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Podcast: BooksPodcastEpisode: Mark Blake – Shine On – The Definitive Oral History Of Pink FloydPub date: 2025-10-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSyd Barrett was probably not really an acid casualty!Version 1.0.0Peter Jenner (Floyd’s first manager): “Syd’s behaviour was avant-garde and I thought avant-garde was good. Of course in hindsight, we...

Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?Pub date: 2025-10-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEliezer Yudkowsky is as afraid as you could possibly be. He makes his case.Yudkowsky is a pioneer of A.I. safety research, who started warning about the existential risks of the...

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Allen B. Downey, "Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions" (U Chicago Press, 2023)Pub date: 2025-10-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationStatistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor's office,...

Podcast: The Marginal Revolution Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: In Praise of Commercial CulturePub date: 2025-09-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTyler and Alex revisit Tyler’s 1998 book and trace how commerce disciplines and amplifies creativity. Great artists bargained hard because money buys orchestras and time. “Inspired...

Podcast: Dwarkesh Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitablePub date: 2025-10-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNick Lane has some pretty wild ideas about the evolution of life.He thinks early life was continuous with the spontaneous chemistry of undersea hydrothermal vents.Nick’s...

Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Why Money Doesn't Buy Happiness in AmericaPub date: 2025-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmerica is rich—richer than ever. Yet Americans are more anxious, lonelier, and less satisfied than people in many poorer nations. The 2025 World Happiness Report ranked...

Podcast: Princeton UP Ideas Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-09-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales...

Podcast: Givers, Doers, & Thinkers—A Podcast on Philanthropy and Civil Society (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Christopher Caldwell & the age of entitlementPub date: 2021-11-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDuring this episode of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy chats with acclaimed journalist Christopher Caldwell about the...

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: David J. Lynch, "The World's Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right)" (PublicAffairs, 2025)Pub date: 2025-09-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe triumphant globalization that began in the 1990s has given way to a world riven by...

Podcast: Bookstack (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 172: Phillip and William Taubman on McNamara at WarPub date: 2025-10-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book...