Ideas at Work with Toby Shannan
A podcast featuring conversations with scientists, thinkers, and writers who are influencing our time. The world has changed. What we once believed true will take a different perspective post Covid-19. There’s never been a better time to scrutinize our ideas, beliefs and truths with some of the most influential people of our time.
Podcasting since 2020 • 6 episodes
Ideas at Work with Toby Shannan
Latest Episodes
Ep 6: Wendy Carlin
Wendy Carlin is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She is leading an international project - the CORE project - to reform the undergraduate economics ...
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Episode 6
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Ep 5: David Krakauer
David's research is concerned with the evolutionary history of information processing mechanisms in biology and culture, with an emphasis on robust information transmission, signaling dynamics and their role in constructing novel, higher level ...
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Episode 5
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Ep 4: Andrew Mcafee
Andrew McAfee is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changin...
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Ep 3: Geoffrey West
Geoffrey is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications. West served as President for the ...
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Episode 3
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