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Huberman Lab · Apr 16, 2025 · 17 min read
Dr. Matthew Hill: How Cannabis Impacts Health & the Potential Risks

Cannabis researcher Dr. Matthew Hill explains THC, CBD, the munchies, potency, edibles, psychosis and schizophrenia, and cannabis's real risks and uses.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 15, 2025 · 16 min read
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas explains how answer engines work, why not to fight Google head-on, and where AI reasoning and search are heading.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 15, 2025 · 15 min read
Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

Astrobiologist Sara Walker argues life is how information structures matter across time, and explores assembly theory, aliens, AI, consciousness and free will.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 13, 2025 · 12 min read
Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

Physicist Sean Carroll explains general relativity, black holes, the holographic principle, dark energy, many worlds, AI and how complexity emerges.

Huberman Lab · Apr 12, 2025 · 10 min read
LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman at the Sydney Opera House

In a live Sydney Q&A, Andrew Huberman covers stress mindsets, time perception, a jet lag protocol, psychedelics, sauna and sleep, and finding your passion.

Huberman Lab · Apr 12, 2025 · 14 min read
Dr. Matt Walker: Protocols to Improve Your Sleep

Matt Walker's sleep protocols: regularity, darkness, cool rooms, caffeine and alcohol limits, insomnia fixes, and emerging sleep-boosting technology.

Huberman Lab · Apr 12, 2025 · 16 min read
Coleman Ruiz: Overcoming Physical & Emotional Challenges

Former Tier One Navy SEAL Coleman Ruiz shares his path from wrestling to combat, losing 40 friends, PTSD, depression and learning to ask for help.

Huberman Lab · Apr 12, 2025 · 13 min read
Dr. David Yeager: How to Master Growth Mindset to Improve Performance

Psychologist David Yeager explains what growth mindset really is, how to reframe stress, and why purpose and mentoring drive performance.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 12, 2025 · 13 min read
Human Language: Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

MIT psycholinguist Ted Gibson on why languages keep related words close, why language isn't thought, what LLMs understand, and why legalese is hard.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 11, 2025 · 16 min read
Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI, Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics, Drugs

Mark Cuban talks selling, his first billion, the Mavericks, his DEI debates with Elon Musk, AI, and exposing drug-pricing middlemen.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 10, 2025 · 14 min read
Yann LeCun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

Meta's Yann LeCun explains why LLMs won't reach human-level AI, how JEPA world models could, and why open source beats AI doom.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 10, 2025 · 13 min read
Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Sam Altman reflects on his firing and return at OpenAI, the Musk lawsuit, Sora, GPT-4's limits, compute, safety and who should control AGI.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 9, 2025 · 14 min read
Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert traces 40 years of legged robots, from pogo sticks to Atlas, and his AI Institute's push for smarter robots.

Huberman Lab · Apr 7, 2025 · 13 min read
Dr Sean Mackey Tools To Reduce Manage Pain

Stanford pain chief Sean Mackey explains how the brain builds pain and which tools help: medications, heat and cold, psychology, pacing, supplements and more.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 6, 2025 · 13 min read
Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Chemist Lee Cronin defends his controversial Nature paper on assembly theory and argues that time is fundamental, life mines novelty, and AI doom is overblown.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 6, 2025 · 17 min read
Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin's rockets and Moon plans, Amazon's decision-making principles, the six-page memo, AI and long-term thinking.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 5, 2025 · 16 min read
Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity

Elon Musk's fourth talk with Lex Fridman: peace through kindness, Grok and xAI, aliens, AI regulation, the X algorithm, Optimus, and his own hardships.

Huberman Lab · Apr 5, 2025 · 9 min read
A Science-Supported Journaling Protocol to Improve Mental & Physical Health

Andrew Huberman explains James Pennebaker's four-session expressive writing protocol and how it improves anxiety, sleep, immunity and pain.

Huberman Lab · Apr 5, 2025 · 9 min read
LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman Question & Answer in Toronto, ON

Andrew Huberman answers Toronto audience questions on mental fitness, inspiration, winter light, neuroplasticity, desk-bound movement and meditation.

Huberman Lab · Apr 4, 2025 · 15 min read
Mark Zuckerberg & Dr. Priscilla Chan: Curing All Human Diseases & the Future of Health & Technology

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan on CZI's plan to cure all disease, plus social media, mixed reality, smart glasses and AI assistants.

Huberman Lab · Apr 4, 2025 · 13 min read
Mental Health Toolkit: Tools to Bolster Your Mood & Mental Health

Huberman's toolkit for mood: the big six pillars, nighttime darkness, emotional granularity, cyclic sighing, journaling and processing trauma.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 3, 2025 · 11 min read
Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse

Lex Fridman and Mark Zuckerberg talk as photorealistic avatars about the metaverse, Quest 3 mixed reality, Meta's AI personas and Llama.

Huberman Lab · Apr 2, 2025 · 14 min read
Marc Andreessen: How Risk Taking, Innovation & Artificial Intelligence Transform Human Experience

Marc Andreessen on the traits of true innovators, collapsing trust in elites, moral panics over new tech, nuclear power and AI as a personal coach.

Huberman Lab · Apr 1, 2025 · 10 min read
How to Enhance Performance & Learning by Applying a Growth Mindset

Huberman explains the science of growth mindset, why praising effort beats praising talent, and how a stress-is-enhancing mindset amplifies it.

Huberman Lab · Mar 31, 2025 · 13 min read
Dr. Susanna Søberg: How to Use Cold & Heat Exposure to Improve Your Health

Dr. Susanna Søberg explains brown fat, the 11-minute cold and 57-minute sauna weekly dose, and why you should end on cold.

Huberman Lab · Mar 30, 2025 · 12 min read
Dr. Elissa Epel: Control Stress for Healthy Eating, Metabolism & Aging

Stress scientist Elissa Epel explains how stress shapes cravings, metabolism and cellular aging, and the mind, body and environment tools that help.

Huberman Lab · Mar 30, 2025 · 11 min read
Dr Matthew Macdougall Neuralink Technologies To Enhance Human Brains

Neuralink's head neurosurgeon explains brain implants for paralysis, robotic surgery, his own RFID hand chip, brain health and a future of mind-linked communication.

Huberman Lab · Mar 29, 2025 · 10 min read
How to Breathe Correctly for Optimal Health, Mood, Learning & Performance

Andrew Huberman explains the science of breathing and zero-cost tools like the physiological sigh, box breathing and nasal breathing for calm, sleep and focus.

Huberman Lab · Mar 29, 2025 · 14 min read
Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals

Dr. Andy Galpin explains what soreness really is, how overreaching differs from overtraining, and the tools and metrics that speed and track recovery.

Huberman Lab · Mar 28, 2025 · 11 min read
Dr Sara Gottfried How To Optimize Female Hormone Health For Vitality Longevity

Dr. Sara Gottfried explains what women should test and do at each life stage for hormone health, from gut and cortisol to PCOS and perimenopause.