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Intelligence Squared is the home of lively debate and deep-dive discussion. Follow Intelligence Squared wherever you get your podcasts and enjoy four regular episodes per week taking you to the heart of the issues that matter in the company of the world’s great minds. We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be. Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to [email protected] or ...
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DNA science. Artificial intelligence. Smartphones and 3D printers. Science and technology have transformed the world we live in. But how did we get here? It wasn’t by accident. Well, sometimes it was. It was also the result of hard work, teamwork, and competition. And incredibly surprising moments. Hosted by bestselling author Steven Johnson (“How We Got To Now”), American Innovations uses immersive scenes to tell the stories of the scientists, engineers, and ordinary people behind the great ...
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Mandy Connell brings her intelligence and wit to explaining US politics as a whole and our pop culture in general.
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America is more divided than ever—but it doesn’t have to be. Open to Debate offers an antidote to the chaos. We bring multiple perspectives together for real, nonpartisan debates. Debates that are structured, respectful, clever, provocative, and driven by the facts. Open to Debate is on a mission to restore balance to the public square through expert moderation, good-faith arguments, and reasoned analysis. We examine the issues of the day with the world’s most influential thinkers spanning s ...
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Stewart Alsop III reviews a broad range of topics with his father Stewart Alsop II, who started his career in the personal computer industry and is still actively involved in investing in startup technology companies. Stewart Alsop III is fascinated by what his father was doing as SAIII was growing up in the Golden Age of Silicon Valley. Topics include: - How the personal computing revolution led to the internet, which led to the mobile revolution - Now we are covering the future of the inte ...
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What's missing in [many] discussions on politics, ethics, religion, and society, [mostly] focussed on South Africa. Hosted by Jacques Rousseau and Greg Andrews.
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Welcome to Arts & Culture by Intelligence Squared. Here we delve into the artistic and cultural moments, movements and conversations that have shaped, and are still shaping, our world. In this podcast Intelligence Squared speaks to some of the world’s greatest orators, writers, actors and artists. Guests include Stephen Fry, Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo, Salman Rushdie, Kate Winslet, Simon Schama, Tom Hiddleston and Marina Abromović. Join us every week as we feature the best of cultu ...
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Kitbag Conversations was a podcast, blog, and meme page ran by two former military intelligence analysts. Matt, a former Marine intelligence NCO, and Cody, a former Army intelligence officer.
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First, put your shovel down and listen to our monthly community podcast, Stop Digging! Only YOU can decide how to move through whatever pile of dirt your life or work struggles have put in your way. But we can help. Explore various pain-point topics with our nonprofit's podcast team that hosts engaging conversations with real people. We focus on three main community pillars: 1. Health & Relationships 2. Learning & Leadership 3. Organizations & Growth Each pillar aligns to our nonprofit’s ind ...
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Two professors of writing and design share strategies for effectively and ethically implementing generative AI into teaching and learning. We answer listener questions. We talk to students, faculty, and whoever else comes to the table.
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The Future. It’s all there, in front of us. It could go wonderfully. Or it could go badly wrong. It will inevitably require our passions and our ingenuity. So how do we see the challenges early on, find solutions and help make the world a better place? For ourselves, for our families, for everyone. Welcome to the Futureverse, brought to you by Intelligence Squared and Y TREE.
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America feels divided. From the most salient questions about our national identity and place in the world, to fundamental concerns about technology, religion, the economy, and public policy, Intelligence Squared U.S. is here to help. A respite from polarized discussions, we bring together the smartest minds to debate and dissect issues in depth, restoring civility and bringing intelligence to the public square in the process.
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For almost three centuries, Sotheby’s has been the place to discover the greatest stories of creativity. We’ve been the temporary custodians of some of the world’s finest treasures, which you can see on display in our galleries on any given day. Sotheby’s Talks is the podcast that celebrates art, culture, and collecting. Featuring conversations with tastemakers, collectors and luminaries from the world of art and culture, this series invites you inside the world of Sotheby’s: a place where y ...
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My name is Mary Rutt. I'm a podcaster. I'm also a big fan of mental health, and I'm interested to find out if artificial intelligence makes a good therapist. In this show, I'm wondering...can IA therapy help me become a better person? Is it smart to seek advice from a bot or a cloud or whatever? Let's find out!
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Breaking down the economic ideas we’ve all heard of but may not fully understand in under 15 minutes. Host Nicola Walton is joined by an economics expert each week to take us through the terminology, statistics and stories of how economic forces shape our world and lives. Brought to you by Intelligence Squared.
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Chris Hirst, CEO of Havas advertising group, cuts through the bullsh*t and gets to the heart of modern leadership. In this straight talking podcast he interviews leaders from Clive Woodward to June Sarpong on how to inspire, how to keep going when sh*t hits the fan, and ultimately how to get stuff done. Brought to you by Intelligence Squared.
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"Blue Square Security" is a Microsoft Security focused podcast that explores the latest trends and best practices in cybersecurity, led by the Microsoft Digital Security team including in-depth discussions with experts from multiple industry experts and Microsoft partners. Each episode will delve into a different topic, such as cloud security, threat intelligence, or identity and access management, providing listeners with practical insights and actionable advice to help them better protect ...
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A Members Exclusive Limited Series from Intelligence Squared. Head to www.intelligencesquared.com/membership to become a member today and listen whenever you get your podcasts. In recent months it can feel like Saudi Arabia is intent on buying the world. Its Public Investment Fund (PIF) has bought up much of golf, sports teams, many of the globe’s best soccer players to its domestic league, and it owns huge chunks of many of the most famous companies on the planet. But Saudi Arabia is not ju ...
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We are a group of psychedelic explorers that gather on a Discord Server to discuss topics that come to us from books, movies, current events, and our own personal lives, such as hallucinogens, addiction, consciousness, and dimethyltryptamine . Come join us and be part of our growing community! https://discord.gg/WJTvxCfbbw
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Join Alannah Weston, Chairman of Selfridges Group, for the third series of How to Lead a Sustainable Business (https://www.selfridges.com/GB/en/features/project-earth/podcast/?cm_re=homepage-_-cat-tile-1-feature-_-podcast) . In this series, Alannah continues her mission to discover how businesses can innovate and transform to put sustainability at their core. The latest IPCC report demonstrates what we all know - there is no time left for incremental progress. This series is all about system ...
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Ever wonder what’s really out there—hidden in the shadows of history, buried in conspiracy theories, or lurking just beyond the stars? From unsolved mysteries and urban legends to extraterrestrial encounters and mind-bending science (both real and fringe), Divergent History is where the strange gets explained—without the boring lectures. We’ll explore the stories that keep you up at night and the questions that make you rethink everything you thought you knew. Oh, and you’ll also meet Wendel ...
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BORN TO BLOG If you don't have time to read my blogs you can always listen to it as a podcast. You should never hesitate to gain some free, researched knowledge.
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Conversations with politicians, public figures, thinkers and commentators about taking American democracy back from the algorithms and social media platforms that are swallowing us whole.
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The Tree of Life: Mapping Evolution’s Greatest Story, with Max Telford
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Understanding how the diversity of life on earth came to be is one of the greatest puzzles in biology. In his new book, The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle, Professor Max Telford charts a four-billion-year journey through the evolution of our planet, from humans, fish and butterflies to oak trees, mushrooms and bacteria. On today’s …
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Episode #33: From Mainframes to Minds: Rethinking the Architecture of Intelligence
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Welcome to Stewart Squared podcast with the two Stewart Alsops. In this episode, the conversation starts with a personal quest into vector databases and linked data, but opens into a sweeping narrative of how the Internet—built on protocols like TCP/IP and scaffolding like URIs—evolved from Cold War military infrastructure into the backbone of our …
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04-23-25 FULL SHOW - Joshua Griffin Wants To Be Governor
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04-23-25 Interview - Joshua Griffin Wants to Be Governor
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JOSHUA GRIFFIN WANTS TO BE GOVERNOR And he joins me today to talk about his plans for Colorado, some of which I am not a fan of. We'll do a deep dive into what he stands for at 1, find out more about him here.By KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM
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04-23-25 Interview - Weather Wednesday with FOX31's Dave Fraser
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WEATHER WEDNESDAY AT 12:30 So get your weather questions ready for Fox 31's Dave Fraser.By KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM
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Ritual, Ancestry, and Cultural History in Modern China, with Alice Mah
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What do we owe to the dead? What responsibilities do we inherit from the past, and how do they intersect with the crises of the present? In an era of ecological collapse and cultural dislocation, how can we meaningfully honour ancestral memory when the material sites of remembrance - tombs, villages, traditions - are themselves vanishing? In this e…
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04-22-25 FULL SHOW - Why X IS The Public Square, Plus Dems Hate Transparency
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04-22-25 Interview - Former DougCo Commissioner Lora Thomas - Asking for Current Board Accountability
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Voynich Manuscript DECODED: Unraveling History’s Most Bizarre Ancient Puzzle
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The Voynich Manuscript: Has History’s Strangest Book Finally Been Decoded? The Voynich Manuscript decoded? In this deep-dive episode, we explore the ancient puzzle that has baffled historians, cryptographers, AI researchers, and conspiracy theorists for over 600 years. Is the Voynich Manuscript a brilliant hoax, a lost language, a medieval medical …
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04-21-25 FULL SHOW - Pope Francis Has Died, And Mayor Coffman Joins Me Today
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04-21-25 Interview - Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman
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MAYOR MIKE COFFMAN JOINS ME TODAY AT 1 And we're going to talk about the progress of the new homeless campus and how things are going in Aurora overall. Mostly we're going to do a deeper dive into this report by the Common Sense Institute about homelessness in Colorado. Spoiler alert: it's not good.By KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, with Laura Spinney
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What if a single ancient language lay at the root of nearly half of the world’s spoken tongues? In today’s episode, acclaimed science writer and journalist Laura Spinney joins us to discuss her new book Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. In Proto, Spinney takes us deep into the mystery of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) - a prehistoric language…
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Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England. No writer matches Austen’s sensitive ear for the hypocrisy and irony lurking beneath the genteel conversation. That’s the argument of the Janeites, but to the aficionados of Emily Brontë they are the misguided worshippers of a circumscribed mind. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë dispensed …
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Memory of Water: The Hidden Intelligence Inside You
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🔥 Memory of Water may be real. And what it remembers… could be inside you right now. Memory of Water: The Hidden Intelligence Inside You Could water actually store memory? What if every drop of water you drink carries the secrets of the past—and the instructions for your future? In this mind-blowing investigation, we uncover the shocking science be…
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04-18-25 FULL SHOW - The Medicaid Grift, And The Future Of Ranked Choice Voting
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04-18-25 Interview - Niklas Kleinworth of the Paragon Institute on Medicaid
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04-18-25 Interview - Kent Thiry on Ranked Choice Voting
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04-18-25 Interview - Father Mike Tess on Good Friday and Easter
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An Evening with Elif Shafak and Peter Frankopan
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Elif Shafak’s award-winning novels are celebrated globally. Her work has been translated into 58 languages, and her latest, There Are Rivers in the Sky, is a testament to the power of storytelling across borders and cultures. This is an epic story of interconnection. Spanning ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary London, Shafak charts the lifespan of…
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Was Trump Right to Be Hard on Soft Power in the Middle East?
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The U.S. has long balanced military strength with soft power in the Middle East through agencies like USAID. With the Trump administration reversing these policies, is this a necessary realignment—or a costly retreat? Those against these changes argue this will boost rivals like Iran and China and harm America’s image. Those hailing them argue it’s…
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04-17-25 FULL SHOW - What Should the Colorado GOP Focus On?
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04-17-25 Interview - New Colorado GOP Chair Brita Horn
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NEW COLORADO GOP CHAIR BRITA HORN TODAY AT 2:30 So I thought we'd be helpful and figure out what issues need to be top priority for Republican candidates in the upcoming election cycles. I have some ideas, as I'm sure you do, but they may not be MY pet topic, as I want the party to focus on issues that resonate with the tons of independents in Colo…
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04-17-25 Interview - Greg Lopez is Running For Governor
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GREG LOPEZ IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR Again. Find out more about Greg's campaign by clicking here and I've got him on at 1pm today to discuss why he thinks this time will be different.By KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM
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04-16-25 FULL SHOW - I Need Woodpecker Help!
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04-16-25 Interview - Bell and Pollock - Let's Ask the Attorneys Some Stuff, Shall We?
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LET'S ASK THE ATTORNEYS SOME STUFF, SHALL WE? I love hearing about people's legal issues, maybe a throwback to when my dad would tell me about the cases he was working on, so today the fine attorneys from Bell and Pollock are in to take your legal questions. They join me at 2pm today.By KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM
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04-16-25 Interview - Weather Wednesday with FOX31's Dave Fraser
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WINTER IS COMING BACK SOON So enjoy today and we'll find out from Fox 31's Dave Fraser when and what we can expect this weekend, when things are going to be a lot messier than they are now. He joins me at 12:30.By KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM
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Abundance: A New Blueprint for Liberal Politics, With Derek Thompson
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What if the biggest threat to liberal democracy isn’t authoritarianism - but our failure to build? On today’s episode we’re joined by journalist Derek Thompson to unpack Abundance, a new vision of progressive politics co-authored by Thompson and Ezra Klein. In it, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress a…
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