Ranked #1

Chaos, Order, and Emergent System Design with Matthew Pirkowski
Chaos, Order, and Emergent System Design with Matthew Pirkowski
Matthew Pirkowski (@MattPirkoswki) is one of Twitter's most incisive thinkers, offering penetrating insights in things r... Read more
10 May 2020
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2hr 15mins
Ranked #2

Biohacking with Amal Graafstra
Biohacking with Amal Graafstra
We can now take our evolution into our own hands. Amal Graafstra is Chief of Awesome and Dangerous Things, a Biohackin... Read more
9 Mar 2017
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55mins
Ranked #3

The Earth Charter and Global Community with Clem Campbell
The Earth Charter and Global Community with Clem Campbell
The Earth Charter is an international declaration of fundamental values and principles for building a just, sustainable,... Read more
17 Apr 2017
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37mins
Ranked #4

The Psychedelic DMT with Dr Rick Strassman
The Psychedelic DMT with Dr Rick Strassman
DMT(dimethyltryptamine - more like dimethyltripdaeffout) is a psychedelic substance that's found throughout nature and w... Read more
24 Apr 2017
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #5

Coral Bleaching and the Great Barrier Reef
Coral Bleaching and the Great Barrier Reef
Today's guest is Brett Lewis, a marine researcher from the Queensland University of Technology. He was a part of the tea... Read more
6 Apr 2017
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48mins
Ranked #6

America's Freedom Farce
America's Freedom Farce
Through the lens of opportunity and freedom — what people can do and be in the world — most Americans are far less free ... Read more
3 May 2020
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14mins
Ranked #7

How to beat COVID-19 with Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam
How to beat COVID-19 with Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam
COVID-19 has caused titanic global shifts that are continuing to reverberate across the planet, thrusting our societies ... Read more
23 Apr 2020
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1hr 12mins
Ranked #8

Happiness and Society with Dr. Kostadin Kushlev
Happiness and Society with Dr. Kostadin Kushlev
What makes us happy? What affects do the decisions we make have on our subjective well-being? How does money, or paren... Read more
18 Apr 2020
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1hr 55mins
Ranked #9

The Scaling Laws of Life with Geoffrey West
The Scaling Laws of Life with Geoffrey West
What are the universal scaling laws of life and what do they mean for how our societies today function and their surviva... Read more
10 Apr 2020
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2hr 3mins
Ranked #10

High-voltage living with Visakan Veerasamy
High-voltage living with Visakan Veerasamy
Visakan Veerasamy is an eccentric Singaporean who weaves together of sparkling web of insight, wit, and positivity throu... Read more
31 Mar 2020
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1hr 49mins
Ranked #11

How Emotions are Made with Lisa Feldman Barrett
How Emotions are Made with Lisa Feldman Barrett
Our understanding of the biology of emotions has changed dramatically in recent years. We don't experience our emotions,... Read more
17 Jul 2019
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58mins
Ranked #12

Design Thinking: The Scientific Method Applied to Business
Design Thinking: The Scientific Method Applied to Business
This is a reading of a blog post I wrote on Design Thinking and the scientific method. Show notes can be found at samh... Read more
15 Jul 2019
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7mins
Ranked #13

Sorry Trump. You're wrong about Sovereignty
Sorry Trump. You're wrong about Sovereignty
This is an audio essay on the issue of state sovereignty in an interconnected world, inspired by Trump's recent address ... Read more
26 Sep 2017
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11mins
Ranked #14

Psychedelics with Chris Timmerman
Psychedelics with Chris Timmerman
Chris Timmerman is a PhD student in the Psychedelic Research Group from Imperial College in London. He's currently condu... Read more
7 Sep 2017
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42mins
Ranked #15

Meditation and the Brain with Dr Sarah Lazar
Meditation and the Brain with Dr Sarah Lazar
Meditation has exploded in popularity in recent years. Once thought of as a purely spiritual practice, the physical an... Read more
19 Jul 2017
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50mins