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Seb Park and Uri Bram judge Antarctic explorers

Pamela Hobart is a philosopher turned philosophical life coach and mother of three. This week she discusses how to deal with an existential sandwich, why small innovations are valuable, and the deathbed fallacy.

(30m 23s, or read the transcript here)

Baiqu sits down with Ada Palmer, a cultural and intellectual historian and the author of science fiction and fantasy novels, including the award-winning Terra Ignota series.

Philosopher Rob Reich, political scientist Jeremy Weinstein and computer scientist Mehran Sahami are the authors of the brand new book System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.

We play a round of The Last Word, where we ask fascinating people to answer difficult questions in a very specific number of words.

Sylvia is a children's book writer and the Assistant Publisher of The Browser. Sylvia reveals why you always kill off the parents, how to tap into the mind of a child, and evolutionary psychology.

Charles Saumarez-Smith, former director of the National Portrait Gallery, discusses his new book, The Art Museum in Modern Times. Interview by Beatrice Wilford.

Inspired by his piece "Making Meaning", Garth Greenwell joins Lindelani and Nontsi to discuss the meaning of the word and the idea of relevance when we talk about art, and how it poses a danger to how we encounter art.

Reading material mentioned in the conversation:

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

What Belongs To You: A Novel by Garth Greenwell