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Barry Barish – Black Holes, Nobel Prizes & The Imposter Syndrome
Season 2 Episode 100
Barry Barish is an emeritus professor at Caltech, where he has worked since 1963. He became director of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-…
5 years, 3 months ago
Sheldon Glashow: The Power of Useless Ideas! (#099)
Sheldon Glashow is a theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at Harvard, where he also earned his Ph.D. He was the first to propose a grand unif…
5 years, 4 months ago
Bill Perkins: Winners DIE WITH ZERO! (#098)
We all have limited time on Earth, so how should we spend it? Financial advisors urge us to be more like the ant than the grasshopper: work hard to m…
5 years, 4 months ago
Eric Weinstein: Imposter Syndrome, Donald Trump, & the Future of Theoretical Physics (#097)
Eric Weinstein joins me live to take your questions about the past, present and future of physics. We’ll discuss my recent chats with Lenny Susskind,…
5 years, 4 months ago
Paul Sutter – How To Die In Space (#096)
Paul M. Sutter is a research professor in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and a guest rese…
5 years, 4 months ago
Evan Carmichael: What Is Your One Word? (#095)
Evan Carmichael believes in entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22, he was a venture capitalist helping to raise …
5 years, 4 months ago
Lenny Susskind: Black Hole War My BATTLE w Stephen Hawking Made the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (#094)
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is a 2008 popular science book by American theoretica…
5 years, 4 months ago
Janna Levin: How to Survive A Black Hole Encounter! (#093)
Janna is back to discuss her wonderful new book, BLACK HOLE SURVIVAL GUIDE https://amzn.to/2IlbpKS
Keep your distance and enjoy the ride! Please subsc…
5 years, 4 months ago
Clifford Will and Nicolas Yunes: Is Einstein Still Right? (#092)
Albert Einstein is often viewed as the icon of #genius, and his theories are admired for their beauty and correctness. Yet the final judge of any the…
5 years, 4 months ago
Astronomy’s Great Debate – The Nature of the Universe and the Future of Astronomy! (#091)
Host of Into The Impossible Professor Brian Keating, David Spergel, Janna Levin, Sara Seager, Wendy Freedman, & Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess debate …
5 years, 4 months ago