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The SCIENCE of ALIENS: Garry Nolan & Avi Loeb
Season 4 Episode 263
Garry Nolan is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research is in microbiology, immunology, bio-computation, and analysis of U…
3 years, 4 months ago
Thanksgiving & Cosmic Insignificance
Episode 262
Just a few thoughts on 'cosmic insignificance therapy', popularized in the book "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" Oliver Burkeman, b…
3 years, 4 months ago
Niall Ferguson: DOOM!
Season 4 Episode 261
Niall Ferguson’s most recent book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. In this book he posits that disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemi…
3 years, 4 months ago
Bernardo Kastrup: Consciousness & Superdeterminism Doubts
Season 4 Episode 260
Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the not…
3 years, 4 months ago
Can Science Save Us? Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees
Season 4 Episode 259
In his most recent book If Science is to Save Us, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees argues that, in his expert and personal analysis of the scientific end…
3 years, 4 months ago
Mat Kaplan of Planetary Radio introduces a New Host and Interviews Brian Keating for an Update on The Simons Observatory
Season 4 Episode 258
Join host Mat Kaplan as he proudly introduces the person who will take on the show he created 20 years ago. Then we’ll join astrophysicist Brian Keat…
3 years, 5 months ago
P-hacking, Reproducibility & the Nobel Prize: Guido Imbens
Season 4 Episode 257
Guido W. Imbens, along with David Card and Joshua Angrist, shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics for “methodological contributions to the analysis…
3 years, 5 months ago
Fraser Cain: Let’s Find Aliens in Our Solar System!
Season 4 Episode 256
Join me and Fraser Cain (https://www.youtube.com/c/universetodayvids) for a wide-ranging romp through the Universe of ideas! We'll take questions and…
3 years, 5 months ago
Chaos, Covid, & Climate Change with Professor Tim Palmer
Season 4 Episode 255
In his acclaimed latest book, The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our…
3 years, 5 months ago
70K BK AMA Q &A!
Season 4 Episode 254
Welcome to my first AMA! Let me know If I should do a part 2!
Jay Yow asks Will 👽 aliens look like me?? I reader312: What is your most recommended bo…3 years, 5 months ago