Made You Think Podcast
1) 121: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
“Prime Intellect was an uncertain god. It had acted because it had to, but if it had been human its hand would be shaking on the controls.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! This epis...Show More
2) 120: Wired To Heal: Regeneration and The Body Electric
“The greatest polluting element in the earth's environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be a far greater threat on a global scale than warming, or the increase of...Show More
3) 119: Surviving Against All Odds: Endurance by Alfred Lansing
“In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they...Show More
4) 118: Attention is All You Need: The World After Capital
“The amount of human attention in the world is finite. We have 24 hours in the day, some of which we need to spend paying attention to eating, sleeping and meeting our other needs. The attention durin...Show More
5) 117: Winning and Losing Millions in Crypto Confidential
“I could hardly form the words. My mouth wasn’t working. My heart hammered in my ears and pins and needles burned my hands and feet. I squeezed my fists as hard as I could to get them to stop hurting ...Show More
6) 116: What Was It All For? WWI by Martin Gilbert
“If the war was to be over by Christmas, as many believed, or at the latest by Easter 1915, tens of thousands of soldiers might be killed or wounded before the guns fell silent. Every army believed th...Show More
7) 115: Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
"The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the pre...Show More
8) 114: Book vs. Big Screen: 3 Body Problem on Netflix
"But if science tells you that something’s impossible, and it happens anyway, it means one of two things. Either the science is wrong, or it’s a scam.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Thin...Show More
9) 113: Too Much of a Good Thing: Bad Therapy
"We’ve never had a generation more focused on its feelings and, frankly, not one more tyrannized by their feelings.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! Today, we're delving into Abigai...Show More
10) 112: Thou Mayest: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kin...Show More