The Portal Podcast #035: Balaji Srinivasan – The Heretic & The Virus

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Investor Balaji Srinivasan is a highly original thinker in Silicon Valley on Biotech to Blockchain and everything in between. Most recently, he was quite early in warning us about the Coronavirus and was ridiculed for his efforts…

Eric on Into the Impossible, Ep 49: Theories of Everything, Geometric Unity, Mathematical Reality

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Part 1 of Brian Keating's fascinating interview with mathematician & economist Eric Weinstein on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. Topics include Eric's provocative new ideas on physics and science culture. Eric is a vocal critic of…

Is Jeffrey Epstein Connected to Academia?

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"So what I have likened this to is that the United States had something like a Ferrari convertible and it left the top down so that it started getting filled up with rain and it started scrawling, "steal me" in Mandarin, Farsi, Russian, on…

The Importance of Taste

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This essay appears in audio format at the beginning of The Portal Podcast, Episode 34. Hello, it's Eric with a few thoughts for this week. I want to talk about a topic that is surprisingly dangerous: taste. Now, taste doesn't sound like…

The Portal Podcast #034: Zev Weinstein – On Parenting, Boys & Generation Z

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This is the first episode of The Portal which was 100% recorded at home, during quarantine, under social isolation. The guest is none other than my own son Zev Weinstein and the recording was timed to straddle his midnight transition from…

The Problem of Narrative-Driven Journalism – Sam Harris

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"I do feel like we are witnessing several sea changes, which I couldn't have honestly said, you know, 15 years ago or 20 years ago. I mean something, you know, something has changed and some things have clearly changed for the worse, and maybe…