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Emerging Technologies with Zach and Kelly Weinersmith

Economics Detective Radio - January 12, 2018 19:49 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
This episode of the podcast features two guests, Zach and Kelly Weinersmith. Zach is the author of SMBC Comics, a popular webcomic that sometimes deals with advanced concepts in science, philosophy, economics, and other fields. Kelly is a professor in the Biosciences department of Rice Universi...

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Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith on Soonish

EconTalk - January 01, 2018 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Ecologist Kelly Weinersmith and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith--creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal--talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about their new book, Soonish--a look at cutting-edge and not-quite cutting edge technologies. The Weinersmiths speculate about everything from asteroid...

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Episode 182 - Kelly Weinersmith

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria - October 31, 2017 03:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 923 ratings
Cara chats with Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of "Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything." They talk about her work as a biologist and ecologist, focusing on parasitic agents that manipulate host behavior. Then the conversation shifts to her new book (co-writ...