Ep. 19 - Santa Ono – Foreseeing issues that became an education crisis during Covid
In an enlightening chat from 18 months ago, University of British Columbia in Vancouver President Santa Ono, was already talking about those...
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The World's Greatest Challenge
The World’s Greatest Challenge brings key global players to its studio; bright minds who share their ideas about the future of our planet and society. Hear Nobel Prize Laureates, top entrepr...
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20 episodesEp. 18 - Ada Yonath – Unravelling the protein factory of life
How can you possibly interview an octogenarian, chemistry noble prize winner, who became the first woman after 45 years to win the prize for...
Ep. 17 - Anne Applebaum – Life after authoritarianism and the big virus
Anne Applebaum, influential and multi-awarded journalist and historian, has brought her ideas to us from the pages of The Economist, The Spe...
Ep. 16 - Thomas Friedman – Truth, trust, and adaptation for a post-Covid world
Thomas Friedman, one of the most acute, deep, and prolific journalists of our time, shares his views on some of the challenges we face in a...
Ep. 15 - Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens, Deus and the Power of Meditation
Yuval Noah Harari, author of some of the most influential books of the past decade that have sold close to 30 million copies, brings our att...
[Teaser] Season 3
The World’s Greatest Challenge brings key global players to its studio; bright minds who share their ideas about the future of our planet an...
Ep. 14 - Stephan Schuster – "The Mammoth, the Devil and the Bishop"
A world-class genomicist reveals how today's data-analyzing capabilities, matched with state-of-the-art genomics sequencing technologies is...
Ep. 13 - Arthur Brooks – Why loving your enemies is the best strategy to defeat them
Love is the antidote to the huge rifts between us created by a culture of contempt, fostered by divisive politicians and factionalized media...
Ep. 12 - Marion Reimers – Closing the divides that are ripping us apart
As million surprisingly watched, and many complained, one woman broke the paradigm in soccer as she became the first female sportscaster to...
Ep. 11 - David Turpin – Listening to students as the key to educate the next generation
As universities around the world realize the impending need to adapt and change to match the speed of a world that is surpassing them in the...
Ep. 10 - Kumar Wickramasinghe – Scientists can save the world…will we let them?
One of the world's authorities on nanotechnology believes that science has found answers to many of the most pressing problems. However, we...
Ep. 9 - Bertil Andersson – Why plants' stress affects the survival of our planet
A member of the Nobel Prize committee and outstanding plant scientist, explains how the combination of the way plants work and the investmen...
Ep. 8 - Emily Smith – Is meaning the cure to modernity's sense of emptiness?
In this age of abundance, there is more loneliness, emptiness and pain than ever. Is the lack of meaning the cause? Emily Smith, bestselling...
Ep. 7 - Neil Harbisson – The world's first cyborg explains human renaissance
Humans have experimented for centuries with technologies that boost our performance or supplant deficiencies that prevent us from leading co...
Ep. 6 - Caroline Miller – True Grit, the essence of resilience in a time of entitlement
Authentic grit, the kind that awes and inspires others, is the quality to be humble, resilient, persistent and do amazing things that incite...
Ep. 5 - Rose Lukin – How AI will enhance, not replace, our best teachers
A.I. is the thing nowadays. Everybody seems to be talking about it and, except for a few optimists, most are spelling doom for the labor mar...
Ep. 4 - Marina Gorbis – A positive view form the world's leading futurist
We have fantasized about the future and how it might be like since we became sapiens . Now imagine having that as your paid job and influenc...
Ep. 3 - Richie Davidson – Proven. Meditation changes our brain and mind for the better
Can meditation physically change your brain and how your mind works? Dr. Richie Davidson's ground-breaking work on neuroscience and meditati...
Ep. 2 - Raj Sisodia – Can we save capitalism? We can, with love and empathy…really?
Some say capitalism is dead, or at least on its way out; Raj Sisodia, an inspiring thinker and evangelist of Conscious Capitalism, proves th...
Ep. 1 - Carl Wieman – Why a Nobel Prize laureate in physics worries about the planet
Discovering a Bose-Einstein Bossom is not the kind of thing you do in your basement lab. That is why Dr. Carl Wieman got a Nobel Prize for i...