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Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

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Intelligence Squared is the home of lively debate and deep-dive discussion. Follow Intelligence Squared wherever you get your podcasts and enjoy four regular episodes per week taking you to the heart of the issues that matter in the company of the world’s great minds. We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be. Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to [email protected] or ...
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Welcome to Arts & Culture by Intelligence Squared. Here we delve into the artistic and cultural moments, movements and conversations that have shaped, and are still shaping, our world. In this podcast Intelligence Squared speaks to some of the world’s greatest orators, writers, actors and artists. Guests include Stephen Fry, Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo, Salman Rushdie, Kate Winslet, Simon Schama, Tom Hiddleston and Marina Abromović. Join us every week as we feature the best of cultu ...
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Sotheby’s is the temporary custodian of some of the world’s most rare, remarkable and coveted art and objects. Our global specialists are connoisseurs and market experts in 40 countries and 70 collecting categories. They will be your guides, exploring the significance and journey of an extraordinary work with those who know it best. Your weekly dose of wonder is available now. To step further into the world of Sotheby’s, you can visit any of our galleries around the world; they’re open to th ...
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Stewart Squared

Stewart Alsop II, Stewart Alsop III

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Stewart Alsop III reviews a broad range of topics with his father Stewart Alsop II, who started his career in the personal computer industry and is still actively involved in investing in startup technology companies. Stewart Alsop III is fascinated by what his father was doing as SAIII was growing up in the Golden Age of Silicon Valley. Topics include: - How the personal computing revolution led to the internet, which led to the mobile revolution - Now we are covering the future of the inte ...
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Open to Debate

Open to Debate

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America is more divided than ever—but it doesn’t have to be. Open to Debate offers an antidote to the chaos. We bring multiple perspectives together for real, nonpartisan debates. Debates that are structured, respectful, clever, provocative, and driven by the facts. Open to Debate is on a mission to restore balance to the public square through expert moderation, good-faith arguments, and reasoned analysis. We examine the issues of the day with the world’s most influential thinkers spanning s ...
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AI Research Today unpacks the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, one paper at a time. We go beyond abstracts and headlines, walking through architectures, experiments, training details, ablations, failure modes, and the implications for future work. Each episode will choose between one and three new, impactful research papers and go through them in depth. We will discuss the papers at the level of an industry practitioner or AI researcher. If you want to understand the newest to ...
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MedStar Health DocTalk (series)

Debra Schindler and MedStar Health physicians

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Comprehensive, relevant and insightful conversations about health and medicine happen here… on MedStar Health Doc Talk. Join us for real conversations with physician experts from around the largest healthcare system in the Maryland-DC region.
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Bills'n’Bots

William De Herder, Bill Williamson

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Two professors of writing and design share strategies for effectively and ethically implementing generative AI into teaching and learning. We answer listener questions. We talk to students, faculty, and whoever else comes to the table.
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The Futureverse

Intelligence Squared

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The Future. It’s all there, in front of us. It could go wonderfully. Or it could go badly wrong. It will inevitably require our passions and our ingenuity. So how do we see the challenges early on, find solutions and help make the world a better place? For ourselves, for our families, for everyone. Welcome to the Futureverse, brought to you by Intelligence Squared and Y TREE.
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America feels divided. From the most salient questions about our national identity and place in the world, to fundamental concerns about technology, religion, the economy, and public policy, Intelligence Squared U.S. is here to help. A respite from polarized discussions, we bring together the smartest minds to debate and dissect issues in depth, restoring civility and bringing intelligence to the public square in the process.
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Jump down new rabbit holes with Timesuck, the weekly podcast that takes you on a fascinating and bizarre journey through history’s darkest corners, most shocking conspiracies, and wildest true stories. Hosted by acclaimed standup comedian and storyteller Dan Cummins, each episode blends dark humor with deep research to uncover hidden truths about infamous historical figures, unsolved mysteries, notorious serial killers, and more. If you crave the weird, the wild, and the unexpected, Timesuck ...
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VS

Intelligence Squared

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VS is a light-hearted podcast about the little debates that are always a big deal to someone. Arsenal VS Spurs. McDonald’s VS KFC. Twitter VS TikTok. 80s VS 90s. And many more. Our host Coco Khan invites experts and fans to go head-to-head on the timeless debates that form the lifeblood of friendships. Who wins? You decide with our weekly vote. VS is an Intelligence Squared production. Tune in to new episodes every Friday.
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It's The Economy

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Breaking down the economic ideas we’ve all heard of but may not fully understand in under 15 minutes. Host Nicola Walton is joined by an economics expert each week to take us through the terminology, statistics and stories of how economic forces shape our world and lives. Brought to you by Intelligence Squared.
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My name is Mary Rutt. I'm a podcaster. I'm also a big fan of mental health, and I'm interested to find out if artificial intelligence makes a good therapist. In this show, I'm wondering...can IA therapy help me become a better person? Is it smart to seek advice from a bot or a cloud or whatever? Let's find out!
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Chris Hirst, CEO of Havas advertising group, cuts through the bullsh*t and gets to the heart of modern leadership. In this straight talking podcast he interviews leaders from Clive Woodward to June Sarpong on how to inspire, how to keep going when sh*t hits the fan, and ultimately how to get stuff done. Brought to you by Intelligence Squared.
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Questions For Corbett is a regular podcast series from CorbettReport.com. Send your question in via CorbettReport.com and have James Corbett answer them live on the air. Questions are encouraged on all Corbett Report topics, from 9/11 truth to central banking, police state issues to geopolitics, history, science, or anything else.
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The Saudi Project

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A Members Exclusive Limited Series from Intelligence Squared. Head to www.intelligencesquared.com/membership to become a member today and listen whenever you get your podcasts. In recent months it can feel like Saudi Arabia is intent on buying the world. Its Public Investment Fund (PIF) has bought up much of golf, sports teams, many of the globe’s best soccer players to its domestic league, and it owns huge chunks of many of the most famous companies on the planet. But Saudi Arabia is not ju ...
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DNA science. Artificial intelligence. Smartphones and 3D printers. Science and technology have transformed the world we live in. But how did we get here? It wasn’t by accident. Well, sometimes it was. It was also the result of hard work, teamwork, and competition. And incredibly surprising moments. Hosted by bestselling author Steven Johnson (“How We Got To Now”), American Innovations uses immersive scenes to tell the stories of the scientists, engineers, and ordinary people behind the great ...
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What is your Working Genius? The Working Genius podcast is designed to help people identify their natural gifts and find joy and fulfillment in their work and life. Leadership and teamwork expert Patrick Lencioni and his team explore the Working Genius model and provide practical advice for applying this framework individually, at our jobs and in our homes. What type of work makes you thrive? Are you burning out because your job requires you to work in your areas of frustration? How can team ...
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Join Alannah Weston, Chairman of Selfridges Group, for the third series of How to Lead a Sustainable Business. In this series, Alannah continues her mission to discover how businesses can innovate and transform to put sustainability at their core. The latest IPCC report demonstrates what we all know - there is no time left for incremental progress. This series is all about systems change. What are the big, bold ways we can reimagine our industries? Each week, Alannah speaks to the business p ...
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Each week, Jane Wakefield sits down with some of the key movers and shakers from the UK tech ecosystem for the UKTN Podcast. Learn growth strategies from both seasoned and up-and-coming founders, hear market sentiments from investors, and understand the tech policy affecting businesses across the country. The UKTN Podcast provides insight into the most influential people in the UK’s innovation economy, exploring their personal and professional journeys and hearing their views on the hottest ...
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Home of The Art of Lightness & The Lightness Practice — for Soulpreneurs and the ever-becoming. Welcome to Hello Soul: The Virginia Scheuer Show — This is the home of The Art of Lightness and The Lightness Practice, Virginia's signature method for rising out of the heaviness of trauma, hustle, and overwhelm, and into the light of your true self. Each episode guides you through the four sacred steps of the Lightness Practice: Feel what is Find your lightness Focus on what matters Flow into yo ...
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CISO Insights: The Cybersecurity Leadership Podcast Where Security Leaders Shape Tomorrow’s Defenses Join us for CISO Insights, the definitive podcast for cybersecurity executives navigating today’s evolving threat landscape. Each episode delivers exclusive conversations with industry pioneers and practical frameworks from security leaders. CISO Insights provides actionable intelligence for executives building resilient security programs. We cover everything from board-level risk communicati ...
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AKSHITBLOGS

Akshit Bansal

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BORN TO BLOG If you don't have time to read my blogs you can always listen to it as a podcast. You should never hesitate to gain some free, researched knowledge.
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Wonders of the World

Caroline Vahrenkamp

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In this podcast, we'll visit 200 Wonders of the World, from the Pyramids to the Great Barrier Reef, to tell the story of our people, our civilization, and our planet. My name is Caroline Vahrenkamp, and I'm a travel junkie. The world is filled with amazing places that reflect the greatest achievements of human accomplishment. In these uncertain times, understanding our great shared history may help to bridge the divides between us. And if not, it will be a fun ride anyway! We'll discuss the ...
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Mikhail Zygar is a renowned Russian dissident journalist living in exile in the USA. He was the founding editor-in-chief of independent news channel TV Rain in Russia. He publicly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and fled into exile days later. Despite persistent death threats, he continues to write fearlessly about his homeland. In …
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This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby’s Vice Chairman & Worldwide Head of Science and Natural History, examines the turbulent journey of the bag that …
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Seven years ago, economists at Capital Economics, an independent macro-economic consultancy, issued a paper entitled The Coming Slowdown in China. At a time when much of the world was convinced China would overtake the U.S., they argued that tailwinds were already turning into headwinds. Our guest on this episode of The Call is Mark Williams, Chief…
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In this episode, Stewart Alsop III sits down with Stewart Alsop II to explore a wide sweep of themes—from getting an ESP32 and Arduino IDE up and running, to the future of physical AI, real-time computing, Starlink’s mesh network ambitions, and how edge devices like Apple’s upcoming M-series gear could shift the balance between local and cloud inte…
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The Chief Information Security Officer's mandate has shifted from a technical focus on infrastructure to that of a strategic business partner who aligns security directly with value creation. Amidst geopolitical volatility and the "velocity of change," modern CISOs must act as storytellers and resilience guardians to protect the organization's "cro…
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Is there a correlation between a person’s Working Genius (WG) pairings and their emotional intelligence (EQ)? Also, how can you use your Working Genius results to strengthen your emotional intelligence? In episode 102 of the Working Genius Podcast, Pat and Cody explore how Working Genius and emotional intelligence intersect, and where they don’t. T…
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In the 1960s and ’70s, yoga teacher–turned–self-proclaimed messiah Anne Hamilton-Byrne built one of Australia’s most shocking cults—an LSD-fueled blend of New Age mysticism, stolen children, and her own delusions of divine destiny. With doctors, psychiatrists, and academics convinced she was the Second Coming of Christ, Anne created The Family, a s…
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This episode uncovers the "perfect storm" of cyber risks facing cannabis operators, from the regulatory "cashless ATM" crackdowns to the sophisticated phishing campaigns responsible for nearly 9 out of 10 industry breaches. We analyze high-profile incidents like the Stiiizy data exposure to show how third-party vendor vulnerabilities can cascade th…
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As the Department of Defense activates Phase 1 of the CMMC rollout, government contractors must race to validate their cybersecurity posture or risk losing contract eligibility. This episode breaks down the critical path to Level 2 certification, including the costs of remediation, the 110 controls of NIST SP 800-171, and the mandatory reporting re…
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Mikhail Zygar is a renowned Russian dissident journalist living in exile in the USA. He was the founding editor-in-chief of independent news channel TV Rain in Russia. He publicly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and fled into exile days later. Despite persistent death threats, he continues to write fearlessly about his homeland. In …
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In deze aflevering duiken we in de nieuwe Cyberbeveiligingswet (Cbw), die de Europese NIS2-richtlijn naar Nederlandse wetgeving vertaalt en de huidige Wbni vervangt. We bespreken waarom de implementatie is vertraagd tot het tweede kwartaal van 2026 en waarom de Rijksoverheid adviseert om nu al te starten met de tien verplichte zorgplichtmaatregelen…
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This episode unpacks the new timeline for the Cyberbeveiligingswet, the Dutch implementation of NIS2 now projected for the second quarter of 2026, and explains the critical distinction between Essential and Important entities. We dive into the expanded fiduciary duties for board members, who now face mandatory training and potential personal liabil…
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As governments from Australia to Texas enforce "digital borders" through mandates like the Social Media Minimum Age Act, the internet is rapidly shifting from an open forum to a surveillance state requiring government ID or biometric scans for entry. While intended to protect children, experts warn these systems create "massive centralized reposito…
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Has Big Tech become too powerful? Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft shape how we shop, communicate, and consume information. But has their dominance gone too far? Advocates argue these firms are monopolies that harm competition, exploit consumer data, and wield disproportionate influence over public discourse. Structural reforms would re…
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In this Short Suck, we dive into the almost-forgotten story of The Business Plot - when a group of powerful bankers and corporate bigwigs allegedly tried to recruit one of America’s most decorated Marines, Smedley Butler, to lead a fascist coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt. We’ll sift through testimony, shady alliances, and a very conven…
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We’ve heard enough from the pessimists. Yes, these are hard times, but what investors, business owners and all of us need right now is not more despair about the economy, but a clear roadmap towards growth and prosperity. In October 2025, Jeremy Hunt came to the Intelligence Squared stage to share his vision of how we can achieve economic renewal. …
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In 1990, two men in Calvine, Scotland took photos of a strange object in the sky that would become the clearest UFO photos ever. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask what really happened in Calvine, what happened to the two men, and what was the flying object they photographed? The post The Calvine UFO Sighting appeared first on StarQuest Media.…
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Over the course of a decade in politics Rory Stewart saw how power really works and what forces drive our communities apart. He was a backbench MP, held several ministerial positions, and stood for prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise. Now, well away from the political arena, he regular…
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In this episode, Stewart Alsop III sits down with Stewart Alsop II to unpack Google’s sudden return to the front of the AI race—touching on Gemini 3, Google’s Anti-Gravity IDE, the shifting outlook for OpenAI, Nvidia’s wobble, the strategic importance of TPUs, and the broader geopolitical currents shaping U.S.–China competition. Along the way, Stew…
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Send us a text In this episode we’re diving into “Transformer-Squared: Self-Adaptive LLMs” — a new framework for adapting large language models to unseen tasks on the fly by tuning only a small part of their weights. The central idea is Singular Value Fine-Tuning (SVF), a parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique that decomposes each weight matrix …
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We investigate the "Firewall Crisis" where the four dominant vendors—Cisco, Fortinet, SonicWall, and Check Point—collectively contributed over 50 actively exploited vulnerabilities to CISA's catalog, effectively transforming defensive appliances into primary attack vectors. The discussion uncovers how this systemic failure enabled the Akira ransomw…
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America’s alliances - and the businesses that bind those partnerships - are recovering from the strain of this year’s trade tensions. Amid the rise of China, uncertainties remain over how best to pursue our immediate economic goals while also pursing less tangible, long-term strategic interests. Jay Sapsford asks Ambassador Rahm Emanuel: As allianc…
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Over the course of a decade in politics Rory Stewart saw how power really works and what forces drive our communities apart. He was a backbench MP, held several ministerial positions, and stood for prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise. Now, well away from the political arena, he regular…
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On today’s episode, Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby’s Vice Chairman & Worldwide Head of Science and Natural History, examines the turbulent journey of the bag that brought back the first sample of the Moon — collected by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11. She specialises in creating new markets, selling unique artefacts, and exploring what it means to put a pr…
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After years of controversy, EU member states have agreed on a revised position for the "Chat Control" regulation that drops mandatory mass scanning but introduces a framework for "voluntary" detection of private messages. Privacy advocates and security experts warn that this new "risk mitigation" approach, coupled with mandatory age verification, c…
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Catherine Lenson, chief operating officer of Phoenix Court, discusses why well-defined corporate and investment culture supports a cohesive strategy, how different stages of investment come with drastically different needs and why sticking with a founder long-term is both rewarding and satisfying. Phoenix Court is a venture capital firm that backs …
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You read that title right. Are you familiar with the story of James Strang? A blatant con artist who converted to Mormonism shortly before Joseph Smith's assassination who used a forged letter and some "discovered" brass plates to establish himself as Smith's legitimate heir, and then convinced hundreds of followers to move to Beaver Island in Lake…
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Australia is launching a world-first "grand experiment" by banning social media for under-16s and mandating age verification for search engines, threatening fines of up to $49.5 million for tech giants that fail to comply. We explore the massive privacy trade-offs as millions of Australians—adults included—face requirements to submit government IDs…
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Who does our data belong to? In this episode, Carl Miller speaks to NYT magazine journalist and author Michael Steinberger about Alex Karp, Palantir and the rise of the surveillance state. Founded in 2003, Palantir is widely regarded as the most interesting company in Silicon Valley – as well as its most controversial. It aided the US government in…
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