S2 Ep.03 Lifeboat
The astronauts are fighting for their lives – and have to escape to their lunar lander
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#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game
Simon Sinek is an author of several books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and his latest The Infinite Game. He is one of the best communicators of what it takes to be a good leader, to inspire, and to build businesses that solve big difficu…
Read moreHow to cope with social distancing
How to cope with working from home, the behavioural science behind handling a pandemic and an opportunity to witness our rapid descent into news overload madness
Read more Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering
Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction — algorithms that look beyond the robot’s function in isolation, and generate robot behavior that accounts for interaction and coordination with human beings.
Read more #80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
Vitalik Buterin is co-creator of Ethereum and ether, which is a cryptocurrency that is currently the second-largest digital currency after bitcoin. There’s about 110 million ether out there, which equates at this moment to about 22 trillion dollars.
Read moreS2 Ep.02 Death of the Odyssey
“We were in deep, deep trouble.” Mission Control like you’ve never heard it before
Read moreThe problem with coronavirus stockpiling
The latest COVID-19 update, the perils of stockpiling, and true crime on YouTube
Read moreS2 Ep.01 Time bomb: Apollo 13
“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” To ignite catastrophe takes the flick of a single switch
Read more #79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, co-inventor of loop quantum gravity, and a contributor of many interesting ideas to cosmology, quantum field theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, theoretical biology, and the philosophy of science.
Read moreCoronavirus myths, busted
Part two of our investigation into Airbnb scams, we bust some major coronavirus myths and take a detailed look at gender neutral toilet design.
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