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Sir Roger Penrose: Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, Black Holes Nobel Prize w/ Eric Weinstein Janna Levin (#090)
Join me for a very special discussion with Sir Roger Penrose, co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics. We will discuss Conformal Cyclic Cosmolog…
5 years, 4 months ago
Marwa El-Diwiny: Using Soft Robotics to Solve Hard Problems (#089)
Marwa A.ElDiwiny, an early stage researcher PhD, working on modelling and simulating self-healing soft materials for industrail applications at VUB.
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5 years, 4 months ago
Seth Godin: How Creatives use The Practice to make great art, overcome fear & thrive on constraints! (#088)
Seth Godin is a prolific writer, thinker, and self-declared “non-guru” guru to millions around the world. He invented email marketing. He started the…
5 years, 4 months ago
Unni Turrettini: Betraying the Nobel: Secrets, Corruption, and the World’s Most Prestigious Prize (#087)
Betraying the Nobel: Secrets, Corruption, and the World’s Most Prestigious Prize! This was a fascinating interview for me to conduct, with a ‘sister-…
5 years, 5 months ago
Gentry Patrick: Race & Diversity in Science (#086)
Race and diversity issues in STEM can no longer be ignored.
Professor Gentry Patrick is a neurobiologist and the Director of Mentorship and Diversity …
5 years, 5 months ago
How Big is the Universe? It’s Debatable… An Essay By Brian Keating (#085)
The GREATEST Debate:
How two astronomers changed the way humanity debates
By April 1920, the Spanish flu had claimed 50,000,000 lives. The first World…
5 years, 5 months ago
Sean Carroll: Is the Universe Twisted? Limits on Lorentz Violation & other Screwy Ideas! (#084)
In 1990, Sean Carroll’s, George Field and Roman Jackiw wrote an epochal paper that had a tremendous impact on physics, and in particular, on me and m…
5 years, 5 months ago
Emily Levesque: Will Today’s Astronomers Be The Last Stargazers? (#083)
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer BY WALT WHITMAN
When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before …
5 years, 5 months ago
Gad Saad: The Parasitic Mind – the cure for mental pathogens! (#082)
Why are politics and society becoming more polarized? How does misinformation, disinformation, bigotry, and hatred spread? How are decisions really m…
5 years, 5 months ago
81: Brett Cyrgalis Author of “Golf’s Holy War”. Does science steal the soul of sports?
It finally happened, I took up golf. It's hard to resist when I work next to one of the nation's most spectacular municipal courses, Torrey Pines. As…
5 years, 5 months ago