Episodes

Suggests watching the Amy Jo Kim interview to become serious about game dynamics.

@DenisM +40 more

#1001 The 1,000 interview celebration

Startup Stories - Mixergy · Apr 9, 2014

with Amy Jo Kim , Shai Reshef , Jeff Slobotski , Paul Singh , Jon Staenberg , Tobi , Victoria Ransom , Avinash Kaushik , Kevin Hale , Todd Garland , Rafael Corrales , Jason Jacobs , Rand Fishkin , Naval Ravikant , Tom Rossi , Ben Milne , Ephren Taylor , MJ DeMarco , David Friend , Dan Shapiro , Clay Johnson , Oren Klaff , Sean Harper , Nick O'Neill , Chopra , Trevor Ginn , Paul Graham , Dane Maxwell , Andon , Hiten Shah , Josh Reich , Roger Dickey , Tom Preston-Werner , Michael Evans , Taso Du Val , Paras Chopra , Chris MacAskill

Speaking of SQLite, this CoRecursive podcast a few days ago was enjoyable.

@elwell +29 more

Tech Talk: Modern Systems Programming And Scala Native With Richard Whaling

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Feb 22, 2019 · 53m

with Richard Hipp , Richard Feldman , D. Richard Hipp

Planet Money did a good story on how the dealership system works... Still worth it for background learning.

@joezydeco +19 more

Why is everyone buying gold?

The Indicator from Planet Money · Oct 1, 2025 · 9m

An interesting interview this week on Econtalk about price transparency.

@greggman2 +18 more

Keith Smith on Free Market Health Care

EconTalk · Nov 18, 2019 · 1h 23m

with Keith Smith , Marty Makary, Keith Smith

Planet Money recently did a really great show about ISP routing power in the US vs. other countries, and what led to those decisions. Worth a listen.

@endersshadow +15 more

New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast

The Indicator from Planet Money · Jul 19, 2026 · 3m

99% Invisible did a pretty good episode on the cockpit automation problem discussed above.

@morb +14 more

Children of the Magenta (Automation Paradox, pt. 1)

99% Invisible · Jun 24, 2015 · 28m

Ezra Klein's interview with Cal Newport, author of "Deep Work," is a great listen on the importance of focused attention on hard problems.

@colmvp +14 more

Coming Soon: The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show · Jan 13, 2021 · 2m

with Cal Newport , Johann Hari , Jerusalem Demsas , Noam Chomsky , Chris Miller , Jennifer Pahlka , Leslie Kean , Zeynep Tufekci , Annie Lowrey , Vivek Ramaswamy , Jia Tolentino , Ta-Nehisi Coates , Alex Bores

Listen to Acquired's TSMC episode for context on how hard chip innovation is.

@kulor +14 more

TSMC

Acquired · Sep 7, 2021 · 2h 21m

For some extra dialog, this was touched on in the latest Planet Money podcast, linked as a follow-up.

@zacharypinter +13 more

Does Planet Money’s game pass the shelf test? We go undercover to find out

The Indicator from Planet Money · Sep 3, 2026 · 9m

Carmack talks a lot about fission in a recent Lex Fridman episode, a good listen for anyone into this.

@mslupski1 +12 more

#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets

Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 4, 2022 · 5h 22m

with John Carmack

This provides some interesting perspective in wage gaps

@DINKDINK +11 more

232. The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap

Freakonomics Radio · Jan 7, 2016 · 43m

with Claudia Goldin , A female statistics professor from Harvard

Here's a Radiolab podcast about the tech they can use to capture people off the grid.

@jomtung +11 more

Eye in the Sky

Radiolab · Jun 18, 2015 · 28m

with Ross McNutt

The great 99% Invisible episode "The Modern Moloch" covers how a marketing campaign created the concept of jaywalking and shifted responsibility onto pedestrians.

@icebraining +11 more

The Modern Moloch

99% Invisible · Apr 4, 2013 · 21m

Recent Darknet Diaries episodes cover CitizenLab interviews, how NSO works, Black Cube, and the Argentine exploit market.

@jcstauffer +11 more

100: NSO

Darknet Diaries · Aug 31, 2021 · 1h 09m

with John Scott-Railton

Interesting Planet Money episode about ticket scalping, linking Episode 468: Kid Rock vs. the Scalpers.

@celias +10 more

Coyote vs. Acme finally gets its big break

The Indicator from Planet Money · Aug 27, 2026 · 9m

Many folks here like CGP Grey's video "Humans Need Not Apply", but watch it alongside his newer "The Rules for Rulers".

@dfabulich +10 more

H.I. #94: Video of Meaninglessness

Hello Internet · Dec 22, 2017

Might shed some light on your question.

@gress +9 more

How to Become Batman

Invisibilia · Jan 23, 2015 · 56m

with Daniel Kish

Arguments are thought-provoking in longer-form media; recommends the lengthy Ezra Klein interview as an alternative to the dumb article.

@tptacek +9 more

The End of Trumpism

The Ezra Klein Show · Nov 4, 2026 · 50m

with Arthur Cooke , Will Wilkinson , Tyler Cowen , Lisa Feldman Barrett , Nicholas Carr , Robert Sapolsky , Johann Hari , Katharina Pistor , Jesse Jenkins

I enjoyed Thiel on The Portal; many small ideas, like technological stagnation compared to decades ago, were really interesting.

@josephg +9 more

1: Peter Thiel

The Portal · Jul 17, 2019 · 2h 53m

with Peter Thiel

The Revolutions podcast devoted 19 episodes this year to the Haitian revolution, with coffee plantations and 1825 reparations central to the story.

@icebraining +9 more

7.13- The Spectre of The French Revolution

Revolutions · Oct 16, 2017 · 28m

Naval Ravikant expresses this very lucidly on the podcast.

@anm89 +8 more

#1309 - Naval Ravikant

The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 4, 2019 · 2h 15m

with Naval Ravikant

This American Life's "Pandora's Box" episode is very eye opening, showing a modern pig farm as disturbing as described.

@wanderr +8 more

Bonus: Nancy's Deep Cuts

This American Life · Jul 17, 2025 · 26m

Radiolab has a new episode called "Rhino Hunter" about hunting as conservation funding and whether killing an individual can benefit the species. Highly recommended at about 50 minutes.

@dacohenii +8 more

The Rhino Hunter

Radiolab · May 27, 2021 · 52m

with A man who paid to hunt a black rhino (unnamed in comment)

Edit: Hear a recent Radiolab episode on the topic (Antibodies, Part 1: CRISPR).

@zt +8 more

Antibodies Part 1: CRISPR

Radiolab · Jun 6, 2015 · 30m

An excellent Radiolab episode on "Colors" with the stunning revelation that you can't see a color you can't name.

@ChuckMcM +8 more

Colors

Radiolab · May 21, 2012 · 1h 06m

Listen to the recent Joe Rogan podcast with Tim Pool, Jack Dorsey, and Vijaya Gadde for quite a few examples.

@jerkstate +8 more

#1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool

The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 5, 2019 · 3h 29m

with Tim Pool, Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde , Jack Dorsey , Jack Dorsey and Tim Pool , Jack Dorsey, Tim Pool , Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde , Vijaya Gadde

A recent EconTalk episode covers the history of this type of system in depth.

@driverdan +8 more

Christy Ford Chapin on the Evolution of the American Health Care System

EconTalk · Jun 5, 2017 · 1h 05m

with Christy Ford , Christy Ford Chapin , Christy Ford Chen , John Horgan, Christy Ford Chapin, Michael Munger

Very worthy your time listening to this guy if you are interested in the topic.

@soneca +8 more

Sam Quinones on Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and Dreamland

EconTalk · Jan 23, 2017 · 1h 09m

with Sam Quinones

The recent Radiolab episode covers the rapamycin inventor who seemingly cured his late-stage cancer, then stopped the drug and died of it.

@msolujic +7 more

The Dirty Drug and the Ice Cream Tub

Radiolab · May 21, 2021 · 46m

The commenter calls this Freakonomics episode a nice overview of research showing advertising's sales impact is much smaller than industry claims.

@oli5679 +7 more

441. Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 2: Digital)

Freakonomics Radio · Nov 26, 2020 · 48m

A great Reply All episode about this; Facebook-focused, but many points would apply to Google.

@tekromancr +7 more

#109 Is Facebook Spying on You?

Reply All · Nov 2, 2017 · 32m

with PJ Vogt

Malcolm Gladwell's recent Revisionist History episode on how McDonald's was bullied or tricked into ruining its french fries.

@tcj_phx +7 more

McDonald’s Broke My Heart

Revisionist History · Aug 10, 2017 · 34m

Radiolab is one of the best podcasts out there and it's certainly worth a listen if you've never heard it before.

@rlivsey +7 more

Radiolab Presents: On the Media: Busted, America's Poverty Myths

Radiolab · Jan 18, 2017 · 33m

with Ryan Wash

Matthew Walker's JRE episode offers fascinating insights into sleep and why it is essential for health and longevity; highly recommended.

@quickpost +7 more

#1109 - Matthew Walker

The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 25, 2018 · 1h 59m

with Matthew Walker

The latest EconTalk interviews the author of a book on anticompetitive behavior and patent system abuse. Well worth a listen.

@vosper +7 more

Robin Feldman on Drug Patents, Generics, and Drug Wars

EconTalk · Jun 26, 2017 · 1h 05m

with Robin Feldman

Jeff Shrager, the Eliza site's author, discusses the Eliza program on this CoRecursive episode.

@MarkSweep +7 more

Story: The History and Mystery Of Eliza

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Jul 5, 2022 · 44m

with Jeff Shrager

Listened to an episode where they interview one of the contractors that worked on this project.

@gnatman +7 more

47: Project Raven

Darknet Diaries · Sep 17, 2019 · 1h 01m

Do yourself a favor and listen to this week's episode ("The Wrong Guy") for clear examples of the book's issues.

@MrFoof +7 more

Episode 42: 42: The Wrong Guy

Hypercritical · Nov 11, 2011 · 1h 15m

Worth hearing: Tyler Cowen and a Princeton prof debate whether Obama's bailout is the closest real test of Keynes.

@llimllib +6 more

900: Talk Me Into It

This American Life · Nov 2, 2026 · 1h 01m

with Tyler Cowen , Piers Anthony

Freakonomics' "Why Rent Control Doesn't Work" episode covers how a wealthy tenant paid $355/month for a rarely used 6-bedroom apartment.

@baron816 +6 more

373. Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work

Freakonomics Radio · Apr 4, 2019 · 48m

A great 99% Invisible episode on Sears kit houses that arrived by rail car and were assembled months later.

@djsumdog +6 more

The House that Came in the Mail

99% Invisible · Sep 11, 2018 · 32m

This Radiolab episode is highly relevant to the question of how global platforms handle conflicting values.

@vagab0nd +6 more

Post No Evil

Radiolab · Aug 17, 2018 · 1h 08m

99PI's coverage of forest fire policy and design was really provocative

@brownbat +6 more

Built to Burn

99% Invisible · Aug 1, 2018 · 31m

There is a great Freakonomics episode on exactly that, about how people don't like buying stuff via auctions.

@mertd +6 more

311. Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?

Freakonomics Radio · Dec 7, 2017 · 47m

Freakonomics did a great story on maintenance last October.

@SN76477 +6 more

263. In Praise of Maintenance

Freakonomics Radio · Oct 20, 2016 · 41m

Radiolab did an episode that talks about some of the things they do, including fungal networks that help forests survive warming.

@filoeleven +6 more

From Tree to Shining Tree

Radiolab · Jul 30, 2016 · 32m

The 99% Invisible episode 'Structural Integrity' covers that story a bit, if you're interested.

@malcolmwhy +6 more

Structural Integrity

99% Invisible · Apr 15, 2014 · 23m

with Diane Hartley

Great listen overall; Karpathy expands quite a bit on the same perspective.

@jcims +6 more

#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 29, 2022 · 3h 33m

with Andrej Karpathy , Yan Le Cun; Andrej Karpathy , Karpathy , Andrej

Lex Fridman just did a great podcast episode with Brendan Eich. Lots of great little tidbits of history in the conversation.

@jcims +6 more

#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave

Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 12, 2021 · 3h 04m

with Brendan Eich

Lex Fridman interviewed him as well and that was pretty detailed.

@subsubzero +6 more

#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering

Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 8, 2020 · 3h 56m

with David Fravor , Commander David Fravor , Commander Fravor

There's a nice Econtalk on 'price gouging' that talks at length on this subject.

@wjnc +6 more

Michael Munger on Price Gouging

EconTalk · Jan 8, 2007 · 1h 00m

with Munger , Charlie Munger , Mike Munger

Ron used Lisp to compile Lisp code to machine code for embedded spacecraft systems; the linked episode tells the full story.

@michaelanckaert +6 more

Story: LISP in Space

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · May 2, 2022 · 38m

with Ron Garret

Highly recommends episode 97, a harassment campaign to take a valuable Instagram handle.

@flipstone +6 more

97: The Pizza Problem

Darknet Diaries · Jul 20, 2021 · 45m

There was a pretty good Planet Money podcast with him a couple of years ago.

@cromulent +5 more

The Strait of Hormuz no-fee, China cuts down on pollution and IMAX's economic Odyssey

The Indicator from Planet Money · Jul 17, 2026 · 10m

Recommends the latest Reply All episode, about the Wisconsin town that "won" the Foxconn factory, as a sad, frustrating story.

@Jgrubb +5 more

#132 Negative Mount Pleasant

Reply All · Dec 6, 2018 · 1h 00m

Quite the eye-opener on how economic interests blind us to the impact football has on players.

@pseudolus +5 more

Burden of Proof

Revisionist History · May 24, 2018 · 33m

Points readers to the relevant Radiolab episode on alpha-gal, a tick-borne meat allergy.

@novia +5 more

Alpha Gal

Radiolab · Oct 27, 2016 · 34m

Revisionist History's episode on this explains that brakes can easily stop an engine at full throttle.

@kbenson +5 more

Blame Game

Revisionist History · Aug 4, 2016 · 37m

Recent Radiolab episode on this subject, linked here.

@rjtavares +5 more

KILL 'EM ALL

Radiolab · Mar 25, 2014 · 21m

An excellent 99% Invisible episode covers the analogous thing that happened to the Red Car in Los Angeles.

@evanb +5 more

The Great Red Car Conspiracy

99% Invisible · Jan 11, 2013 · 12m

Recommends a Freakonomics podcast on the upside of quitting as illuminating, in agreement that sometimes cutting losses beats persisting.

@polymath21 +5 more

42. The Upside of Quitting

Freakonomics Radio · Sep 28, 2011 · 56m

There was an excellent episode of Radiolab about this subject. If you have the time or inclination to listen to an hour long podcast, I highly recommend "Words".

@TravisLS +5 more

Words

Radiolab · Aug 9, 2010 · 57m

Jump to 30 minutes for Jim Keller discussing Moore's law and his interpretation of it.

@NortySpock +5 more

Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles

Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 5, 2020 · 1h 35m

with Jim Keller , Keller

An excellent EconTalk episode discusses dematerialization as commerce and activity move online.

@vsskanth +5 more

Andrew McAfee on More from Less

EconTalk · Oct 14, 2019 · 1h 34m

with Andrew McAfee , Andrew McAfee, Margaret Atwood

Asks whether the reader has watched the latest David Fravor interview on Joe Rogan's show, with a link.

@maxharris +5 more

#1361 - Cmdr. David Fravor & Jeremy Corbell

The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 5, 2019 · 1h 58m

with David Fravor , David Fravor, Jeremy Corbell , Cmdr. David Fravor, Jeremy Corbell

Commenter says the Ronald Coase EconTalk episode on externalities, the firm, and economics is well worth the time.

@casca +5 more

Ronald Coase on Externalities, the Firm, and the State of Economics

EconTalk · May 21, 2012 · 1h 00m

with Ronald Coase

Episode on Zstandard's history and how Facebook let Yann Collet fully open source it.

@wirthjason +5 more

Story: From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · May 2, 2023 · 59m

with Yann Collet

Darknet Diaries has a cool episode about the dark cellphone industry.

@nefitty +5 more

105: Secret Cells

Darknet Diaries · Nov 23, 2021 · 1h 10m

I quite liked The Changelog's interview with him too, linked as episode 201.

@mercer +5 more

Richard Hipp returns (Changelog Interviews #454)

Changelog Master Feed · Aug 19, 2021 · 1h 26m

with Richard Hipp , Richard , Mr. Hipp (creator of SQLite)

Excellent On The Metal podcast; Jonathan Blow makes the point that Unix/shell has no type safety.

@angry_octet +5 more

Jonathan Blow

On The Metal · Jan 27, 2020 · 2h 51m

with Jonathan Blow , Johnathon Blow

I highly recommend On the Metal, with great interviews. This episode in particular was amazing.

@rhinoceraptor +5 more

Kenneth Finnegan

On The Metal · Jan 6, 2020 · 1h 05m

with Kenneth Finnegan

Episode 7/8 on hacking online video games explains why application security and input validation matter.

@34c13 +5 more

9: The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox

Darknet Diaries · Dec 15, 2017 · 28m

with Jayson E. Street

A great episode worth the listen for those interested in Chris Lattner's views on Swift adoption at Apple.

@jamesk_au +5 more

205: People Don’t Use the Weird Parts

Accidental Tech Podcast · Jan 18, 2017 · 2h 18m

with Chris Lattner , Chris

Highly recommended for physics fans who want more technical discussion than usual physics podcasts; includes a long Wolfram episode.

@ddeck +5 more

155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Jul 12, 2021 · 2h 40m

with Stephen Wolfram

Mine was Fall of Civilizations Episode 12, about the Inca empire.

@hnu0847 +2 more

12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud

Fall of Civilizations Podcast · Jan 12, 2021 · 3h 20m

If anyone wants to know what actually chapter 11 bankruptcy is, this podcast from the NPR Planet Money team has lots of information.

@neerajdotname2 +4 more

Is bankruptcy really all that bad?

The Indicator from Planet Money · Aug 20, 2026 · 9m

Recent Planet Money podcasts on how recycling got started in the US, and whether it's 'worth it' to recycle.

@rconti +4 more

Why we're short on blood, water and helium

The Indicator from Planet Money · Aug 4, 2026 · 9m

NPR's Planet Money had a show about Hutson and Pigeon.ly, well worth listening to.

@Erikun +4 more

What the movies teach us about recessions, memestocks and gold

The Indicator from Planet Money · May 27, 2026 · 9m

A recent Freakonomics episode on how a pencil gets made, and the millions of people involved, makes the case to tread carefully when fixing things.

@Laaw +4 more

An Economics Lesson from a Talking Pencil (Update)

Freakonomics Radio · Jun 11, 2025 · 39m

There was a good episode of Radiolab about her, and her family was deeply disturbed by the research.

@jokermatt999 +4 more

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Radiolab · Feb 21, 2025 · 34m

There's a great Radiolab episode about this: the Corpse Demon episode.

@jzl +4 more

Corpse Demon

Radiolab · Apr 21, 2023 · 31m

Listened to a great Reply All episode on SIM hijacking; it showed how easy and widespread the attack is.

@nicolaslem +4 more

#130 The Snapchat Thief

Reply All · Nov 8, 2018 · 1h 08m

99% Invisible did a great piece on the invention of air conditioning and its role in modern architecture.

@ortusdux +4 more

Thermal Delight

99% Invisible · Jan 17, 2018 · 28m

Radiolab did an episode about CRISPR recently, good for anyone wanting to learn more about CRISPR in general.

@timdeneau +4 more

Update: CRISPR

Radiolab · Feb 24, 2017 · 49m

with Jennifer Doudna

There was a 99% Invisible episode about this: War and Pizza.

@exhilaration +4 more

War and Pizza

99% Invisible · Oct 28, 2015 · 16m

A recent 99% Invisible episode covers how Victor Gruen exploited design effects in shopping mall layouts, the "Gruen transfer."

@tomkinstinch +4 more

The Gruen Effect

99% Invisible · May 6, 2015 · 15m

Download the entire Radiolab set and listen in order, oldest to newest. If you want one to start with, try "Musical Language."

@strick +4 more

Musical Language

Radiolab · Sep 24, 2007 · 59m

Suggests the Zuckerberg interview with Lex Fridman as the place to hear his VR argument.

@SideQuark +4 more

#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse

Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 28, 2023 · 1h 12m

with Zuckerberg , Mark Zuckerberg

The best explanation I've heard of why we're seeing this dramatic change in quantity and behavior of the homeless.

@ajmurmann +4 more

Sam Quinones on Meth, Fentanyl, and the Least of Us

EconTalk · Oct 11, 2021 · 1h 22m

with Sam Quinones

An EconTalk episode discusses this idea: Donald Shoup on the economics of parking, linked as the source.

@azemetre +4 more

Donald Shoup on the Economics of Parking

EconTalk · Jun 14, 2021 · 1h 08m

with Donald Shoup

Prefers the EconTalk interview with the author over the book, and points to a transcript for readers.

@icebraining +4 more

David Epstein on Mastery, Specialization, and Range

EconTalk · May 27, 2019 · 1h 41m

with David Epstein

Economist Bryan Caplan has a very entertaining interview about this idea.

@jessriedel +4 more

Bryan Caplan on the Case Against Education

EconTalk · Feb 12, 2018 · 1h 11m

with Bryan Caplan

For more on ethics and algorithms, listen to the EconTalk podcast between the author and host Russ Roberts.

@Dowwie +4 more

Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction

EconTalk · Oct 3, 2016 · 1h 11m

with Cathy O'Neil

This concept was discussed on the EconTalk podcast, linked episode with Dan Pallotta on charity.

@j_s +4 more

Dan Pallotta on Charity and the Culture of the Non-Profit Sector

EconTalk · Jun 17, 2013 · 59m

with Dan Pallotta

A great 2009 EconTalk episode about what working at Walmart is like.

@seibelj +4 more

Charles Platt on Working at Wal-Mart

EconTalk · Jun 15, 2009 · 59m

with Platt

The Original Remote Developer episode was an absolute gem too.

@dkobia +4 more

Story: The Original Remote Developer

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Oct 4, 2021 · 41m

with Paul Lutus , Paul

Good podcast about Pony: how Wallaroo Labs used it for hard engineering problems, and how its actor runtime compared to Rust's at the time.

@mcintyre1994 +4 more

Story: Unproven Tech Case Study with Sean Allen

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Jun 10, 2020 · 39m

with Sean Allen

Just listened to the Darknet Diaries Courthouse podcast about the pentest gone wrong. Highly recommended.

@zenpaul +4 more

59: The Courthouse

Darknet Diaries · Feb 18, 2020 · 1h 25m

Well worth it: deeply knowledgeable, enthusiastic guests discussing the solar wind, the telescope, and several probes launched or due to launch.

@lifeisstillgood +4 more

In Our Time Returns for a New Series

In Our Time · Sep 7, 2026 · 2m

I especially enjoyed the episode on the first cities; I had no idea they were already so advanced and lasted for so many centuries.

@miltondts +4 more

8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities

Fall of Civilizations Podcast · Oct 25, 2019 · 2h 29m

Seriously once Andrew throws up the site on mixergy, you have to go watch it.

@vaksel +3 more

#990 Andrew’s process for overcoming entrepreneurial stagnation – with Samantha Alford

Startup Stories - Mixergy · Mar 10, 2014

with Andrew Fashion , Anne Holland , Team Wufoo , Andrew Gazdecki

Listen to the second segment of this episode; it argues the problem originates on Wall Street, not with liberals alone.

@neilk +3 more

489: No Coincidence, No Story!

This American Life · Oct 19, 2026 · 1h 00m

Yet, VW turned Audi around and made it into a luxury brand in the US. The Planet Money podcast covers a little more into how they did it.

@joezydeco +3 more

Can the internet be reclaimed from Big Tech?

The Indicator from Planet Money · Jun 3, 2026 · 9m

The Planet Money podcast discusses the most recent parts of the crisis as they unfold; hours of super depressing fun!

@jcdreads +3 more

It's come to this: Human certification in the age of AI slop

The Indicator from Planet Money · May 20, 2026 · 9m

The 99PI on towers of silence, regarding the same subject matter, was incredible.

@oatsandsugar +3 more

Towers of Silence

99% Invisible · Apr 23, 2024 · 1h 11m

99% Invisible just did an episode on this exact topic, linked directly as "First Errand."

@clintonb +3 more

First Errand

99% Invisible · Aug 30, 2022 · 28m

This week's 99% Invisible covers hanko stamps and how Nemawashi consensus gets recorded, including how someone can join consensus without being fully bought in.

@throw_away +3 more

Hanko

99% Invisible · Jul 20, 2021 · 39m

Great Radiolab podcast about the MIT discovery, linking to the "Bringing Gamma Back" episode.

@2xlbuds +3 more

Bringing Gamma Back, Again

Radiolab · Sep 11, 2020 · 36m

If you enjoyed this, you might also like Reply All's recent episode: Reply All #158: The Case of the Missing Hit

@Cenk +3 more

#158 The Case of the Missing Hit

Reply All · Mar 5, 2020 · 52m

"99% Invisible" episode 376, "Great Bitter Lake Association," a little Suez Crisis history and sailors who got bored enough to start a post office.

@nickloewen +3 more

Great Bitter Lake Association

99% Invisible · Oct 30, 2019 · 33m

This podcast episode on the Second Amendment was fascinating, discussing how US Courts' interpretation of the second amendment changed.

@4d66ba06 +3 more

Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Gun Show

Radiolab · Feb 23, 2018 · 1h 09m

There's a great and relevant Radiolab episode on the Commerce Clause and how segregation bans were justified economically.

@avar +3 more

Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - One Nation, Under Money

Radiolab · Jan 31, 2018 · 55m

A nice summary interview with Mark Bramhill, plus his 3-part podcast series on what it takes to make an emoji.

@ortusdux +3 more

Person in Lotus Position

99% Invisible · Aug 22, 2017 · 28m

with Mark Bramhill

You might be interested in his recent interview on Freakonomics: the "Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 1)" episode.

@ryandvm +3 more

292. Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 1)

Freakonomics Radio · Jun 22, 2017 · 44m

with Charles Koch

Good podcast about Prop 13 from Malcolm Gladwell, linking to the episode "A Good Walk Spoiled."

@gman83 +3 more

A Good Walk Spoiled

Revisionist History · Jun 15, 2017 · 34m

Commenter links the 2017 Freakonomics episode on America's lawn obsession and says they replaced grass with perennial mulched gardens.

@Dowwie +3 more

289. How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns?

Freakonomics Radio · Jun 1, 2017 · 28m

Filled with interesting bits from the history of industrial design and the dulcet tones of Roman Mars.

@brownbat +3 more

On Average

99% Invisible · Aug 23, 2016 · 17m

One episode of Revisionist History covers Cohen's "Hallelujah," which took him five years to get right, plus the Dylan anecdote. Worth it, with fun facts annotated.

@abuiles +3 more

Hallelujah

Revisionist History · Jul 28, 2016 · 36m

The Revisionist History podcast has two great episodes on the subject.

@DasIch +3 more

My Little Hundred Million

Revisionist History · Jul 21, 2016 · 39m

with John L. Hennessy

This story is also told in this great Radiolab episode about the Galapagos.

@superjan +3 more

Galapagos

Radiolab · Jul 17, 2014 · 1h 02m

I highly recommend this radiolab episode about it, for the story-telling if nothing else.

@arvinjoar +3 more

9-Volt Nirvana

Radiolab · Jun 26, 2014 · 24m

An excellent episode, and a really fun problem to discuss. The commenter thinks 99pi could become the "relevant XKCD" of podcasts.

@ehnto +3 more

Ten Thousand Years

99% Invisible · May 13, 2014 · 29m

Interesting coverage of the racism and sexism aspects of tipping in the episode.

@kbenson +3 more

129. Should Tipping be Banned?

Freakonomics Radio · Jun 3, 2013 · 37m

with Danny Meyer

The episode on "Emergence" will be of interest to people here as it pertains to wisdom of crowds/group think.

@caudicus +3 more

Emergence

Radiolab · Aug 14, 2007 · 57m

Elon Musk's entire podcast with Joe Rogan is an interesting listen, especially the parts where he talks about Neuralink and Mind Virus.

@amrrs +3 more

#2404 - Elon Musk

The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 31, 2025 · 3h 23m

with Elon Musk

Excellent episode on how elite-college success is trained, not innate, and why that doesn't make it best for you.

@eropple +3 more

About the Coming Paywall

The Ezra Klein Show · Oct 2, 2024 · 4m

with Daniel Markovits , Cal Newport , Thomas Piketty , Kelsey Piper; Tim Hwang

Lee Cronin talked about some of this on the Lex Fridman podcast recently.

@ssl232 +3 more

#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 9, 2023 · 3h 27m

with Lee Cronin

Lex Fridman gets to invite very interesting people, not just from AI research; favorites are Chris Lattner, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Jim Keller.

@mmxmb +3 more

#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2, 2023 · 3h 38m

with Chris Lattner, Bjarne Stroustrup, Jim Keller , Chris Lattner

Lex's cellular automata musings in the Michael Levin episode show the same fascination the commenter has, sparking a wish to put xenobots on the podcast.

@DonHopkins +3 more

#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots

Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 1, 2022 · 3h 05m

with Michael Levin

The Lex Fridman podcast interview with Jeff Hawkins is solid.

@adolph +3 more

#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 8, 2021 · 2h 25m

with Jeff Hawkins

Watched Joe Rogan's interview with defector Yeonmi Park; she explains how North Korea's language rules banned "I," making everyone say "we."

@LuisMondragon +3 more

#1691 - Yeonmi Park

The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 3, 2021 · 3h 17m

with Yeonmi Park

It's hard to listen to, but gives another perspective about this issue.

@adam791 +3 more

#213 — The Worst Epidemic

Making Sense with Sam Harris · Aug 4, 2020 · 2h 14m

with Gabriel Dance , Gabriel J.X. Dance

Not reading, but he just did a Joe Rogan podcast, linked here.

@Sinidir +3 more

#1342 - John Carmack

The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 28, 2019 · 2h 40m

with John Carmack

EconTalk from last week shed some light on the convoluted world of drug pricing and pharmaceutical patents.

@clarkmoody +3 more

Robin Feldman on Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes

EconTalk · Apr 8, 2019 · 1h 05m

with Robin Feldman

Here's the podcast for those interested, with lots of interesting discussion on automation and basic income.

@hanniabu +3 more

#1245 - Andrew Yang

The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 12, 2019 · 1h 56m

with Andrew Yang

The last EconTalk episode with the author of The Tyranny of Metrics covers the distinction between metrics for diagnostics and metrics for incentives.

@adolph +3 more

Jerry Muller on the Tyranny of Metrics

EconTalk · Apr 16, 2018 · 1h 04m

with Jerry Z. Muller , Jerry Muller

Cochrane's EconTalk episode makes the best case that regulation's type matters more than its quantity.

@ajmurmann +3 more

John Cochrane on Economic Growth and Changing the Policy Debate

EconTalk · Sep 26, 2016 · 1h 02m

with John Cochrane

there is an Econ Talk podcast about it as well

@spuz +3 more

David Mindell on Our Robots, Ourselves

EconTalk · Nov 30, 2015 · 59m

with David Mindell

Most of the world bans organ sales, but Iran allows them; the episode explains how that developed and how US donor chains work.

@eldavido +3 more

Tina Rosenberg on the Kidney Market in Iran

EconTalk · Sep 21, 2015 · 1h 01m

with Tina Rosenberg

Good discussion of megaprojects and why they fail.

@scarhill +3 more

Bent Flyvbjerg on Megaprojects

EconTalk · May 25, 2015 · 1h 04m

with Bent Flyvbjerg

This EconTalk episode does a good job explaining how the infrastructure costs American suburbs face now were not anticipated when they were built.

@w1ntermute +3 more

Charles Marohn on Strong Towns, Urban Development, and the Future of American Cities

EconTalk · May 12, 2014 · 1h 04m

with Charles Marohn

An economist studying this issue recommends the EconTalk episode on disability insurance, noting it covers the same problem as the story.

@ttcbj +3 more

David Autor on Disability

EconTalk · Apr 16, 2012 · 1h 01m

with Daron Acemoglu's co-author David Autor , David Autor , David Autor; Casey Mulligan

Listen to this podcast interview of Kaplan, he describes his new paper disputing that CEOs game pay by hiring each other.

@polyfractal +3 more

Steven Kaplan on the Inequality and the Top 1%

EconTalk · Nov 7, 2011 · 1h 06m

with Kaplan , Steven Kaplan

Here is a one-hour interview (audio) Paul Graham did with EconTalk on Startups.

@loganfrederick +3 more

Paul Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity

EconTalk · Aug 3, 2009 · 1h 02m

with Paul Graham

For those interested in the history of Costco, there is a great Acquired podcast episode.

@sea-gold +3 more

Costco

Acquired · May 2, 2026 · 2h 53m

You should listen to the latest episode of the Acquired podcast about Google.

@scarface_74 +3 more

Google Part III: The AI Company

Acquired · Oct 6, 2025 · 3h 56m

The Acquired episode on Visa's history covers how the credit card industry works, including specific numbers on who benefits from rewards cards.

@thundergolfer +3 more

Visa

Acquired · Nov 27, 2023 · 3h 36m

Makes a nice presentation about the landscape at the time and why it was called JavaScript.

@adm_ +3 more

Story: JSON vs XML

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Apr 3, 2023 · 49m

with Douglas Crockford

Just heard this one the other day. Here's the episode from anyone interested.

@jjice +3 more

The episode formerly known as ℔

Oxide and Friends · Aug 24, 2021 · 1h 06m

Shares the CoRecursive episode "The Untold Story of SQLite" with Richard Hipp, along with a transcription.

@cpeterso +3 more

Story: The Untold Story of SQLite

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Jul 2, 2021 · 38m

with Richard Hipp , Son Luong Ngoc; Richard Hipp

Guest Conor Hoekstra has a fascinating take on APL, even though the episode itself is about something else.

@papito +3 more

Story: From Competitive Programming to APL

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Jun 2, 2021 · 53m

with Conor Hoekstra

If you are interested in a more detailed story, listen to this Darknet Diaries interview with one of the co-founders of PirateBay.

@radmuzom +3 more

92: The Pirate Bay

Darknet Diaries · May 11, 2021 · 1h 43m

with One of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay

Listen to the CoRecursive episode on The Little Typer and Pie for a good explanation of recursion, plus a good recursion joke at the start.

@mbrudd +3 more

Tech Talk: The Little Typer With Daniel Friedman and David Thrane Christiansen

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Dec 1, 2018 · 1h 07m

with David and Felipe

The linked Mixergy extract is very good though.

@swombat +3 more

#710 iContact Founder Returns To Mixergy After $169M Sale – with Ryan Allis

Startup Stories - Mixergy · Apr 9, 2012

with Sridhar Vembu , Michael Ellsberg

Useful insight from those very deep in the weeds, to center our understanding of the Jobs biography.

@ghshephard +3 more

Episode 11: 11: I Am the Steve Jobs of This Sandwich

Hypercritical · Mar 25, 2011 · 1h 18m

The latest Behind the Bastards episode explores how rent got so high, if you have the time and inclination to listen.

@ynx +3 more

Part One: Why is the Rent So Damn High?

Behind the Bastards · Nov 8, 2022 · 1h 00m

The BBC's In Our Time did an episode on Doggerland some years back, with a direct link to it.

@gorm +3 more

Doggerland

In Our Time · Jun 27, 2019 · 54m

Check out The Fall Of Civilizations podcast: it's great and also has an episode on this topic.

@tga +3 more

4. The Greenland Vikings - Land of the Midnight Sun

Fall of Civilizations Podcast · Mar 24, 2019 · 1h 22m

Listed as a favorite 2023 episode: "Solo: The Crisis in Physics" on Sean Carroll's Mindscape.

@freetonik +3 more

245 | Solo: The Crisis in Physics

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Jul 31, 2023 · 4h 22m

Step-by-step interview on when and how to launch a company and solicit effective feedback; launch imperfect and refine.

@oliviakuhn +2 more

#2307 Eric Ries: Why Anthropic Won and How To Build Incurruptible companies

Startup Stories - Mixergy · May 30, 2026

with Nelson , Hiten Shah , Jerome Breche

Listened to this falling asleep in my hammock on a backpacking trip for a week, amazing.

@xref +2 more

Sick of It All: How One Queens Hardcore Band Ran the New York Engine for Three Decades

The History of Punk Rock Podcast: Bands, Scenes, Hardcore, DIY Culture, Record Labels, Clubs, and Punk Music History · Oct 13, 2026 · 13m

I used to think the same thing, until I listened to this episode of Darknet Diaries.

@jdorfman +1 more

93: Kik

Darknet Diaries · May 25, 2021 · 1h 31m

Tim Ferriss with Naval Ravikant, recommended for people interested in business, philosophy, and self-improvement.

@arikr +1 more

#473: Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy

The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 15, 2020 · 2h 01m

with Naval Ravikant

Planet Money did an excellent podcast on how this phenomenon played out in Kansas City with corporations like Applebee's, and cost the city millions.

@bduerst +2 more

Could politics put your city's funding at risk?

The Indicator from Planet Money · Aug 24, 2026 · 8m

Found this Planet Money episode pretty helpful on where the Fed gets its money and how inflation fits in.

@gen3 +2 more

We're in a renter's market (believe it or not)

The Indicator from Planet Money · Jul 7, 2026 · 9m

NYT's The Daily discussed this in response to Parkland. I found it to be quite insightful.

@save_ferris +2 more

The Most American Episode of The Daily, Ever.

The Daily · Jul 5, 2026 · 43m

Planet Money had a fascinating podcast on how trade deals are made, using NAFTA as the example.

@Erikun +2 more

Why Trump wants to rip up his own trade deal

The Indicator from Planet Money · Jul 1, 2026 · 9m

NPR's Planet Money recently did a great episode on Netflix's work culture, offering a more nuanced, less flattering perspective.

@throwaway39201 +2 more

Inflation is bad, work from home sad, FIFA World Cup tix NOT deal to be had

The Indicator from Planet Money · Jun 12, 2026 · 9m

with Patty McCord

The Daily podcast's series on it seemed like a good introduction

@colinhb +2 more

Daniel Radcliffe, Mariska Hargitay and the Happiest List on Earth

The Daily · Apr 26, 2026 · 41m

Planet Money went through all the steps to get a small private satellite into orbit. Very interesting.

@mr_isomies +2 more

We're about to lose a lot of foreign STEM workers

The Indicator from Planet Money · Sep 30, 2025 · 9m

with The owner of milk.com

Freakonomics interviewed Dan Wang about his book Breakneck; it's a very interesting lens through which to view both societies, worth a listen.

@cholmon +2 more

647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.

Freakonomics Radio · Sep 19, 2025 · 1h 01m

with Dan Wang

There's a Planet Money podcast covering how the ratings agencies came to be and how they got their legal significance. Interesting story.

@MartinCron +2 more

We read your mail on AI-proof jobs and how to fix crime labs

The Indicator from Planet Money · Sep 11, 2025 · 8m

with Barbara Franklin

Freakonomics had a couple of related episodes, including one on whether to trust private equity with your dog's care.

@penguin_booze +2 more

531. Should You Trust Private Equity to Take Care of Your Dog?

Freakonomics Radio · Jan 19, 2023 · 42m

Freakonomics did an episode asking "Is Google Getting Worse?", and Google actually participated in it.

@Jakawao +2 more

522. Is Google Getting Worse?

Freakonomics Radio · Nov 17, 2022 · 53m

Also, there was a recent episode of 99PI that explores this area.

@totetsu +2 more

Alphabetical Order

99% Invisible · Dec 1, 2021 · 31m

99% Invisible has a recent episode on abandoned ships, and sailors get stranded far more often than you'd expect.

@jschveibinz +2 more

Abandoned Ships

99% Invisible · May 4, 2021 · 28m

Radiolab did a fantastic episode about the zcash creation ceremony.

@matt_the_bass +2 more

The Ceremony

Radiolab · Feb 25, 2021 · 47m

Go listen to the latest season of the Series podcast, or the Reply All episodes about the police in NYC.

@kenjackson +2 more

A Message from the Staff of Reply All

Reply All · Feb 25, 2021 · 2m

Freakonomics has an episode with one of the authors that summarizes the thread's discourse, and it does a good job of the economist's ROI view and the advertiser's view.

@sheepybloke +2 more

440. Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 1: TV)

Freakonomics Radio · Nov 19, 2020 · 37m

Recently listened to a Radiolab episode with Hany Farid. Pretty interesting thinking about the gap between what is possible now and where people's understanding is.

@tunaoftheland +2 more

Breaking News

Radiolab · Nov 19, 2019 · 49m

with Hany Farid

99pi episode "Built on Sand" covers mass timber, aka CLT, construction.

@floatingatoll +2 more

Built on Sand

99% Invisible · Jul 9, 2019 · 36m

Recommends Reply All's episode on dark patterns to learn how TurboTax funnels filers into paid products.

@gringoDan +2 more

#144 Dark Pattern

Reply All · Jun 27, 2019 · 33m

Gladwell's LSAT podcast episode is pretty good, arguing that what the test measures isn't very useful.

@criddell +2 more

The Tortoise and the Hare

Revisionist History · Jun 27, 2019 · 38m

Great 99% Invisible episode on urban squirrels: their history in American cities and the havoc they cause to infrastructure.

@gavman +2 more

Uptown Squirrel

99% Invisible · May 1, 2019 · 30m

There's a really great Radiolab episode on this topic: radiolab.org/story/fu-go

@paulsef11 +2 more

Fu-Go

Radiolab · Apr 25, 2019 · 35m

Points readers to a recent Reply All episode on robocalls, the "Robocall Conundrum," as a follow-up to the thread's complaint about constant spam calls.

@jonny_eh +2 more

#135 Robocall: Bang Bang

Reply All · Jan 31, 2019 · 44m

This episode shows how hard it is to identify fake reviews and what sellers do to fake them. Really interesting.

@leoalves +2 more

#124 The Magic Store

Reply All · Jul 13, 2018 · 35m

Semi-related, this recent Radiolab episode on Anne Adams, Ravel's "Bolero," and how it may have been an early symptom of a deadly disease.

@js2 +2 more

Unraveling Bolero

Radiolab · May 22, 2018 · 27m

with Arbie Orenstein; Bruce Miller; Robert Adams

I'd recommend listening to this Reply All podcast episode specifically about the child protection act that passed shortly after Backpage was taken down.

@djsumdog +2 more

#119 No More Safe Harbor

Reply All · Apr 20, 2018 · 28m

Freakonomics just did an episode on this study, interviewing 3 of the 5 study authors.

@oflannabhra +2 more

317. What Can Uber Teach Us About the Gender Pay Gap?

Freakonomics Radio · Feb 6, 2018 · 42m

Their most recent episode, "Nurses to the Rescue," features a topic the commenter found prominent enough to link.

@MBCook +2 more

309. Nurses to the Rescue!

Freakonomics Radio · Nov 16, 2017 · 57m

You should listen to the latest episodes of Reply All; they investigate one of those tech support call centers, with a part two too.

@QuotedForTruth +2 more

#103 Long Distance, Part II

Reply All · Aug 3, 2017 · 45m

This was a good podcast on active vs passive investing.

@jedberg +2 more

297. The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money

Freakonomics Radio · Jul 27, 2017 · 48m

Listening to Gladwell's Revisionist History episode changed their view of the British colonial record in India.

@DoubleCribble +2 more

The Prime Minister and the Prof

Revisionist History · Jul 13, 2017 · 34m

Gladwell makes a strong argument that failing to integrate teachers caused a large part of the failure, so the episode is worth hearing.

@boomboomsubban +2 more

Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment

Revisionist History · Jun 29, 2017 · 30m

The latest Freakonomics podcast addressed this issue as well, in its Bad Medicine part 3 episode on death diagnosis.

@turbulents +2 more

270. Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis

Freakonomics Radio · Dec 15, 2016 · 48m

Its a great listen if anyone is interested more about the 'H-Day' switchover.

@failedartifact +2 more

H-Day

99% Invisible · Jun 7, 2016 · 15m

The Freakonomics podcast recently had 2 interesting episodes about exactly this. Both Ericsson and Gladwell explain their theories.

@janvdberg +2 more

245. Being Malcolm Gladwell

Freakonomics Radio · May 2, 2016 · 28m

with Malcolm Gladwell, Anders Ericsson , Anders Ericsson, Malcolm Gladwell

A very interesting Freakonomics episode on payday loans showed the issue is more than just black or white.

@sundvor +2 more

241. Are Payday Loans Really as Evil as People Say?

Freakonomics Radio · Apr 7, 2016 · 49m

There is also an interesting 99% Invisible episode about this: The Fresno Drop.

@janvdberg +2 more

The Fresno Drop

99% Invisible · Jan 20, 2016 · 13m

The Reply All podcast had a pretty interesting episode on this recently.

@blairbeckwith +2 more

#44 Shine On You Crazy Goldman

Reply All · Nov 3, 2015 · 39m

Covers how barbed wire already strung for Texas longhorns made phone service easier than running new cable.

@HeyLaughingBoy +2 more

Devil’s Rope

99% Invisible · Mar 18, 2015 · 20m

irishcoffee, you should listen to this

@gsk +2 more

Entanglement

Invisibilia · Jan 30, 2015 · 56m

Praises 99pi's production quality and crisp, high-content format, and calls its recent Engelbart episode fascinating.

@gshrikant +2 more

Of Mice And Men

99% Invisible · Jan 21, 2015 · 17m

Suggests this Freakonomics episode on whether a big bucket of cash changes your life, plus lottery winner experiences.

@horv +2 more

139. Would a Big Bucket of Cash Really Change Your Life?

Freakonomics Radio · Sep 26, 2013 · 27m

Learned about this via a Radiolab episode; calls it an interesting listen.

@earless1 +2 more

Rodney Versus Death

Radiolab · Aug 13, 2013 · 30m

Freakonomics did a good podcast on suicide that partly addresses the question by looking at why suicide is rare in some cultures.

@scott_s +2 more

40. The Suicide Paradox

Freakonomics Radio · Aug 31, 2011 · 56m

There's a fantastic episode of Radio Lab with a story about HeLa cells, covering how the cell line is air-infectious.

@nmrm2 +2 more

Famous Tumors

Radiolab · May 17, 2010 · 57m

Radiolab covered this in its "Parasites" episode; listen to the "The Scratch" segment, though the whole thing is worth it.

@spacemanaki +2 more

Parasites

Radiolab · Sep 7, 2009 · 57m

Ezra Klein has a nice interview on the subject

@ndynan +2 more

Elon Musk’s Endgame

The Ezra Klein Show · Oct 30, 2026 · 1h 11m

with Leslie Kean , C.T. Nguyen

One interesting point made here is that the cost of turbines puts a floor price on any form of generation which uses them

@RobinL +2 more

China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

Dwarkesh Podcast · Aug 15, 2025 · 1h 08m

with Casey Handmer

Worth hearing for Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer on whether publishing transformer research was a mistake, and how Google decides what to keep private.

@sosodev +2 more

Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Dwarkesh Podcast · Feb 12, 2025 · 2h 14m

with Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer , Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat , Noam Shazeer and Jeff Dean

Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin on JRE is a much better watch/listen than the summit talk.

@samstave +2 more

#2076 - Aza Raskin & Tristan Harris

The Joe Rogan Experience · Dec 19, 2023 · 2h 35m

with Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin , Aza Raskin & Tristan Harris , Aza Raskin and Tristan Harris

Aside from Huberman Lab, I would say the Lex Fridman Climate Change Debate episode is worth hearing.

@sanman811 +2 more

#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Lex Fridman Podcast · Nov 18, 2022 · 4h 16m

with Fiona Hill, Bjorn Lomborg, Andrew Revkin, Ray Kurzweil , Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

The Tony Fadell interview was also interesting, a great review of the history of iPod and iPhone and his work at Nest.

@yardie +2 more

#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest

Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 15, 2022 · 2h 52m

with Tony Fadell

I'd recommend listening to his interview with Lex Fridman.

@ephbit +2 more

#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics

Lex Fridman Podcast · May 11, 2022 · 4h 21m

with Saifedean Ammous , Safedean Ammous

Watch Lex Fridman's interview with Musk, where they discuss exactly this topic.

@shafyy +2 more

#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI

Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 28, 2021 · 2h 39m

with Elon Musk

Peter McCullough's Joe Rogan episode mentions all the studies behind his statements, making it a source for the claims.

@jcbrand +2 more

#1747 - Dr. Peter A. McCullough

The Joe Rogan Experience · Dec 13, 2021 · 2h 49m

with Peter McCullough , Dr. Peter A. McCullough , Dr. Peter McCullough

Douglas Lenat's remarks on this at Lex Fridman's podcast were really insightful.

@roeles +2 more

#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI

Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 15, 2021 · 2h 59m

with Douglas Lenat , Doug Lenat

Economic aspects of provenance and trust in the Art Loss Register, a private registry for stolen art, likely interesting to blockchain folks.

@adolph +2 more

Anja Shortland on Lost Art

EconTalk · Jun 21, 2021 · 1h 12m

with Anja Shortland

Sam Harris very recently published a podcast where he updated his stance on free will, worth a listen.

@dwd +2 more

#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will

Making Sense with Sam Harris · Mar 12, 2021 · 43m

You can have a sense of how it would be to work with him in this interview with Lex Fridman.

@eric_khun +2 more

#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness

Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 18, 2021 · 2h 44m

with Jim Keller

Worth hearing: Lex's dad, a plasma physicist, on why hot fusion is possible but too complex to scale, and muon-doping ideas.

@jcims +2 more

Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021

Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 27, 2021 · 1h 19m

with Lex Fridman's father (plasma physicist, not named in the comment) , Doug , BK

Lex Fridman had a really good interview with Avi Loeb about Oumuamua, among other things. Highly recommend!

@cronix +2 more

#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua

Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 14, 2021 · 2h 51m

with Avi Loeb

Moxie Marlinspike's podcast on Joe Rogan is a really cool watch that shows Signal is a hacker project in need of funding.

@Melting_Harps +2 more

#1572 - Moxie Marlinspike

The Joe Rogan Experience · Dec 1, 2020 · 3h 06m

with Moxie Marlinspike , Moxie

I urge everyone of you to watch this interview and to be more informed.

@spectramax +2 more

#1439 - Michael Osterholm

The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 10, 2020 · 1h 38m

with Michael Osterholm

Highly recommends listening to the Joe Rogan discussion with Bret Weinstein, which followed the full story on The Portal.

@Dowwie +2 more

19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC

The Portal · Jan 18, 2020 · 2h 17m

with Bret Weinstein

Susan Houseman figured out why the Fed's US manufacturing data is outdated, and the episode explains it.

@banmeagaindan2 +2 more

Susan Houseman on Manufacturing

EconTalk · Oct 21, 2019 · 1h 16m

with Susan Houseman

Excellent EconTalk episode with Chris Arnade on his book, enough to put it on the commenter's reading list.

@woadwarrior01 +2 more

Chris Arnade on Dignity

EconTalk · Jul 22, 2019 · 1h 21m

with Chris Arnade

Lex Fridman has a great interview with Jurgen here, where he presents his idea of consciousness.

@jcims +2 more

Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs

Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 23, 2018 · 1h 20m

with Jürgen Schmidhuber , Schmidhuber

An interesting discussion on depression and suicide, in the latest Sam Harris podcast episode on addiction, depression, and meaningful life.

@zanybear +2 more

#142 — Addiction, Depression, and a Meaningful Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris · Nov 13, 2018 · 47m

with Johann Hari

The episode is pretty good. It's fun to listen to economists' perspective on these services after being absorbed in the tech.

@w1ntermute +2 more

Michael Munger on Sharing, Transaction Costs, and Tomorrow 3.0

EconTalk · Oct 29, 2018 · 1h 10m

with Michael Munger

This podcast, about workers rights and how companies are basically private governments, is really interesting

@therealdrag0 +2 more

Elizabeth Anderson on Worker Rights and Private Government

EconTalk · Feb 26, 2018 · 1h 07m

with Elizabeth Anderson

there was a relevant episode last month where he and Gary Taubes discuss the whole "good calories vs bad calories" idea

@emptybits +2 more

#74 — What Should We Eat?

Making Sense with Sam Harris · May 6, 2017 · 47m

with Gary Taubes

Goes into great deal of detail on how structurally broken the supply-side attacks on drugs are; fascinating.

@rrdharan +2 more

Tom Wainwright on Narconomics

EconTalk · Feb 20, 2017 · 1h 11m

with Tom Wainwright

I can also recommend this podcast on the topic of current real world applications of Bitcoin.

@jhh +2 more

Jim Epstein on Bitcoin, the Blockchain, and Freedom in Latin America

EconTalk · Feb 13, 2017 · 59m

with Jim Epstein

Mark Warshawsky of Mercatus had the same theory, with numbers to back it: healthcare costs ate the money that would have gone to wages.

@ajmurmann +2 more

Mark Warshawsky on Compensation, Health Care Costs, and Inequality

EconTalk · Jan 2, 2017 · 1h 07m

with Mark Warshawsky

A really great interview on how Honnold handles fear and thinks about risk in his life.

@sn9 +2 more

#160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold

The Tim Ferriss Show · May 17, 2016 · 1h 47m

with Alex Honnold

this podcast and the book "The Middleman Economy" go into detail about why middle men (like real estate agents) are useful

@mooreds +2 more

Marina Krakovsky on the Middleman Economy

EconTalk · Mar 21, 2016 · 1h 03m

with Marina Krakovsky

I recently listened to a great podcast relevant to the topic which discusses why this is. It's more than just lazy statistics.

@mathattack +2 more

Adam Cifu on Ending Medical Reversal

EconTalk · Feb 15, 2016 · 1h 04m

with Adam Cifu

There is an excellent EconTalk about matching economies as well. At 10:32 in is the kidney discussion.

@jweir +2 more

Alvin Roth on Matching Markets

EconTalk · Jul 6, 2015 · 1h 03m

with Alvin Roth

Discusses whether desalination can cover California's water usage; one desal plant is a drop in the ocean compared with demand.

@mtd +2 more

David Zetland on Water

EconTalk · Mar 2, 2015 · 1h 00m

with David Zetland

The commenter highly recommends the EconTalk episode with Daron Acemoglu discussing the book Why Nations Fail.

@nickik +2 more

Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail

EconTalk · Mar 19, 2012 · 56m

with Daron Acemoglu , Acemoglu

interesting Econtalk episode with a sales manager at Frito-Lay about production, distribution and marketing of their chips

@icebraining +2 more

Brendan O'Donohoe on Potato Chips and Salty Snacks

EconTalk · Aug 22, 2011 · 1h 29m

with O'Donohoe, sales manager at Frito-Lay , Dan O'Donohoe , O'Donohoe, Frito-Lay executive

Episode on carbon shortage: synthetic coal fuels become economical before petroleum runs out. Fascinating, though it wanders near the end.

@jacoblyles +2 more

Robert Laughlin on the Future of Carbon and Climate

EconTalk · Aug 9, 2010 · 1h 25m

with Laughlin , Robert Laughlin

Christopher Hitchens gave a fascinating interview on Orwell for EconTalk.

@jacoblyles +2 more

Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell

EconTalk · Aug 17, 2009 · 1h 09m

with Christopher Hitchens

The interview with the author on EconTalk was great, even without having read the book.

@Estragon +2 more

Michele Boldrin on Intellectual Property

EconTalk · May 18, 2009 · 1h 19m

with David K. Levine and Michelle Boldrin , Boldrin

Encourages listening to Security Now and the "TrueCrypt WTF?" episode, which explains why TrueCrypt was likely not hacked.

@hbeaver +2 more

Healthcare de Jure: Dr Steve Buslovich, Chief Medical Officer Senior Care at PointClickCare

Healthcare NOW Radio Podcast Network - Discussions on healthcare including technology, innovation, policy, data security, tel · May 2, 2026 · 27m

with Steve Gibson

An interesting Software Engineering Daily episode on ad fraud and the different schemes behind it.

@einrealist +2 more

Engineering AI Systems for Autonomy and Resilience with Krishna Sai

Software Engineering Daily · Feb 24, 2026 · 53m

with Praneet Sharma and Shailin Dhar , Will Larson

Argues agentic coding can eat your brain in a feature factory, but tools used to get more ambitious should be fine.

@adamgordonbell +2 more

Coding in the Red-Queen Era

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Aug 6, 2025 · 42m

Oxide and Friends did a great episode on it at the time, covering CockroachDB's move to a non-free license that mandates telemetry.

@_huayra_ +2 more

Whither CockroachDB?

Oxide and Friends · Aug 21, 2024 · 1h 34m

A great episode where Kelsey Hightower discusses the Terraform license change and why maintainers should be upfront about project governance.

@msteffen +2 more

Open Source Anti-Patterns with Kelsey Hightower

Oxide and Friends · Aug 29, 2023 · 1h 38m

with Kelsey Hightower

An interesting account of the years Google was building Android alongside Apple's iPhone, from Chet Haase.

@nequo +2 more

Story: Android's Unlikely Success

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Oct 3, 2022 · 1h 00m

with Chet Haase

A good, deep answer to why Nvidia is the way it is, across its two-part series.

@gen220 +2 more

Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)

Acquired · Apr 20, 2022 · 2h 04m

That episode was so good.

@Gentil +2 more

Wisdom from 50+ years in software (Changelog Interviews #484)

Changelog Master Feed · Mar 30, 2022 · 1h 36m

with Brian Kernighan

Better than average discussion of Nvidia's history, including the chip emulation software that helped them get back in the game.

@djmips +2 more

Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)

Acquired · Mar 28, 2022 · 1h 52m

Highly recommend ep112: a long interview with a former account hacker, covering sim-swapping tactics.

@brynx97 +2 more

112: Dirty Coms

Darknet Diaries · Mar 8, 2022 · 1h 28m

Calls the CoRecursive episode on quines and polyglot code a "cracking" listen on the topic under discussion.

@2wrist +2 more

Chat: Quines, Polygot Code, and Other Fun Computations

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Sep 2, 2021 · 1h 01m

Darknet Diaries has an episode on the gray market of exploit brokers; highly recommended for infosec fans.

@sophacles +2 more

98: Zero Day Brokers

Darknet Diaries · Aug 3, 2021 · 50m

The NeXT and Objective-C episode (S1E8) was excellent; the commenter is still working through the old catalog.

@guiambros +2 more

NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories

Oxide and Friends · Jul 6, 2021 · 1h 11m

Corecursive episode with Daniel Lemire was just terrific; some people are really good at performance-sensitive work.

@specialist +2 more

Story: Frontiers of Performance with Daniel Lemire

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Dec 1, 2020 · 47m

with Daniel Lemire

Great CoRecursive interview with Matt Godbolt covering good reasons to still understand assembly today.

@mumblemumble +2 more

Story: To The Assembly

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Oct 1, 2020 · 41m

with Matt Godbolt

Darknet Diaries also has an excellent podcast episode on it.

@frogcoder +2 more

72: Bangladesh Bank Heist

Darknet Diaries · Aug 18, 2020 · 36m

There was a great acquired episode on Tencent, which owns QQ, the ICQ-inspired messenger.

@chrisjc +2 more

Adapting Episode 3: Intel

Acquired · May 12, 2020 · 1h 17m

Darknet Diaries covered the whole affair, with extra details that surfaced after the IEEE article; it makes for great listening.

@throwaway4web +2 more

64: The Athens Shadow Games

Darknet Diaries · Apr 28, 2020 · 1h 14m

Abstract algebra's structures still apply to everyday software construction, as this episode on portal abstractions shows.

@nobody0 +2 more

Story: Portal Abstractions with Sam Ritchie

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Apr 17, 2020 · 35m

with Sam Ritchie

Darknet Diaries ep54 is a great podcast on NotPetya, with an interview with the author of Sandworm.

@xt00 +2 more

54: NotPetya

Darknet Diaries · Dec 24, 2019 · 57m

Enjoyed the relatively recent Darknet Diaries episode "Hacker Giraffe" as background for anyone who missed it.

@jessaustin +2 more

31: Hacker Giraffe

Darknet Diaries · Feb 5, 2019 · 56m

It's all very interesting, where the host interviews an ex-member of the Israeli SIGINT program.

@bogwog +2 more

28: Unit 8200

Darknet Diaries · Dec 15, 2018 · 48m

A regex library built with dependent-type features parses patterns at compile time and returns better-typed capture group information. Really great.

@agbell +2 more

Tech Talk: Dependent Types in Haskell with Stephanie Weirich

CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Jun 13, 2018 · 58m

with Stephanie Weirich

This was another quality Mixergy interview revealing Daniel's side of the story. The entire interview is worth viewing.

@loganfrederick +2 more

#1453 The future of chat (and interacting with your customers)

Startup Stories - Mixergy · May 26, 2017

with Daniel , Owner of Twitpic.com , Timothy Chi

I recommend listening to the Mixergy interview with Sam Ovens.

@mapster +2 more

#1417 How Sam Ovens is helping everyday people start their own consulting businesses

Startup Stories - Mixergy · Mar 3, 2017

with Sam Ovens , Dane Maxwell and Sam Ovens

There's a recent software engineering radio podcast on technical debt.

@drhodes +2 more

SE Radio 224: Sven Johann and Eberhard Wolff on Technical Debt

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Mar 31, 2015 · 56m

with Sven Johann and Eberhard Wolff

Explains why he tiles and overlaps windows instead of using snapping, with Arment and Liss reacting in disbelief. Worth hearing from 1:33:00.

@ralfd +2 more

96: The Windows of Siracusa County

Accidental Tech Podcast · Dec 19, 2014 · 2h 24m

with John Siracusa

Recently re-listened to an old-but-good episode with John Siracusa's informative rant on this very topic.

@aasasd +2 more

Episode 56: 56: Belt and Suspenders

Hypercritical · Feb 24, 2012 · 1h 59m

A 45-minute episode on The Epic of Gilgamesh with three academic experts; it moves fast and covers a lot of ground.

@gimboland +2 more

Epic of Gilgamesh

In Our Time · Nov 3, 2016 · 46m

with Nick Lane

Highly recommends listening to the Mindscape episode with Nita Farahany, or reading the full transcript.

@consumer451 +2 more

229 | Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Mar 13, 2023 · 1h 12m

with Nita Farahany

He was just on Sean Carroll's podcast Mindscape, good listen.

@aesch +2 more

198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · May 23, 2022 · 1h 25m

with Nick Lane

Great discussions on gravitational waves, time travel, and Interstellar; very informative and entertaining, I recommend it.

@pavanred +2 more

24 | Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Nov 26, 2018 · 1h 19m

with Kip Thorne

Walks through the Younger Dryas cosmic impact theory, ice ages, and catastrophism with Randall Carlson, with timestamps for key moments.

@wsc981 +1 more

#1772 - Randall Carlson

The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 5, 2022 · 3h 09m

with Randall Carlson

Recommends the How I Built This episodes with Airbnb co-founders Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky as further reading on building a marketplace.

@40acres +1 more

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: “I Was a Great Founder and a Terrible CEO”

How I Built This with Guy Raz · Nov 2, 2026 · 1h 15m

with Joe Gebbia; Brian Chesky , Brian Chesky

The NYTimes The Daily podcast this week had an interesting explanation of this situation: North Korea is more a rogue proxy state than a proxy.

@mtanski +1 more

Martin McDonagh Has a Vision for Hope. It's Not for the Faint of Heart.

The Daily · Oct 31, 2026 · 49m

A cute piece on the Coke formula that includes what was probably (at one time) the full recipe.

@eli +1 more

427: Original Recipe

This American Life · Oct 12, 2026 · 1h 03m

Really interesting Planet Money episode on how a fake "virtual currency" saved Brazil from hyperinflation. Highly recommend the podcast.

@jcrites +1 more

How the rich make money by losing money

The Indicator from Planet Money · Sep 28, 2026 · 9m

Give Directly is the subject of this excellent episode of This American Life.

@cjbprime +1 more

894: I Couldn't Help but Notice

This American Life · Aug 3, 2026 · 59m

Planet Money did a great podcast on the history and political power of the dealer system, and why buying a car sucks so much.

@yaliceme +1 more

Why your neighbor might be paying less for their car

The Indicator from Planet Money · Jul 15, 2026 · 8m

A great Planet Money episode on living wills and end-of-life planning, worth hearing.

@cortesoft +1 more

Are we in a new era of permanently higher prices?

The Indicator from Planet Money · Jun 18, 2026 · 9m

Planet Money did an excellent podcast on committee assignments and fundraising.

@jordanb +1 more

Obsession, the most fun job in China, and a new green card policy

The Indicator from Planet Money · May 29, 2026 · 9m

Planet Money had a good episode on the property tax and how it's a surprisingly effective tax.

@jackson1372 +1 more

Game of 'roids, trader Trump, and searching for Shakira's tax residence

The Indicator from Planet Money · May 22, 2026 · 9m

NPR's Planet Money podcast covered them a few months ago, and if you're interested in this stuff, you should listen to back-to-front.

@imajes +1 more

The new AI model that could steal your life savings

The Indicator from Planet Money · May 11, 2026 · 9m

The most recent Planet Money episode goes into more depth on the patent troll who claimed to co-invent podcasting.

@rscale +1 more

When will the Iran war hit food prices?

The Indicator from Planet Money · May 6, 2026 · 7m

There's a really interesting Radiolab episode that deals with this question.

@pmoriarty +1 more

What is a Pig Worth?

Radiolab · May 1, 2026 · 42m

Very informative episode on setting up shell companies, with lots of info on how names are hidden. Worth a listen.

@miralabs +1 more

Can you really do what you love?

The Indicator from Planet Money · Apr 13, 2026 · 9m

Planet Money has been excellent lately, especially their investigations into gold and t-shirt making.

@2arrs2ells +1 more

What is going on with gold and silver?

The Indicator from Planet Money · Feb 11, 2026 · 8m

This made me think of this excellent planet money episode: Episode 779, Shrimp Fight Club.

@pm90 +1 more

How Pakistan is revving up a fight against tax dodgers

The Indicator from Planet Money · Jan 26, 2026 · 9m

An excellent Planet Money story on doing the same thing with credit card agreements, including 4th graders reading one.

@scott_s +1 more

Davos drama, credit card caps and tariff truths

The Indicator from Planet Money · Jan 23, 2026 · 9m

with a rabbi, a lawyer and a credit card executive

Original Planet Money episode is longer with more detail; a great resource for explaining tough financial stories, definitely recommended.

@joezydeco +1 more

Will new loan limits lower the cost of grad school?

The Indicator from Planet Money · Dec 16, 2025 · 9m

There was a great podcast by NPR's Planet Money about how Norway avoided the resource curse. Highly recommended!

@bdcs +1 more

How to avoid scammers after a natural disaster

The Indicator from Planet Money · Nov 19, 2025 · 9m

Planet Money had a great episode on a farmer who created a new type of apple.

@nikcub +1 more

How Apple's market power blocked ICEBlock

The Indicator from Planet Money · Nov 4, 2025 · 9m

Quite an interesting listen, as all of their podcasts are.

@crisnoble +1 more

Amazon's outage, anxious retirees, and LA brings the Heat, too

The Indicator from Planet Money · Oct 24, 2025 · 9m

There's a great This American Life act about the Puppy Channel.

@dhugiaskmak +1 more

An Update from Ira

This American Life · Oct 16, 2025 · 5m

The Planet Money episode on mysterious packages was really fascinating; the sophistication of these scams is intriguing.

@briandoll +1 more

Vice Series: The evolving business of crime

The Indicator from Planet Money · Oct 5, 2025 · 1m

A recent Freakonomics episode on Trader Joe's shows how a store that looks bad on paper can still be very successful.

@3minus1 +1 more

Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s? (Update)

Freakonomics Radio · Mar 21, 2025 · 48m

Radiolab's Nukes special is a fairly good accounting of nuclear weapons history, from their place in armament to public perception and changing law.

@kbenson +1 more

Nukes

Radiolab · Jan 24, 2025 · 52m

Listened to a Radiolab segment about sleep at work; the last segment of the episode is worth hearing.

@ilovecomputers +1 more

Sleep

Radiolab · Aug 2, 2024 · 56m

A recent Radiolab episode on aphantasia covers a test for the condition; worth the 30-minute listen.

@koliber +1 more

Aphantasia

Radiolab · Jun 14, 2024 · 34m

Freakonomics Radio has a recent related piece on academic fraud in scholarly publishing.

@structure7 +1 more

573. Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped?

Freakonomics Radio · Jan 18, 2024 · 1h 02m

Radiolab's Numbers episode covered this fascinating topic back in 2009, with a link to it.

@kevindication +1 more

Numbers

Radiolab · Dec 22, 2023 · 59m

There is a great podcast released a few days ago by 99% invisible interviewing the creator of the site.

@kzahel +1 more

Devil in the Details

99% Invisible · Sep 26, 2023 · 34m

Explains that the Luddites were workers fighting for autonomy and a share of technology's benefits, not anti-tech.

@MBCook +1 more

Blood in the Machine

99% Invisible · Sep 12, 2023 · 29m

Freakonomics just started a 3-part series on why the U.S. is so good at killing pedestrians.

@Swizec +1 more

548. Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?

Freakonomics Radio · Jul 6, 2023 · 44m

A very interesting podcast arguing that divesting from polluting industries to clean ones may not make sense even if reducing pollution is the goal.

@gnicholas +1 more

546. Are E.S.G. Investors Actually Helping the Environment?

Freakonomics Radio · Jun 15, 2023 · 54m

with Kelly Shue

There's a great Freakonomics episode on exactly what's going on with bananas.

@eiiot +1 more

The Most Interesting Fruit in the World (Ep. 375 Update)

Freakonomics Radio · Nov 10, 2022 · 39m

Listened to this episode; its segments on the Politics Industrial Complex were helpful. Worth your time given the donation question.

@chiefalchemist +1 more

521. I’m Your Biggest Fan!

Freakonomics Radio · Nov 3, 2022 · 44m

There is a good episode (ep 517) of Freakonomics Radio about that.

@altell +1 more

517. Are M.B.A.s to Blame for Wage Stagnation?

Freakonomics Radio · Oct 6, 2022 · 47m

A resource that explores mostly the benefits of nuclear power, offered for anyone wanting a more thorough understanding of why it could meet most power needs.

@Ziggy_Zaggy +1 more

516. Nuclear Power Isn’t Perfect. Is It Good Enough?

Freakonomics Radio · Sep 22, 2022 · 54m

There was a good episode of Freakonomics on NPR concerning negative bias in the media and why people respond to it.

@HybridCurve +1 more

477. Why Is U.S. Media So Negative?

Freakonomics Radio · Oct 7, 2021 · 47m

Worth a listen on this topic: Radiolab's "60 words" episode on the War on Terror includes a discussion of who ends up on the kill list.

@rollthehard6 +1 more

60 Words, 20 Years

Radiolab · Sep 10, 2021 · 1h 09m

Radiolab has an episode on the potential implications of tech like this.

@saltvedt +1 more

Breaking News about The Other Latif

Radiolab · Jul 19, 2021 · 2m

Radiolab did an episode on it: Facebook's Supreme Court, explaining the Oversight Board.

@tootie +1 more

Facebook's Supreme Court

Radiolab · Feb 12, 2021 · 44m

99% Invisible did an amazing series on exactly that, how do you pick who gets what.

@culpable_pickle +1 more

According to Need: Prologue

99% Invisible · Dec 1, 2020 · 17m

Reply All's recent episode on the origins of QAnon, "Country of Liars," is worth hearing.

@st1x7 +1 more

#166 Country of Liars

Reply All · Sep 18, 2020 · 57m

There's a great Radiolab episode that covers exactly that: the translation episode.

@ShaneWilton +1 more

Translation

Radiolab · Aug 27, 2020 · 1h 05m

with Carl Zimmer

Listen to the Radiolab episode for a nice narration to complement the article.

@thingamarobert +1 more

Invisible Allies

Radiolab · Jul 31, 2020 · 42m

Malcolm Gladwell's 2020 season covers LeMay, napalm, and the Tokyo firebombing: "Fascinating and horrifying."

@cushychicken +1 more

The Bomber Mafia

Revisionist History · Jul 9, 2020 · 32m

Just listened to a great Revisionist History episode that floats the idea of a college admissions lottery.

@jkhdigital +1 more

The Powerball Revolution

Revisionist History · Jul 2, 2020 · 41m

99% Invisible - about the invisible parts of life... This week's episode is about the increasing number of police on the roads

@Jemaclus +1 more

Return of Oñate's Foot

99% Invisible · Jun 30, 2020 · 53m

Invisibilia's "Trust Fall" episode covers how Wirecard harassed a short seller with smears, surveillance, and intimidation.

@underyx +1 more

Trust Fall

Invisibilia · Jun 13, 2020 · 47m

Freakonomics did a solid podcast on this recently too, covering the same princess issues.

@atlasunshrugged +1 more

394. Does Hollywood Still Have a Princess Problem?

Freakonomics Radio · Oct 24, 2019 · 50m

A Reply All episode on the US feral hog problem shows how hunting can make things worse by creating an incentive to keep hogs around.

@dustincoates +1 more

#149 30-50 Feral Hogs

Reply All · Oct 10, 2019 · 34m

This Freakonomics episode about what's missing from the standard math curriculum is really good.

@itsmejeff +1 more

391. America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up

Freakonomics Radio · Oct 3, 2019 · 45m

with Steven Levitt

Radiolab's "G" series covers pertinent material; I really enjoyed the entire series.

@_coveredInBees +1 more

G: The Miseducation of Larry P

Radiolab · Jun 7, 2019 · 1h 04m

Radiolab did a really interesting podcast about that.

@brokenmachine +1 more

Neither Confirm Nor Deny

Radiolab · Jun 4, 2019 · 27m

For a thorough and entertaining treatment, I recommend RadioLab's "Bit Flip" episode

@treypitt +1 more

Bit Flip

Radiolab · May 8, 2019 · 56m

A recent 99% Invisible episode, "Play Mountain," explains how playground safety rules made today's playgrounds look nearly identical.

@devchix +1 more

Play Mountain

99% Invisible · Apr 24, 2019 · 37m

It's a great overview of what went down with Evan Ratliff himself.

@jbrooksuk +1 more

#136 The Founder

Reply All · Feb 14, 2019 · 51m

Links to a 99% Invisible episode about a secret mall apartment, offered to anyone interested in the story.

@forehanddev +1 more

The Accidental Room

99% Invisible · Dec 12, 2018 · 34m

If you've never listened before, try the Trader Joe's episode; there are a ton of good episodes, especially on behavioral economics.

@3minus1 +1 more

359. Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s?

Freakonomics Radio · Nov 29, 2018 · 47m

Episode on memory isn't infallible, not a video recording of the past; covers flashbulb memory experiments that are pretty interesting.

@kmano8 +1 more

Free Brian Williams

Revisionist History · Jun 7, 2018 · 36m

An awesome 99% Invisible episode on this topic, linked directly as "The Vault."

@forrestthewoods +1 more

The Vault

99% Invisible · May 30, 2018 · 27m

99% Invisible has a good podcast on the curb-cut, which started for wheelchairs but also helps parents with strollers.

@hiidrew +1 more

Curb Cuts

99% Invisible · May 23, 2018 · 45m

Listened to Bob Moore's story of founding Bob's Red Mill in his 50s on How I Built This today; the commenter says age seems to be only in our minds.

@gordon_freeman +1 more

Bob's Red Mill: Bob Moore

How I Built This with Guy Raz · May 21, 2018 · 49m

with Bob Moore

Previous reporting by the author of this piece inspired a great Reply All episode, "Pain Funnel."

@docdeek +1 more

#121 Pain Funnel

Reply All · May 18, 2018 · 36m

A thirty-minute episode goes into further detail on newer research showing mantis shrimp see many colors but can't tell them apart.

@latexr +1 more

Rippin’ the Rainbow an Even Newer One

Radiolab · Mar 15, 2018 · 33m

There's a great 99PI episode about something like this: Fordlandia.

@sixstringtheory +1 more

Fordlandia

99% Invisible · Mar 7, 2018 · 30m

Really excellent listening for anyone new to entrepreneurship, following Alex Blumberg's journey launching his own startup.

@zckly +1 more

#57 - Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media

Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Jan 17, 2018 · 51m

with Alex Blumberg

Excellent Reply All piece on Mexico's dominant party using armies of people on Twitter to drown out news and harass people.

@scott_s +1 more

#112 The Prophet

Reply All · Dec 15, 2017 · 36m

Great 99% Invisible episode on the shift from seeing car injuries as unavoidable driver fault to designing cars to be safer.

@djsumdog +1 more

The Nut Behind the Wheel

99% Invisible · Dec 5, 2017 · 31m

Obligatory 99% Invisible reference: the "Oyster-tecture" episode is worth a listen.

@paulhilbert +1 more

Oyster-tecture

99% Invisible · Oct 31, 2017 · 29m

Very informative Freakonomics episode on the topic of geographic factors of economies.

@thenaturalist +1 more

304. What Are the Secrets of the German Economy — and Should We Steal Them?

Freakonomics Radio · Oct 12, 2017 · 57m

If you want to start off easy, listen to this Radiolab episode.

@VMG +1 more

Radiolab Presents: Anna in Somalia

Radiolab · Sep 12, 2017 · 34m

Reply All did a great podcast about a similar issue, it's worth a listen.

@aaronpk +1 more

#104 The Case of the Phantom Caller

Reply All · Sep 7, 2017 · 34m

For those who prefer listening, Cathy O'Neil discusses destructive algorithms and her book on 99% Invisible.

@majewsky +1 more

The Age of the Algorithm

99% Invisible · Sep 5, 2017 · 21m

with Cathy O'Neil

There's a pretty cool recent Radiolab podcast about the life and times of the Voyagers, including their exit from the solar system.

@Pigo +1 more

Where the Sun Don't Shine

Radiolab · Aug 23, 2017 · 32m

A pretty good Reply All episode covers this exact problem: tracking down who is behind a spoofed number.

@pavel_lishin +1 more

#102 Long Distance

Reply All · Jul 27, 2017 · 48m

An episode that stuck in my head: the Criminal episode about the killing of Ken McElroy.

@douglasfshearer +1 more

Bully

Criminal · May 5, 2017 · 29m

A recent Radiolab episode made a pretty convincing argument that any US president could on a whim destroy the world.

@alexilliamson +1 more

Nukes

Radiolab · Apr 7, 2017 · 55m

with William Perry

Explains the effects of China's trade expansion on some US regions; see these podcasts.

@VHRanger +1 more

273. Did China Eat America’s Jobs?

Freakonomics Radio · Jan 26, 2017 · 38m

Reply All did a great episode about Google inadvertently assisting scammers, focusing on cheap shady locksmith services sold as sponsored ads.

@bebopfunk +1 more

#78 Very Quickly to the Drill

Reply All · Sep 29, 2016 · 43m

Discussion of that very thing is in this really interesting episode of 99% Invisible from last week.

@charliepark +1 more

Making Up Ground

99% Invisible · Sep 13, 2016 · 18m

Relevant Radiolab episode and followup on the eye-in-the-sky surveillance topic under discussion.

@js2 +1 more

Update: Eye In the Sky

Radiolab · Sep 13, 2016 · 36m

If you would like to listen to an entertaining version of the paper, here it is.

@bertan +1 more

258. Why Uber Is an Economist’s Dream

Freakonomics Radio · Sep 8, 2016 · 38m

There was a great Invisibilia podcast on the subject, about how you are a different person based on the current context.

@andyidsinga +1 more

The Personality Myth

Invisibilia · Jun 24, 2016 · 54m

The Freakonomics Podcast had an interesting episode about mattress stores and why there are so many.

@Reedx +1 more

251. Are We in a Mattress-Store Bubble?

Freakonomics Radio · Jun 9, 2016 · 36m

Radiolab did a great episode on this theory called Cellmates.

@itodd +1 more

Cellmates

Radiolab · Apr 6, 2016 · 30m

An interesting Freakonomics episode, "The No-Tipping Point," covers the same idea about tipping.

@denzil_correa +1 more

239. The No-Tipping Point

Freakonomics Radio · Mar 11, 2016 · 43m

Listen to Reply All episode #52 for more info on whether diverse teams perform better.

@obeid +1 more

#52 Raising The Bar

Reply All · Jan 21, 2016 · 35m

The story behind this game was movingly covered in podcasts by Radiolab and Reply All.

@dankohn1 +1 more

The Cathedral

Radiolab · Dec 28, 2015 · 31m

99% Invisible's episode on refrigerated containers is relevant, linked for readers to hear.

@koenigdavidmj +1 more

Reefer Madness

99% Invisible · Sep 9, 2015 · 14m

There is a great Radiolab episode on this very subject, also touches on the vault of top secret historical documents from the British Empire.

@clarkenheim +1 more

Mau Mau

Radiolab · Jul 3, 2015 · 43m

There's also a great Freakonomics podcast about this story.

@sudo_bang_bang +1 more

209. Make Me a Match

Freakonomics Radio · Jun 18, 2015 · 50m

As usual, there is an excellent 99% Invisible episode: "Perfect Security"

@Artemis2 +1 more

Perfect Security

99% Invisible · Apr 15, 2015 · 14m

Reply All did a great episode all about Minitel, for those interested.

@gavman +1 more

#10 The French Connection

Reply All · Jan 18, 2015 · 21m

Fave episode: Fearless

@zero-rated +1 more

Fearless

Invisibilia · Jan 16, 2015 · 57m

Very interesting listen about the person who raised a red flag before Challenger.

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169. Failure Is Your Friend

Freakonomics Radio · Jun 5, 2014 · 31m