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Missing Mechanisms at the Origin of Life - Dr. James Tour, Rice University
Dr. James Tour is a Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University who comes to defend a bold claim: that origin of…
2 years, 9 months ago
Resonance Theory of Consciousness - Dr. Stephen Grossberg, Boston University
Season 1 Episode 164
Dr. Stephen Grossberg is a cognitive scientist, theoretical psychologist, neuroscientists and mathematician who, with Gail Carpenter, is the originat…
2 years, 10 months ago
Material Basis of Stars Revisited - Dr. Alexander Unzicker, Theoretical Physicist
Season 1 Episode 163
Dr. Alexander Unzicker is a neuroscientist, theoretical physicst, and award-winning non-fiction author who has just published a new book on Dr. Pierr…
2 years, 10 months ago
Post-industrial Biopunks - Dr. Shane Simonsen, Zero Input Agriculture
Season 1 Episode 162
Dr. Shane Simonsen is a an experimental farmer and speculative biologist who breeds crops that can thrive under zero-input conditions in a post-indus…
2 years, 10 months ago
White Knights of Theoretical Physics - Stephen Crothers, Mathematician
Season 1 Episode 161
Stephen Crothers is a mathematician, physicist, and scholar of relativity who believes there are fundamental mistakes in the mathematics that have cr…
2 years, 10 months ago
Gravitational Variation in the Speed of Light - Dr. Carver Mead, Caltech
Season 1 Episode 160
Carver Mead is an emeritus professor of engineering and applied science at Caltech, where he has taught for more than thirty years. We talk to him ab…
2 years, 10 months ago
Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness? - Dr. Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Season 1 Episode 159
Joscha Bach is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist who works on on cognitive architectures, mental representation, em…
2 years, 10 months ago
Göbekli Tepe Out of Younger Dryas Impact - Dr. Martin Sweatman, U of Edinburgh
Season 1 Episode 158
Dr. Martin Sweatman is a chemical engineer at the University of Edinburgh working in both statistical mechanics and archaeoastronomical studies of sy…
2 years, 10 months ago
Giants Tsunamis of the Younger Dryas - Dr. Dallas Abbott, Columbia University
Season 1 Episode 157
Dr. Dallas Abbott is a research scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Her studies of Marine Geology, Geophysics, Preca…
2 years, 10 months ago
Just Who Do You Think You Are? - Dr. Michael Shilo DeLay & Dr. Anastasia Bendebury
Season 1 Episode 156
In this episode we take a break from interviewing the coolest scientists we can find and take a moment to introduce ourselves. Who are we? How did we…
2 years, 10 months ago