Brave New Planet

How can we come together to tackle big challenges in science and society? Dr. Eric Lander and Niala Boodhoo, veteran journalist and Axios Today host, talk about the importance of trust, humility, and skepticism in the worlds of science and media. Together, they ask how we can find the common ground we’ll need to make progress.

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Malcolm Gladwell joins host Dr. Eric Lander for a conversation about science, society, and how the decisions we make today will impact generations to come. At a moment when science is becoming more important than ever for meeting the challenges ahead, can we solve the growing tensions between society and science?

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This episode is a special preview of Azeem Azhar’s Exponential View, from Harvard Business Review. Exponential View tackles the thorny issues at the heart of science, technology, ethics and beyond. Serial entrepreneur, technologist, and investor Azeem Azhar talks with CEOs, policymakers, scientists, and the world’s leaders about these new technologies – to answer questions like, “how will we live morally in the metaverse?” and “how will quantum computing change the way you do business?“ In this preview, Azeem talks with Nick Hawker, CEO and co-founder of First Light Fusion in the UK, about why nuclear fusion could finally be on its way to becoming part of our energy mix – and what that could mean for our energy systems and our economies. Find a transcript of this episode here: https://hbr.org/podcast/2021/12/nuclear-fusions-time-is-finally-coming. You can listen to Exponential View at https://hbr.org/2019/04/podcast-exponential-view.

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After a historic 355 days in orbit, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth on March 30, 2022, breaking the record for the longest single spaceflight by an American. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell and Mark Vande Hei discuss conducting experiments in space, the impact of extended spaceflight on humans, and the spiciness of space chili peppers.

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What can we learn from the centuries-long quest to eradicate smallpox, once the scourge of humanity? And how did it set the stage for all vaccines to come? First we meet Edward Jenner, a doctor in 18th century Britain who learned about the folk practice of “variolation” and found a safer way to inoculate people against smallpox. Then, Donald Hopkins of the Carter Center takes us back to the 1960s in Sierra Leone, where he discovered that successfully eradicating smallpox could be a feasible goal worldwide. Enjoy this episode from Incubation, another Pushkin podcast.

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