Episodi

  • UnDisciplined: Classic cars for the modern day

    UnDisciplined: Classic cars for the modern day
    Nov 5 2026
    What happens when you take a 60-year-old American muscle car and replace its gas-powered engine with an electric motor? The result is a car that looks and feels like a classic, but drives like something from the future. This week, we take a ride in a newly electrified piece of automotive history and explore what it tells us about the future of transportation.
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    26 min
  • UnDisciplined: Finding truth in documentary filmmaking

    UnDisciplined: Finding truth in documentary filmmaking
    Oct 29 2026
    You Can See Everything is earning widespread acclaim for pushing the boundaries between reality, performance, and fiction. But that doesn’t mean it’s doing anything new. In fact, documentary director and editor Genéa Gaudet has spoken on how filmmakers have been blurring those lines for a very long time.
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    26 min
  • UnDisciplined: Searching the past for future solutions

    UnDisciplined: Searching the past for future solutions
    Oct 15 2026
    Throughout human history, civilizations have lost touch with knowledge, traditions, and practices that their ancestors developed over thousands of years — a phenomenon that has been called “the Great Forgetting.” Now, author June Cohen believes we’re overdue for a “Great Remembering."
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    26 min
  • UnDisciplined: What does it mean to be alive?

    UnDisciplined: What does it mean to be alive?
    Oct 8 2026
    For centuries, we have tended to associate consciousness with the most sophisticated things our brains can do: thought, reason, language, memory. But Antonio Damasio argues that we should be looking somewhere much more ancient, and much more humble: Hunger. Thirst. Warmth. Cold. Pleasure. Pain.His argument is that consciousness begins with a living organism sensing the condition of its own body. At some point in the history of life, being alive began to feel like something.
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    26 min
  • UnDisciplined: Shoot for the moon (and then some), pt. 2

    UnDisciplined: Shoot for the moon (and then some), pt. 2
    Oct 1 2026
    Moonshots are big, audacious ideas that have the potential to change the world. Today, they've become synonymous with Silicon Valley and vast corporations.But Salima Bhimani, who worked at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, helping its famous “Other Bets” arm, believes we've made the concept of moonshots too simple and too insular. Some of the most consequential innovations in human history didn't require billion-dollar startups, and some of the people with the most important ideas today may live thousands of miles from Silicon Valley, without access to its money, networks or privilege.
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    26 min
  • UnDisciplined: Shoot for the moon (and then some), pt. 1

    UnDisciplined: Shoot for the moon (and then some), pt. 1
    Sep 24 2026
    Moonshots are big, audacious ideas that have the potential to change the world. Today, they've become synonymous with Silicon Valley and vast corporations.But Salima Bhimani, who worked at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, helping its famous “Other Bets” arm, believes we've made the concept of moonshots too simple and too insular. Some of the most consequential innovations in human history didn't require billion-dollar startups, and some of the people with the most important ideas today may live thousands of miles from Silicon Valley, without access to its money, networks or privilege.
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    26 min
  • UnDisciplined: In pursuit of a user-friendly healthcare system

    UnDisciplined: In pursuit of a user-friendly healthcare system
    Sep 17 2026
    If you've lived in the United States for a long time, you probably know that when someone tells you a doctor is “out of network,” that’s important, or that having health insurance doesn’t necessarily mean your healthcare is free.But how did you learn all of that? There’s nothing particularly intuitive about it.Now imagine arriving in the United States from a country where healthcare works very differently. You’re given an insurance card, a link to a website and, if you’re lucky, a short orientation on healthcare terminology.This is often not enough in times of crisis, leading Akshata Balghare to investigate how much of the difficulty of navigating this system comes from the system itself… and how much comes from the way we explain it.
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    26 min
  • UnDisciplined: Silicon Valley's impact on U.S. politics

    UnDisciplined: Silicon Valley's impact on U.S. politics
    Sep 10 2026
    There are a lot of rich and powerful people in Silicon Valley who have said some strange things about democracy.It would be easy to dismiss some of this as tech entrepreneurs doing what tech entrepreneurs have always done: dreaming about moving fast and breaking stuff, and making enormous claims about the future.But the journalist Gil Durán thinks that dismissing all of this as blather would be a mistake.In his new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, Durán argues that these ideas actually belong to an emerging political ideology — one that has moved from obscure books and blogs into some of the most powerful institutions in the United States.
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    26 min