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AIRWAVES #5 - The Science of an Unjust Law - Dr. Paul DeLespinasse, Political Scientist
Dr. Paul DeLespinasse is the innovator of a Periodic Table of Associations, which allows one to easily triage and understand the legitimacy of laws b…
3 years, 4 months ago
The New Laws of Robotics - Dr. Karl Friston, Cognitive Neuroscientist
Season 1 Episode 106
Dr. Karl Friston is the most widely-cited neuroscientist in the world, known for his development of parametric mapping, a method for comparing brain …
3 years, 5 months ago
New Light in an Old Universe - Dr. Brian Keating, Cosmologist, UCSD
Season 1 Episode 104
Science is the source of modern myths, and cosmology - the study of the cosmos and our place in them - is the foundation on which the house of scienc…
3 years, 5 months ago
AIRWAVES #4 - Mastering Mainstream Cosmology - Dr. Ethan Siegel, Starts with a Bang!
DemystifySci is a show of opposites, and in the court of Science it is vital that we present both sides of any debate. To balance our tendency to fav…
3 years, 5 months ago
Threshold Model of Light - Eric Reiter, Experimental Physicist
Season 1 Episode 103
Photons don't exist, and the experimental results that got Clauser and Aspect a Nobel prize are a result of an incorrect interpretation of the data. …
3 years, 5 months ago
AIRWAVES#3 Unified Growth Theory - Dr. Oded Galor, Brown University Economics
Most economic theories are what one would call "bounded," which is to say that they are based on a narrow window of human activity, be that time, or …
3 years, 5 months ago
Civilizations in Collapse: Lost City of Teotihuacan - Dr. David Carballo, Archeologist
Season 1 Episode 102
Living at the end of an era, what are the historical lessons can we learn from civilizations in collapse? We speak with David Carballo, Boston Univer…
3 years, 5 months ago
AIRWAVES#2 How the Left Brain Kidnapped Civilization - Dr. Iain McGilchrist
Why are you the way that you are? Why do you hurry, or focus on the technical details, or let your mind drive up anxiety and worry? Do you know? Or, …
3 years, 5 months ago
How Bell's Theorem got the Photon Wrong - Dr. Carver Mead, Caltech Physicist
Season 1 Episode 101
What if we're wrong about entanglement? This is the question that's been driving Carver Mead, Caltech Physicist and veteran of the semiconductor indu…
3 years, 5 months ago
Creating Aliens in a Lab - Dr. Lee Cronin, University of Glasglow
Season 1 Episode 100
Professor Lee Cronin is an organic chemist, but he isn't just interested in the usual research path of describing new chemicals, though he does do th…
3 years, 6 months ago