How Innovation Works - Featuring: Matt Ridley
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Why do some places pump out inventions and progress, while innovation lags elsewhere? Science writer Matt Ridley has surveyed the history of innovation, from Roman numerals to CRISPR. He's identified the factors society needs for innovation to flourish--and what it often does to smother it. He joins Heaton to discuss best practices for civilization and the history of inventions, all in his new book, "How Innovation Works."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, merely searching for solutions to problems and building a big pithy clubhouse |
| 0:15.1 | for friendly thinkers of all persuasions. |
| 0:17.6 | If you want to help people and fix things, you don't like partisan shout-fests, |
| 0:22.0 | welcome home. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton, and by the end of this episode, |
| 0:26.9 | we'll all be a solid 10% smarter |
| 0:29.9 | and 8% more British, |
| 0:32.4 | which means you should use caution if you are already and 8% more British. |
| 0:32.5 | Which means you should use caution if you are already British, |
| 0:35.5 | because anything over 104% British |
| 0:38.0 | and you run the risk of becoming lethally British. |
| 0:40.9 | So if that's you, talk to your doctor, and as a preventative measure maybe watch some |
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