
Ben Yeoh Chats
Ben Yeoh chats to a variety of thinkers and doers about their curiosities, ideas and passions.
If you are curious about the world this show is for you.
I have extended conversations across humanities and science with artists, philosophers, writers, theatre makers, activists, economists and all w
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Arts
Jennifer Doleac: reducing crime, policing, justice, policy
Jennifer Doleac studies the economics of crime and d...
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May 8 2023 1h 27m
Patrick House: Neuroscience and Understanding Consciousness
Patrick House is a neuroscientist and writer. His re...
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Mar 28 2023 1h 49m
Chris Stark: 2023, Climate Policy, NetZero, Adaptation, Heating, Buildings, Incentives
Chris Stark is the Chief Executive of the UK’s Clima...
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Feb 24 2023 1h 23m
Jade O'Brien: stock broker to teacher, reflections on finance and education, women in finance
Jade O’Brien was a stock broker (equity sales) ...
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Feb 3 2023 1h 27m
Kanjun Qiu: AI, metascience, institutional knowledge, trauma models, structure of knowledge, creativity and dance
Kanjun is co-founder and CEO of Generally Intelligen...
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Jan 17 2023 1h 39m
Florence Evans: Mud Larking, Art Collecting, Dealing and Curating
Florence Evans is an art dealer, historian, curator,...
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Dec 29 2022 1h 12m
Michael Nielsen: metascience, how to improve science, open science, and decentralisation
Michael Nielsen is a scientist at the Astera Institu...
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Nov 15 2022 1h 36m
Saloni Dattani: making science better, important questions in science, open science, reforming peer review, vaccine...
Saloni Dattani is a founding editor at Works in Prog...
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Nov 8 2022 1h 6m
Jérôme Tagger: sustainability, ESG as a negotiation, impact, investing, preventable surprises
Jérôme Tagger is CEO of Preventable Surprises. Jérôm...
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Nov 2 2022 51m
Mark Koyama: How the World Became Rich, economic history, intangibles, culture, progress
Mark Koyama is an Associate Professor of Economics a...
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Oct 9 2022 1h 12m
Jacob Soll: History of Free Market ideas, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Cicero, Machievelli, History of Accounting
Jacob Soll is a professor of philosophy, history and...
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Sep 24 2022 1h 27m
Naomi Fisher: home education, unschool, agency in learning, meltdowns, child-led learning, cognitive psychology
Naomi Fisher is a clinical psychologist. She has wri...
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Aug 31 2022 1h 22m
Kana Chan: living in a zero waste village in Japan, Kamikatsu
Kana Chan is living in Kamikatsu which is Japan’s fi...
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Aug 10 2022 47m
Larry Temkin (pt 1): Moral Philosophy, transitivity, critiques of effective altruism, international aid, pluralism
Larry Temkin is a moral philosopher. He has major wo...
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Jul 27 2022 1h 30m
Larry Temkin (pt 2): Critiques of Effective Altruism, long-termism, potential problems of international aid, philos...
Larry Temkin is a moral philosopher. He has major wo...
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Jul 27 2022 1h 26m
Leigh Caldwell: cognitive economics, power of stories, how the mind consumes dreams and plans future actions
Leigh Caldwell is a cognitive economist. Leigh has d...
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Jul 22 2022 1h 30m
David Finnigan: Making Theatre, Improving Creativity, Learning From Failure, Art In A Time Of Climate
David Finnigan is an award winning theatre maker, wr...
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Jul 5 2022 1h 25m
Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech Investing, Brown Spinning, Venture, Sustainability, newsletters, investment philosophy,...
Sophie Purdom co-writes a climate and innovation new...
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Jun 26 2022 55m
Francesca Sanderson: impact arts investing, social impact, creativity, living off-grid
Francesca Sanderson managed an ethical equities fund...
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Jun 19 2022 58m
Nadia Asparouhova: Future Of Philanthropy, Science Funding, Creator Economy, Family Stories and Independent Researc...
Nadia Asparouhova (previously writing under Nadia Eg...
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Jun 11 2022 1h 3m
Carl Saxton-Pizzie: Building A £30m Sustainable Grocery Delivery Company, Mental Health, Sustainability
Carl Saxton-Pizzie trained as an actor and worked in...
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May 20 2022 1h 9m
Annemarie Naylor: Public Goods, Sovereign Health Fund, Technology And Future Of Justice
Annemarie is Director of Innovation for the Seetec G...
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Apr 22 2022 1h 7m
Sophie Woolley: Deaf culture, hearing culture and her creative journey
What is it like to go deaf and then gain back your h...
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Apr 10 2022 1h 4m
Stian Westlake on the intangible economy, recession, stagnation, inequality, BS jobs and new institutions
Stian Westlake is the chief exec at the Royal Statis...
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Mar 21 2022 1h 18m
Stephan Guyenet On Diet, Obesity Models, and Obesity Drugs
Stephan Guyenet completed a PhD in neuroscience, the...
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Mar 14 2022 1h 20m