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#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love

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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

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#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning

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#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society

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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

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#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

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#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions

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#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream

Steve Viscelli is a former truck driver and now an economic sociologist at University of Pennsylvania studying freight transportation, including autonomous trucks. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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