In 1925, a young student named Werner Heisenberg retreated to an island archipelago on the north coast of Germany called Helgoland to escape a terrible bout of hay fever. On the treeless, pollen-free island, Heisenberg made crucial breakthroughs for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas such as ghost waves, distant objects that seem to be magically connected, and cats that appear to be both dead and alive, quantum physics has le...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 197
Horatiu Boeriu is the CEO and Founder of BMWBLOG, a Chicago-based website dedicated to automotive journalism with a focus on the BMW brand. Horatiu built his website from a passion project into a respected media outlet in the car industry and has grown his audience to several million car enthusiasts. This episode is part of a miniseries called PubCast that explores the stories of website creators and app developers who've turned their passions into digital businesses. Hear from founders about ho...
Nov 23, 2021•26 min•Ep. 196
Paul Husbands is the CEO and Founder of Selecta Charts, a first of its kind music streaming platform for Caribbean artists. Since its launch, Selecta Charts has drawn thousands of listeners and propelled hundreds of Caribbean artists to new heights. This episode is part of a miniseries called PubCast that explores the stories of website creators and app developers who've turned their passions into digital businesses. Hear from founders about how they got started, their challenges growing, and th...
Nov 19, 2021•24 min•Ep. 195
Bestselling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer Jeff Hawkins joins computational neuroscience researcher and software technologist Subutai Ahmad to discuss the recent book "A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence" and how those concepts are being applied to Machine Learning. For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike...
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 194
Christeen Skinner is the Director of City Scopes, an astrology focused company founded in 1998 in London. Since then, the company has grown to offer a variety of astrology sites, training courses, books and more. Christeen now focuses more of her time to expand into other areas where she uses astrology to predict financial markets. This episode is part of a miniseries called PubCast that explores the stories of website creators and app developers who've turned their passions into digital busines...
Nov 12, 2021•30 min•Ep. 193
Todrick Hall visits Google to discuss his fourth studio album and most personal work to date, Femuline. Femuline finds Todrick sharing the spotlight with some of music’s biggest names, including Nicole Scherzinger, Tyra Banks, longtime LGBTQ+ ally Chaka Khan, and R&B legend Brandy. Todrick Hall’s resume reads like a Wikipedia entry for “Major Pop Culture Events Of The 21st Century.” He’s worked with everyone from Taylor Swift to Beyoncé to Pentatonix, going from national fame on American Ido...
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 192
Chef Dennis Littley got his start as a classically trained chef and kindled his passion for teaching by creating a Culinary Program at the high school he worked at. Now living in Florida, Chef Dennis works full time on his food and travel site, Ask Chef Dennis, helping millions of people create restaurant-quality meals at home. This episode is part of a miniseries called PubCast that explores the stories of website creators and app developers who've turned their passions into digital businesses....
Nov 05, 2021•28 min•Ep. 191
Author Jordan Shapiro discusses his book " Father Figure: How to be a Feminist Dad." Shapiro is a globally celebrated American thought leader, whose column in Forbes Magazine has been read by over 5 million people around the world. He writes about global education, learning through digital play, children, and culture. Additionally, he is an international speaker and consultant whose fresh perspective combines psychology, philosophy, and economics in unexpected ways. In his book, Shapiro offers a...
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 190
Jessica Rovello is the CEO and Co-Founder of Arkadium, a game development company based in New York that has built hundreds of games enjoyed on over 800 million devices worldwide. Arkadium has been voted as one of Inc.'s best places to work and takes an employee-centric approach to growth. This episode is part of a miniseries called PubCast that explores the stories of website creators and app developers who've turned their passions into digital businesses. Hear from founders about how they got ...
Oct 29, 2021•39 min•Ep. 189
This week, actor Andrew Rannels discusses his directorial debut with an episode of Modern Love, a co-production of Amazon Studios and The New York Times. Each episode brings to life a different story that has been inspired by the newspaper's popular Modern Love column. This anthology series explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, as well as its effects on the human connection, and the episode Rannells directed is based upon a personal essay that he penned for the New York Ti...
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 188
Samuel Brinton, the son of two Southern Baptist ministers, shares his experiences with years of so-called “conversion therapy” designed to "cure" him of his homosexuality. In this talk, Sam speaks about his experiences in the hopes that others who have endured similar struggles will find hope. Today, Samuel is the Vice President of Advocacy and Government Affairs at the Trevor Project, a leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth un...
Oct 22, 2021•51 min•Ep. 187
Humor is serious business. And that’s a fact backed by cold, hard research. Humor builds bonds, defuses tension, boosts innovation, and bolsters resilience through hard times. That’s why Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas teach a class called “Humor: Serious Business”, at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, a course that has helped some of the world’s most hard-driving, blazer-wearing business minds have more joy in their work and lives. In their book Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret W...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 186
As climate change, wildfires, and decades-long megadroughts continue to ravage once-vibrant parts of our planet, humanity is experiencing an overdue reckoning about our most precious resource: water. Enter director Jessica Yu and her film Last Call at the Oasis, a documentary that firmly establishes the urgency of the global water crisis as the central issue facing our world in the 21st century. The film illustrates the paramount role that water plays in our lives, exposes the defects in how we ...
Oct 15, 2021•16 min•Ep. 185
Psychology professor Dr. Paul Slovic discusses the way people tend to perceive mass tragedies and losses at scale. He and his colleagues worldwide have developed methods to describe risk perceptions and measure their impacts on individuals, industry, and society. His most recent work examines “psychic numbing” and the failure to respond to global threats from genocide and nuclear war. We as a global society value individual lives greatly and respond strongly to protect a single person in need - ...
Oct 12, 2021•52 min•Ep. 184
Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring and visionary spiritual teachers in the world today. His bestselling books The Power of Now and A New Earth aim to help readers find freedom by living their lives in the present moment, instead of dwelling on the past or fretting about the future. The New York Times has described him as “the most popular spiritual author in the United States”, and in 2011, Watkins Review named him “the most spiritually influential person in the worl...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 183
This week, mathematician and emeritus Oxford University Professor John Lennox discusses his book, “ 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity” You don't have to be a computer scientist to get involved in the discussion about where artificial intelligence and technology are going. What will the year 2084 hold for you--for your friends, for your family, and for our society? Are we doomed to the grim dystopia imagined in George Orwell's 1984? In "2084", scientist and philosopher John...
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 182
Satyajit Bhatkal, acclaimed director of the superhit television series “Satyamev Jayate,” and CEO of the Paani Foundation, talks about the foundation's work to address the water crisis in the Indian state of Maharashtra through decentralized watershed planning. The Paani Foundation was founded by Satyajit's close friend and beloved movie superstar Aamir Khan and his wife Kiran Rao. The Paani Foundation team were the minds behind the “Satyamev Jayate Water Cup Challenge,” which awards annual priz...
Oct 01, 2021•53 min•Ep. 181
Having been named by Sports Illustrated as the Greatest Female Athlete of the 20th Century, Jackie Joyner-Kersee's athletic credentials are unquestionably amongst the best ever in all of sporting history. A six-time Olympic medalist, including three Olympic gold medals, Joyner-Kersee dominated the Olympic heptathlon and long-jump events throughout her career which spanned four Olympic Games. Astonishingly, despite the advancements in technology and training used by athletes around the world over...
Sep 28, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 180
Originally published in October of 2016, Sadhguru was chosen as one of India’s 50 most influential people. He is a world-renowned yogi, mystic, and visionary humanitarian who teaches the concept of inclusive consciousness. Inclusive consciousness is a framework for developing the human mind and fostering global harmony through individual transformation. Also the subject of his book, what he refers to as “Inner Engineering” is a method that can bring balance to the mind, body, emotions, and energ...
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 179
Bevy Smith discusses her book "Bevelations: Lessons from a Mutha, Auntie, Bestie." A quintessential Harlem girl, Gracie Award winner and life-long New Yorker, Bevy Smith is the host of Sirius XM’s "Bevelations" on Radio Andy. Once a wildly successful luxury fashion publishing exec, Bevy shifted her professional goals to pursue a life in front of the camera. As a pop culture aficionado and fashion expert, Bevy served as moderator of Bravo TV’s revolutionary "Fashion Queens," and was a former co-h...
Sep 21, 20210•Ep. 178
Leymah Gbowee was only 17 when the Second Liberian Civil War erupted. Years of fighting destroyed her country—and her hopes and dreams. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, realizing that it is women who suffer most during conflicts—and that the power of women working together can create an unstoppable force. Working as a social worker and trauma counselor during the war, she organized the Women of Liberian Mass Act...
Sep 17, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 177
Jim Salzman and Michael Heller discuss their book "Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives. " When is it okay to recline your airplane seat? Do we actually own our smartphones, or are we just leasing them? What do you really own when you click the “buy now” button? And how is South Dakota making you less wealthy? In the spirited style of Freakonomics and Tipping Point , Jim Salzman and Michael Heller explore fun, surprising, and often infuriating real-life stories that reveal ...
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 176
Farmer, author, and activist Joel Salatin discusses his book, "Folks, This Ain't Normal," as well as sustainable farming, food policy, and solutions to America's food woes. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.
Sep 11, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 175
Nigel Ng discusses how he has overcome adversity and all odds against him to be successful, and gain a tremendous fanbase over years of hard work. Nigel Ng is a Malaysian stand up comedian and content creator. He started his career in the Chicago comedy clubs and is now based in London. In 2020, he went viral from his portrayal of Uncle Roger, a middle-aged Asian man reviewing an egg fried rice video. In 10 months, he has amassed 170 million views on his YouTube channel and a combined following ...
Sep 07, 2021•58 min•Ep. 174
The uncut interview of Stephen Colbert's visit to Google's New York office. You can find Stephen's book on Google Play here: http://goo.gl/Jyujo . America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't is more of a coffee-table book, with large color pictures, and chapter photos that require the use of included 3-D glasses. It falls somewhere between I Am America and the Daily Show faux-textbooks America (The Book) and Earth (The Book), which used that organizing principle to their advantage....
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Simu Liu discusses his career, Asian empowerment and community. Actor, author and advocate Simu Liu will make his debut as the title character in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring alongside Awkwafina, Tony Leung, and Michelle Yeoh, Liu makes history as the star of the first Asian-fronted movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He also starred in the CBC/Netflix comedy series Kim’s Convenience for five seasons, which was the first Canadian t...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 172
A former Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Walker is currently a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and the founder & director of the Center for Human Sleep Science. Dr. Walker’s research examines the impact of sleep on human health and disease. In addition, Dr. Walker helped create the recent National Geographic documentary, Sleepless in America, and the PBS NOVA special, Memory Hackers. Most recently, he contributed to th...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 171
Tom Vanderbilt is an author who writes about design, technology, science, and culture for Wired, Slate, The New York Times, and many other publications. His book entitled “Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)" is based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe. The book gets under the hood of the everyday activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological, and technical factors ...
Aug 13, 2021•56 min•Ep. 170
Brahma Kumari Shivani, also known as BK Shivani, has a widely popular television show called “Awakening With Brahma Kumaris.” The program is meant to help it’s audience with self-transformation, which empowers individuals from all walks of life all over the world. In this episode, BK Shivani discusses the difference between “to be” vs “to do”, and the importance of incorporating daily practices in our lives to maintain our well-being at all times. She provides insight on the art of detaching, ye...
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 169
Janet Mock is an American writer, television host, director, producer and transgender rights activist. Her debut book, the memoir Redefining Realness, debuted on the New York Times bestseller in 2014. The book tells her story of growing up as a trans girl in Hawaii, and celebrates self-actualization and self-love. In addition, she is a contributing editor for Marie Claire, a former staff editor of People magazine's website, and a writer, director, & producer for the acclaimed FX television s...
Aug 06, 2021•39 min•Ep. 168
