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Lex Fridman· Aug 1, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Cube Inside a Sphere, Right Between Two Super HornetsGuest Ryan Graves · Host Lex FridmanFormer Navy F/A-18 pilot Ryan Graves tells Lex Fridman how unexplained objects filled East Coast training airspace after a radar upgrade, and why a near-collision made it a safety problem the system still cannot process.
2:13:16ENLex Fridman· Jul 23, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEvery Atom in Your Body Was Forged in a Dead StarGuest Martin Rees · Host Lex FridmanMartin Rees talks Lex Fridman through dark matter, alien life, one-way Mars trips, and why this century is the first in which one species holds the planet.
2:44:16ENLex Fridman· Jul 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersIQ at Eleven Predicted Survival at Eighty. Richard Haier on the Finding Psychology Tried to BuryGuest Richard Haier · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with psychologist Richard Haier about the g factor, The Bell Curve, group differences, and why intelligence research became the most radioactive topic in the field.
2:43:51ENLex Fridman· Jun 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersTwo Tubes, Millimeters Apart: Jonathan Reisman on the Honest Design of the Human BodyGuest Jonathan Reisman · Host Lex FridmanThe emergency physician and author of The Unseen Body walks Lex Fridman from the throat to the Arctic, arguing that anatomy is mostly brilliant, sometimes a near-miss, and always a story written in scars.
3:25:22ENLex Fridman· Apr 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersAndrew Huberman Lets No One Near Him for Two Hours Before a PodcastGuest Andrew Huberman · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford neuroscientist talks with Lex Fridman about building mental states, heat and cold, visual focus, and the four arrows of a relationship.
2:49:41ENLex Fridman· Mar 5, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersNazi Science Was Not Anti-Science. It Was Science with a Purity QuestGuest Robert Proctor · Host Lex FridmanStanford historian Robert Proctor on how ideology, tobacco, and the taxonomic impulse turn scientists into widget-builders.
2:37:03ENLex Fridman· Feb 13, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersNo One Knows How to Make a PencilGuest Tim Urban · Host Lex FridmanWait But Why's Tim Urban spent five years on a book about why society is tearing itself apart, then sat down with Lex Fridman to talk aliens, Musk, Neuralink, and the war inside a procrastinator's head.
2:17:29ENLex Fridman· Feb 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe knowledge doctors trust is built to sell drugsGuest John Abramson · Host Lex FridmanHarvard physician John Abramson tells Lex Fridman how pharmaceutical companies captured medical knowledge, and why American healthcare spends more while delivering less.
1:42:58ENLex Fridman· Feb 6, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDon't Talk Conclusions. Talk Data.Guest Garry Nolan · Host Lex FridmanA Stanford immunologist sat through the brain scans of people who said they had met UFOs—and treats the rest of the subject the same way.
2:46:31ENLex Fridman· Feb 3, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Official Scientific Worldview Is Incompatible With ConsciousnessGuest Philip Goff · Host Lex FridmanDurham philosopher Philip Goff tells Lex Fridman why panpsychism — the view that consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous — is the least-bad theory of mind.
3:59:41ENLex Fridman· Jan 18, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDust Covered the Origin of the UniverseGuest Brian Keating · Host Lex FridmanExperimental cosmologist Brian Keating on telescopes as time machines, the BICEP2 false alarm, and what it actually means to lose a Nobel Prize.
2:21:49ENLex Fridman· Jan 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersFocused Protection, Not Lockdowns: Jay Bhattacharya on What Public Health Got WrongGuest Jay Bhattacharya · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford physician and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration tells Lex Fridman why age-stratified risk, seroprevalence data, and the ignored costs of isolation pointed to a different COVID strategy.
1:08:04ENLex Fridman· Dec 18, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersBreakthroughs Run on Speed. Trust Runs on Patience.Guest Albert Bourla · Host Lex FridmanPfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks with Lex Fridman about the November 2020 unblinding, a $2.3 billion all-in bet, and why a historic vaccine still divided the public.
4:55:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 8, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJamie Metzl Puts the Lab-Leak Odds at 85 PercentGuest Jamie Metzl · Host Lex FridmanThe genetic-engineering author walks Lex Fridman through the circumstantial case for a Wuhan accident, the cover-up he says is no longer debatable, and why the next pandemic will be decided by transparency, not blame.
2:15:56ENLex Fridman· Dec 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Theory That Fits Anything Is Not Even WrongGuest Peter Woit · Host Lex FridmanColumbia physicist Peter Woit tells Lex Fridman why string theory's original idea emptied out, why four dimensions are enough, and what twistor theory still offers.
1:26:53ENLex Fridman· Nov 5, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersFrancis Collins Cannot Exclude a Lab LeakGuest Francis Collins · Host Lex FridmanThe outgoing NIH director talks with Lex Fridman about COVID origins, gain-of-function research, Anthony Fauci, vaccines, and why scientific certainty is the wrong pose.
1:46:47ENLex Fridman· Oct 29, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Perfect Rapid Test Would Fail the FDA. Michael Mina Explains Why That Is the PointGuest Michael Mina · Host Lex FridmanThe Harvard immunologist tells Lex Fridman that paper-strip antigen tests answer the only public-health question that matters—are you infectious right now—and that one presidential sentence could unlock them.
1:11:03ENLex Fridman· Oct 23, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersCarl Hart’s case that addiction lives outside the moleculeGuest Carl Hart · Host Lex FridmanThe Columbia psychologist tells Lex Fridman that most drug effects are positive, that alcohol withdrawal is deadlier than heroin’s, and that the war on drugs pays a long list of people to keep a scapegoat in place.
1:45:45ENLex Fridman· Oct 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Blink of Ordered Particles: Brian Greene on Entropy, Meaning, and DeathGuest Brian Greene · Host Lex FridmanThe Columbia physicist talks with Lex Fridman about heat death, consciousness, string theory, the Big Bang, aliens, Mars, and the kind of freedom that survives without free will.
1:30:40ENLex Fridman· Sep 27, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersI'm Giving You This Feedback Because I Believe in YouGuest Jo Boaler · Host Lex FridmanStanford mathematician Jo Boaler on visual math, why struggle only works if you think you can get there, and how a 90-minute class raised classroom engagement 68 percent.
3:28:40ENLex Fridman· Sep 1, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThere Are More Viruses in a Liter of Seawater Than People on EarthGuest Vincent Racaniello · Host Lex FridmanColumbia virologist Vincent Racaniello talks Lex Fridman through ocean-scale particle counts, mRNA vaccines, and why speaking with false certainty does more damage than a virus.
1:52:17ENLex Fridman· Aug 27, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersOld Theories Rarely Die of Contradiction. They Stop Making New Things.Guest Jed Buchwald · Host Lex FridmanCaltech historian Jed Buchwald talks with Lex Fridman about Kuhn, Newton, and why scientific change is a victory of productivity more than of proof.
2:22:55ENLex Fridman· Aug 23, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersLIGO measures a thousandth of a proton — then a thousand physicists stayed quiet for a monthGuest Barry Barish · Host Lex FridmanNobel laureate Barry Barish tells Lex Fridman how gravitational waves were predicted, doubted, and finally heard with the most precise machine ever built.
2:48:18ENLex Fridman· Aug 11, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHumans are the only species that skip sleep on purposeGuest Matt Walker · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley sleep scientist Matt Walker talks with Lex Fridman about why we sleep, what caffeine and dreams actually do, and whether passion can justify the health cost of staying up.Load moreShowing 24 of 99