Jun 8

Touch Grass: Andrew Yang Returns To Talk Phone Addiction, AI's Cognitive Toll, & The Fight For Your Attention

Andrew Yang is an entrepreneur, former presidential candidate, and founder of Noble Mobile. This is a conversation about our phones, and what they're doing to us. We get into the machinery engineered to colonize your attention, the cognitive cost of leaning on AI, and why willpow ... Show More

56m 58s

Jun 4

ROLL ON: Enhanced Games

Roll On, but enhanced! Adam Skolnick came over to help make sense of the Enhanced Games, the pay-for-PEDs enterprise that just went down behind a Vegas casino. Think Idiocracy meets The Hunger Games, with Bryan Johnson calling the action from under a giant UV umbrella. It veers d ... Show More

59m 56s

Jun 1

Paul Rosolie Met An Uncontacted Tribe & Is Trying To Protect Them: On Preserving The Amazon To Save All Life On Earth

Paul Rosolie is a conservationist, adventurer, and the author of “Junglekeeper.” This conversation explores Paul's ardent case for ground-level conservation, the dire state of the Amazon, the indigenous wisdom that shaped him, his ill-fated brush with the Discovery Channel, encou ... Show More

1h 21m

Feb 2022

Oceanographer Sylvia Earle On Resilience, Hope & Mysteries Of The Deep

In the words of today’s guest, treat the natural world as if your life depends on it—because it truly does.Meet absolute living legend Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.A marine botanist, oceanographer, writer, lecturer, and one of the world’s top experts on ocean science and conservation, Sylv ... Show More

2h 13m

Jun 2022

[Unedited] Ocean Vuong with Krista Tippett

We are in the final weeks as On Being evolves to its next chapter — in a world that is evolving, each of us changed in myriad ways we’ve only begun to process and fathom. So it felt right to listen again to one of our most beloved shows of this post-2020 world. In fact, Krista in ... Show More

1h 32m

Jun 2022

Ocean Vuong — A Life Worthy of Our Breath

Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful writer Ocean Vuong on March 8, 2020 in a joyful, crowded room full of podcasters in Brooklyn. A state of emergency had just been declared in New York around a new virus. But no one guessed that within a handful of days such an event would ... Show More

49m 18s

Aug 2021

Craig Foster - My Octopus Teacher, Winning an Academy Award, and Why We Need Nature

Today’s guest is Craig Foster, who I've been waiting a while to have on the show. Besides the fact that he's one of my personal heroes, he has the unique designation of being the first Slo Mo guest to have to reschedule his interview date because he unexpectedly won an Academy Aw ... Show More

42m 48s

Dec 2023

121. Exploring Physics, from Eggshells to Oceans

Physicist Helen Czerski loves to explain how the world works. She talks with Steve about studying bubbles, setting off explosives, and how ocean waves have changed the course of history. <ul><li>SOURCE:<ul><li><a href="https://www.helenczerski.net/a ... Show More

45m 12s

Mar 2022

Mary Oliver — “I got saved by the beauty of the world.”

The late poet Mary Oliver is among the most beloved writers of modern times. Amidst the harshness of life, she found redemption in the natural world and in beautiful, precise language. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award among her many honors — and published nu ... Show More

49m 42s

Aug 2021

Life at Seven Miles Below the Sea

In her new book, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/books/review/below-edge-darkness-edith-widder-brilliant-abyss-helen-scales-deep-ocean.html" target="_blank">“The Brilliant Abyss,”</a> Helen Scales writes about the largely unseen realm of the deepest parts of the oc ... Show More

55m 15s

Oceanographer Sylvia Earle On Resilience...