Stagnation and Education – Peter Thiel

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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

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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…

The Portal Podcast #036: Stephon Alexander – Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz

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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…

Eric with Bret and Heather on DarkHorse – Science is Open Mic Night

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The description below was taken from the original YouTube video's description by DarkHorse. A special call in from Eric Weinstein to the DarkHorse podcast live.

Thoughts on the Science Shutdown.

Lynching, Police Brutality, BLM and Defunding the Police: a Contrarian Reality Check

Some thoughts on defunding the police. Those of you confused as to what this "Defund the Police" is about should understand the "Motte and Bailey Strategy" being used. Groups that want to abolish the police talk about the "1033 Program"…