Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Physics & cosmology: dark energy, Big Bang, exoplanets, neutrinos, multiverse •Quantum foundations, QFT •Probability, rationality, game theory •Consciousness, cognition, AI/neural nets •Evolution, biology, medicine, microbes •Liberalism, democracy, misinformation, universities
This podcast features long-form conversations and occasional solo or listener-question episodes that connect foundational science with philosophy, society, and culture. Across the feed, a recurring focus is how we reason under uncertainty: probability, evidence, models, and decision-making show up in discussions of scientific inference, rational choice, and the limits of human cognition. These themes extend to questions where “where we are” matters as much as “what the world is,” including anthropic reasoning, simulation-style hypotheses, and cosmological perspectives on observers.
A substantial portion of the content centers on modern physics and cosmology, ranging from quantum foundations and quantum field theory to neutrinos, dark energy, the Big Bang, and exoplanets. Rather than only presenting results, the episodes often emphasize open problems, competing theoretical frameworks, and how experiments and observations constrain ideas.
Another major thread is mind and meaning: consciousness (both neuroscientific correlates and more metaphysical proposals), cognitive development, and how language, signals, and social interaction relate to agency and intentionality. Technology and computation appear both as topics in their own right—AI methods, neural networks, and human-centered computing—and as lenses for revisiting older questions about intelligence and consciousness.
The show also engages contemporary social and political issues through an ideas-first approach, with attention to liberal democracy, polarization, misinformation dynamics, and the role of institutions such as universities and basic research. Interspersed Q&A installments broaden the range further, reflecting the host’s interests across science, philosophy, and public life.
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Episodes:
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347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You
2026-Mar-16
68 minutes
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346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play
2026-Mar-09
88 minutes
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AMA | March 2026
2026-Mar-02
233 minutes
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345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe
2026-Feb-23
94 minutes
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344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It
2026-Feb-16
81 minutes
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343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought
2026-Feb-09
79 minutes
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AMA | Feb 2026
2026-Feb-02
190 minutes
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342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind
2026-Jan-26
97 minutes
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341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle
2026-Jan-19
72 minutes
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340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters
2026-Jan-12
78 minutes
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339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology
2026-Jan-05
71 minutes
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Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University
2025-Dec-22
42 minutes
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AMA | December 2025
2025-Dec-15
216 minutes
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338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
2025-Dec-08
86 minutes
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337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning
2025-Dec-01
77 minutes
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336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI
2025-Nov-24
74 minutes
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AMA | November 2025
2025-Nov-17
214 minutes
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335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe
2025-Nov-10
77 minutes
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334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens
2025-Nov-03
74 minutes
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333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them
2025-Oct-27
70 minutes
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332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music
2025-Oct-20
81 minutes
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AMA | October 2025
2025-Oct-13
217 minutes
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331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse
2025-Oct-06
114 minutes
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330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information
2025-Sep-29
72 minutes
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329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge
2025-Sep-22
76 minutes
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328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies
2025-Sep-15
67 minutes
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AMA | September 2025
2025-Sep-08
210 minutes
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327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism
2025-Sep-01
70 minutes
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326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets
2025-Aug-25
72 minutes
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325 | Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence
2025-Aug-18
86 minutes
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324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research
2025-Aug-11
73 minutes
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AMA | August 2025
2025-Aug-04
219 minutes
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323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics
2025-Jul-28
178 minutes
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322 | Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom
2025-Jul-21
80 minutes
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321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory
2025-Jul-14
79 minutes
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AMA | July 2025
2025-Jul-07
243 minutes
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320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe
2025-Jun-30
134 minutes
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319 | Bryan Van Norden on Philosophy From the Rest of the World
2025-Jun-23
72 minutes
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318 | Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics
2025-Jun-16
80 minutes
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317 | Nicole Rust on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders
2025-Jun-09
74 minutes
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AMA | June 2025
2025-Jun-02
203 minutes
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316 | Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper
2025-May-26
88 minutes
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315 | Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability
2025-May-19
88 minutes
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314 | Karen Lloyd on the Deep Underground Biosphere
2025-May-12
69 minutes
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313 | Eric Topol on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging
2025-May-05
72 minutes
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AMA | May 2025
2025-Apr-28
218 minutes
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312 | Thomas Levenson on the Mutual History of Humans and Germs
2025-Apr-21
91 minutes
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311 | Annaka Harris on Whether Consciousness is Fundamental
2025-Apr-14
70 minutes
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AMA | April 2025
2025-Apr-07
210 minutes
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310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies
2025-Mar-31
86 minutes
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309 | Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information
2025-Mar-24
80 minutes
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308 | Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking
2025-Mar-17
69 minutes
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AMA | March 2025
2025-Mar-10
178 minutes
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307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails
2025-Mar-03
76 minutes
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306 | Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans
2025-Feb-24
72 minutes
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305 | Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology
2025-Feb-17
77 minutes
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Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter
2025-Feb-12
70 minutes
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304 | James Evans on Innovation, Consolidation, and the Science of Science
2025-Feb-10
76 minutes
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303 | AMA | February 2025
2025-Feb-03
224 minutes
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303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System
2025-Jan-27
67 minutes
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302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution
2025-Jan-20
90 minutes
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301 | Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability
2025-Jan-13
69 minutes
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300 | Solo: Does Time Exist?
2025-Jan-06
131 minutes
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Holiday Message | Hits and Misses
2024-Dec-23
121 minutes
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299 | Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life
2024-Dec-16
73 minutes
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298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain
2024-Dec-09
69 minutes
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AMA | December 2024
2024-Dec-02
235 minutes
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297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation
2024-Nov-25
75 minutes
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296 | Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution
2024-Nov-18
75 minutes
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295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality
2024-Nov-11
95 minutes
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AMA | November 2024
2024-Nov-04
230 minutes
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294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life
2024-Oct-28
71 minutes
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293 | Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity
2024-Oct-21
71 minutes
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292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience
2024-Oct-14
70 minutes
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AMA | October 2024
2024-Oct-07
269 minutes
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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
2024-Sep-30
80 minutes
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290 | Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work
2024-Sep-23
75 minutes
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289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments
2024-Sep-16
81 minutes
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288 | Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today
2024-Sep-09
66 minutes
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AMA | September 2024
2024-Sep-02
230 minutes
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287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
2024-Aug-26
92 minutes
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286 | Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation
2024-Aug-19
80 minutes
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285 | Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality
2024-Aug-12
71 minutes
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AMA | August 2024
2024-Aug-05
217 minutes
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284 | Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World
2024-Jul-29
62 minutes
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283 | Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power
2024-Jul-22
77 minutes
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282 | Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity
2024-Jul-15
78 minutes
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Ask Me Anything | July 2024
2024-Jul-08
201 minutes
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281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution
2024-Jul-01
71 minutes
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280 | François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence
2024-Jun-24
101 minutes
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279 | Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body
2024-Jun-17
71 minutes
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278 | Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People
2024-Jun-10
75 minutes
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AMA | June 2024
2024-Jun-03
238 minutes
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277 | Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory
2024-May-27
82 minutes
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276 | Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting Our Climate
2024-May-20
79 minutes
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275 | Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries
2024-May-13
132 minutes
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AMA | May 2024
2024-May-06
215 minutes
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274 | Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells
2024-Apr-29
70 minutes
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273 | Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory
2024-Apr-22
79 minutes
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272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People
2024-Apr-15
68 minutes
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AMA | April 2024
2024-Apr-08
194 minutes
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271 | Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity
2024-Apr-01
81 minutes
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270 | Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives
2024-Mar-25
129 minutes
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269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics
2024-Mar-18
71 minutes
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AMA | March 2024
2024-Mar-11
235 minutes
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268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality
2024-Mar-04
90 minutes
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267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia
2024-Feb-26
73 minutes
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266 | Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology
2024-Feb-19
80 minutes
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AMA | February 2024
2024-Feb-12
204 minutes
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265 | John Skrentny on How the Economy Mistreats STEM Workers
2024-Feb-05
80 minutes
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264 | Sabine Stanley on What's Inside Planets
2024-Jan-29
72 minutes
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263 | Chris Quigg on Symmetry and the Birth of the Standard Model
2024-Jan-22
86 minutes
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262 | Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World
2024-Jan-15
80 minutes
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261 | Sanjana Curtis on the Origins of the Elements
2024-Jan-08
67 minutes
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260 | Ricard Solé on the Space of Cognitions
2024-Jan-01
70 minutes
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Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality
2023-Dec-18
55 minutes
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259 | Adam Frank on What Aliens Might Be Like
2023-Dec-11
78 minutes
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AMA | December 2023
2023-Dec-04
216 minutes
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258 | Solo: AI Thinks Different
2023-Nov-27
80 minutes
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257 | Derek Guy on the Theory and Practice of Dressing Well
2023-Nov-20
80 minutes
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256 | Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on Building Cities on the Moon and Mars
2023-Nov-13
84 minutes
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AMA | November 2023
2023-Nov-06
260 minutes
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255 | Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone
2023-Oct-30
77 minutes
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254 | William Egginton on Kant, Heisenberg, and Borges
2023-Oct-23
66 minutes
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253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
2023-Oct-16
102 minutes
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AMA | October 2023
2023-Oct-09
178 minutes
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252 | Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive
2023-Oct-02
75 minutes
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251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity
2023-Sep-25
71 minutes
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250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem
2023-Sep-18
57 minutes
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249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
2023-Sep-11
88 minutes
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AMA | September 2023
2023-Sep-04
243 minutes
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248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense
2023-Aug-28
72 minutes
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247 | Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality
2023-Aug-21
80 minutes
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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
2023-Aug-14
69 minutes
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AMA | August 2023
2023-Aug-07
218 minutes
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245 | Solo: The Crisis in Physics
2023-Jul-31
262 minutes
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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
2023-Jul-24
96 minutes
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243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon
2023-Jul-17
71 minutes
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242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information
2023-Jul-10
93 minutes
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AMA | July 2023
2023-Jul-03
184 minutes
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241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations
2023-Jun-26
93 minutes
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240 | Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe
2023-Jun-19
86 minutes
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239 | Brian Lowery on the Social Self
2023-Jun-12
70 minutes
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AMA | June 2023
2023-Jun-05
178 minutes
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238 | Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking
2023-May-29
87 minutes
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237 | Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System
2023-May-22
78 minutes
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236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
2023-May-15
68 minutes
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AMA | May 2023
2023-May-08
188 minutes
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235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind
2023-May-01
81 minutes
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234 | Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution
2023-Apr-24
66 minutes
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233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
2023-Apr-17
72 minutes
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232 | Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information
2023-Apr-10
73 minutes
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Ask Me Anything | April 2023
2023-Apr-03
244 minutes
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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
2023-Mar-27
81 minutes
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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
2023-Mar-20
117 minutes
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229 | Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology
2023-Mar-13
72 minutes
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AMA | March 2023
2023-Mar-06
181 minutes
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228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity
2023-Feb-27
76 minutes
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227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality
2023-Feb-20
71 minutes
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226 | Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities
2023-Feb-13
72 minutes
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AMA | February 2023
2023-Feb-06
187 minutes
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225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
2023-Jan-30
82 minutes
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224 | Edward Tufte on Data, Design, and Truth
2023-Jan-23
76 minutes
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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
2023-Jan-16
70 minutes
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222 | Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World
2023-Jan-09
84 minutes
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221 | Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human
2023-Jan-02
80 minutes
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Holiday Message 2022: Thinking Really Slowly
2022-Dec-19
47 minutes
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220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality
2022-Dec-12
76 minutes
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AMA | December 2022
2022-Dec-05
195 minutes
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219 | Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity
2022-Nov-28
62 minutes
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218 | Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe
2022-Nov-21
81 minutes
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217 | Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy
2022-Nov-14
81 minutes
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AMA | November 2022
2022-Nov-07
180 minutes
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216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy
2022-Oct-31
70 minutes
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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
2022-Oct-24
94 minutes
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214 | Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe
2022-Oct-17
75 minutes
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AMA | October 2022
2022-Oct-10
181 minutes
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213 | Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space
2022-Oct-03
76 minutes
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212 | Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars
2022-Sep-26
86 minutes
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211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation
2022-Sep-19
111 minutes
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210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If...?
2022-Sep-12
68 minutes
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209 | Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia
2022-Sep-05
84 minutes
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AMA | September 2022
2022-Aug-29
210 minutes
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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
2022-Aug-22
71 minutes
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207 | William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future
2022-Aug-15
102 minutes
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206 | Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism
2022-Aug-08
77 minutes
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AMA | August 2022
2022-Aug-01
186 minutes
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205 | John Quiggin on Interest Rates and the Information Economy
2022-Jul-25
79 minutes
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204 | John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets
2022-Jul-18
75 minutes
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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists
2022-Jul-11
84 minutes
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AMA | July 2022
2022-Jul-04
206 minutes
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202 | Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence
2022-Jun-27
75 minutes
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201 | Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World
2022-Jun-20
69 minutes
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AMA | June 2022
2022-Jun-13
184 minutes
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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
2022-Jun-06
134 minutes
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199 | Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values
2022-May-30
72 minutes
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198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology
2022-May-23
85 minutes
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197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities
2022-May-16
68 minutes
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AMA | May 2022
2022-May-12
216 minutes
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196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect
2022-May-09
76 minutes
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195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements
2022-May-02
78 minutes
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194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates
2022-Apr-25
68 minutes
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193 | Daniels on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
2022-Apr-18
68 minutes
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AMA | April 2022
2022-Apr-14
207 minutes
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192 | Nicole Yunger Halpern on Quantum Steampunk Thermodynamics
2022-Apr-11
77 minutes
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191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future
2022-Apr-04
81 minutes
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190 | Lea Goentoro on Regrowing Limbs
2022-Mar-28
63 minutes
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189 | Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption
2022-Mar-21
82 minutes
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AMA | March 2022
2022-Mar-17
198 minutes
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188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like
2022-Mar-14
81 minutes
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187 | Andrew Leigh on the Politics of Looming Disasters
2022-Mar-07
80 minutes
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186 | Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity
2022-Feb-28
71 minutes
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185 | Arvid Ågren on the Gene's-Eye View of Evolution
2022-Feb-21
85 minutes
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184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense
2022-Feb-14
84 minutes
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AMA | February 2022
2022-Feb-10
255 minutes
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183 | Michael Dine on Supersymmetry, Anthropics, and the Future of Particle Physics
2022-Feb-07
99 minutes
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182 | Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory
2022-Jan-31
97 minutes
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181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories
2022-Jan-24
76 minutes
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180 | Camilla Pang on Instructions for Being Human
2022-Jan-17
63 minutes
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179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity
2022-Jan-10
73 minutes
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178 | Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn't Real
2022-Jan-03
74 minutes
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Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails
2021-Dec-20
59 minutes
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AMA | December 2021
2021-Dec-15
217 minutes
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177 | Monika Schleier-Smith on Cold Atoms and Emergent Spacetime
2021-Dec-13
70 minutes
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176 | Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems
2021-Dec-06
86 minutes
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175 | William Ratcliff on Multicellularity, Physics, and Evolution
2021-Nov-29
86 minutes
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174 | Tai-Danae Bradley on Algebra, Topology, Language, and Entropy
2021-Nov-22
81 minutes
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AMA | November 2021
2021-Nov-17
234 minutes
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173 | Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People
2021-Nov-15
71 minutes
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172 | David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire
2021-Nov-08
76 minutes
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171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology
2021-Nov-01
87 minutes
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170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies
2021-Oct-25
87 minutes
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169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency
2021-Oct-18
84 minutes
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AMA | October 2021
2021-Oct-14
179 minutes
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168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness
2021-Oct-11
85 minutes
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167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility
2021-Oct-04
95 minutes
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166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life
2021-Sep-27
74 minutes
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165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness
2021-Sep-20
85 minutes
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AMA | September 2021
2021-Sep-16
218 minutes
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164 | Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality
2021-Sep-13
89 minutes
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163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology
2021-Sep-06
91 minutes
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162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change
2021-Aug-30
74 minutes
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161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
2021-Aug-23
95 minutes
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160 | Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei
2021-Aug-16
83 minutes
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AMA | August 2021
2021-Aug-12
191 minutes
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159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis
2021-Aug-09
109 minutes
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158 | David Wallace on the Arrow of Time
2021-Aug-02
107 minutes
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157 | Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology
2021-Jul-26
77 minutes
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156 | Catherine D'Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias
2021-Jul-19
88 minutes
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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics
2021-Jul-12
160 minutes
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AMA | July 2021
2021-Jul-09
229 minutes
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154 | Reza Aslan on Religion, Metaphor, and Meaning
2021-Jul-05
85 minutes
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153 | John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They're Good For
2021-Jun-28
92 minutes
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152 | Charis Kubrin on Criminology, Incarceration, and Hip-Hop
2021-Jun-21
79 minutes
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151 | Jordan Ellenberg on the Mathematics of Political Boundaries
2021-Jun-14
83 minutes
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AMA | June 2021
2021-Jun-10
198 minutes
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150 | Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail
2021-Jun-07
92 minutes
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149 | Lee Smolin on Time, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality
2021-May-31
89 minutes
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148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
2021-May-24
86 minutes
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147 | Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire
2021-May-17
76 minutes
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AMA | May 2021
2021-May-13
178 minutes
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146 | Emily Riehl on Topology, Categories, and the Future of Mathematics
2021-May-10
76 minutes
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145 | Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes
2021-May-03
85 minutes
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144 | Solo: Are We Moving Beyond the Standard Model?
2021-Apr-26
71 minutes
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143 | Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality
2021-Apr-19
92 minutes
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AMA | April 2021
2021-Apr-14
161 minutes
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142 | Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them
2021-Apr-12
86 minutes
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141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World
2021-Apr-05
77 minutes
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140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain
2021-Mar-29
87 minutes
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139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology
2021-Mar-22
79 minutes
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138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball
2021-Mar-15
76 minutes
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AMA | March 2021
2021-Mar-10
191 minutes
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137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality
2021-Mar-08
92 minutes
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136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism
2021-Mar-01
83 minutes
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135 | Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity
2021-Feb-22
80 minutes
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AMA | February 2021
2021-Feb-17
173 minutes
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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
2021-Feb-15
88 minutes
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133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don't See
2021-Feb-08
97 minutes
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Bonus | AIP Oral History Interview
2021-Feb-04
241 minutes
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132 | Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self
2021-Feb-01
81 minutes
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131 | Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously
2021-Jan-25
100 minutes
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130 | Frank Wilczek on the Present and Future of Fundamental Physics
2021-Jan-18
76 minutes
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129 | Solo: Democracy in America
2021-Jan-11
103 minutes
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128 | Joseph Henrich on the Weirdness of the West
2021-Jan-04
87 minutes
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Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe
2020-Dec-21
91 minutes
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127 | Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People
2020-Dec-14
75 minutes
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AMA | December 2020
2020-Dec-09
204 minutes
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126 | David Stasavage on the Origin and History of Democracy
2020-Dec-07
85 minutes
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125 | David Haig on the Evolution of Meaning from Darwin to Derrida
2020-Nov-30
75 minutes
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124 | Solo: How Time Travel Could and Should Work
2020-Nov-23
161 minutes
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AMA | November 2020
2020-Nov-20
192 minutes
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123 | Lisa Feldman Barrett on Emotions, Actions, and the Brain
2020-Nov-16
77 minutes
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122 | David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain
2020-Nov-09
77 minutes
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121 | Cornel West on What Democracy Is and Should Be
2020-Nov-02
81 minutes
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120 | Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible
2020-Oct-26
88 minutes
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119 | Musa al-Gharbi on the Value of Intellectual Diversity
2020-Oct-19
76 minutes
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118 | Adam Riess on the Expansion of the Universe and a Crisis in Cosmology
2020-Oct-12
78 minutes
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117 | Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution
2020-Oct-05
80 minutes
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116 | Teresa Bejan on Free Speech, Civility, and Toleration
2020-Sep-28
103 minutes
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115 | Netta Engelhardt on Black Hole Information, Wormholes, and Quantum Gravity
2020-Sep-21
87 minutes
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114 | Angela Chen on Asexuality in a Sex-Preoccupied World
2020-Sep-14
68 minutes
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113 | Cailin O'Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness
2020-Sep-07
79 minutes
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112 | Fyodor Urnov on Gene Editing, CRISPR, and Human Engineering
2020-Aug-31
80 minutes
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111 | Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation
2020-Aug-24
80 minutes
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110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology
2020-Aug-17
83 minutes
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109 | Jason Torchinsky on Our Self-Driving Future
2020-Aug-10
78 minutes
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108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit
2020-Aug-03
84 minutes
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107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality
2020-Jul-27
90 minutes
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106 | Stuart Bartlett on What "Life" Means
2020-Jul-20
85 minutes
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105 | Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell
2020-Jul-13
77 minutes
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104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity
2020-Jul-06
86 minutes
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103 | J. Kenji López-Alt on Cooking As and With Science
2020-Jun-29
75 minutes
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102 | Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason
2020-Jun-22
80 minutes
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101 | David Baltimore on the Mysteries of Viruses
2020-Jun-15
74 minutes
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100 | Solo | Life and Its Meaning
2020-Jun-08
93 minutes
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99 | Scott Aaronson on Complexity, Computation, and Quantum Gravity
2020-Jun-01
112 minutes
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98 | Olga Khazan on Living and Flourishing While Being Weird
2020-May-25
61 minutes
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97 | John Danaher on Our Coming Automated Utopia
2020-May-18
82 minutes
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96 | Lina Necib on What and Where the Dark Matter Is
2020-May-11
81 minutes
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95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science
2020-May-04
95 minutes
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94 | Stuart Russell on Making Artificial Intelligence Compatible with Humans
2020-Apr-27
87 minutes
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93 | Rae Wynn-Grant on Bears, Humans, and Other Predators
2020-Apr-20
62 minutes
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92 | Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System
2020-Apr-13
116 minutes
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91 | Scott Barry Kaufman on the Psychology of Transcendence
2020-Apr-06
79 minutes
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90 | David Kaiser on Science, Money, and Power
2020-Mar-30
94 minutes
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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
2020-Mar-23
88 minutes
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Tara Smith on Coronavirus, Pandemics, and What We Can Do
2020-Mar-18
80 minutes
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88 | Neil Shubin on Evolution, Genes, and Dramatic Transitions
2020-Mar-16
93 minutes
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87 | Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy
2020-Mar-09
89 minutes
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86 | Martin Rees on Threats to Humanity, Prospects for Posthumanity, and Life in the Universe
2020-Mar-02
100 minutes
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85 | L.A. Paul on Transformative Experiences and Your Future Selves
2020-Feb-24
74 minutes
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84 | Suresh Naidu on Capitalism, Monopsony, and Inequality
2020-Feb-17
86 minutes
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83 | Kwame Anthony Appiah on Identity, Stories, and Cosmopolitanism
2020-Feb-10
98 minutes
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82 | Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics and the Brain
2020-Feb-03
77 minutes
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81 | Ezra Klein on Politics, Polarization, and Identity
2020-Jan-27
81 minutes
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80 | Jenann Ismael on Connecting Physics to the World of Experience
2020-Jan-20
86 minutes
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79 | Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life
2020-Jan-13
83 minutes
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78 | Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image
2020-Jan-06
121 minutes
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Holiday Message 2019: On Publishing Books
2019-Dec-22
66 minutes
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77 | Azra Raza on The Way We Should Fight Cancer
2019-Dec-16
82 minutes
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76 | Ned Hall on Possible Worlds and the Laws of Nature
2019-Dec-09
85 minutes
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75 | Max Tegmark on Reality, Simulation, and the Multiverse
2019-Dec-02
71 minutes
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74 | Stephen Greenblatt on Stories, History, and Cultural Poetics
2019-Nov-25
66 minutes
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73 | Grimes (c) on Music, Creativity, and Digital Personae
2019-Nov-18
78 minutes
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72 | César Hidalgo on Information in Societies, Economies, and the Universe
2019-Nov-11
76 minutes
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71 | Philip Goff on Consciousness Everywhere
2019-Nov-04
94 minutes
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70 | Katie Mack on How the Universe Will End
2019-Oct-28
83 minutes
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69 | Cory Doctorow on Technology, Monopoly, and the Future of the Internet
2019-Oct-21
77 minutes
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68 | Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Common Sense
2019-Oct-14
82 minutes
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67 | Kate Jeffery on Entropy, Complexity, and Evolution
2019-Oct-07
72 minutes
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66 | Will Wilkinson on Partisan Polarization and the Urban/Rural Divide
2019-Sep-30
112 minutes
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65 | Michael Mann on Why Our Climate Is Changing and How We Know
2019-Sep-23
77 minutes
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64 | Ramez Naam on Renewable Energy and an Optimistic Future
2019-Sep-16
76 minutes
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63 | Solo -- Finding Gravity Within Quantum Mechanics
2019-Sep-09
110 minutes
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62 | Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Societies and People
2019-Sep-02
72 minutes
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61 | Quassim Cassam on Intellectual Vices and What to Do About Them
2019-Aug-26
70 minutes
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60 | Lynne Kelly on Memory Palaces, Ancient and Modern
2019-Aug-19
75 minutes
|
59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics
2019-Aug-12
100 minutes
|
58 | Seth MacFarlane on Using Science Fiction to Explore Humanity
2019-Aug-05
72 minutes
|
57 | Astra Taylor on the Promise and Challenge of Democracy
2019-Jul-29
83 minutes
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56 | Kate Adamala on Creating Synthetic Life
2019-Jul-22
72 minutes
|
55 | A Conversation with Rob Reid on Quantum Mechanics and Many Worlds
2019-Jul-15
86 minutes
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54 | Indre Viskontas on Music and the Brain
2019-Jul-08
75 minutes
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53 | Solo -- On Morality and Rationality
2019-Jul-01
125 minutes
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52 | Frank Lantz on the Logic and Emotion of Games
2019-Jun-24
64 minutes
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51 | Anthony Aguirre on Cosmology, Zen, Entropy, and Information
2019-Jun-17
91 minutes
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50 | Patricia Churchland on Conscience, Morality, and the Brain
2019-Jun-10
72 minutes
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49 | Nicholas Christakis on Humanity, Biology, and What Makes Us Good
2019-Jun-03
114 minutes
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48 | Marq de Villiers on Hell and Damnation
2019-May-27
71 minutes
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47 | Adam Rutherford on Humans, Animals, and Life in General
2019-May-20
98 minutes
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46 | Kate Darling on Our Connections with Robots
2019-May-13
66 minutes
|
45 | Leonard Susskind on Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity, and Holography
2019-May-06
73 minutes
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44 | Antonio Damasio on Feelings, Thoughts, and the Evolution of Humanity
2019-Apr-29
72 minutes
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43 | Matthew Luczy on the Pleasures of Wine
2019-Apr-22
106 minutes
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42 | Natalya Bailey on Navigating Earth Orbit and Beyond
2019-Apr-15
59 minutes
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41 | Steven Strogatz on Synchronization, Networks, and the Emergence of Complex Behavior
2019-Apr-08
74 minutes
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40 | Adrienne Mayor on Gods and Robots in Ancient Mythology
2019-Apr-01
63 minutes
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39 | Malcolm MacIver on Sensing, Consciousness, and Imagination
2019-Mar-25
79 minutes
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38 | Alan Lightman on Transcendence, Science, and a Naturalist's Sense of Meaning
2019-Mar-18
76 minutes
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37 | Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for Democracy
2019-Mar-11
91 minutes
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36 | David Albert on Quantum Measurement and the Problems with Many-Worlds
2019-Mar-04
102 minutes
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35 | Jessica Yellin on The Changing Ways We Get Our News
2019-Feb-25
68 minutes
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34 | Paul Bloom on Empathy, Rationality, Morality, and Cruelty
2019-Feb-18
70 minutes
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33 | James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity
2019-Feb-11
67 minutes
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32 | Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change and the Distortion of Scientific Facts
2019-Feb-04
70 minutes
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31 | Brian Greene on the Multiverse, Inflation, and the String Theory Landscape
2019-Jan-28
71 minutes
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30 | Derek Leben on Ethics for Robots and Artificial Intelligences
2019-Jan-21
88 minutes
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29 | Raychelle Burks on the Chemistry of Murder
2019-Jan-14
75 minutes
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28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe
2019-Jan-07
95 minutes
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Holiday Message 2018
2018-Dec-24
44 minutes
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27 | Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of Science
2018-Dec-17
68 minutes
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26 | Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music
2018-Dec-10
70 minutes
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25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation
2018-Dec-03
82 minutes
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24 | Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar
2018-Nov-26
79 minutes
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23 | Lisa Aziz-Zadeh on Embodied Cognition, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy
2018-Nov-19
67 minutes
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22 | Joe Walston on Conservation, Urbanization, and the Way We Live on Earth
2018-Nov-12
88 minutes
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21 | Alex Rosenberg on Naturalism, History, and Theory of Mind
2018-Nov-05
80 minutes
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20 | Scott Derrickson on Cinema, Blockbusters, Horror, and Mystery
2018-Oct-29
83 minutes
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19 | Tyler Cowen on Maximizing Growth and Thinking for the Future
2018-Oct-22
59 minutes
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18 | Clifford Johnson on What's So Great About Superstring Theory
2018-Oct-15
72 minutes
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17 | Annalee Newitz on Science, Fiction, Economics, and Neurosis
2018-Oct-08
71 minutes
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16 | Coleen Murphy on Aging, Biology, and the Future
2018-Oct-01
64 minutes
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15 | David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the Brain
2018-Sep-08
84 minutes
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14 | Alta Charo on Bioethics and the Law
2018-Sep-08
68 minutes
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13 | Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet
2018-Sep-08
66 minutes
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12 | Wynton Marsalis on Jazz, Time, and America
2018-Sep-04
61 minutes
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11 | Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9
2018-Aug-27
77 minutes
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10 | Megan Rosenbloom on the Death Positive Movement
2018-Aug-20
69 minutes
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9 | Solo -- Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?
2018-Aug-13
81 minutes
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8 | Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes
2018-Aug-06
91 minutes
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7 | Yascha Mounk on Threats to Liberal Democracy
2018-Jul-30
65 minutes
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6 | Liv Boeree on Poker, Aliens, and Thinking in Probabilities
2018-Jul-23
70 minutes
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5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life
2018-Jul-16
83 minutes
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4 | Anthony Pinn on Humanism, Theology, and the Black Community
2018-Jul-12
60 minutes
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3 | Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice
2018-Jul-11
80 minutes
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2 | Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality
2018-Jul-10
72 minutes
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1 | Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance
2018-Jul-04
71 minutes
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Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast!
2018-Jul-01
16 minutes
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