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The UIUC Talkshow

The UIUC Talkshow

A show about the most interesting people with the most interesting ideas.

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73 episodes

  1. #71 - Steven Sarowitz: Why Young People Have Everything Except Something to Believe In 1:11:54
  2. #70 - Mike Ross: “Music Saved My Life,” Living Like a Composer, Passionate Generalism, and Krannert Center 1:44:49
  3. #69 - Nicolas Yunes: What Comes After Einstein, Gravity, Black Holes, Playing Professional Soccer, & Messi 2:25:11
  4. #68 - Bruce Reznick: Richard Feynman, Caltech at 16, and Why Mathematics Is Worth Doing for Its Own Sake 1:33:37
  5. #67 - Deke Weaver: The Unreliable Bestiary, Treating Cities Like Universities & Performance Art 1:59:40
  6. #66 - Daniel Simons: Why Smart People Get Fooled—and How to Know When You’re the One Who’s Wrong 1:26:26
  7. #65 - Eryn Van Wijk: Failure, Nihilism, Sean Carroll, Philosophy & Why Interesting People Change Your Life 4:57:16
  8. #64 - Alex Epstein: Climate Mastery, Policy, and The Fountainhead 30:43
  9. #63 - Steven LaValle: Oculus, VR, Robotics, Choices That Made No Sense, and Finland 2:12:44
  10. #62 - Michael Lembeck: UAPs, Meeting Elon Musk, NASA, New Physics, Life Beyond Earth & Immortality 1:47:10
  11. #61 - She Couldn’t Cross the Berlin Wall. Then She Built Tech to Make Distance Disappear | Klara Nahrstedt 2:27:50
  12. #60 - Peter Abbamonte: See the World as It Is, Think for Yourself, and Learn How Science Really Works 2:07:39
  13. #59 - Should You Live for Yourself or Should You Live to Help Other People? | Yaron Brook Talk at UIUC 1:52:28
  14. #58 - Yaron Brook: What to Study in College, Why You’ll Have Multiple Careers, & How to Think for Yourself 1:26:43
  15. #57 - We Have Hunter-Gatherer Emotions and Star Wars Technology: An Archaeologist Explains Our Future with Brett Kaufman 2:05:11
  16. #56 - Leslie Looney – Why a Truly Advanced Civilization Is Defined by Curiosity, Aliens, and Astronomy 1:44:47
  17. #55 - A Bankruptcy Expert Explains Why Millions Can Never Repay Their Student Loans with Robert Lawless 1:47:35
  18. #54 - Space Race: How a Laser Scientist Built a Midwest Rocket Factory—who wins by 2030—China or SpaceX? 1:38:03
  19. #53 - Geoffrey Challen: Insubordinate by Design 4:46:26
  20. #52 - When Empathy Becomes a Weapon: How a Master Diplomat Saves Nations with Stu Eizenstat 13:05
  21. #51 - The Real Reagan: Max Boot on Life, Legend, and Leadership After 10 Years of Research 21:49
  22. #50 - The Lost Voice of 60 Million: How Marie Arana Is Writing a New Chapter for Latinos in America 29:20
  23. #49 - Why College Won’t Change Your Life—Only You Can: Margaret Fleck & David Forsyth on AI, Love, and Artful Rebellion 1:58:11
  24. #48 - The Untold Story of The Mind Behind KAMS, Hubbard Inn, Red Lion, Joy District & Chicago's Top Venues 2:59:30
  25. # 47 - Inside the Mind of Illinois Coach Bret Bielema 28:07
  26. #46 - This Professor Made Nuclear Physics Viral on YouTube: David Ruzic on Explosives, Love, and Crocs 1:12:23
  27. #45 - Carla Scaletti & Kurt Hegel: Sonifying the Human Condition, WALL•E, and Kyma 1:48:07
  28. #44 - Pulitzer Prize, Fighting Discrimination, Washington Post, & Humility 2:44:22
  29. #43.5 - After Hours w/ Jolim Chiu 1:24:13
  30. #43 - Jolim Chiu: Christianity, After-Life, and Video Games 1:17:19
  31. #42 - Charles Gammie: Capturing Black Hole Image, Astrophysics, and Interstellar 2:20:57
  32. #41 - Inside Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome 1:21:32
  33. #40 - Firdos Cambatta: Entrepreneurship, Investments, and Nature 32:14
  34. #39 - Chancellor Robert Jones: $2.7 Billion, Education, and Grammy Awards 55:51
  35. #38 - Karrie Karahalios: Social Media, MIT, Algorithmic Control & Suing Government 2:51:08
  36. #37 - Tim Killeen: U of I President, Salary, Education's Future, & Human Potential 1:03:40
  37. #36 - Mark Wolters: How Not to Travel, Uno Cards, and Getting Married in Rwanda 1:31:01
  38. #35 - Jenny Johnson: Mapping Fate, Cartographic Passions, and Stealing Hearts 3:43:37
  39. #34 - Axel Hoffmann: Magnetism, Flying, and Neuromorphic Computing 1:29:30
  40. #33 - Tony Leggett: Nobel Prize, Don't Study Quantum Mechanics, & Paradigm Shifts 1:51:43
  41. #32 - Martin Gruebele: Childlike Curiosity, Ultraracing, & the Art of Fully Living 2:02:50
  42. #31 - Gene Robinson: Sequencing Genomes, Bees, and Evolution 1:20:51
  43. #30 - Indranil Gupta: Immigrant Computer Scientists, Music, & the Value of College 1:56:54
  44. #29 - Stephen Wolfram: College, Avoiding CS, and Building a Computational Universe 2:14:35
  45. #28 - Adrienne Antonson: A Journey Through Science, Art, and the Education System 1:45:47
  46. #27 - Stephen Boppart: Future of Medicine, Surviving Cancer, & Interdisciplinarity 55:16
  47. #26 - Botond Bognar: Japanese Architecture, Meaning Behind Buildings, and Modernism 1:31:05
  48. #25 - Arend van der Zande: Nanotechnology, Everything is a Wave, and Moore's Law 1:22:26
  49. #24 - Bruce Berndt: Srinivasa Ramanujan 1:47:37
  50. #23 - Gary Swenson: NASA, von Braun, and Remote Sensing 1:27:25