I talk with intellectual historian Stefanos Geroulanos about the stories we tell ourselves about our prehistoric humanity.

I talk with computer scientist Leslie Valiant about learning and educability in computers and people.

Ask Me Anything episode for April 2024.

I talk with physicist Claudia de Rham about cosmologically interesting ways to modify Einstein's theory of general relativity.

I think through some of the ways that technology is changing the world, exploring the possibility of an upcoming singularity marking the shift to a new equilibrium of human existence.

I talk with Sahar Heydari Fard about viewing social change through the lens of complex-systems theory.

Ask Me Anything episode for March 2024.

I talk with physicist Matt Strassler about fundamental physics and the ways that we often talk about it.

I talk with historian Benjamin Breen about Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and their involvement with psychedelics.

I talk with physicist/biologist Chris Adami about how to use information theory to understand biology.

Monthly Ask Me Anything episode.

I talk with sociologist John Skrentny about how the post-graduation careers of STEM majors aren't generally what they were led to expect.

I talk with planetary scientist Sabine Stanley about how we know what's inside planets in the Solar System and elsewhere.

I talk with physicist Chris Quigg about how the Standard Model of particle physics came to be.

I talk with philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel about how and why the universe seems irreducibly weird to us.

I talk with nuclear astrophysicist Sanjana Curtis about the origin of the chemical elements.

Talking about liquid brains and other novel architectures.

A holiday reflection on the physics and humanity of living forever.

I talk with astrophysicist Adam Frank about what extraterrestrial life might be like.

Ask Me Anything episode for December 2023.

Solo episode on the differences between how large language models think and how we do.

I talk with menswear writer Derek Guy about clothes and how we choose to wear them.

I discuss the prospects for human settlements in space with Kelly and Zach Weinersmith.

Ask Me Anything episode for November 2023.