Applied mathematician Coco Krumme joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the bear traps we’ve created with systems so tightly wound for efficiency that we’re caught off guard when faced with disruption or uncertainty.
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Will COVID-19 Spell the End of International Cooperation
Abraham Newman joins us to talk about how smoothing out all the bumps in our international supply chains created an unexpected shock in the system.
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As Algorithms Get Smarter, Do We Get Dumber?
Edward Tenner, distinguished scholar at the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, joins us to talk about how algorithms and artificial intelligence lead to missed opportunities and wasted effort.
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The Limits Of Time In A Speedy World
This hour, we’ll talk about our culture’s need for speed and its effect on our well-being with Columbia University’s Mark C. Taylor, author of Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left.
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