Popping the Crypto Bubble with Nicholas Weaver
Crypto is crashing, which makes it the perfect time to ask whether blockchain technology is actually — you know — useful for anything. Computer scientist Nicholas Weaver joins Adam to discuss the inhe...
29 Juni 20221h 15min
The Real Problem with A.I. with Emily Bender
Is artificial intelligence a problem, or is the real problem how we’re using the term in the first place? Linguistics professor Emily Bender joins Adam to discuss why we should resist the urge to be i...
22 Juni 20221h 18min
Psychiatry’s Desperate Remedies with Andrew Scull
Despite our efforts, we seem to be no better at treating mental illness than we were hundreds of years ago. Desperate Remedies author Andrew Scull joins Adam to explain why, on the way touching on the...
15 Juni 20221h 17min
What Happened to Criminal Justice Reform? with James Forman Jr.
In 2020, America went through a national reckoning about our racist criminal justice system. Just under two years later, has all that progress evaporated? Pulitzer winner, professor, and author of Loc...
8 Juni 20221h 14min
Robots, Robots, Robots! with Kate Darling
When we picture robots, we normally think of an artificial being created in our own image. But what if this were deeply misleading? Author ofThe New Breed, Kate Darling, joins Adam to separate fact fr...
1 Juni 20221h 1min
Junk Science and the Criminal Justice System with Chris Fabricant
Our criminal justice system gives the impression of being impartial and fact-based, but in reality, it’s anything but. Innocence Project lawyer and author of Junk Science Chris Fabricant joins Adam to...
25 Maj 20221h 22min
The G Word and the Truth About Our Government with Michael Lewis
Adam’s new series The G Word is out this Thursday on Netflix! To commemorate the premiere, this week The Fifth Risk author Michael Lewis turns the tables on Adam, interviewing him about how made the s...
18 Maj 20221h 18min
The Right to Repair with Aaron Perzanowski
Do we really own the devices we buy? ‘The Right to Repair’ author Aaron Perzanowki joins Adam to explain how companies are using their power to control the products we buy from them, even after they’v...
11 Maj 20221h 11min
