A podcast featuring conversations with scientists, thinkers, and writers who are influencing our time. The world has changed. What we once believed true will take a different perspective post Covid-19. There’s never been a better time to scrutinize our ideas, beliefs and truths with some of the most influential people of our time.
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Wendy Carlin is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She is leading an international project - the CORE project - to reform the undergraduate economics curriculum. The CORE project has produced an open-access e-book for a first course in economics, which is …
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Ep 5: David Krakauer
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David's research is concerned with the evolutionary history of information processing mechanisms in biology and culture, with an emphasis on robust information transmission, signaling dynamics and their role in constructing novel, higher level features. The research spans several levels of organization finding analogous processes in genetics, cell …
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Ep 4: Andrew Mcafee
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Andrew McAfee is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changing the world. His latest book is More From Less: How We Finally Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources - and What Happens Next.…
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Ep 3: Geoffrey West
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Geoffrey is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications. West served as President for the Santa Fe Institute from 2005 through to 2009. Prior to joining the Santa Fe Institute he was the leader, a…
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Ep 1: Jonathan Haidt
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Join Toby Shannan as he discusses with Jonathan Haidt what an emerging new normal might be post the Covid-19 crisis. Their broad ranging conversation touches on these topics and more while answering Shopifolk questions submitted via the Askify.Door David Gaylord
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Ep 2: David Sloan Wilson
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David Sloan Wilson is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University.Door David Gaylord
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