Since Netflix started in the late 90s as a DVD-by-mail rental service competing with Blockbuster, it has completely reinvented itself… twice – first, ...

“I’m in a movie, but it’s the wrong movie.” For better or for worse, we tell the story of entrepreneurs as one of the mythical ...

Monopoly, oligopoly, cartel. All three of those words can describe the (not so) modern education system today, given the cost structures, economics, and ...

This episode examines the potential for misuse and fraud among those applying for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—and how fintech and software provide ...

Okay, so we know community is important — whether for developer relations for your product or other types of communities — but how do we measure ...

There is no spoon. Or rather, “There is no such thing as ‘data’, there’s just frozen models”, argues Peter Wang, the co-founder and CEO of Anaconda — who also ...

This episode is all about education and technology, a topic that’s especially top of mind this week as students in much of the country return to ...

WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from (what’s been traditionally been up to) 12 years or so of vaccine development ...

In this episode, we continue our community series with a recent discussion that applies to many kinds of community building. Today’s topic: How do you create a ...

CAR T therapy is a groundbreaking medicine that uses engineered T cells to attack cancer. But CAR T cells (that is, chimeric antigen receptor T cells) can be ...

We’re living in an unprecedented era of online collaboration, coordination, and creation. All kinds of people are coming together — whether in an ...

In this episode — cross posted from our 16 Minutes show feed — we cover all the buzz around GPT-3, the pre-trained machine learning model from ...

Many don’t realize we even need to think about the possibility of security hacks when it comes to things like pacemakers, insulin pumps, and more. But when ...

Ever since the discovery of antibiotics, microbiologists have worried about and studied how bacteria acquire resistance to these drugs. Adding to the ...

A dive into the sociological, operational, and tactical realities of this murky underworld, Lusthaus and de la Garza discuss who the players are, what they are ...

Dr. Marty Makary—surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and health policy and innovation expert—has long been a passionate ...

More than 98% of the information on the web is lost within 20 years, and huge gaps exist in our digital and cultural history. Zoran Basich and Alex Pruden of ...

In part 1 of our series on human performance, we looked at the limits of human potential in climbing and other sports – and how we push those limits through ...

Is there a limit to what humans can do? And if so, how do you know when you’ve reached it? Welcome to part one of a two-part series on human performance ...

“Why We Shouldn’t Fear the ‘Black Box’ of AI (in Healthcare and Everywhere)” by Vijay Pande. First published in the New York Times, January 2018.  ...