Continuing the fight against the dark elves turned servants of Xarthaghol, Tobias first triggers a trap while rushing to find his targets. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblightDi The Shatterblight Chronicles | A TTRPG Podcast

Shark fishing is alive and well, but the fishermen who do it are increasingly prioritizing conservation. And, an unknown ant was spotted in Manhattan in 2011, and it quickly spread through New York City. We now know what it is. Fishing For—And Saving—Sharks off the Jersey Shore At an undisclosed beach at 5:30 p.m. in New Jersey, shark fisherman AJ …

Guest: Mark Pincus, founder & chairman of Zynga, and managing member & co-founder of Reinvent Capital Before Zynga and Facebook made social gaming mainstream, the video game industry was “extreme on this being about art and crafting,” recalls Zynga founder Mark Pincus. He believes his winning instinct was the realization that games were “at least 5…

A new study suggests that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs may have originated from the outer parts of the solar system. And, invasive spotted lanternflies often lay eggs on vehicles and shipped goods. Now researchers are training dogs to sniff them out before they hatch. Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Was A Carbon-Rich Rock Around 66 mil…

Eels have fascinated humans for thousands of years, even captivating big thinkers like Aristotle and Freud. Despite having been around for some 200 million years, eels are still rather mysterious creatures. For example, scientists still aren’t sure exactly how they spawn. But those unanswered questions haven’t stopped humans from wanting to eat the…

Heading down further into the depths of the Borrowed Deep, the party meets even more fanatics of Xarthaghol, though seemingly more intelligent and powerful, engaging them in dialogue first. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblight…

Guest: RJ Scaringe, CEO and Founder of Rivian “I’m very comfortable with things not being in their end state,” says Rivian CEO and founder RJ Scaringe. The company’s challenging mission — to help make 100% of the world’s cars electric — will take a long time, and a lot of willingness to build the metaphorical plane in midair. As Rivian has grown fr…

Your teeth don’t just chew your food—they connect you to the deepest of deep history on Earth. Teeth have existed, in some form, for half a billion years, making them more than 250 million years older than dinosaurs. They came before the evolution of warm bloodedness, eggs, and even limbs. From that very first set of chompers emerged a bewildering …

Think about the sounds you hear on a daily basis. Air conditioners whirring, keyboards clicking, cars honking, mosquitos buzzing, dishes clanking. Now picture yourself in a jungle. What do you hear? How do you make sense of it? Today on Radiolab for Kids, we eavesdrop on the world of animals. We bring you a story of two humans decoding animal sound…

The party keeps their push ahead through the sunken halls of the Borrowed Deep, encountering more fanatical followers of the entity known as Xarthaghol. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblight…

Guest: Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake “People underestimate what it is to go through a complete reset,” says Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. And he knows it: After an incredible 15-year run at Google, he started over from zero with an AI search startup, Neeva. And in hindsight, he regrets not trying to port over more of the skills that had ma…

New York: The city that never sleeps, the concrete jungle where dreams are made of and more recently ... home to a mysterious ant spreading across the city — before continuing across metropolitan and even state lines. Scientists first noticed this ant — now dubbed the ManhattAnt — in 2011. Nobody knew where it came from, and it was largely ignored …

Heading down a long, narrow hallway, the party is greeted by several aquatic monstrosities at a cross-section junction. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblightDi The Shatterblight Chronicles | A TTRPG Podcast

Guest: James Freeman, Founder and Former CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee In the six or so years since he sold his last shares of Blue Bottle Coffee to Nestlé, James Freeman has had a lot of time to ruminate — about how he succeeded in creating a unique café experience, and also the ways he failed his workers as a manager. But he’s already thinking about …

The party continues fighting against the frenzied attacks of several sea devils deep inside the Borrowed Deep. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblightDi The Shatterblight Chronicles | A TTRPG Podcast

Guest: John Hanke, CEO of Niantic When Pokémon Go launched, Niantic CEO John Hanke was enjoying a tranquil walk through a bamboo forest near Kyoto with his son. When he got back, it was all hands on deck: Building on a platform Niantic had developed for its previous game, Ingress, Pokémon Go was a runaway success story, earning $100 million dollars…

New research suggests that polymetallic nodules found 13,000 feet deep produce “dark oxygen” by electrolyzing water. Also, at higher altitudes, the air is less dense, which makes it harder for birds in flight to generate lift. The turkey vulture has a solution. Deep-Sea ‘Nodules’ May Produce Oxygen, Study Finds An international team of researchers …

Garric has another flashback of his past while the party rests after a day of exploration. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblightDi The Shatterblight Chronicles | A TTRPG Podcast

Guest: Mark McLaughlin, chairman of the board at Qualcomm When he was 24, Mark McLaughlin thought his career was over. Since childhood, he had dreamed of attending West Point and joining the Army, but a helicopter crash left him unable to serve, with a medical discharge. However, the crash also let him stay closer to his then-girlfriend Karen. They…

Entering a tomb chamber in the Borrowed Deep, the party awakens two angry and restless inhabitants. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblightDi The Shatterblight Chronicles | A TTRPG Podcast

Guest: David Risher, CEO of Lyft David Risher can measure his career in phone calls, from the one that introduced him to Jeff Bezos in 1995, to the call from the Lyft board in 2023, asking him to vie for the CEO job. But initially, he believed his life’s legacy might be the nonprofit Worldreader, which has brought books to more than 22 million read…

Radiolab for Kids is back! Is there such a thing as a good cage? Happy gorillas, deft landscape architects and neurologists show us that there just might be. We go back to the late 1970s to relive the moment when zoos began to change—literally the moment that the modern zoo was born, as embodied by a few tentative steps of a gorilla named Kiki. Tha…

Pushing down a hall, past two magically sealed doors they now have the sigil stone to access, the party confronts fish-like humanoid creatures blocking their path. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblight…

Guests: Vipul Ved Prakash, CEO and co-founder of Together AI; and Bucky Moore, partner at Kleiner Perkins No one knows for sure whether the future of AI will be driven more by research labs and AI-native companies, or by enterprises applying the technology to their own data sets. But one thing is for sure, says Together AI CEO and co-founder Vipul …

The party continues their fight with the aquatic denizens of the Borrowed Deep while searching for a sigil to unlock a magical door. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblightDi The Shatterblight Chronicles | A TTRPG Podcast

Guest: Andrew Bialecki, CEO of Klaviyo Whenever the marketing platform Klaviyo is hiring, says CEO Andrew Bialecki, “we sort of don't care so much what skills you have.” Instead, the company looks for “high slope” individuals who are curious and able to continually learn new things. “A big turnoff for me is [when] somebody says, ‘Oh, well, I was ne…

As the James Webb Space Telescope marks two years of operations, NASA unveils a new image of two galaxies interacting. And, new research shows that cats’ tendency to scratch is affected by stress, certain kinds of play, and how active they are at night. Galaxies ‘Dance’ In Stunning New JWST Image The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful te…

The party moves forward down several long, narrow halls only to open the door to another chamber, triggering a hazardous trap set by the denizens of the Borrowed Deep. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblight…

Earlier this year, the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington announced that pandas would be returning to the capitol. This news was met with great fanfare because the zoo’s resident pandas had returned to China last fall, leaving the District panda-less for the first time in more than 50 years. After the pandas left D.C. in the fall, SciFri produc…

Guest: Niraj Shah, CEO and co-founder of Wayfair Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah caught the entrepreneurship bug in his mid-20s, when he and his longtime co-founder Steve Conine sold their first company just a few years out of college. They left the acquirer and independently realized “we absolutely wanted to start something else,” Niraj recalls. “Once you’…

Moving into the next floor of the flooded Borrowed Deep, the party confronts a humanoid man with translucent skin, blocking their path forward. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblightDi The Shatterblight Chronicles | A TTRPG Podcast

Guest: Jay Chaudhry, CEO, chairman, and founder of Zscaler Much of the media coverage of Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry is quick to identify him as the wealthiest Indian-American person, with a net worth of $10.8 billion. But to hear Jay himself tell it, that number has never been very important to him: “My family had no money,” he says of his childhood …

The party heads back down to face the chuuls again, ready this time and with the formidable crocodile, Scar, in tow. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblightDi The Shatterblight Chronicles | A TTRPG Podcast

Guest: Bill Magnuson, CEO and co-founder of Braze The deployment of smartphones around the world was more impactful than any other technology to date, says Braze CEO Bill Magnuson — and that has big implications for emerging fields like generative AI. “If we get to the point where they [LLMs] really can be useful, human-like companions ... they wil…

After escaping the monstrous chuul and heading back to the surface to regroup, Stretch mourns the loss of Bernice while asking for his goddess Fiadwyn's favor in sending him a new companion to aid them party in their dive. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us o…

Guest: Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI In 2020, Clara Shih quit Hearsay, the company she founded and ran for 11 years; in hindsight, she says “I probably should have quit a little bit sooner.” But at the time, she cared a lot — too much — about what everyone else thought. “There's a lot of guilt around leaving initially and feeling bad for feeling…

A new study used machine learning to analyze elephant vocalizations and identified “contact rumbles” that appear to function as names. Also, on a hike in the Badlands, a family found a dinosaur bone sticking out of a rock. It joined the few teenage T. rex fossils ever discovered. Elephants Seem To Use Names For Each Other Scientists have long known…

The party desperately tries to fend off the dangerous chuul and save Stretch and Bernice. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblightDi The Shatterblight Chronicles | A TTRPG Podcast

Guest: Marissa Mayer, CEO and Founder of Sunshine and former CEO of Yahoo When Marissa Mayer was first hired as the CEO of Yahoo, the company had lost nearly a quarter of its workforce in the preceding six months. Early on, she was chatting with employees in the cafeteria and one of them got her attention by smacking her tray. “Is it go time?” he a…

Swimming through the submerged passageways, the party pushes through a wall of anemones only to be swarmed by tiny jellyfish. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblightDi The Shatterblight Chronicles | A TTRPG Podcast

Guest: Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor Sarah Friar has worked with some of the top leaders in Silicon Valley, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Block CEO Jack Dorsey, and most recently Nextdoor founder Nirav Tolia, who just replaced her as CEO in May. And one of the things that sets top performers apart from the …

After clearing the ground floor of the Borrowed Deep, the party descends to the next level of the flooded fallen triton outpost. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblightDi The Shatterblight Chronicles | A TTRPG Podcast

For the first time, scientists have recorded how salps form chains and swim in corkscrews to reach the ocean’s surface each night. Also, a wind utility company in Wyoming is trying to make wind turbines more visible to birds by painting just one blade black. The Small Jelly Creatures That Link Up And Swim in Corkscrews Salps are small, transparent …

Guest: Stanislav Vishnevskiy, CTO and co-founder of Discord For many years, the conventional wisdom was the gaming was not social because it was something you usually did at home. “But people who play games are often the most social,” says Discord CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy. “They’re spending 10, 20 hours with other people online, hanging out.” As a…

The party pushes forward into the Borrowed Deep after being bolstered by the arrival of Tobias' acquaintance Stretch, coming to his aid after the fall of the dwarven cleric Yulgrec. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblight…

Guest: Eoghan McCabe, CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Intercom “We are not ready for the degree to which our world is going to change,” says Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe, “in insane and incredible ways.” When he co-founded the company in 2011, the Irish-born entrepreneur was making it easier for companies to offer human customer service to their cus…

The party continues their perilous fight against the guardian golem left behind at the Borrowed Deep, complicated by tortured souls of triton priests. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterblight…

Guest: Mark Cuban, co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs and costar, Shark Tank “I just love to compete,” says Mark Cuban. “And the day I stop is the day I’m dead.” Previously the co-founder of MicroSolutions and Broadcast.com, Cuban is probably best known to the public today for competing with the likes of Daymond John and Barbara Corcoran on the reality …

Moving into the surface level of the Borrowed Deep, the party finds themselves in a once grand hall with mosaics and murals, along with two large stone statues of the deities Xirtula and Brahnik. Check out our Patreon https://patreon.com/TheShatterblightChronicles Follow us on Instagram @shatterblightchronicles Check us out on Twitter @shatterbligh…

Guest: Taylor Francis, co-founder of Watershed One day when he was 13, Taylor Francis walked out of the movie theater, and he was pissed off. He had just seen Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth and internalized a “generational call to arms, that my parents had screwed our generation” by causing the climate crisis, he says. 14 years later, …