Podcast Episodes featuring Matt Simon

27 Oligarchy, Part 2: Nemesis w/ Matt Simonton

Ancient Greece Declassified - October 01, 2019 09:05 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 446 ratings
What methods and institutions do oligarchic regimes use to maintain their power? How do they fend off the threat of democratic revolution? What happened to the many oligarchies of the ancient Mediterranean? All of these questions and more are explored in this second part of our conversation wi...

26 Oligarchy, Part 1: Genesis w/ Matt Simonton

Ancient Greece Declassified - September 01, 2019 08:13 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 446 ratings
How do ancient oligarchies compare with modern authoritarian regimes? How did civil war in oligarchies differ from civil war in democracies? What does the age-old ideological struggle between democracy and oligarchy imply about our future? These are just a few of the questions we discuss on this...

Among the Amazon Robots With Matt Simon

Techmeme Ride Home - June 15, 2019 19:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 895 ratings
That Wired longread that I suggested yesterday, about Amazon’s warehouse robots really stuck with me for personal reasons you’ll hear in a second. I talked to the author of the piece, Matt Simon, not only cause I wanted more flavor on what it was like to work with these things, but becau...

Real-Life Zombification (w/ author Matt Simon), Most Annoying Sounds, and Leaders Who Are Too Smart

Curiosity Daily - November 01, 2018 07:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 869 ratings
Matt Simon, author of “Plight of the Living Dead,” discusses real-life zombification in nature. Plus, learn about the most annoying sounds ever, according to research, and why leaders who are too smart are actually less effective. In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the followi...

1979:A 2016 In-Depth Interview With Matt Simon

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - January 04, 2017 20:40 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Matt Simon discusses The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems.

Evolution makes these creatures do crazy shit with Author Matt Simon

Grow Big Always - December 26, 2016 13:54 ★★★★★ - 84 ratings
If you listen to this podcast it’s not a surprise that I love bizarre. What better way to extend that lens then to look beyond people? So when author Matt Simon was recommended by a listener as a guest for Grow Big Always, I thought it was a great idea because he’s a science writer at Wired and s...