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00:00 AI Computational Approach13:00 Decoding Voynich19:30 Hoax?21:00 Could women have written it?26:15 What to ask the manuscript’s producer27:00 How do we know we’ve cracked the code?30:00 Reconsidering Voynich

Egyptian hieroglyphics confounded Egyptologists for centuries until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.

The Voynich Manuscript is ano...

Egyptian hieroglyphics confounded Egyptologists for centuries until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.

The Voynich Manuscript is another old text that has perplexed experts since its discovery about 600 years ago.

Watch this episode on YouTube to see nonstop images of the book itself!

Dr. Robert H. Edwards specializes in investigating the biggest mysteries of the 20th century. I interviewed him on the 100th anniversary of George Mall...

Hrish Lotlikar of the Superworld app interviewed me in 2025.

You might enjoy it. Here's what the Superworld Channel wrote: 

What if you could leave behind the corporate grind and explore the world—without a trust fund? That’s precisely what Francis Tapon did. After earning an MBA from Harvard and working in Silicon Valley, he walked away from it all to spend five years traveling through...

It's part 2 of 2 of my conversation with Dr. Johnny Hanson! His 2025 book, Living with Lynx: Sharing Landscapes with Big Cats, Wolves and Bears, is a nuanced analysis of the complex topic of rewilding. 

00:00 Myths

04:00 What surprised Hanson?

06:00 The hardest to co-exist with

12:00 Paradox of Tourism

18:00 Recommendations

In this two-part interview (this is ...

Dr. Johnny Hanson's new book, Living with Lynx: Sharing Landscapes with Big Cats, Wolves and Bears, is a nuanced analysis of the complex topic of rewilding. 

In this two-part interview, we discuss the pros and cons of reintroducing apex predators in areas where they have gone extinct. 

What do you think we should do?

00:00 What's the book about?

04:50 Limousine Libe...

Benjamin Wallace's new book is The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto.  

It's the greatest whodunit. Whoever created Bitcoin became the world's richest person, yet we don't know who he is. In fact, we don't even know if it's one person.

There have been other cases where identities have been hidden for a while:

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  Mysterious Whistleblowers (Deep Throat)

  
  
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Replaceable You by Mary Roach is science writing with a mischievous grin. This book dives headfirst (and sometimes with prosthetic limbs) into humanity’s never-ending quest to patch, upgrade, and outright swap out our squishiest parts. 

I've read all of Roach's books. Roach, as always, brings her snort-laugh wit to the party, dragging us through a parade of oddballs, surgeons, biohackers, and the occas...

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Derek has accomplished numerous impressive feats. He founded CD Baby. In 2008, he sold CD Baby for $22 million and donated the proceeds to a charitable trust dedicated to music education. After selling the company, he transitioned into writing and speaking.

Derek's books are short, dense, and profound. In honor of his style, I've broken up my interview with him into three fascinating segments...

This is episode 2 of 3 featuring Derek Sivers.

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Derek has accomplished numerous impressive feats. He founded CD Baby. In 2008, he sold CD Baby for $22 million and donated the proceeds to a charitable trust dedicated to music education. After selling the company, he transitioned into writing and speaking.

Derek's books are short, dense, and profound. In honor of his style, I've broken up my interview ...

This is episode 1 of 3 featuring Derek Sivers. 

Derek has accomplished numerous impressive feats. He founded CD Baby. In 2008, he sold CD Baby for $22 million and donated the proceeds to a charitable trust dedicated to music education. After selling the company, he transitioned into writing and speaking.

Derek's books are short, dense, and profound. In honor of his style, I've broken u...

This podcast is an edited version of the video, where I have removed the unboxing section, as it's challenging to follow in an audio-only format.

After reviewing the Keystone 3 Pro, I wanted to inspect the Keystone Tablet Plus, a steel slab similar to the Coinkite Seed Plate and the Scaletron Crypto Seed Capsule, both of which I've reviewed.

Watch the video below for my review, but also read the text bel...

Five years ago, I predicted Plan B's Bitcoin stock-to-flow model (S2F) would fail in this decade because it had 8 flaws.

During Bitcoin's spectacular 2022 crash, many analysts declared the S2F models dead.

I surprised everyone when I (one of Plan B's most prominent critics) said, "It's not dead yet."

The reason Plan B's stock-to-flow Bitcoin models are not dead is not because they're correct, ...

I encourage you to watch this 3-minute podcast on YouTube.

YouTube is now dubbing my English videos into 10 other languages:

• Dutch


• French


• German


• Hindi


• Indonesian


• Italian


• Japanese


• Korean


• Polish


• Portuguese


• Spanish

In my "After the Spike" video, YouTube only offers 8 languages.

I don't know why.

I'm fluent in French and Spanish, so I can confirm that the tr...

Rather than a left/right political spectrum, I prefer the 5 categories in the pictured grid. Take the test to discover where you stand.

The terms "left" and "right" on the political spectrum can be confusing, partly because their meanings have evolved significantly over time and differ across countries and historical contexts.

The same applies to the term "liberal."

Do you know people who wail about "the media"? Whenever that happens, it's always an incomplete sentence. They should say, "The media I disagree with."

Saying "the media" implies there is only one media or that they have a united message. 

Media isn't unified. Just skim the Internet for a few minutes, and you'll get wildly different points of view and reporting.

In the mini-episode, I elaborate.

This mini-episode is...

Simon & Schuster provided me with an advanced copy of the superb book After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People, scheduled for release on July 8, 2025.

The University of Texas authors, Dean Spears and Michael Geruso, have written a mind-blowing book! It's my second favorite book of 2025! My favorite 2025 book is They're Not Gaslighting You.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-JfpjJRkok

In 3 WanderLearn episodes, Alex Hutchinson and I discuss his new book, The Explorer's Gene. This is the 3rd of 3 episodes.

The Explorer's Gene examines human exploration broadly, going beyond traditional expeditions to investigate why humans explore everything from new foods to music.

Michael Zervos is the fastest traveler ever!

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Now that Michael Zervos has traveled to all the countries faster than anyone else, what's next for him? 

Additionally, what advice would he offer to anyone who wants to break his speed record? 

Did you know Zervos has a book deal? Exciting! 

We cover it all in 13 minutes!

00:00 Advice to the next person who tries to beat the record

I'm celebrating the 350th podcast episode with Michael Zervos! He did it!

Many people try to travel to all the countries in the world quickly, but most fail.

Therefore, when I met Zervos in Côte d'Ivoire in February 2024, when he was just 10% into his race, it seemed highly unlikely that he would succeed where so many others had failed.

Still, there was something about Zervos that made me believe he would pull off this ...