Category: podcast
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398 Avram Miller: An Improbable Journey Through Life and Technology
in podcastAbout Avram Miller Avram Miller is a businessperson, venture capitalist, scientist, technologist, and musician. He is best known for his work at Intel, where he served as vice president, cofounded Intel Capital, and led Intel’s successful initiative to create residential broadband. After leaving Intel, Miller founded the Avram Miller Company, providing strategic advice to technology…
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397 Annik LaFarge: A musical journey following Frédéric Chopin
in podcastAbout Annik LaFarge Annik LaFarge is a writer, editor, photographer, and lecturer. She is the author most recently of Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions. She has written for the New York Times, Bark magazine, Huffington Post, and Publishers Weekly, among other publications, and her photography has been widely published in print and…
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396 Oliver Burkeman: We only live 4,000 weeks. How will you manage your time?
in podcastAbout Oliver Burkeman Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done, a collection of his columns for the Guardian newspaper. You can also find Oliver on Twitter. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals The average…
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395 Joshua D. Rothman: How slavery was perpetuated by domestic slave traders
in podcastAbout Joshua D. Rothman Joshua Daniel Rothman is a historian. He is a professor and chair for the department of history at the University of Alabama. You can follow Joshua D. Rothman on Twitter. The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America’s…
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394 Sasha Issenberg: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage
in podcastAbout Sasha Issenberg Sasha Issenberg is the author of three previous books, on topics ranging from the global sushi business to medical tourism and the science of political campaigns. He covered the 2008 election as a national political reporter in the Washington bureau of The Boston Globe, the 2012 election for Slate, the 2016 election…
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393 David Sumpter: The Ten Equations That Rule the World
in podcastAbout David Sumpter David Sumpter is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He is the author of Soccermatics and Outnumbered, which have been translated into ten languages, and Collective Animal Behaviour, the leading text in the academic field he helped create. He has worked with a number of the world’s…