Writer Sandra Cisneros Finds the Poetry of the World
Writer Sandra Cisneros has been making sense of the world on the page since 1984’s The House on Mango Street. In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, we wanted to replay…
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Raychel Sanner, Storm Chaser
How does a love of extreme weather translate into making money? Raychel Sanner is a storm chaser and co-founder of Tornado Titans, a media brand by self-described “weather nuts” who…
S3 E4: Think and Grow Duped
Napoleon Hill, ever heard of him? He wrote “Think and Grow Rich,” one of the favorite self-help handbooks of all time. His fans include Tony Robbins and life coaches of…
Introducing: playing god?
A new podcast about the complex ethical questions that get raised with groundbreaking medical innovations. Brought to you by Pushkin Industries and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
Amanda Shires
Amanda Shires is a Texas-born singer/songwriter who got her start at 15 when she joined Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys on fiddle. After starting her solo career in 2005,…
Judging Sam: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried
Just a year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was heralded as a wunderkind, a genius, a crypto innovator, a major philanthropist and political donor. He was worth tens of billions of dollars.…
Big Bird Has Big Feelings
You don’t need to be 8 feet tall like Big Bird to have big, big feelings. We all experience emotions of excitement, frustration and sadness that feel overwhelming. But when…
Legend David Byrne (‘Stop Making Sense’) is Still Burning Down the House
For the better part of a decade, David Byrne was the front-man of Talking Heads. To celebrate the revival of Jonathan Demme’s concert film, Stop Making Sense, we’re revisiting our…
What the Industrial Revolution Teaches Us About the AI Revolution
Simon Johnson is an MIT economist and the co-author of a new book called “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity”. Simon’s problem is this: How do…
The Power of Imaginative Courage, our “Why”, and Awe
Maya was honored to deliver a commencement address at the Juilliard School earlier this year. As an alumna of the school’s pre-college division, Maya shared three pieces of wisdom with…
The Duck Tales Bandit
After his cartooning career failed to take off, a German artist named Arno Funke started extorting department stores. He went by “Dagobert,” the German name for the character of Scrooge…
Guns Part 4: Moral Hazard
Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1968, ending his presidential run. Had he been shot today, would he have lived? A what-if story about homicides and medical…
