What's Your Problem?
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Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future bet...
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Episodes (211)
The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of Medicine
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A Billion-Dollar Bet on Carbon Removal
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Giving Old Batteries New Life
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Engineering the Future of Fusion
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Can Robots Fix Recycling?
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Inside the Mind of an AI Model
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Teaching Robots How to Do Everything
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Making a Universal Flu Vaccine
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Teaching Computers to Smell
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Can a Chatbot Treat Depression?
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Will AI Radically Change the World by 2027?... from Risky Business
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Is the Future of Flight Supersonic?
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The Secrets of Silk
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Infiltrating an International Ransomware Gang
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Preparing for the Future of War
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Stopping HIV Without a Vaccine
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Harnessing the Heat Deep Beneath Our Feet
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The Brain Implant That Could Change Medicine
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Building a Mass Market Robot
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Solving Solar’s Biggest Problem
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How Bubbles Power Breakthroughs
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Teaching AI to Build Stuff in the Physical World
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NVIDIA: At the Heart of the AI Boom
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What Claude Shannon Figured Out
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Measles: The Cancer Killer?... from Incubation
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RoboPod and the Perpetual Money Machine – Cautionary Questions 2… from Cautionar...
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Turning Solar Energy Into Fuel (The Solar Era, Part 3)
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Can Hot Bricks Save the World? (The Solar Era, Part 2)
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How the Sun Won (The Solar Era, Part 1)
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Drugs in Space
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The World Is Getting Better (Really)
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Rabies: When Monsters are Real…from Incubation
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Using Gene Therapy to Help the Blind See
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Bringing Back Mammoths and Dodos*
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What Elevators Teach Us About Technology, Design, and Human Behavior
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Can the Plant Microbiome Revolutionize Farming?
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Turning Pollution into Jet Fuel
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Reinventing Mining to Power the World
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Inventing a Vaccine for Bees
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A Better Way to Make the Chemicals in Everything
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How Refrigeration Changed the World
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Detecting Deepfakes With AI
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Turning Old Cans Into Clean Energy
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Moneyball, Soccer, and the Gap Between Analytics and the Real World
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Using Computer Vision to See What Coaches Can’t
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Scanning Every Muscle to Help Olympians Get Stronger
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Making Blood Vessels in a Factory
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Creating the Second Atomic Age
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Lifetime Terms, Lifetime Bans, and the Return of Roaring Kitty from Risky Busine...
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When the Robots Take Over… from Cautionary Tales
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