Jennifer Sciubba: The Weirdest Thing Ever to Happen to Humans
Jennifer Sciubba is a political demographer and the president and CEO of the Population Reference Bureau, so she’s a pretty good authority on what global data says about falling fertility rates (news ...
8 Okt 1h 15min
Gianmarco Soresi Is Striving for Excellence
Comedian Gianmarco Soresi thinks the plot of Black Swan — the perfect performance followed by death — is a beautiful end to life. He talks with Hank about how comedy is like building a table when the ...
1 Okt 59min
Tessa Violet Says There Will Be Joy — Probably
Tessa Violet is a singer-songwriter and former YouTuber whose new album, There Will Be Joy, is a meditation on internal growth. Tessa and Hank talk about their long friendship, what it’s like to go vi...
24 Sep 54min
Ted Dintersmith: Should We Teach Math Differently?
Ted Dintersmith is a Stanford engineering Ph.D., a successful venture capitalist, and now a committed math reformer. Hank and Ted talk about why questions are more important than answers, how AI is go...
17 Sep 1h 4min
T-Pain Doesn't Forget
T-Pain is a Grammy-winning artist, songwriter, and music producer. These days he produces music while streaming live on Twitch so that people can see exactly how human his process is. On this episode,...
10 Sep 1h 7min
Hannah Ritchie: The Future Is Not Bleak
Hannah Ritchie is a data scientist, author, and deputy editor of Our World in Data — and she's convinced the world is making more progress than the headlines show. Hannah and Hank talk about why incre...
3 Sep 1h 5min
Jerome Goddard: Welcome to the Bug Kingdom
Jerome Goddard is a medical entomologist, extension professor at Mississippi State University, fiction author, and now a TikTok star. Jerome and Hank cover things you’d expect: bug populations, insect...
27 Aug 1h 11min
