Comedian Adam Conover talks to exceptional experts, revealing shocking truths and thought-provoking new perspectives. It’s an investigative comedy podcast for curious people who never stop asking questions.
285 episodes transcribedCrypto is crashing, which makes it the perfect time to ask whether blockchain technology is actually — you know — useful for anything. Comput...
Is artificial intelligence a problem, or is the real problem how we’re using the term in the first place? Linguistics professor Emily Bender...
Despite our efforts, we seem to be no better at treating mental illness than we were hundreds of years ago. Desperate Remedies author Andrew...
In 2020, America went through a national reckoning about our racist criminal justice system. Just under two years later, has all that progres...
When we picture robots, we normally think of an artificial being created in our own image. But what if this were deeply misleading? Author of...
Our criminal justice system gives the impression of being impartial and fact-based, but in reality, it’s anything but. Innocence Project lawy...
Adam’s new series The G Word is out this Thursday on Netflix! To commemorate the premiere, this week The Fifth Risk author Michael Lewis turn...
Do we really own the devices we buy? ‘The Right to Repair’ author Aaron Perzanowki joins Adam to explain how companies are using their power...
Instead of debunking religious beliefs, what if we investigated where religion comes from, and why it’s virtually universal across human cult...
The IPCC Report is one of the biggest, most important scientific projects ever undertaken by humankind, bringing together thousands of scient...
We’ve known about climate chance since the 80s. So why has action been so slow? Journalist and author of Fire and Flood, Eugene Linden, joins...
The 1960’s are often depicted as the the golden age of air travel, but the reality for the stewardesses who worked the skies was far from gil...
The early Internet was open, exciting, and deeply optimistic. So how did we end up, just a few decades later, with one that’s closed, exploit...
Why do we have such a cultural aversion to human poop, when it’s so fascinating and useful? Stay with us: in this episode, science journalist...
Around the world and for most of history, human societies have been dominated by men. Why? Professor and author of the forthcoming “The Great...
China is now one of the world’s most powerful nations. But how did its unique and formidable language shape its rise? Jing Tsu, the author of...
Why is housing so expensive, when other human needs like food are relatively cheap? Brookings Senior Fellow and author of Fixer-Upper, Jenny...
The American conversation about reparations is sadly narrow. But what if reparations could address not just the sins of the past, but the inj...
Despite how much our media talks about China, most Americans don't really know all that much about it. What is China’s view of itself and its...
What would our world look like if we paid more attention to the knowledge indigenous communities have discovered about the world around us? O...
