The Happiness Lab’s Dr. Laurie Santos brings together other Pushkin hosts to mark the International Day of Happiness. Revisionist History’s Malcolm Gladwell talks about the benefits of the misery of running in a Canadian winter. Dr. Maya Shanka

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Mar 20th, 2024

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Introducing: On Musk with Walter Isaacson

Dec 13th, 2023 3m 23s

What is it like to shadow Elon Musk for two years? To sit courtside as he builds a rocket? Or tears apart an engineer? Or couch surfs at the homes of billionaires? And how on earth do you make sense of it all? Walter Isaacson is the biographer

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Introducing Death of an Author, A Groundbreaking AI Mystery

May 9th, 2023 10m 28s

What happens when artificial intelligence comes for the novelists? Journalist Stephen Marche investigates in Death of an Author, a gripping speculative mystery that was written 95% by AI, aka “Aidan Marchine,” and 5% by Marche, who skillfully c

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May 9th, 2023

Introducing The Variable Man with Gary Goldman and Angus Fletcher | Development Hell from Revisionist History.Follow the show: Revisionist HistoryDISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by,

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From Higher Animals: A New Audiobook by New Yorker writer Michael Specter

Apr 6th, 2023 12m 16s

This excerpt from Pushkin's new audiobook, Higher Animals: Vaccines, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life, features the introduction to Michael Specter's exciting exploration into how MRNA vaccines have transformed the scientific landscape

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Putting a Car on the Moon, From Car Show

Jun 2nd, 2022 40m 35s

Sharing a preview from Car Show!, a new podcast from Pushkin. Longtime Car and Driver editor Eddie Alterman tells the stories of the vital cars—the ones that have changed how we drive and live, whose significance lies outside the scope of horse

The Evening Rocket: Robin Hood

Nov 29th, 2021 30m 45s

At the start of 2021, Elon Musk briefly became the richest man in the world. The global pandemic was a boom time for American billionaires, many of whom saw their wealth rise even as much of the world was locked down. As Musk, Bezos, Gates and

The Evening Rocket: Baby X

Nov 22nd, 2021 30m 27s

The science fiction that Silicon Valley techno-billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel adore often concerns gleaming futures in which fantastically powerful and often immensely rich men colonize other planets. In this episode, J

The Evening Rocket: Iron Man

Nov 15th, 2021 30m 55s

How Silicon Valley capitalism is as much about narrative as the bottom line. In 2008 when Tesla Motors launched their first car, the completely electric Roadster, Tesla was a great story. Something genuinely new. An engineering marvel. Elon Mus

The Evening Rocket: Planet B

Nov 8th, 2021 31m 12s

Why does Elon Musk believe he can save the world by colonizing Mars? When PayPal was bought for $1.5 billion, Elon Musk and other company founders made huge personal fortunes. Musk used his to start the rocket company, SpaceX. He also began tal

The Evening Rocket: Dimension X

Nov 1st, 2021 32m 27s

Jill Lepore untangles the strange sci-fi roots of Silicon Valley's extreme capitalism - with its extravagant, existential and extra-terrestrial plans to save humanity. In this world, stock prices can be driven partly by fantasies found in block

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