The Future of Everything

Host Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine at Stanford, is your guide t

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Leanne Williams is an expert in depression. The first thing that she wants the world to know is that

Guest Michael Greicius is an authority on Alzheimer’s disease. He makes the case that while effectiv

Two-time guest Nate Persily is a professor of law and policy who studies the intersection of artific

The field of robotics has a long history at Stanford Engineering, and Professor Oussama Khatib has b

Guest James Landay is an expert in human-centered artificial intelligence, a field all about optimiz

Climate change authority Noah Diffenbaugh says that the effects of climate change are no longer theo

Climate modeler Aditi Sheshadri says that while weather forecasting and climate projection are based

Halloween may be behind us in the US but here at The Future of Everything we’re not quite done with

Returning guest Marco Pavone is an expert in autonomous robotic systems, such as self-driving cars a

Physicist Matthias Kling studies photons and the things science can do with ultrafast pulses of X-ra

We’re just weeks away from a national election, and in our polarized society, we all know it can be

The future of GPS

2024/10/4

Astronautics professor Grace Gao is an authority on the Global Positioning System. GPS has long been

Sports medicine physician Emily Kraus knows a lot about the health challenges of female athletes. Wo

Today, we’re bringing you a best-of from our archive of over 250 episodes. We’re all aware that the

Taken any selfies lately? Dermatologist Zakia Rahman studies both the science of healthy skin and th

The future of AI at work

2024/9/6

Arvind Karunakaran studies the intersections of work, AI, and organizational behavior. He says AI ca

We want to wish our listeners in the states a happy Labor Day weekend. We hope, wherever you are, yo

Political scientist Kathryn Stoner is the Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the R

Dan Schwartz is a cognitive psychologist and dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He s

Today, we’re re-running a fascinating conversation with Sara Singer, a Stanford professor of medicin