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Lex Fridman· Sep 16, 2026PodcastPsychiatry Has Never Found Its PenicillinHost Lex FridmanHistorian Andrew Scull tells Lex Fridman why the field can ease symptoms, has never cured a major mental illness, and keeps paying for overconfidence with patients' lives.
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Matthew Berman· Aug 28, 2026A Laser Device Aims to Target MosquitoesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman describes a proposed laser-based mosquito defense and the capabilities claimed in a short promotional video.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 16, 2026PodcastA $500 Lamp Cut TB Transmission 90 Percent. Almost Nobody Buys OneHost Nathan LabenzAerolamp's Misha Gurevich and Vivian Belenky walk Patrick McKenzie through far-UVC at 222 nanometers: the lab science, the safety case, and why the bottleneck is awareness rather than physics.
2:06:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 14, 2025PodcastOne ChatGPT query is a second in the microwaveHost Nathan LabenzAndy Masley walks Nathan Labenz through the energy and water math of AI, from a single prompt to an 80-gigawatt buildout.
1:29:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 14, 2025Podcast2,500 Compounds and a 51 Percent Hit Rate: How a Small Graph Net Found New AntibioticsHost Nathan LabenzMIT's Jim Collins tells Nathan Labenz how a bootlegged 2018 project, a binary growth-inhibition label, and Chemprop graph networks pulled novel antibiotics out of chemical space that labs could never screen by hand.
1:02:32ENLex Fridman· Oct 23, 2024PodcastThe More Important the Issue, the Less Anyone Discusses ItHost Lex FridmanBernie Sanders tells Lex Fridman why drug lobbyists, campaign cash, and a healthcare system built for profit keep the biggest American problems off the table.
4:11:06ENLex Fridman· Nov 18, 2022PodcastThe climate problem is real. The 12-year asteroid story is not.Host Lex FridmanBjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin tell Lex Fridman why vulnerability, cheaper tons of carbon, and energy innovation matter more than apocalyptic deadlines.
29:54ENLex FridmanPodcastSeven Levels of a Pandemic: Pain, Challenge and Hope From Biology to PhilosophyHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman maps the coronavirus onto seven levels of attack on society and proposes a response and a reason for hope at each one.