University of Oxford
Organization
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. With evidence of teaching dating back as early as 1096, it is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.
31 episodes featuring University of Oxford
Global News Podcast
French students challenge a strained education system
The episode connects unrest in France with consequential questions about state accountability, capital punishment, medical innovation, war and public trust.
Oct 2, 2026 · 28 min
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Three camps reshape the AI harms debate
Understanding the Doomers, Accelerationists, and Centrists clarifies the stakes behind arguments over AI safety, regulation, and technological progress.
Oct 1, 2026 · 29 min
Candace
Candace Owens skewers Vanity Fair’s Erika Kirk profile
The episode examines how a high-profile magazine profile turns political identity, religious presentation, and conspiracy claims into competing narratives.
Oct 1, 2026 · 1h 7m
Louder with Crowder
Crowder tests due process against campus ideology
The episode links sexual-assault allegations, policing standards, welfare messaging, and a Harvard debate through a common demand for evidence and institutional accountability.
Sep 30, 2026 · 1h 2m
Louder with Crowder
Crowder and Kennedy clash over Harvard’s ideological power
Their debate tests whether universities can protect academic freedom while receiving public support and enforcing policies on race, speech, and inclusion.
Sep 29, 2026 · 2h 46m
Louder with Crowder
Crowder links identity disputes to funding and immigration fights
The episode shows how one political argument about institutional fraud expands across racial identity, medical treatment for minors, and immigration enforcement.
Sep 24, 2026 · 1h 2m
The Tim Ferriss Show
Kevin Ryan bets on durable trends over startup hype
Ryan’s record across technology, media, and healthcare offers a practical test for deciding which emerging markets can support enduring companies.
Sep 24, 2026 · 1h 26m
Sourcery
A new school bets builders need projects, not grades
The academy offers a test of whether an AI-era education can develop ambitious builders outside the university system.
Sep 22, 2026 · 1h 19m
Prof G Markets
Bostrom urges caution as AI risk enters mainstream policy
The episode examines how to govern increasingly capable AI when catastrophic risks remain uncertain but potentially irreversible, while preserving its promise for human well-being.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1h 9m
Radiolab
Sugar’s power comes from the brain, not just chemistry
The episode shows why sweetness cannot be reduced to a chemical ranking, revealing how biology and the senses shape what feels intensely sweet.
Sep 18, 2026 · 37 min
The Daily
AI safety’s believers race to build what they fear
The episode examines how a quasi-religious intellectual culture shaped AI development while commercial and geopolitical pressures push companies toward greater speed.
Sep 18, 2026 · 38 min
Science Vs
AI risks look less like rogue machines than human-enabled catastrophe
The episode separates speculative extinction scenarios from documented harms, asking how oversight should address both uncertainty and immediate abuse.
Sep 17, 2026 · 46 min
Lex Fridman Podcast
Psychiatry confronts its history of certainty and harm
The episode asks how a field with an uncertain evidence base can treat severe suffering without repeating the institutional and commercial abuses of its past.
Sep 17, 2026 · 3h 44m
Better Offline
How rationalist ideas shaped the AI race
The episode examines how speculative beliefs about superintelligence moved from online communities into institutions and incentives driving frontier AI development.
Sep 16, 2026 · 1h 24m
Pod Save America
Republicans sell grievance as Trump’s coalition loses energy
The episode tests whether Republican messaging can overcome weak enthusiasm while exposing the policy and moral tensions surrounding support for Donald Trump.
Sep 11, 2026 · 1h 52m
Global News Podcast
AI researchers warn regulation is lagging behind autonomous systems
The episode connects existential AI risk to weak regulation and geopolitical competition, while showing how global news turns abstract threats into immediate policy questions.
Sep 9, 2026 · 34 min
Global News Podcast
AfD breakthrough tests Germany’s political center
The result strengthens Germany’s far right while wars, terrorism investigations, and public-safety concerns widen the episode’s stakes.
Sep 7, 2026 · 33 min
Hidden Brain
Life jolts can redirect careers, relationships, and creativity
The episode examines when sudden disruptions deserve action, when intuition needs scrutiny, and how distance can help difficult problems yield insight.
Sep 7, 2026 · 1h 37m
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Huberman puts sleep inside a full-day health system
The conversation connects exhausted mornings and poor sleep to light, movement, nutrition, breathing, medication, and the harder question of how people build resilient lives.
Sep 3, 2026 · 2h 16m
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
Jim Kwik argues attention is the real AI-era advantage
As AI takes on more cognitive tasks, the episode examines how memory, focus, and distinctly human judgment can remain durable advantages.
Aug 31, 2026 · 1h 40m
WSJ What’s News
AI reshapes entry-level work as markets brace for policy shocks
The episode connects legal and market uncertainty with a deeper shift in how young people enter prestigious careers.
Aug 28, 2026 · 13 min
Hidden Brain
Arts engagement strengthens emotion, connection, and resilience
The episode examines how varied, attentive participation in the arts may support emotional regulation, social bonds, mastery, and long-term mental health.
Aug 24, 2026 · 56 min
Huberman Lab Essentials
Neuroscience reveals how the brain calculates effort versus reward
Understanding the neural circuitry behind drive and attention allows us to design better strategies for productivity and build cognitive resilience against aging.
Aug 24, 2026 · 2h 20m
Something You Should Know
Disaster psychology meets the case for restorative solitude
The episode connects emergency behavior with everyday emotional health, showing how preparation and intentional alone time can shape resilience.
Aug 22, 2026 · 52 min
Today, Explained
Cambridge’s Arday scandal tests academia’s DEI politics
The episode examines how disputed biography, institutional incentives, media scrutiny, and racial politics converged around one academic’s rise and death.
Aug 20, 2026 · 25 min
Something You Should Know
Digital overload erodes meaning while modern food confuses healthy eating
The episode connects rising emptiness and anxiety with technology habits, then replaces contradictory diet advice with a practical framework for sustainable eating.
Aug 17, 2026 · 54 min
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Physicist Brian Greene explains why free will is a physical illusion
By examining the universe through the lens of physics, we can understand why our brief existence is deeply meaningful despite the inevitable decay of all matter.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2h 11m
Global News Podcast
Colombia quake exposes widening global fault lines
The episode connects an immediate disaster in Colombia with underfunded humanitarian crises, geopolitical conflict, electoral strain and emerging AI risks.
Aug 11, 2026 · 30 min
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Whittemore argues for preparation over panic on AI risk
The episode separates credible preparation for emerging AI risks from science-fiction fears, while placing those concerns alongside fast-moving business and market pressures.
Aug 7, 2026 · 29 min
American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
Whistleblower links Langley sighting to hidden UFO programs
Dylan Borland’s account connects a reported military encounter to disputed claims about classified technology, retaliation, oversight, and support for whistleblowers.
Aug 5, 2026 · 3h 19m
BBC Inside Science
Scientists preserve fossils, model lightning and test football’s home advantage
The episode shows how new tools and unusual real-world experiments can expose hidden patterns in nature, technology and sport.
Jul 2, 2026 · 30 min