Manifold

Meghan Daum on the New Culture Wars – #32

Steven Broglio on Concussions, Football and Informed Choice – #31

Barbara O’Brien on Race, Reform and Wrongful Conviction Rate Estimates- #30

Sebastian Junger: Meaning from War and Technological Isolation in America – #29

Zach Hambrick on Psychometrics and the Science of Expertise – #28

Andrew Hartman: The Culture Wars Then and Now – #27

Bruno Maçães: China, Russia and the Future of Eurasia – #26

Ted Conover on Immigration, Prisons and 21st Century Homesteading – #25

Jason Snyder on Neurogenesis – #24

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

Jamie Metzl on Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity – #22

Tyler Cowen on Big Business, Socialism, Free Speech, and Stagnant Productivity Growth – #21

Betsy McKay on Trends in Heart Disease and How to Avoid It – #20

Ted Chiang on Free Will, Time Travel, Many Worlds, Genetic Engineering, and Hard Science Fiction – #19

Science fiction writer Ted Chiang explores the intersection of scientific theory and philosophical inquiry, focusing on the nature of free will, determinism, and consciousness. Chiang argues that hard science fiction is defined by a scientific worldview rather than just technical engineering details, noting that his st...

Rebecca Campbell on Identifying Serial Perpetrators, Rape Investigations and Untested Rape Kits – #18

Mark Moffett on the Life and Death of Human Societies – #17

John Schulman: OpenAI and recent advances in Artificial Intelligence – #16

Daniel Max on Writing a Literary non-Fiction Classic and Prion Diseases Then and Now – #15

Stuart Firestein on Why Ignorance and Failure Lead to Scientific Progress – Episode #14

Joe Cesario on Political Bias and Problematic Research Methods in Social Psychology – #13