On defeating a knight with a week of prep, creating one big time zone, and fixing sleep as a biological bug.

Good intentions barely predict long-term decisions, and a brief scientific dispute about fish.

Short-term regrets are mostly about things you did. Conversely, long-term regrets are almost always about things you didn't. Either way the gang stands by every decision they have ever made.

On credible life advice, cookie dough, and whether "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" accounts for maimings

An epidemiologist who ran out of smallpox vaccines mid-outbreak and putting Nuclear Power Plants on the border with Belgium.

A special bonus episode where the questions were crowd-sourced & the crowd was sourced too, and we meet the Blimp guy for the first time. Kardashev scale gets mentioned and then immediately dismissed.

We ask which problems our guests would dedicate a career to. Also covered: grand unified field theory, Toyota's shady manufacturing practices, and whether the Forbes 30 Under 30 is still realistic at this point.

The gang turns to career decisions.  Also: physics highroading, a broken car, and Tyler says something toxic.

In the debut episode, we walk three college students through the research on affective forecasting and discover how to focus in real time