The Best of All Worlds

The Most Important Problem: Prologue and Introduction


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This episode contains the pre-Chapter 1 material from the current draft of my book, The Most Important Problem. It gives the origin story of my current research, including the interviews I do on this show. If you're new, this is a good place to start.

In this episode, five mysterious men nearly cause a nuclear war, a pioneering Ottoman launches himself into the ocean, and the Director of the National Science Foundation makes weird faces at me.

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The Best of All WorldsBy Alex