The Spanish Flu, the Deadliest Pandemic
May 18, 2020
Our 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 podcast Napoleon in Quarantine
May 11, 2020
We spoke with Mark Braude, author of The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba, about Napoleon and his own personal quarantine.
listen to this podcastThe Biotech Visionaries Fighting COVID
May 7, 2020
Our latest episode features Sarah Ives of Distributed Bio, a company at the forefront of treatment development for COVID via powerful biotech.
listen to this podcastWhy the Decameron Is Great Quarantine Reading
May 4, 2020
Our 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 podcastPaul Romer on testing our way out of COVID
April 29, 2020
Our 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 podcastFrank Snowden on Naples in the Time of Cholera
April 27, 2020
Our 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 podcastDavid Dunning on COVID and cognitive bias
April 23, 2020
Our 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 podcastDennis Carroll on Fighting Emergence in Viruses
April 19, 2020
The 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 podcastTom Holland on Thucydides and the plague at Athens
April 15, 2020
Our 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 podcastMervyn King’s Radical Uncertainty
April 13, 2020
Our 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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