The Constructal Law with Prof. Adrian Bejan
The constructal law is a law of physics that predicts natural design and its evolution in biology, geophysics, climate change, technology, s...
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20 of 31 episodesDecentralised Organisations with Richard Bartlett
In this episode of Talk of Today we're joined by Richard Bartlett. Richard is an expert in bringing people together and catalysing decentral...
The Free Energy Principle with Dr. Maxwell Ramstead
The Free Energy Principle is a formal description of how life resist entropy across scales by minimising surprise. Surprise here being an in...
Chaos, Order, and Emergent System Design with Matthew Pirkowski
Matthew Pirkowski (@MattPirkoswki) is one of Twitter's most incisive thinkers, offering penetrating insights in things ranging from represen...
America's Freedom Farce
Through the lens of opportunity and freedom — what people can do and be in the world — most Americans are far less free than the rest of the...
How to beat COVID-19 with Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam
COVID-19 has caused titanic global shifts that are continuing to reverberate across the planet, thrusting our societies into territories unk...
Happiness and Society with Dr. Kostadin Kushlev
What makes us happy? What affects do the decisions we make have on our subjective well-being? How does money, or parenthood affect our happi...
The Scaling Laws of Life with Geoffrey West
What are the universal scaling laws of life and what do they mean for how our societies today function and their survival in the future? The...
High-voltage living with Visakan Veerasamy
Visakan Veerasamy is an eccentric Singaporean who weaves together of sparkling web of insight, wit, and positivity throughout the world of t...
Insect Population Collapse with Dr Francisco Sanchez-Bayo
The topic of today has an importance in our lives than most of us may be unaware of: global insect populations. While these creepy crawlies...
80,000 hours with Rob Wiblin
This podcast has the potential to significantly change the way you spend your time and money. And i’m not being hyperbolic. In this episode...
Building a Second Brain with Tiago Forte
Tiago Forte is the the man behind the 'building a second brain course'. Among many other things, Tiago helps people build their own trusted...
How Emotions are Made with Lisa Feldman Barrett
Our understanding of the biology of emotions has changed dramatically in recent years. We don't experience our emotions, we construct them....
Design Thinking: The Scientific Method Applied to Business
This is a reading of a blog post I wrote on Design Thinking and the scientific method. Show notes can be found at samhbarton.com Blog post o...
Sorry Trump. You're wrong about Sovereignty
This is an audio essay on the issue of state sovereignty in an interconnected world, inspired by Trump's recent address to the UN General As...
Psychedelics with Chris Timmerman
Chris Timmerman is a PhD student in the Psychedelic Research Group from Imperial College in London. He's currently conducting brain imaging...
Meditation and the Brain with Dr Sarah Lazar
Meditation has exploded in popularity in recent years. Once thought of as a purely spiritual practice, the physical and mental benefits of i...
The Inevitable Technologies that will Shape our Future with Kevin Kelly
In this episode, we explore the technologies that will shape our future as outlined in the book 'The Inevitable' by Kevin Kelly. It takes th...
The Plight of the Biafran People with Gosife Okekenta
Today's episode is a bit different from the rest. Instead of talking about developments in science, tech and society, I'm chatting to a man...
The Death of Aging with Aubrey de Grey
Aging could become a thing of the past. Not in 100 years, but within our lifetime (whatever that means) In this episode, I'm joined by Aubre...