Media Coverage
21 March 2023
A Technologist’s Guide to the Future
Visionary technology and business leader Nathan Myhrvold dives deep into some of the most pressing questions facing our world today, including the promise of technology, the perils of self-driving cars, interplanetary travel, and if we can reverse the effects of what we’ve already done to our planet.
17 February 2023
Emission Cuts Will Fail to Stop Climate Change. What to Do Then?
In the Weekend Interview for the Wall St. Journal, Nathan Myhrvold outlines the possibilities for ‘geoengineering’ to cool the Earth and remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
12 February 2023
Dinosaur with Stephen Fry asks Nathan to shake his tail
Stephen tells the 180-million-year story of dinosaurs, traveling back in time via amazing computer-generated worlds. In this episode he encounters the Diplodocus and the Allosaurus.
31 January 2023
Nathan Myhrvold & The Iceland Series
It is a rare opportunity to interview someone who would be quite comfortable in the company of Da Vinci and Michaelangelo, yet who more modernly sits with Bill Gates and world leaders of today endeavoring in advanced nuclear energy. Our interview features exclusive images from his new Arctic photo series.
30 September 2022
Cool Tools with Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan's show-and-tell with Kevin Kelly covers four of Nathan's favorite cool tools: a Wiha screwdriver set, the Kuhn Rikon avocado knife, the Omax CNC-controlled waterjet, and the Profoto Pro-10 camera flash.
14 April 2022
As pizza popularity soars, chef and scientist share secrets from 12,000 pies
Inside a nondescript commercial office complex east of Seattle, an acclaimed professional chef and an ex-Microsoft tech executive have been quietly perfecting the art of pizza making and redefining possibilities for the perfect pie. Over the last three years, the chef, Francisco Migoya, and ex-exec, Nathan Myhrvold, have baked more than 12,000 pizzas and run 500 scientific experiments to produce what they call the definitive guide to one of the world's most popular foods.
13 December 2021
Geminid Meteor Shower: How to Watch It Peak in Night Skies
A picture by Nathan Myhrvold from the meteor shower in 2020 highlights how brilliant this winter sky show can be.
13 November 2021
Microsoft to “Modernist Cuisine:” A Deep Dive Into Pizza
Nathan Myhrvold spent 14 years climbing the ranks at Microsoft to become the company's first CTO—and then he left the tech world behind to pursue his dream of attending culinary school. He went on to found Modernist Cuisine, a research lab and publishing house exploring the cutting edge of cooking. Myhrvold discusses his latest series of books, which explore the history and science behind pizza.
21 October 2021
Tech titan Nathan Myhrvold and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart dish about pizza
When it comes to pizza, is there really anything new under the sun-dried tomatoes? Well, how about an all-black pizza, made with squid ink and black mozzarella? Or saffron pizza? Or a cheddar-apple-bacon pizza made with “Frankencheese”? Nathan Myhrvold, the techie/foodie who served as Microsoft’s first chief technology officer and founded Intellectual Ventures, laid out that menu today during an online chat with lifestyle guru Martha Stewart that focused on Myhrvold’s latest magnum opus, “Modernist Pizza.”
25 August 2021
Pizza In The United States Is What Convinced The World That Pizza Was A Great Thing
In today’s episode, we start by talking about one of Nathan’s biggest passions – food! He’s written two James Beard award-winning cookbooks and is coming out with a three volume, 1,700-page book about pizza later this year. We walk through the science, stories, culture, and history behind pizza and get his advice on how to make the perfect pizza. Then we discuss the state of innovation in the U.S. and how he thinks we can fight some of the world’s biggest problems like climate change and combatting diseases.