The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma – Details, episodes & analysis

India's policy ecosystem was once a desolate landscape, stuck in bad ideas of the past. One institution shook it all up. Nitin Pai and Pranay Kotasthane join Amit Varma in episode 433 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe their journey building the Takshashila Institution.

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Also check out:
1. Nitin Pai on Twitter, LinkedIn, his own website and the Takshashila Institution.
2. Pranay Kotasthane on Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon and the Takshashila Institution.
3. The Takshashila Institution.
4. Takshashila's courses and Open Takshashila.
5. The Liberal Nationalism of Nitin Pai — Episode 318 of The Seen and the Unseen.
6. Pranay Kotasthane Talks Public Policy — Episode 233 of The Seen and the Unseen.
7. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Nitin Pai: 1, 2, 3.
8. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen w Pranay Kotasthane: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
9. The archives of The Acorn, Nitin Pai's blog.
10. The Life and Times of Gurcharan Das -- Episode 425 of The Seen and the Unseen.
11. Assembling India's Constitution -- Rohit De and Ornit Shani.
12. The Overton Window.
13. Nitin Pai's 2011 FAQ on Anna Hazare and the Lok Pal bill.
14. Arthashastra and History of the Peloponnesian War.
15. Distance From Delhi -- Various Takshashila authors.
16. The Age of the Partial Outsider — Janan Ganesh.
17. The Prestige -- Christopher Priest.
18. Everything Evolves -- Mark Vellend.
19. Humankind -- Rutger Bregman.
20. A Sixth Of Humanity -- Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian.

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Episode art: 'Lighthouse' by Simahina.

Trained as a journalist, but driven by a desire to make a difference, she spent over a decade working with sex workers in Delhi to understand and improve their lives. Gitanjali Babbar joins Amit Varma in episode 424 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss her learnings about GB Road -- and our strange and twisted society.

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Also check out
1. Gitanjali Babbar on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
2. Kat Katha (also on Facebook and Instagram.)
3. Donate to Kat Katha. (Alternate link).
4. Select talks by and interviews of Gitanjali Babbar: 1, 2, 3, 4.
5. The Fat Girl -- Andre Dubus.
6. Aashayein -- song from Iqbal.
7. Talks on the Gita -- Vinobha Bhave.
8. The Forty Rules of Love -- Elif Shafak.
9. Tu Jhoom -- Naseebo Lal and Abida Parveen.
10. Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar -- Mansoor Khan.
11. Saathiya -- Shaad Ali.
12. Anurag Garg on Amazon.

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Episode art: 'The Street' by Simahina.

In a democracy, every vote should be equal. But in India, that's not the case. Shruti Rajagopalan joins Amit Varma in episode 336 of The Seen and the Unseen to give a detailed primer into the complex issue of Delimitation -- and to suggest her own radical solution.

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Also check out:
1. Shruti Rajagopalan on Twitter, Substack, Instagram and her podcast, Ideas of India.
2. Demography, Delimitation, and Democracy -- Shruti Rajagopalan's detailed post on Delimitation.
3. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen w Shruti Rajagopalan, in reverse chronological order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
4. India's Emerging Crisis of Representation -- Milan Vaishnav and Jamie Hintson.
5. Of Openings and Possibilities -- Pranay Kotasthane on Delimitation.
6. South India Would Like to Have a Word — Episode 320 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nilakantan RS).
7. Jayaprakash Narayan Wants to Mend Our Democracy -- Episode 334 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jayaprakash Narayan).
8. The Life and Times of Shanta Gokhale — Episode 311 of The Seen and the Unseen.
9. The Life and Times of Jerry Pinto — Episode 314 of The Seen and the Unseen.
10. Amit Varma on the Creator Economy -- A recent episode of the Ideas of India podcast.
11. Gurwinder Bhogal Examines Human Nature -- Episode 331 of The Seen and the Unseen.
12. The Prism -- Gurwinder Bhogal's Substack newsletter.
13. Public Choice Theory — Episode 121 of The Seen and the Unseen.
14. Public Choice: A Primer — Eomonn Butler.
15. Public Choice -- Politics Without Romance -- James M Buchanan.
16. Politics Without Romance -- Amit Varma's column archives for Bloomberg Quint.
17. David Hume on Britannica, Wikipedia and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
18. Adam Smith on Britannica, Wikipedia and Amazon.
19. James M Buchanan on Britannica, Wikipedia, Econlib and Amazon.
20. Gordon Tullock on Wikipedia, Econlib, Mercatus and Amazon.
21. The Calculus of Consent — James M Buchanan and Gordon Tullock.
22. Democracy in Deficit -- James M Buchanan and Richard E Wagner.
23. Shruti Rajagopalan on our constitutional amendments.
24. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State -- Episode 33 of The Seen and the Unseen.
25. Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back — Subhashish Bhadra.
26. Where Have All The Leaders Gone? -- Amit Varma.
27. The Political Theory of a Compound Republic -- Vincent Ostrom.
28. Urban Governance in India — Episode 31 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan).
29. India's Greatest Civil Servant — Episode 167 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Narayani Basu, on VP Menon).
30. Great Soul -- Joseph Lelyveld.
31. Understanding Gandhi. Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
32. Understanding Gandhi. Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
33. Population Is Not a Problem, but Our Greatest Strength — Amit Varma.
34. A Life in Indian Politics — Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jayaprakash Narayan).
35. The First Assault on Our Constitution — Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh).
36. Nehru's Debates — Episode 262 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain.)
37. Coalition Politics and Economic Development -- Irfan Nooruddin.
38. The Laffer Curve.
39. The Anti-Defection Law — Episode 13 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Barun Mitra).
40. Our Parliament and Our Democracy — Episode 253 of The Seen and the Unseen (w MR Madhavan).
41. The Four Quadrants of Conformism — Paul Graham.
42. 'Let Me Interrupt Your Expertise With My Confidence' — New Yorker cartoon by Jason Adam Katzenstein.
43. Eppur si muove.
44. Jagdish Bhagwati's co-written defence of demonetisation, and Shruti Rajagopalan's co-written rebuttal.

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Episode art: 'Figure it Out' by Simahina.

The war in Ukraine may seem distant -- but it affects us all in a million unseen ways. Ajay Shah joins Amit Varma in episode 335 of The Seen and the Unseen to deliver an in-depth masterclass on exactly what is going on.

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Also check out:
1. Ajay Shah on Twitter and Substack.
2. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
3. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah.
4. Rising to the China Challenge -- Gautam Bambawale, Vijay Kelkar, Raghunath Mashelkar, Ganesh Natarajan, Ajit Ranade and Ajay Shah.
5. Russia, Ukraine, Foreign Policy — Episode 268 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane and Nitin Pai).
6. Conflict in Ukraine: A timeline (2014 - present) -- Nigel Walker for House of Commons Library.
7. RUSI's commentary on Ukraine.
8. Rand Corporation's archive on the war.
9. Understanding the Russo-Ukranian War: A Guide From War on the Rocks.
10. Foreign Affairs articles on Ukraine, Russia and China.
11. Maps that update every day from Deep State and War Mapper.
12. YouTubers to follow on this subject: Perun, Timothy Snyder, Anders Puck Nielsen, The Telegraph, Silicon Curtain and William Spaniel.
13. Wind and solar power generated more electricity in the EU last year than gas did. Here's how -- Stefan Ellerbeck.
14. Economic stress in Russia -- Ajay Shah.
15. More ammo: Improving resilience against extreme surges in demand -- Ajay Shah.
16. Downstream from the Ukraine war -- Gautam Bambawale and Ajay Shah.
17. Bloodlands -- Timothy Snyder.
18. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine -- Anne Applebaum.
19. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 -- Anne Applebaum.
20. On Tyranny -- Timothy Snyder.
21. What is Populism? -- Jan-Werner Müller.
22. Tyranny in the Post-Truth Universe (2017) -- Amit Varma.
23. Why Both Modi and Trump are Textbook Populists (2017) -- Amit Varma.
24. The End of History? — Francis Fukuyama's essay.
25. The End of History and the Last Man — Francis Fukuyama's book.
26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
27. Arthur Koestler and Boris Pasternak on Amazon.
28. Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2005) -- Vladimir Putin.
29. Requiem -- Anna Akhmatova.
30. Russian court orders closure of country's oldest human rights group -- Andrew Roth on the ban of Memorial.
31. The Resource Curse.
32. Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Vasily Grossman.
33. Dersu Uzala -- Akira Kurosawa.
34. Servant of the People -- The show in which Volodymyr Zelenskyy starts as the president of Ukraine.
35. Volodymyr Zelenskyy plays the piano with his penis.
36. How Corruption Destroys Armies - Theft, Graft, and Russian failure in Ukraine -- Perun.
37. An excerpt from Wittgenstein's diary -- Parul Sehgal on Twitter.
38. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -- Ludwig Wittgenstein.
39. The Innovator's Dilemma -- Clayton M Christensen.
40. National Security Strategy of Japan.
41. Suspicious deaths of Russian businesspeople (2022–2023).
42. 'Stop the war.' 44 Top Russian Players Publish Open Letter To Putin — Sam Copeland.
43. Alexander Grischuk's emotional press conference after Russia invaded Ukraine. (Watch from 4:20.)
44. India must detach from Russia -- Renuka Sane.
45. Helping India Replace Russia in the Value Arms Market -- Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach.
46. After Ukraine, Where Will India Buy its Weapons? --  Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach.
47. For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Ernest Hemingway.
48. For Whom the Bell Tolls -- John Donne.
49. Night of the Long Knives.
50. Anton Geraschenko's tweet after the Wagner backdown.
51. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller.
52. Max Seddon's tweet about Yevgeny Prigozhin.

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Episode art: 'War' by Simahina.

He was a physician, and then an IAS officer, and then a universally-respected politician. Jayaprakash Narayan joins Amit Varma in episode 334 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe his lifelong quest to complete our task of nation-building.

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India is like a caged tiger -- and the cage is unseen by most and difficult to break through. Subhashish Bhadra joins Amit Varma in episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen to describe the many ways in which the Indian state holds back the Indian people -- and also to introspect on his own journey.

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Also check out:
1. Subhashish Bhadra on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter.
2. Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back -- Subhashish Bhadra.
3. Freedom at Midnight -- Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
4. The Universe of Chuck Gopal — Episode 258 of The Seen and the Unseen.
5. Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) -- Marvin Gaye.
6. From Cairo to Delhi With Max Rodenbeck — Episode 281 of The Seen and the Unseen.
7. The Rooted Cosmopolitanism of Sugata Srinivasaraju — Episode 277 of The Seen and the Unseen.
8. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
9. Yeh Honsla -- Song from Dor.
10. Gurwinder Bhogal Examines Human Nature -- Episode 331 of The Seen and the Unseen.
11. The Perils of Audience Capture — Gurwinder Bhogal.
12. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
13. The State of Our Farmers — Episode 86 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Gunvant Patil).
14. The Indian State Is the Greatest Enemy of the Indian Farmer -- Amit Varma.
15. Power and Prosperity — Mancur Olson.
16. A Tale Of Two Bandits: Naxals And The Indian State -- Amit Varma.
17. The First Assault on Our Constitution — Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh).
18. Sixteen Stormy Days — Tripurdaman Singh.
19. The Narrow Corridor: How Nations Struggle for Liberty -- Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.
20. Paul Graham's essays.
21. Malevolent Republic — Kapil Komireddi.
22. Who Broke Our Republic? — Episode 163 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Kapil Komireddi).
23. A New Idea of India -- Harsh Madhusudan and Rajeev Mantri.
24. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah.
25. The Art and Science of Economic Policy — Ep 154 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah).
26. The Transformative Constitution -- Gautam Bhatia.
27. The Great Repression — Chitranshul Sinha.
28. India's Sedition Law — Episode 146 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Chitranshul Sinha).
29. Georges Simenon on Amazon.
30. The Road to Serfdom — Friedrich Hayek.
31. Leviathan -- Thomas Hobbes.
32. India's Greatest Civil Servant — Episode 167 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Narayani Basu, on VP Menon).
33. Emergency Chronicles — Gyan Prakash.
34. Gyan Prakash on the Emergency — Episode 103 of The Seen and the Unseen.
35. Participatory Democracy — Episode 160 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashwin Mahesh).
36. Minimum government, maximum governance: A manifesto for a limited state -- Reuben Abraham and Vivek Dehejia.
37. We Are Fighting Two Disasters: Covid-19 and the Indian State -- Amit Varma.
38. India's Far From Free Markets (2005) -- Amit Varma in the Wall Street Journal.
39. India's Lost Decade — Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra).
40. The Lost Decade — Puja Mehra.
41. The Great Redistribution — Amit Varma.
42. The Delhi Smog — Ep 40 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vivek Kaul).
43. The Tragedy of Our Farm Bills — Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah).
44. The Emergency: A Personal History — Coomi Kapoor.
45. Coomi Kapoor Has the Inside Track — Episode 305 of The Seen and the Unseen.
46. Memories of a Father -- TV Eachara Varier.
47. Flying Spaghetti Monster.
48. Don't Insult Pasta (2007) — Amit Varma.
49. Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India -- Abhinav Chandrachud.
50. South India Would Like to Have a Word — Episode 320 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nilakantan RS).
51. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century -- Yuval Noah Harari.
52. Rethinking Public Institutions in India -- Edited by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Milan Vaishnav.
53. Black Mirror on Netflix.

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Episode art: 'Cage' by Simahina.

She's been a historian and a filmmaker. She's worked on feminism and caste and Buddhism. She's collected oral histories of India's traumas. She's mentored generations. The legendary Uma Chakravarti joins Amit Varma in episode 332 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about her life, her times and her invaluable work towards the pursuit of truth.

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Also check out:
1. Uma Chakkravarti on Wikipedia and Amazon.
2. The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism -- Uma Chakravarti.
3. Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai -- Uma Chakravarti.
4. Gendering Caste Through a Feminist Lens -- Uma Chakravarti.
5. Delhi Riots: Three Days in the Life of a Nation -- Uma Chakravarti and Nandita Haksar.
6. Thinking Gender, Doing Gender -- Edited by Uma Chakravarti.
7. A Quiet Little Entry -- Uma Chakravarti.
8. Fragments of a Past -- Uma Chakravarti.
9. Ek Inquilab Aur Aaya: Lucknow 1920-1949 -- Uma Chakravarti.
10. Prison Diaries -- Uma Chakravarti.
11. Sexual Violence in Indian Society -- Uma Chakravarti.
12. Restructuring the Path: Inserting Women into History (2000) -- Uma Chakravarti.
13. Select episodes on The Seen and the Unseen that touched on feminism & gender with Paromita Vohra, Kavita Krishnan, Mrinal Pande, Kavitha Rao, Namita Bhandare, Shrayana Bhattacharya, Mukulika Banerjee, Manjima Bhattacharjya, Nilanjana Roy, Urvashi Butalia, Mahima Vashisht, Alice Evans, Ashwini Deshpande, Natasha Badhwar, Shanta Gokhale, Arshia Sattar, Rohini Nilekani and Shaili Chopra.
14. Memories and Things — Episode 195 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aanchal Malhotra).
15. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen.
16. Whatever happened To Ehsan Jafri on February 28, 2002? — Harsh Mander.
17. A Life in Indian Politics — Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w JP Narayan).
18. Kiran Ahluwalia Finds Our Aam Zameen -- Episode 328 of The Seen and the Unseen.
19. Yogendra Yadav on why he was named Salim.
20. The Intellectual Foundations of Hindutva — Episode 115 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel).
21. Aakar Patel Is Full of Hope — Episode 270 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel).
22. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila).
23. Early Indians — Episode 112 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tony Joseph).
24. Early Indians — Tony Joseph.
25. Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich.
26. A Venture Capitalist Looks at the World — Episode 213 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sajith Pai).
27. Therīgāthā on Wikipedia and Amazon.
28. Arshia Sattar and the Complex Search for Dharma — Episode 315 of The Seen and the Unseen.
29. Deedar -- Nitin Bose.
30. Diya Jalao Jagmag Jagmag -- Song from Tansen.
31. Do Bigha Zameen -- Bimal Roy.
32. The Life and Times of Shanta Gokhale — Episode 311 of The Seen and the Unseen.
33. The Loneliness of the Indian Man — Episode 303 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nikhil Taneja).
34. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft.
35. Frankenstein -- Mary Shelley.
36. Amit Varma's episode of The Book Club on Wollstonecraft's book.
37. Amit Varma's episode of The Book Club on Shelley's book.
38. The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia — Episode 287 of The Seen and the Unseen.
39. Manjima Bhattacharjya: The Making of a Feminist — Episode 280 of The Seen and the Unseen.
40. A Cricket Tragic Celebrates the Game — Episode 201 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha).
41. India = Migration — Episode 128 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Chinmay Tumbe).
42. India Moving — Chinmay Tumbe.
43. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
44. Education in India — Episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Amit Chandra).
45. Understanding Indian Healthcare — Episode 225 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
46. The Great Redistribution — Amit Varma.
47. The Beautiful Tree — James Tooley.
48. Hum Dekhenge -- Iqbal Bano.
49. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India -- V Geetha.
50. Let's Read Ambedkar -- Lecture series by V Geetha.
51. Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India -- Douglas Ober.
52. The Conversion of the Untouchables -- BR Ambedkar.
53. The Gregorian Chant.
54. Deva Bandha Namma -- Bhimsen Joshi.
55. Jo Bhaje Hari Ko Sada So Hi Param Pada Pavega -- Bhimsen Joshi.
56. Vaishnav Jan To -- Riyaaz Qawwali.

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Episode art: 'Carrying the Torch' by Simahina.

It is not the world that is the problem but the flawed ways in which we think about it. Gurwinder Bhogal joins Amit Varma in episode 331 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his interest in meta-cognition -- and what it reveals about us and the world.

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Also check out:
1. Gurwinder Bhogal on Substack and Twitter.
2.  My Story -- Gurwinder Bhogal. 
3.  Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things -- Gurwinder Bhogal.
4. The Perils of Audience Capture -- Gurwinder Bhogal.
5. Skin in the Game -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
6. Superforecasting — Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner.
7. The Looking-Glass Shelf.
8. Nikocado Avocado -- Nicholas Perry's YouTube channel.
9. God is Not Great -- Christopher Hitchens.
10. The Coddling of the American Mind — Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
11. A Biologist Explains Why Sex Is Binary -- Colin Wright.
12. The Three Languages of Politics — Arnold Kling.

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He's a freethinker who's never been scared to rattle orthodoxies. Eric Weinstein joins Amit Varma in episode 330 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about how he became the man he is.

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Also check out:
1. Eric Weinstein on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and his own website.
2. Eric Weinstein on The Joe Rogan Experience (1, 2) and Lex Fridman (1, 2, 3, 4).
3. Eric Weinstein in Karjat, 1986.
4. The Road Not Taken -- Robert Frost.
5. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -- Robert Frost.
6. Total Love -- Gur Bentwich.
7. Eric Weinstein in Kiev, 1989.
8. Eric Weinstein meets a harmonica friend.
9. The 27 Club.
10. Umwelt.
11. John Mayer and Blake Mills on Spotify.
12. Sara Rai Inhales Literature — Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen.
13. Desire -- Clementine Von Radics.
14. The Is-Ought Problem.
15. The Naturalistic Fallacy.
16. The Big Questions — Steven E Landsburg.
17. Hindi Nationalism — Alok Rai.
18. Jahnavi and the Cyclotron — Episode 319 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jahnavi Phalkey).
19. Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth-Century India — Jahnavi Phalkey.
20. The Law of Truly Large Numbers.
21. Unlikely is Inevitable — Amit Varma.
22. Poisson Point Process.
23. The Major-General song from The Pirates of Penzance.
24. The HMS Pinafore song.
25. The New World Upon Us — Amit Varma (on Alpha Zero).
26. Alfred Hitchcock and The Beach Boys.
27. Roger Ebert on Mulholland Drive and Memento.
28. Joe Morgenstern and Bonnie and Clyde.
29. Creep -- Radiohead.
30. The Perils of Audience Capture -- Gurwinder Bhogal (on 'The Looking-Glass Self; and more).
31. David Bowie and Madonna.
32. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) -- Green Day.
33. I Can't Stand the Rain -- Ann Peebles.
34. Fast Car -- Tracy Chapman.
35. Planet Claire -- The B52s.
36. Dunning-Kruger Effect.
37. Imposter Syndrome.
38. Bethany Hamilton on Wikipedia, Twitter, Instagram and her own website.
39. FOO Camp.
40. Gad Saad's poll on Like vs Respect.
41. Mary Oliver and Mark Strand.
42. The Prem Panicker Files — Episode 217 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Prem Panicker).
43. The Great Brain -- John D Fitzgerald.
44. Pippi Longstocking -- Astrid Lindgren.
45. Tom Lehrer on Spotify.
46. Eric Weinstein on Kung Fu Panda.
47. Kung Fu Panda -- John Stevenson.

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Episode art: 'Endless Possibility' by Simahina.