Dan Hoyer and Peter Turchin joined me on the podcast to talk about the new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics, which uses the tools of complexity science and cultural evolution to study the dynamics of historical empires and modern nation-states.
The problems the world faces now are ones the whole human race will have to resolve, so David Christian has decided to tell the history of the entire human race from the Big Bang to the present.
Jamie Bartlett joined me on the podcast to talk about the history of the Bitcoin.
James Rebanks joined me on the podcast to tell the history of his family farm in the Lake District hills. This was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. We talk about how it has transfor...
