Join us for episode 9 of The Torch of Progress with Danica Remy, President of B612 and Co-founder of Asteroid Day. Astronauts, Asteroids, Astrophysicists and Rock Stars Learn about asteroids – their role in the formation of our universe, how...
Join us for Episode 8 of The Torch of Progress, with Anton Howes, historian-in-residence at Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture, and Commerce. Key Discussion Points: - What inspires and motivates inventors, - Why England was already poised...
Join us for episode 7 of The Torch of Progress with Noor Siddiqui, the founder & CEO, Orchid Bioscience, and Co-Founder of Stanford Center for Distributed Trust. Key Discussion Points: - Her unconventional educational path - What she learned from...
Here’s a high-level outline of the six-week course: We start with the big, historical phenomenon that motivates the course: the dramatic rise of global living standards since about 1800. We look at what life was like for our prehistoric, hunter-gatherer ancestors,...
When the concept of “progress studies” was introduced by Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen in The Atlantic, it was defined as a dedicated field of study for “the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that has transformed our lives and raised...
Join us for The Torch of Progress - Episode 6 with Joel Mokyr. Attitudes, Aptitudes, and Progress: How the Modern Age Got Started (more…)
We’re pleased to announce that Stripe Press has offered to give two classic books on science and engineering to the first one hundred students who enroll in Progress Studies for Young Scholars: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, by Richard Hamming, a...
Join us for Episode 5 of The Torch of Progress with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. We’ll be talking about differing theories of what caused the dramatic rise in global living standards—the role of cultural values, institutions, scientific knowledge, material resources, and...
Join us for Episode 4 of The Torch of Progress with Dr. Max Roser. We’ll be talking about Our World in Data, global development and its relation to progress studies, and what people get wrong when looking at the data...
Join us for Episode 3 of The Torch of Progress with Patrick Collison. We'll be talking about why he cares so much about the cause of progress, progress studies vs. effective altruism, and how he would like to see “progress...
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