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Radiolab: Lost & Found

¶ ↫ 2017-12-01 podcast

Stories about getting lost, and how our brains, and our hearts, help us find our way back home.

The Science Show versus God (2006)

¶ ↫ 2017-11-27 podcast

"This week Richard Dawkins' remarkable book The God Delusion is released in Australia."

The Science Show: Gaia and accelerating climate change (2007)

¶ ↫ 2017-11-27 podcast

In The Revenge of Gaia, James Lovelock claims we've passed the point of no return with climate change.

Radiolab: Words

¶ ↫ 2017-11-27 podcast

It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour, we try to do just that.

The Wheeler Center: Alain de Botton on The News

¶ ↫ 2017-11-27 podcast alain-de-botton

Alain de Botton questions what we are really seeking in the news, and whether it does us any good.

The Sound of Young America: Rudolph Herzog

¶ ↫ 2017-11-25 podcast

His new book is called Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany. It's an exploration of humor in Germany before, during, and immediately after the Nazi years; including both the humor of the Nazis, of their subjects, and of their targets.

The Sound of Young America: Jon Ronson, Author, Filmmaker and Humorist

¶ ↫ 2017-11-25 podcast

A great interview circa the release of The Psychopath Test.

Cory Doctorow: The Coming War on General Purpose Computation

¶ ↫ 2017-11-24 podcast cory-doctorow

Cory Doctorow's keynote at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin (2012).

Roderick on the Line ep 109: Supervan

¶ ↫ 2017-11-24 podcast

The Problem: John could negotiate an arrangement.

Hieroglyph in Seattle: Cory Doctorow, Neal Stephenson and Ed Finn

¶ ↫ 2017-11-24 podcast cory-doctorow book sci-fi

A great talk promoting the Hieroglyph anthology, designed to inspire optimistic technologies to solve the Earth's most urgent problems

Big Ideas: Bill Gammage - A burning landscape

¶ ↫ 2017-11-22 podcast

How Indigenous people have shaped Australia's landscape prior to settlement.

Big Ideas: Richard Denniss - The 2015 Manning Clark lecture

¶ ↫ 2017-11-22 podcast

What economists can learn from Manning Clark: Is it possible to plan 100 years into the future? What are enlargers and punishers and what influence have they had on Australia's past, present and possible futures?

The Tim Ferriss Show: Tim O'Reilly

¶ ↫ 2017-11-22 podcast tim-ferriss tim-oreilly

This is another great interview with Tim O'Reilly.

The Tim Ferriss Show: Terry Laughlin

¶ ↫ 2017-11-15 podcast tim-ferriss

Discussing Total Immersion Swimming technique.

Big Ideas: Henry Reynolds - Acknowledging Australia's 'forgotten war'

¶ ↫ 2017-11-05 podcast

Genuine reconciliation is not possible until we acknowledge Australia's frontier wars, says historian Henry Reynolds.

Big Ideas: Henry Reynolds - Australia’s unnecessary wars

¶ ↫ 2017-11-05 podcast

Australia has been at war for 60 of the 78 years since WW2 started.

Science Friday: Walter Isaacson on Leonardo da Vinci

¶ ↫ 2017-10-26 podcast

Author Walter Isaacson investigates how Leonardo da Vinci combined the arts and sciences to create masterpieces.

CNET Book Club: Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

¶ ↫ 2017-10-26 podcast book cory-doctorow

Another good Walkaway interview.

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: Billy Bookcase

¶ ↫ 2017-10-22 podcast

Low cost, functional and brilliantly efficient, one is produced every three seconds

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: Concrete

¶ ↫ 2017-10-22 podcast

It's improved health, school attendance, agricultural productivity and farm worker wages

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: Elevators

¶ ↫ 2017-10-22 podcast

The safety elevator is a mass transit system that has changed the shape of our cities

Triangulation ep 317: Daniel Abraham - The Expanse

¶ 2017-10-20 podcast book sci-fi

Daniel Abraham, author and television producer of The Expanse.

The Tim Ferriss Show: Walter Isaacson

¶ ↫ 2017-10-19 podcast tim-ferriss

A good interview covering Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs and more.

The Tim Ferriss Show: Richard Branson

¶ ↫ 2017-10-18 podcast tim-ferriss

A good interview with Richard Branson.

After On Podcast ep 10: Tim O'Reilly

¶ ↫ 2017-10-18 podcast rob-reid tim-oreilly

Rob Reid discussing the future of work (and how technology augments workers) among many other things with Tim O'Reilly.