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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Ridley Returns

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Last time Matt Ridley was on, Jonah was left with so many questions that he knew he had to get him on again in short order. So he’s here again to answer more questions on the themes of his new book, How Innovation Works. Matt talks about how bureaucracy gets in the way of innovation, not by saying no to innovators, but “by saying yes too slowly,” and presents the one bit of scientific wisdom he would pass on to a future civilization. Come for the enlightenment, stay for the LED lightbulb. Show Notes: -Matt’s new book, How Innovation Works; tell us on social media if you buy it! -John Nestor’s wild ride -Matt Ridley: speed up bureaucratic decision making -Thomas Young, The Last Man Who Knew Everything -Britain’s proud history of… water abstraction reform? -Innocentive: an innovation crowdsourcing platform -Pill cameras -Anton Howes’ blog -Jonah’s piece on the RadioLab debacle -Lucretius: De Rerum Natura -Steven Pinker: what scientific concept ought to be more widely known? -Jevons Paradox -The 1890 Russian Flu pandemic

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0:00.0

Oh

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Ladies and gentlemen

0:16.5

Could I please have your attention?

0:18.5

Thank you

0:28.0

Greetings go listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Oddcast brought to you by the dispatch and

0:33.9

dispatch.com

0:36.2

Go to the dispatch.com to find out what was really inside the briefcase in Pulp Fiction

0:42.4

Today we have a return

0:45.0

Possibly the fastest turnaround for a return guest in the in the thousands of years that this podcast has been around

0:53.8

I'm excited to have them back. We are gonna try and cover new ground

0:59.0

so be watchful for it. We have Matt Ridley author of how innovation works. Did I say it correctly?

1:07.2

You did okay and

1:09.8

Delighted to have you back how goes the book tour?

1:12.8

It's going great and it's a real honor to be back on so quickly. Thank you so much

1:16.2

You may notice that I've got my beard off since I was lost on the show. I've trimmed mine

1:22.2

So you wouldn't feel like you're being interviewed twice by Ted Kaczynski

1:27.4

and

1:28.9

And also because the neighborhood children were starting to pedal away really fast when they saw me emerge from my house, so

1:36.4

All right, so

1:38.4

Listeners who heard this last time know that you have this book about how innovation works where innovation comes from you're the guy who came up with this idea

1:46.0

That ideas have sex and that's how they

1:48.9

Spread around and create new things. We're gonna talk about all that but I wanted to sort of skip ahead just for two seconds

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