Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way
Richard Prum really cares about birds. Growing up in rural Vermont, he didn't know anyone else interested in birding his own age. The experience taught him to rely on his own sense of curiosity and im...
30 Jun 202150min
Elijah Millgram on the Philosophical Life
What can studying the lives of philosophers tell us about how to organize and interpret our own lives? Elijah Millgram is a professor of philosophy at the University of Utah whose research focuses on ...
16 Jun 20211h 8min
David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them
Tyler describes Oxford professor and theoretical physicist David Deutsch as a "maximum philosopher of freedom" with no rival. A pioneer in the field of quantum computing, Deutsch subscribes to the mul...
2 Jun 20211h 1min
Mark Carney on Central Banking and Shared Values
As a Canadian economist who once served as the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney has had many occasions to reflect on the importance of values. Whether it's ingratiating himself as a public...
26 Mai 202154min
Pierpaolo Barbieri on Latin American FinTech
Gifted young Argentines tend to leave home to "make it in America" and never look back, but after earning a degree from Harvard, writing a book about the Spanish Civil War, and living in the United St...
19 Mai 202156min
Daniel Carpenter on Smart Regulation
Daniel Carpenter is one of the world's leading experts on regulation and the foremost expert on the US Food and Drug Administration. A professor of Government at Harvard University, he's conducted ext...
5 Mai 20211h 8min
Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China
A self-professed nerd, the young Shadi Bartsch could be found awake late at night, reading Latin under the covers of her bed by flashlight. Now a professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, Dr...
21 Apr 20211h
Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire
Before he was California Poet Laureate or leading the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia marketed Jell-O. Possessing both a Stanford MBA and a Harvard MA, he combined his creativity and facil...
7 Apr 20211h 18min
