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A Universe Beyond Time - Dr. Julian Barbour, Theoretical Physicist
Season 1 Episode 71
Julian Barbour's latest book, The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time takes us on a wild hallucinatory ride through the story of everything ever, all a…
4 years, 1 month ago
Thinning Atmosphere Explains Flying Dinos - Dr. Donald Pettit, NASA Astronaut
Season 1 Episode 70
Astronaut Donald Pettit champions a theory he developed while studying under Octave Levenspiel at Oregon State University. In short, it is apparent t…
4 years, 1 month ago
Natural Selection Isn’t the Whole Story - Dr. Richard Watson, University of Southampton
Season 1 Episode 69
Is competition really all there is? If you take the word of those who insist that natural selection is solely responsible for all of life on earth, t…
4 years, 1 month ago
Exploring the Surface of the Sun - Dr. Nicky Fox, NASA Heliophysics
Season 1 Episode 68
What will we find when we reach out to touch the celestial center of our planetary system? Will we be able to finally explain the pernicious problem …
4 years, 1 month ago
Entangled Nature - Dr. Ted Pavlic, Arizona State University
Season 1 Episode 67
Today's conversation is all about what large-scale patterns in Nature can teach us about the individuals at the helm of decision making within those …
4 years, 2 months ago
Erased Civilizations? The Silurian Hypothesis - Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Dir. of GISS, NASA
Season 1 Episode 66
We discuss Dr. Schmidt's paper on the Silurean Hypothesis - is it possible that an advanced civilization rose and fell in the far reaching distant pa…
4 years, 2 months ago
Magnetogenetics - Dr. Jacob Robinson, Rice U.
Season 1 Episode 65
What does the future of medicine look like? Precision, precision, precision. In the last few decades, neuroengineers have largely relied on optogenet…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Weight of What’s Missing in Geology - Dr. Luis Buatois, U. of Saskatchewan
Season 1 Episode 64
Dr. Buatois is a geologist at the University of Saskatchewan specializing in trace fossils. He responds to our recent short film exploring the cause …
4 years, 2 months ago
What Does it Mean to be Quantum Invisible? - Dr. Yair Margalit, Physicist MIT
Season 1 Episode 63
We discuss quantum behavior under extreme conditions with MIT Quantum Physicist Dr. Yair Margalit. Topics include the relationship between spin and r…
4 years, 3 months ago
Bioelectric Networks & Cellular Motivations - Dr. Michael Levin, Synthetic Biologist, Tufts Univ.
Season 1 Episode 62
Dr. Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist best known for two things - the creation of xenobots - biological robots created from fr…
4 years, 3 months ago