolution, Ancient DNA, and Big Labs Devouring Fossils – Episode #6

    Published: 3/21/2019
19. Kaiser Kuo of Sinica on Modern China and US-China relations – Episode #5

    Published: 3/7/2019
20. Ted Schultz on Ants, Emergent Behavior, and the Molecular Revolution in Systematics – Episode #4

    Published: 2/21/2019