The Minimalists | Eric Weinstein on his Biggest Failure
Mathematical physicist and economist Eric Weinstein reveals his biggest failure and the lesson he learned from it.
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Eric on Into The Impossible, Part 2: Parenting, Peak Prosperity, & Weinstein University
Part 2 of Brian Keating’s conversation with Eric Weinstein on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE podcast pivots from faith & family to the course catalog at “Weinstein University” (fictional, for now!) which would combine scholarship with wonder. We also contemplate the notion of legacies, not just for our actual children, but for our ideological children as […]
Stagnation and Education – Peter Thiel
In this Portal podcast clip, Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel discuss the problem of stagnation and its correlation with decreasing innovation in our educational institutions.
The Death and the Afterlife of the Blues
This essay appears in audio format at the beginning of The Portal Podcast, Episode 36. Hello, it’s Eric. I wanted to talk about the death and the afterlife of the blues. Now, the difficulty in talking about the blues is that people do not have a common picture of what I mean. Some will hear […]
The Portal Podcast #036: Stephon Alexander – Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz
Stephon Alexander is a first class jazz musician as well as a first rate physicist and a professor at Brown University. As the New President of the National Society of Black Physicists, Eric sits down with Stephon over a good deal of wine to discuss particles, politics, blackness and STEM, and other matters as they […]