BONUS Thermonuclear Takes: Vaccine News and Pandemic Shield
It's a bonus news episode, in which I ramble on about the COVID-19 vaccines and the possibility of defending against future pandemics.
19 Dec 202047min
Climate 201: What Is A Climate Scenario? (RCP)
In this episode of Climate 201, we deconstruct the jargon around climate scenarios. What's the difference between RCP2.6 and RCP8.5? What purpose do the scenarios serve? How should we think about them...
16 Dec 202051min
Subprime Attention Crisis: The Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet, with Tim Hwang
This week, taking a break from climate, we have a special guest on the show - Tim Hwang. Tim Hwang is a writer and researcher, and he's the author of Subprime Attention Crisis, a book about how online...
10 Dec 202052min
Climate 201: Carbon Budgets
We explore what is meant by a "carbon budget", how and why we can determine how much CO2 is left to emit before we cross a given temperature threshold, as well as disputes in how to define these budge...
3 Dec 202048min
The Dream of a Solar Sahara
In this episode, we explore the tantalising - but maybe impossible - dream of blanketing the world's deserts in solar panels to supply all of our energy needs.
29 Nov 202023min
Climate 201: Greenhouse Gases and Fungibility Questions
In this Climate 201 episode, we introduce the different greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, analyse how their different lifetimes and ability to absorb radiation and warm the planet wo...
25 Nov 202038min
Softbank's Singularity with Edward Ongweso Jr. of This Machine Kills Podcast
To close our series on Softbank's Vision Fund, I interviewed tech journalist and scholar Edward Ongweso Jr. of "This Machine Kills" podcast about Softbank, the corrosive nature of VC on the tech secto...
19 Nov 20201h 44min
Softbank's Blurry Vision VI: What We Lost In The Hype
Over the course of this series, we've described how Softbank's $100bn Vision Fund promised to invest in the future and failed to deliver. In this episode, we ask: why should we care? We discuss the wi...
11 Nov 20201h 7min
