Jim talks with David Krakauer about his upcoming paper "The Structure of Complexity in Machine Learning Science" and AI's effects on science.

Jim talks with Alicia Juarrero about her new bookContext Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence.

Jim talks with Peter Turchin about the field he founded, cliodynamics, which applies the scientific method to history.

Jim talks with Sara Walker and Lee Cronin about the ideas in theirrecent Aeon essay, "Time Is an Object."

Jim talks with Samuel Scarpino about what we've learned from Covid-19 and how to apply those lessons to preparing for the next pandemic.

Jim talks with Damien Walter about science fiction, the mechanics of myth, and his course The Rhetoric of Story.

Jim talks with recurring guest Forrest Landry about civilization design, interweaving themes from all his previous appearances.

Jim talks with Frank Lantz, game designer and director of the Game Center at NYU, about Network Wars and the art of game-making.

Jim talks with Robert Tercek about the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike and intellectual property rights in the era of generative AI.

Jim has an extremely wide-ranging discussion with Michael Garfield, paleontologist-futurist and host of the Future Fossils podcast.