Exploring the deepest shipwrecks on Earth. 🌊 Victor Vescovo shares his experiences discovering WWII shipwrecks in trenches deeper than the Titanic. tinyurl.com/4mad5s73

How a 2009 paper laid the groundwork for the Green New Deal. This clip breaks down the origins & real-world impact. 👇 rb.gy/mmb4h8

Faith, family, and finding happiness. 🏡 Chris Burkard reflects on his journey into the Mormon Church and the complex relationship he had with faith, family, and expectations. Hear the full story here rb.gy/u2uje1

California set the standard for regulating CO₂ emissions—and the world followed. 🌍. Mark Jacobson shares how his testimony at EPA hearings paved the way for emission laws that now influence 40% of U.S. states. rb.gy/mmb4h8

Inside Military Strategy: From War Plans to Near-Death Climb on Aconcagua with @victorvescovo. Full convo here: tinyurl.com/4memzz5b

Just learned Rome had adhesive tech we still can’t replicate—armor with metal joints glued for over 1,000 years underwater. Advanced chemical engineering we haven’t reproduced. Who’s to say they didn’t also brew psychedelic drinks from ergot (a fungus on wheat that led to

Thoughts from a run while listening to the history of Civilization: Every vice was once, anthropologically, a virtue. Necessary in the struggle for existence. It became a vice, only when it survived the conditions that made it indispensable. A vice is not an advanced form of

An excerpt from my long form podcast with Davis Guggenheim. Oscar winning documentary film maker.

Carbon tariffs could bridge the gap between right and left economic trade policy. Tying tariffs, on some level, to carbon intensity would boost domestic manufacturing, mining, and energy while encouraging cleaner production overseas. The EU recently launched a Carbon Border

The idea that bacteria start grabbing genetic material from wherever it can, with increasing speed, upon proximity from antibiotics, is so fascinating to me. Like what compels the bacteria to do this? What is the will to live in bacteria? Is that consciousness? This

The Science of Happiness: Positive Psychology Explained with Sonja Lyubomirski. Author of the How of Happiness. youtu.be/Bd9wK4-8s6E?si…

Colossal Biosciences raised $200m at a $10+bn valuation yesterday. Here is my interview with CEO Ben Lamm on Reviving Extinct Species youtu.be/BydJVlk-xfA?si…

New Podcast up with co-founder of Square. On his time as St Louis Fed board chair, and his efforts to transform the FDA’s drug approval process. open.spotify.com/episode/0qR9as…

Check out my longform pod with The founder / CEO of Colossal Biosciences® , the company that brought the Dire Wolf back from extinction. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ted…

Listen to "Mark Synnott: The Franklin Mystery and the Golden Age of Exploration" by Ted Hesser Podcast. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ted-h…

New Podcast up with Xavier Helgesen on building a mini Berkshire, on Social impact investing, on Macro, on US Debt, on business and philosophy and life. open.spotify.com/episode/0HVpIH…

Sara and Jay opened Next Chapter Books to give their community in Detroit access to something too often withheld: stories that reflect their lives and wisdom that speaks to their future. We’re proud to recognize them as Street Philosopher Society Fellows and to surprise them

China is uno-reversing the US’s industrial policy.