The Unadulterated Intellect
Episodes
#85 – Stanisław Ulam: Von Neumann – The Interaction of Mathematics and Computing
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stanisław Marcin Ulam (13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish and American mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist. He participa...
#84 – Robert Pirsig: On Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Quality – Minneapolis, 1974
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
#83 – Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky: Jane Street Singularity Debate
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Hanson: The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life -- https://amzn.to/40FehaZ The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Ru...
#82 – William Leonard Pickard, George Church, Glenn Cohen, Ruth L. Okedij, Tina Liu, and Alex Zhavoronkov: Petrie-Flom Center Open House – Health Law, Biotechnology, and the Future (09/19/2024)
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(00:00) Introduction (02:27) Petrie-Flom Center Open House – Health Law, Biotechnology, and the Future (51:55) Q&A --- Support this podcast:...
#81 – Daniel Greenberg: Schools of the Future
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel A. Greenberg (28 September 1934 – 2 December 2021), was one of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School, has published several books on the ...
#80 – James T. Farrell: Radio France for North America Interview
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Thomas Farrell (February 27, 1904 – August 22, 1979) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet. He is most remembered for the Stud...
#79 – Marvin Minsky: MIT Infinite History Project Interview
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial...
#78 – Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulati...
#77 – Jaak Panksepp: Notre Dame Symposium on Human Nature and Early Experience
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 – April 18, 2017) was an Estonian-American neuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term "affective neuros...
#76 – Peter Higgs: The Annual Higgs Lecture 2012, Kings College London – Putting Maxwell in his Place
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in P...
#75 – Lawrence Lessig: 2002 OSCON Speech – Free Culture
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. (The Roy Furman chair is in honor of this extraordinary al...
#74 – Paul Dirac: Four Lectures at Christchurch, New Zealand, 1975 – Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Electrodynamics, Magnetic Monopoles, and Does 'G' Vary? (Large Numbers Hypothesis)
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the...
#73 – John Hopfield: Artificial Neural Networks and Speech Processing (1988)
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. It is...
#72 – Arthur Conan Doyle: Brief Interview on the Origins of the “Monstrous Growth” Sherlock Holmes and the Importance of Psychic Matters (1929)
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for...
#71 – Noam Chomsky: Foundations of World Order: the UN, World Bank, IMF & Declaration of Human Rights 1999
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and...
#70 – Peter Thiel: Scruton Lectures 2023 – The Diversity Myth
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of ...
#69 – Bertrand Russell & Frederick Copleston: The Famous Debate Over the Existence of God (1948)
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public int...
#68 – Michael Polanyi: Full History and Hope Lecture Series – The Destruction of Reality, The Realm of the Unspoken, The Vindication of Realities, and A Society of Explorers
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Polanyi (11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemis...
#67 – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi (29 September 1934 – 20 October 2021) was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychologica...
#66 – Saul Bellow
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian–American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pu...
#65 – Margaret Mead & James Baldwin: A Rap On Race Conversation (1971)
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in th...
#64 – Karl Friston: Stony Brook Provost's Lecture 2019 – I Am Therefore I Think
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Karl John Friston (born 12 July 1959) is a British neuroscientist and theoretician at University College London. He is an authority on brain imaging a...
#63 – Melvin Calvin: A Brief Oral Autobiography of the Life and Work of Melvin Calvin
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 – January 8, 1997) was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and...
#62 – René Girard: Mimetic Desire and the Mythological Implications of Christianity
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
René Noël Théophile Girard (25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French polymath, historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social scie...
#61 – Arthur C. Clarke: Three Short Stories – Transit of Earth, The Nine Billion Names of God, and The Star: Narration By Arthur C. Clarke
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was an English science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explore...
#60 – Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide We...
#59 – Anthony Giddens: Globalization and Communication
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societie...
#58 – Gilbert Ling: On the Back of a Tiger Interview
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gilbert Ning Ling (December 26, 1919 – November 10, 2019) was a Chinese-born American cell physiologist, biochemist and scientific investigator. In ...
#57 – E. O. Wilson: John M. Prather Lecture in Biology 2010 – Consilience
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing th...
#56 – Edward Said: Dual Interviews – Orientalism + Life and Work in Palestine
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian American academic, literary critic and political activist. A professor of ...
#55 – Albert Einstein: The Common Language of Science
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential ...
#54 – Douglas Adams: Parrots, the Universe and Everything
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humorist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to th...
#53 – John Mearsheimer: Full Henry L. Stimson Lecture Series – The Roots of Liberal Hegemony, The False Promise of Liberal Hegemony, and The Case for Restraint
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Joseph Mearsheimer (born December 14, 1947) is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist sc...
#52 – Sheldon Glashow: Serendipity – Does Science Evolve by Blind Chance or through Intelligent Design?
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Ph...
#51 – Peter Higgs: My Life as a Boson
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Ware Higgs (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel Prize laureate fo...
#50 – Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin: Future of the Brain Symposium Lecture 2005 + Interview With Luc Sala
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin (June 17, 1925 – June 2, 2014) was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmaco...
#49 – William Leonard Pickard: Underground Histories and Overground Futures + Interview with Julian Vayne
02 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
William Leonard Pickard is a former research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, Harvard fellow in drug policy at the Harvard Kennedy...
#48 – Edward Teller: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. – The Responsibilities of the Scientists
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially...
#47 – Cornelius Lanczos: A Life Story
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos (February 2, 1893 – June 25, 1974) was a Hungarian-Jewish, Hungarian-American and later Hungarian-Irish mathematician and...
#46 – Aldous Huxley: One Hour Radio Dramatization of Brave New World, Narrated by Aldous Huxley
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including nov...
#45 – Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi: The Famous "Spiritual Message" Speech at Kingsley Hall 1931
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed no...
#44 – J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings - BBC Interview (1964)
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The...
#43 – Albert Bandura: Association for Psychological Science Interview
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Albert Bandura (December 4, 1925 – July 26, 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist who was the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social S...
#42 – Sir James Chadwick: A Brief Account of His Discovery of the Neutron (1944)
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sir James Chadwick (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was a British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the...
#41 – Carl Sagan: A Candid BBC Radio Interview 1980
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologis...
#40 – Isaiah Berlin: Interview on Freedom + The First Attack on Enlightenment (#2 of the Romanticism Lectures)
06 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Isaiah Berlin (24 May/6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. A...
#39 – Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition
05 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research in...
#38 – Ayn Rand: The Philosophy of Objectivism
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was...
#37 – Linus Pauling: The Role of Scientists in the Peace Movement
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educato...
#36 – Peter Singer: Bryan Magee Interview on Hegel & Marx (1987)
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher and the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. ...
#35 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy vs Richard Nixon: First Presidential Debate (1960)
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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#34 – Daniel Kahneman: Maps of Bounded Rationality
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision...
#33 – Carl Jung: The "Face To Face" Interview
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been...
#32 – Richard "rms" Stallman: For A Free Digital Society
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Matthew Stallman leads the Free Software Movement, which shows how the usual non-free software subjects users to the unjust power of its devel...
#31 – Tayeb Salih: On Growing Up in the Sudan, and “Season of Migration to the North”
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tayeb Salih (12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009) was a Sudanese writer, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic program as well as for Arabic journals, ...
#30 – Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quant...
#29 – Robert Anton Wilson: Preparing for the 21st Century (1988)
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) wrote 35 books and over 1,500 published articles. He coauthored, with Robert Shea, the und...
#28 – A.S. Neill: Summerhill Founder Shares His Wisdom
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Sutherland Neill (17 October 1883 – 23 September 1973) was a Scottish educator and author known for his school, Summerhill, and its philos...
#27 – Frank Lloyd Wright: A Conversation with an Icon of Architecture (1953)
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures ...
#26 – Bertrand Russell: 80 Years of Changing Beliefs and Unchanging Hopes (1952)
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public in...
#25 – Andrew Wiles: 2016 Abel Prize Interview
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specializin...
#24 – Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and Elegance in Physics
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Murray Gell-Mann (September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elem...
#23 – John Steinbeck: 1962 Nobel Prize Speech
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American author John Steinbeck (1902–1968) "for his realistic and imaginative writings, c...
#22 – Richard Feynman: The Famous "Fun to Imagine" Interview
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulati...
#21 – Karl Popper: The Three Worlds (1989)
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th cen...
#20 – Viktor Frankl: On Finding Meaning in Difficult Times
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was a Jewish-Austrian psychiatrist and holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy, a school of...
#19 – Kary Mullis: On Science
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kary Banks Mullis (December 28, 1944 – August 7, 2019) was an American biochemist. In recognition of his role in the invention of the polymerase cha...
#18 – Isaac Asimov: Predicting the Future and Science Fiction
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimo...
#17 – John F. Kennedy: The President Reading The Declaration of Independence
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and by the nickname Jack, was an American politici...
#16 – Isadore Singer and Michael Atiyah: 2004 Abel Prize Interview
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Isadore Manuel Singer (May 3, 1924 – February 11, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was an Emeritus Institute Professor in the Department of M...
#15 – Erwin Schrödinger: Do Electrons Think?
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was a Nobel Prize...
#14 – Abraham Maslow: The Hallmarks of Self Actualization
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of p...
#13 – Milton Friedman: The Energy Crisis - A Humane Solution
07 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economi...
#12 – Albert Einstein: 1940 Radio Interview
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influe...
#11 – Paul Dirac: 1982 Interview
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quan...
#10 – Frederick Copleston: Bryan Magee Interview on Arthur Schopenhauer (1987)
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frederick Charles Copleston (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was an English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy,...
#9 – Aldous Huxley: Sum of Substance
09 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including nov...
#8 – Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke: The Time Before Time Began, the Universe, Black Holes, God, and the Laws of Science
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologis...
#7 – Friedrich von Hayek: Leo Rosten Interview
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friedrich August von Hayek (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian-British economist and politi...
#6 – Itzhak "Ben" Bentov: From Atom To Cosmos
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Itzhak "Ben" Bentov (August 9, 1923 – May 25, 1979) was an Israeli American scientist, inventor, mystic and author. His many inventions, i...
#5 – David Deutsch: The Unity Of The Universe
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Elieser Deutsch (born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic an...
#4 – B. F. Skinner: Philosophy of Behaviorism (1988)
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. Con...
#3 – James Watson and Francis Crick: Horace Freeland Judson Interview
18 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the ...
#2 – Terence Tao, Jacob Lurie, Simon Donaldson, Maxim Kontsevich, Richard Taylor, and Yuri Milner: 2015 Breakthrough Math Panel
18 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Terence Chi-Shen Tao (born 17 July 1975) is an Australian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles...
#1 – Edward Witten, Abdus Salam, Dennis Sciama, and Paolo Budinich: An Unadulterated Conversation Between Four World-Class Physicists
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical and theoretical physicist. He is a professor emeritus in the school of natural scienc...