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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Michael Munger on Obedience to the Unenforceable
Civilization and the pleasantness of everyday life depend on unwritten rules. Early in the 20th...
01:10:38
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...
01:10:34
Les Snead on Risk, Decisions, and Football
After nearly 12 years as general manager for the L.A. Rams, Les Snead has learned the power of...
01:17:37
Luca Dellanna on Risk, Ruin, and Ergodicity
Author and consultant Luca Dellanna talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the importance of...
01:07:31
Casey Mulligan on Vaccines, the Pandemic, and the FDA
When there's no vaccine on the market, people will look for other ways to be safe, including...
01:08:17
Tyler Cowen on the Risks and Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the...
01:00:51
Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI
Eliezer Yudkowsky insists that once artificial intelligence becomes smarter than people, everyone...
01:17:35
Patrick House and Itzhak Fried on the Brain's Mysteries
While operating on a 16-year-old girl who suffered from severe seizures, neurosurgeon Itzhak...
01:07:41
Michael Munger on the Perfect vs. the Good
Is the perfect really the enemy of the good? Or is it the other way around? In 2008, Duke...
01:14:38
Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and Mortality
When he was a child, poet Dana Gioia's mother would come home from a long day of work and recite...
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Daniel Gordis on Israel and Impossible Takes Longer
As Israel turns 75, has it fulfilled the promise of its founders? Daniel Gordis of Shalem College...
01:27:01
Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI
They operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable,...
01:24:57
Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and Technology
Photographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living...
01:26:36
Megan McArdle on the Oedipus Trap
When physician Walter Freeman died in 1972, he still believed that lobotomies were the best...
01:14:38
Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf
Tolkien read it as a tale about mortality. The poet David Whyte said it was a metaphor for the...
01:03:12
Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State
Since at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering...
01:02:08
Paul Bloom on Psych, Psychology, and the Human Mind
Do psychologists know anything? Psychologist Paul Bloom says yes--but not the things that you...
01:13:41
Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness
When psychiatrist Marco Ramos of Yale University prescribes antidepressants to patients in...
01:28:46
Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen
Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it...
01:06:38
Sam Harris on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Morality
According to neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, rationality is the key to safeguarding...
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