Smart People Podcast
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Smart People Podcast is simply a place to hear cool stuff from some of the smartest people on earth. We are reaching out to leading professionals in various industries to pick their oversized brains and pass that information along to our listeners. You will hear top notch advice from M.D.’s and CFP’s, athletes and intellectuals, porn stars and Buddhists and everything in between.
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Episode 277 - Peter Brannen - How The World Ends
6 days ago
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56 minutes
Did you know our world has ended five times? It has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. And in each of these catastrophic occurrences, climate change has been the culprit.You may be wondering, how do asteroids have anything to do with climate change? We will leave the details to our guest this week, but essentially there is a triggering event (asteroid, volcano, humans) that causes the oceans to become more acidic and very soon after the entire world dies. This is what happens every time...and it may be happening again.This week on the show we interview award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen about his new book, The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions. In his book and in this interview, Peter takes us on a tour of the 5 ways that the Earth has died, as well as what may be to come. Part road trip, part history, and part cautionary tale, The Ends of the World takes us on a tour of the ways that our planet has clawed itself back from the grave and casts our future in a completely new light.Peter Brannen is an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, the Washington Post, Slate, the Boston Globe, Aeon, among other publications. A graduate of Boston College, he was a 2015 journalist-in-residence at the Duke University National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and a 2011 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Fellow.
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DU454 from
Always interesting
One of my favorite podcasts, I am always surprised at how I might hold off on listening to an episode because the topic doesn't seem incredibly relevant or interesting to me and 9/10 I am blown away. It is captivating, informative and importantly there is an underlying theme of self-improvement, not just to help listeners, but also the hosts. I am a relatively new listener, but with an 1 1/2 commute each day, I find plenty of time to listen in and learn cool stuff and feel inspired to make positive changes.
Date published: 2015-01-06
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JanetM from
Brainy Boys
The Smart People hosts are really smart themselves but their most endearing (and enduring) characteristic is their modesty. It allows them to engage both their guests and their listeners in very down to earth discussions at a very high level. They are like really good friends who you can have over for dinner and not worry about what to serve because gourmet food isn't necessary to improve the evening. Spaghetti is fine because they will spice it up.
Date published: 2013-12-22
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DynamicNerd from
By Far One of The Best Podcasts I've Found
When I catch up on all of my pod casts, this is one of the few that I go back and listen to. Jon and Cris are both very down to earth in their interviews while still hitting relevant information from great guests and helping make even complex concepts easier to understand just by being honest with their guests when they are lost. Add the quality of guests and questions and I can not recommend these guys enough.
Date published: 2014-05-03
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Boneyard from
Sweet Ride
These guys remind me of the surfers who do the commentary during contests. You never know what they are going to say; I don't think they do either. They listen and react like the rest of us - authentic, genuine, and most importantly, fun.
Date published: 2014-01-28
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Kevin4353 from
Excellent interview show
Such a great contribution to the podcast world. Great content on a wide variety of topics - it's a fascinating way to make sure you're learning something new and insightful to help spark your own ideas and curiosity.
Date published: 2014-09-30
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MateusD from
Just great!
One of the best shows that I ever listened. Chris and Jon have an unique chemistry and the guests are always interesting. It is amazing to see how the interviews flows smoothly, very informative and fun.
Date published: 2014-05-08
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GQ_Papi from
Intoxicatingly Addictive!!
Short time listener (3wks) 120 episods
later. This podcast is intoxicatingly
addictive!! Great hosts and great
guests! Only problem I'm going to run
out of podcast to listen to!! Keep up the great work!!
Date published: 2014-05-01
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opus from
Great Show
One of the best Podcast's out there. They were able to take a pretty complex subject such as P & NP computational algorithms and simplify it better then I have ever heard anyone else do.
Date published: 2014-02-04
