The Most Important Question

This week: Is what you’re working on important?Plus: The cleanest produce, a mosquito factory, lots of rooftop solar, autonomous GPT, maybe, and the latest with the Colorado RiverH...

What can I do? The simple question is the underlying premise of everything we do here. It's often the easiest one to help people answer for themselves, but from the outside, it's o...

This week: A very basic way to use a mental model, you’re welcome.PLUS: Mosquitoes, overseas abortion pills, healthy ice cream, German nuclear power, electric school buses, and mor...

Why is it so dangerous to have Black babies in America?April 11-17th is Black Maternal Health Week, and so we are replaying one of our favourite episodes from 2021 with guest Repre...

If you had all of the data in the world at your hands, what question would you ask first?That's today's big question, and my guest is Dr. Emma Pierson. Emma is an assistant profess...

What if we just gave people money? That's today's big question and my guests are Caroline Teti and Michael Faye from GiveDirectly. This conversation from 2021, one of my all-time f...

We're going to keeping re-running this 2020 episode until America stops sacrificing children.---Here we are, yet again. We first ran this episode with Fred Guttenberg, father of Pa...

Where the hell did all of the electricians go? That's today's big question, and my guest is leading journalist Emily Pontecorvo. Until recently, Emily was an energy, environment, a...

This week: Fighting over ESG is stupid, risky, and bad business. Let’s move on.Plus: RSV vaccines, the E-BIKE Act, Skittles (?), deepfakes, allergies, and a new season of DRILLEDWh...

What if you got the chance to dive to the bottom of the ocean? Would you go? And what would you find there? That's today's big question and my returning guest, one of my all-time f...

This week: What we know — and more importantly, what we don’t — about what AI is capable of, and how much change we’re capable of absorbing.Plus: the Willow Project, H-1B visas, bl...

What if I told you there was less oxygen in the ocean than there used to be? That's today's big question, and my guest is Dr. Dawn Wright, or as many in the ocean community know he...