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Introducing Business History: The Edison Invention People Don’t Talk About
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What’s Your Problem? host Jacob Goldstein has a new show: Business History. How did Hitler’s favorite car become synonymous with hippies? What got ...

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Using Sound Waves to Destroy Tumors
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Mike Blue is the CEO of HistoSonics. The company recently developed a device that uses ultrasound to destroy tumors. On today’s show, Mike talks about ...

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From Desert Robots to Driverless Trucks
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Chris Urmson is the co-founder and CEO of Aurora, a company trying to bring autonomous driving to commercial trucking. Chris led a team at the 2004 DARPA ...

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Is the Future of Fresh Water Under the Sea?
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Michael Porter is the Chief Technology Officer of OceanWell. Michael’s problem is this: How can you desalinate water at the bottom of the ocean – ...

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Could Home Batteries Save the Grid?
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Justin Lopas is the COO and co-founder of Base Power, a battery and power company based in Texas. Justin’s problem is this: How can you deliver more ...

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Building a Better Public Bathroom
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Fletcher Wilson is the CEO and co-founder of Throne Labs. Fletcher’s problem is this: How can you create public toilets that people actually want to use? ...

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Could Autonomous Diggers Unleash a Building Boom?
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Boris Sofman is the co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics. Boris’ problem is this: How do you teach machines not just to drive, but also to work: to ...

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Growing Meat from Cells
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Justin Kolbeck is the co-founder and CEO of Wildtype, a company making seafood without killing fish. Their first product is cultivated salmon, which is made ...

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The Ordinary Stuff Behind Technological Breakthroughs
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 Ed Conway is an economics journalist and author of the book “Material World: The Six Raw Materials that Shape Modern Civilization.” On ...

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Carbon Capture at Rock-Bottom Prices
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Shashank Samala is the CEO and co-founder of Heirloom, a carbon capture start-up. His problem is this: Can you use crushed up rocks to permanently suck carbon ...

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Ferrari Fandom, Supercharged by AI from Smart Talks with IBM
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Today we’re sharing an episode from another Pushkin podcast, Smart Talks with IBM. Scuderia Ferrari and IBM are redefining fan engagement with AI-driven ...

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Why Amazon Built a Spatula-Wielding Robot
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Aaron Parness is a director of applied science at Amazon Robotics. His problem is this: How do you build a robot that can put stuff on shelves. Today on the ...

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Drilling Smarter Wells to Unleash Geothermal Energy
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In many places on Earth, there’s steam just below the surface. We don’t know where those places are — but if we could figure it out, we could ...

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Inventing a Better Pain Pill
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Dr. Stephen Waxman is a professor of neurology, neuroscience and pharmacology at Yale. His research on pain helped pave the way for a newly approved, ...

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Mapping the Unmappable
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Philipp Kandal is the chief product officer of Grab, an app that serves several countries across Southeast Asia. Two of Grab’s main businesses are ...

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Reinventing Blood
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Dr. Allan Doctor is the co-founder and chief scientific officer at Kalocyte, a company that is developing dried red blood cells that can be rehydrated and used ...

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The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of Medicine
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Jakob Uszkoreit is the CEO and co-founder of Inceptive, a biotech start-up. He’s also a co-author of “Attention is All You Need,” the paper ...

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A Billion-Dollar Bet on Carbon Removal
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Nan Ransohoff is the head of climate at Stripe. The company is known mainly for facilitating online payments, but it’s become a key driver of the nascent ...

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Giving Old Batteries New Life
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Megan O’Connor is the co-founder and CEO of Nth Cycle. Megan’s problem is this: How do you create a new system that can both refine the raw metals ...

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Engineering the Future of Fusion
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Getting energy from nuclear fusion has been a dream for decades; it would be cheap, abundant, and safer than today’s nuclear fission reactors. Billions ...

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