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    People I (Mostly) Admire

    5. Susan Wojcicki: “Hey, Let’s Go Buy YouTube!”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jan 31, 2026 • 31 min

    4. Ken Jennings: “Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jan 24, 2026 • 42 min

    3. Kerwin Charles: “One Does Not Know Where an Insight Will Come From”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jan 17, 2026 • 39 min

    2. Mayim Bialik: “I Started Crying When I Realized How Beautiful the Universe Is”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jan 10, 2026 • 46 min

    1. Steven Pinker: "I Manage My Controversy Portfolio Carefully”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jan 3, 2026 • 43 min

    173. Steve Levitt Says Goodbye to People I (Mostly) Admire

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Dec 20, 2025 • 51 min

    Ninety-Eight Years of Economic Wisdom (Replay)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Dec 13, 2025 • 49 min

    172. A New Kind of University

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Dec 6, 2025 • 52 min

    171. Measuring Pollution on Parallel Earths

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Nov 22, 2025 • 56 min

    Suleika Jaouad’s Survival Mechanisms (Replay)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Nov 15, 2025 • 59 min

    170. Finding the God Particle

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Nov 8, 2025 • 59 min

    169. Decoding the World’s First Writing

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Oct 25, 2025 • 50 min

    Is There a Fair Way to Divide Us? (Update)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Oct 18, 2025 • 1 h 00 min

    168. Chemistry, Evolved

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Oct 11, 2025 • 57 min

    167. The Secret of Humanity? It’s Common Knowledge.

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Sep 27, 2025 • 59 min

    How to Have Great Conversations (Update)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Sep 20, 2025 • 44 min

    166. The World’s Most Effective Public Health Intervention Is Under Attack

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Sep 13, 2025 • 1 h 02 min

    165. The Economist Who (Gasp!) Asks People What They Think

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Aug 30, 2025 • 53 min

    Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great (Update)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Aug 23, 2025 • 53 min

    164. Unravelling the Universe, Again

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Aug 16, 2025 • 1 h 02 min

    163. The Data Sleuth Taking on Shoddy Science

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Aug 2, 2025 • 56 min

    Arne Duncan Says All Kids Deserve a Chance — and Criminals Deserve a Second One (Update)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jul 26, 2025 • 46 min

    162. Will We Solve the Climate Problem?

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jul 19, 2025 • 58 min

    161. How to Captivate an Audience

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jul 5, 2025 • 49 min

    Annie Duke Thinks You Should Quit (Update)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jun 28, 2025 • 48 min

    160. How to Help Kids Succeed

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jun 21, 2025 • 1 h 00 min

    159. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Manifesto for a Gift Economy

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jun 7, 2025 • 57 min

    Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence? (Update)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    May 31, 2025 • 42 min

    158. Why Did Rome Fall — and Are We Next?

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    May 24, 2025 • 55 min

    157. The Deadliest Disease in Human History

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    May 10, 2025 • 1 h 05 min

    Abraham Verghese Thinks Medicine Can Do Better (Update)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    May 3, 2025 • 47 min

    156. A Solution to America’s Gun Problem

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Apr 26, 2025 • 59 min

    155. Helping People Die

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Apr 12, 2025 • 55 min

    Yul Kwon: “Don't Try to Change Yourself All at Once.” (Update)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Apr 5, 2025 • 45 min

    154. Can Robots Get a Grip?

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Mar 29, 2025 • 58 min

    153. We’re Not Getting Sicker — We’re Overdiagnosed

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Mar 15, 2025 • 1 h 04 min

    Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars (Update)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Mar 8, 2025 • 49 min

    152. Hunting for the Origins of Life

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Mar 1, 2025 • 47 min

    151. Neurobiologist, Philosopher, and Addict

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Feb 15, 2025 • 53 min

    Jane Goodall Changed the Way We See Animals. She’s Not Done. (Replay)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Feb 8, 2025 • 54 min
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