Monica Bertagnolli went from a childhood on a cattle ranch to a career as a surgeon to a top post... more

Nobel laureate, bestselling author, and groundbreaking psychologist Daniel Kahneman died in March. In 2021 he talked with Steve Levitt —... more

Google researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas spends his work days developing artificial intelligence models and his free time conducting surveys... more

After Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Rajiv Shah headed the largest humanitarian effort in U.S. history. As chief economist of the Gates... more

"The Power of Habit" author Charles Duhigg wrote his new book in an attempt to learn how to communicate better.... more

Cat Bohannon’s new book puts female anatomy at the center of human evolution. She tells Steve why it takes us... more

Economist Daron Acemoglu likes to tackle big questions. He tells Steve how colonialism still affects us today, who benefits from... more

Journalist Walt Hickey uses data to understand how culture works. He and Steve talk about why China hasn’t produced any... more

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a bodybuilder, an actor, a governor, and, now, an author. He tells Steve how he’s managed... more

Physicist Helen Czerski loves to explain how the world works. She talks with Steve about studying bubbles, setting off explosives,... more