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Technology is at an inflection point. Can we harness it to make life better...or will it harness us? Join Kurt Andersen as he and a world-class selection of thinkers explore this question as...
For over a century, we’ve been in the midst of a revolution in longevity – one that is unprecedented in human history. More than a quarter c...
The world today is oversaturated with trends, tips, and treatments for how to live long and be healthy while doing it. But it can be hard to...
Women tend to live longer than men, even under the most difficult conditions like famines and epidemics. While it’s true that women tend to...
We’ve known about Alzheimer’s and its devastating effects for more than 100 years, and have been predicting an imminent cure for at least th...
A forgotten name, misplaced keys, feeling overwhelmed by some new technology. Classic signs of a brain beginning its long, inexorable descen...
Blood transfusions, cryotherapy, experimental drugs and intermittent fasting are just a few of the measures so-called biohackers are taking...
In 2000, two scientists — Steve Austed, a biologist and Jay Olshanksy, a biostatistician — made a bet. Would a person live to the age of 150...
Human beings are living longer than ever. Thanks to advances like vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurized milk and clean water, we’ve added more...
The Paris Climate Agreement says we need to reach “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050. That means for every new carbon molecule we put in th...
Hydrogen has long been the great hope of the environmental movement. Hydrogen-powered cars; airplanes; even home heating. A single molecule...
Heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather event, and scientists expect the earth to continue to get hotter. Unfortu...
The United States was once on track to be a world leader in nuclear power, building more than 100 plants in the 1970s and 1980s. But cost an...
Americans drive more, drive further, and pay less for fuel than people in other developed countries. Partly for this reason, our vehicles ar...
In the past 50 years, solar energy has surpassed all expectations. Even early solar experts couldn’t predict how affordable and widespread i...
We’re currently involved in one of the most ambitious projects we, as humans, have ever attempted: Rebuilding the world, pretty much from th...
In our final episode, Host Gary Marcus shares his hopes for and fears about an AI-driven future. On the one hand, AI could accelerate soluti...
Some people use chatbots for therapy. Others have fallen in love with them. And some people argue that AI systems have become sentient and a...
The emergence of generative AI threatens to automate millions of jobs, potentially ushering in a new and unprecedented wave of job displacem...
Misinformation has already influenced our elections, ruined reputations and fundamentally changed society’s relationship with the truth. Now...
New large language models are capable of writing essays, drafting marketing pitches and having human-like exchanges on chat apps. But can th...
We've been promised wide-scale driverless cars for more than a decade, but a true driverless experience still remains out of reach. It turns...
After its victory on Jeopardy, IBM made a billion-dollar bet on Watson: cancer. But it turned out that diagnosing patients isn’t the same as...
In 2011, Watson, a computer built by IBM, shocked the world by becoming the first non-human contestant to win Jeopardy. An immediate sensati...
From the producers of The World as You’ll Know It, a new series about the perils and promise of artificial intelligence with cognitive scien...
Judith Warner speaks with Dr. Matthew Johnson about the state of psychedelic research today and the likelihood that certain drugs — MDMA and...
One out of five Americans suffer from chronic pain and a new approach to treatment could transform their lives. Judith Warner speaks with Dr...
Judith Warner speaks with Dr. Thomas Insel, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, about the failures in mental healthcare and how technology co...
Judith Warner speaks with Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, a neurologist and professor at Harvard University, about the possible causes of and coming trea...
Judith Warner speaks with Dr. John Donoghue about recent advancements in brain computer interface, or BCI, a technology that allows paralyze...
The last decade has seen astonishing advancements in brain science that have opened doors to new ways of treating trauma, depression, and pa...
Kurt Andersen speaks with economist and author, Mariana Mazzucato, about how governments should be proactive investors in and stewards of te...
Kurt Andersen speaks with computer scientist Stuart Russell about the risks of machines reaching superintelligence and advancing beyond huma...
Kurt Andersen speaks with Genevieve Bell, cultural anthropologist and founding director of The School of Cybernetics, about how people adapt...
Kurt Andersen speaks with Roger McNamee, the author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, about the evolution of Facebook and ot...
Host of this season’s The World as You’ll Know It, Kurt Andersen, speaks with Alison Gopnik, cognitive scientist, author, and professor of p...
Host of this season’s The World as You’ll Know It, Kurt Andersen, speaks with Sinan Aral, professor at MIT and author of “The Hype Machine,”...
Technology is at an inflection point. Can we harness it to make life better...or will it harness us? Join Kurt Andersen as he and a world-cl...
This week features two conversations. In the first, Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic for The New York Times, speaks to Julián Cast...
Paul Tough, author, most recently, of "The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us," speaks to Paul LeBlanc, President of Sou...
Steven Greenhouse, the author of "Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor," speaks to Jared Bernstein, forme...
Steven Greenhouse, the author of "Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor," speaks to David Autor, the Ford...
David Wallace-Wells, the author of "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" speaks to Christiana Figueres, the former Secretary of the...
Welcome to The World as You'll Know It, a new podcast that pairs established journalists with experts to discuss the ways in which Covid-19...