The Spanish Flu, the Deadliest Pandemic
May 18, 2020Our newest episode features best-selling author John Barry on his book The Great Influenza: The Deadliest Pandemic in History and the 1918 flu outbreak.
listen to this podcastOur newest episode features best-selling author John Barry on his book The Great Influenza: The Deadliest Pandemic in History and the 1918 flu outbreak.
listen to this podcastWe spoke with Mark Braude, author of The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba, about Napoleon and his own personal quarantine.
listen to this podcastOur latest episode features Sarah Ives of Distributed Bio, a company at the forefront of treatment development for COVID via powerful biotech.
listen to this podcastOur latest episode features Wayne Rebhorn, acclaimed translator of the Decameron, on Giovanni Boccaccio, his most famous work, and why it's still relevant.
listen to this podcastOur latest episode features Nobel Prize winner Paul Romer and daring vision for how testing can be a way out of the COVID crisis for the U.S.
listen to this podcastOur latest episode features Frank Snowden, author of Naples in the Time of Cholera, on what we can learn from a late-19th century pandemic.
listen to this podcastOur latest episode features David Dunning, discoverer of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. We spoke with him about how cognitive bias hampered our COVID response.
listen to this podcastThe latest episode of our Coronavirus podcast features Netflix sensation Dennis Carroll. We spoke with him about battling emergence and taking the fight to zoonotic viruses.
listen to this podcastOur latest episode features Tom Holland on a plague that changed the course of ancient history, Thucydides, and what we can learn from the Greeks.
listen to this podcastOur latest episode features former BoE governor Mervyn King talking about his new book, Radical Uncertainty -- and how rejecting certainties can save us.
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