Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Science and culture discussions • Notable scholars and authors • Academia and free speech issues • Critical social justice critiques • Nuclear weapons and diplomacy • Discoveries and innovations • Insightful dialogues
This podcast, "The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss," delves into a wide array of thought-provoking topics that explore both scientific inquiry and cultural discourse. Hosted by theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, it features in-depth conversations with guests from diverse fields, including science, the arts, and journalism. The podcast often addresses critical issues in the 21st century, reflecting the broad spectrum of the human experience.
A recurring theme in many episodes is the intersection of science with society's ideological, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. Episodes explore complex topics such as the ideological challenges facing science, the implications of scientific discoveries like CRISPR in genetics, and the philosophical underpinnings of modern social theories. Another significant theme is the ongoing discourse on free speech and intellectual honesty, particularly in the context of academia and cultural institutions.
Interviews with notable thinkers and practitioners highlight the tension between traditional scientific inquiry and modern cultural forces, as well as the broader context of global challenges, including conflicts and diplomatic efforts. These discussions often delve into the dynamics of social networks, governance, economics, and the role of religion and democracy in contemporary society.
The episodes also cover scientific advancements and theories, including neuroscience, cosmology, and particle physics, providing insights into how these fields impact our understanding of the universe and ourselves. Through engaging dialogues, the podcast seeks to entertain, educate, and inspire its audience, shedding light on both the mysteries of the cosmos and the pressing issues of our time.
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Episodes:
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Gad Saad: Final Episode of The War on Science Interviews
2025-Sep-07
26 minutes
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Karleen Gribble | The War on Science Interviews | Day 20
2025-Aug-14
42 minutes
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Dorian Abbot | The War on Science Interviews | Day 21
2025-Aug-14
55 minutes
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Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan | The War on Science Interviews | Day 19
2025-Aug-12
66 minutes
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Alex Byrne and Moti Gorin | The War on Science Interviews | Day 18
2025-Aug-11
63 minutes
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Lauren Schwartz and Arthur Rousseau | The War on Science Interviews | Day 17
2025-Aug-09
51 minutes
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Peter Boghossian | The War on Science Interviews | Day 16
2025-Aug-09
43 minutes
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Roger Cohen and Amy Wax | The War on Science Interviews | Day 15
2025-Aug-08
71 minutes
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Alessandro Strumia | The War on Science Interviews | Day 14
2025-Aug-07
47 minutes
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Geoff Horsman | The War on Science Interviews | Day 13
2025-Aug-06
44 minutes
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Janice Fiamengo | The War on Science Interviews | Day 12
2025-Aug-05
50 minutes
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Carole Hooven | The War on Science Interviews | Day 11
2025-Aug-03
53 minutes
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Frances Widdowson | The War on Science Interviews | Day 10
2025-Aug-02
60 minutes
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Solveig Gold and Joshua Katz | The War on Science Interviews | Day 9
2025-Aug-01
56 minutes
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Elizabeth Weiss | The War on Science Interviews | Day 8
2025-Aug-01
50 minutes
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Sally Satel | The War on Science Interviews | Day 7
2025-Jul-31
57 minutes
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John Armstrong | The War on Science Interviews | Day 6
2025-Jul-28
50 minutes
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Abigail Thompson | The War on Science Interviews | Day 5
2025-Jul-27
50 minutes
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Maarten Boudry | The War on Science Interviews | Day 4
2025-Jul-26
49 minutes
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Nicholas Christakis | The War on Science Interviews | Day 3
2025-Jul-25
38 minutes
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Niall Ferguson | The War on Science Interviews | Day 2
2025-Jul-24
77 minutes
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The Origins Podcast: The War on Science Interviews: Day 1, Richard Dawkins
2025-Jul-23
61 minutes
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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence
2025-Jul-07
72 minutes
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Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of Division with Robert George and Cornel WestRobert George and Cornel West
2025-Jun-12
149 minutes
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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence
2025-May-26
50 minutes
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Neil Shubin: Science, Exploration, Patience, and Survival at the Ends of the Earth
2025-May-09
146 minutes
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Stephanie Canizales on the human tragedy of undocumented and unaccompanied migrant youth in the US.
2025-Apr-23
116 minutes
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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence
2025-Apr-13
56 minutes
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Ricky Gervais: Hall of Fame episode: Comedy, Philosophy, Religion and Science
2025-Mar-26
92 minutes
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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence
2025-Mar-14
81 minutes
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Elizabeth Weiss: Indigenous Myths and Cancel Culture vs Science in Anthropology
2025-Feb-28
144 minutes
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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence
2025-Feb-10
61 minutes
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Jonathan Rauch:
2025-Feb-05
129 minutes
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Cyan Banister: A master class in curiosity--Risk, Resilience and Betting on the Future
2025-Jan-24
208 minutes
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Jennifer Doudna: Scientist and World Changer
2025-Jan-15
86 minutes
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A Hitchmas Gift For All -Audio Version
2024-Dec-25
99 minutes
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Jeffrey Sachs on Diplomacy, Conflict, and the Path to Peace
2024-Dec-18
121 minutes
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Nicholas Christakis: From Social Networks to AI, Special Thanksgiving Podcast
2024-Nov-28
171 minutes
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Charles Moxley Jr: Nuclear Weapons are Illegal
2024-Nov-04
94 minutes
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Heather Mac Donald: When Race Trumps Merit and Reshapes Culture
2024-Oct-04
137 minutes
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Saul Perlmutter: Third Millennium Thinking
2024-Sep-18
146 minutes
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Origins Podcast: A Call For Support To Save A Family
2024-Sep-09
24 minutes
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Helen Pluckrose
2024-Sep-04
148 minutes
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Solving one of cosmology's biggest conundrums with Wendy Freedman
2024-Aug-21
117 minutes
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Leonard Susskind: Strings, Quarks, Black Holes, and More.
2024-Aug-07
115 minutes
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Werner Herzog
2024-Jul-24
105 minutes
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Annie Jacobsen
2024-Jul-10
89 minutes
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Mysteries of the Cosmos, From Dark Energy to the Big Bang: A State of the Universe report with Michael Turner
2024-Jun-26
117 minutes
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Jeffrey Sachs: Economics, Conflict, and Real-World Diplomacy
2024-Jun-12
82 minutes
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Mark Mattson: Building the Brain: Glutamate as Sculpture and Destroyer
2024-May-29
131 minutes
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Charles Duhigg: The Art and Science of Communication
2024-May-15
66 minutes
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From Quarks to Galaxies: A tour through the forefront of modern physics with Frank Wilczek
2024-Apr-23
235 minutes
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(Audio) Katherine Brodsky: Speaking Out in an Age of Outrage
2024-Mar-31
142 minutes
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A Conversation with Irwin Shapiro: Scientist Extraordinaire from the Earth to the Stars, and at 94, still going strong.
2024-Mar-16
117 minutes
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A Dialogue with Label-Defying Journalist Jonathan Kay
2024-Feb-16
169 minutes
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A dialogue with Brian Keating, at the San Diego Air and Space Museum
2024-Feb-02
82 minutes
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Greg Lukianoff: : The Canceling of the American Mind. Free Speech and Academia
2023-Dec-27
117 minutes
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Scott Aaronson: From Quantum Computing to AI Safety
2023-Dec-15
182 minutes
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Dialogues with Richard Dawkins
2023-Nov-30
79 minutes
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Carlo Rovelli: From Dante to White Holes
2023-Nov-03
144 minutes
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Robert Sapolsky: The Illusion of Free Will
2023-Oct-18
178 minutes
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Peter Singer: From Animal Liberation to Effective Altruism
2023-Oct-07
139 minutes
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Hakeem Oluseyi: An unexpected life in Science, and unpopular truths
2023-Sep-20
157 minutes
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The Best of the Origins Podcast, Part 1:
2023-Sep-01
191 minutes
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Bart Ehrman: Revelations about Revelation...and more
2023-Jul-07
130 minutes
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Martin Rees: If Science is to Save Us, Part 2
2023-Jun-09
105 minutes
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Douglas Murray: From Poetry to Free Speech
2023-May-27
187 minutes
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Andrei Linde: Inflation, Multiverses, and all that, from Mr. Eternal Inflation
2023-May-14
180 minutes
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Boldly going where no podcast has gone before: William Shatner; Wonder, Awe, and Questions, Questions...
2023-Apr-28
94 minutes
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Martin Rees: If Science is to Save Us, Part 1
2023-Apr-12
113 minutes
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Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss Onstage at the Orpheum Theater, Nov 15, 2022
2023-Mar-09
92 minutes
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John Preskill: From the Early Universe to the Future of Quantum Computing
2023-Feb-17
134 minutes
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Tim Palmer: The Primacy of Doubt
2023-Feb-04
130 minutes
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Elizabeth Kolbert: Can human technology solve unintended consequences of human technology
2023-Jan-14
138 minutes
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Holiday Edition Part 2, Science Matters: How the Universe Made your Holiday Gifts
2022-Dec-29
30 minutes
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Origins Podcast Wishful-Thinking Holiday Edition Part 1: A Dialogue with Augusten Burroughs: A Witch or Not A Witch
2022-Dec-25
125 minutes
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An Origins Podcast EXCLUSIVE: A Dialogue with Cormac McCarthy About Science, on the occasion of his newest book releases
2022-Dec-09
64 minutes
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Brian Keating: Probing the Early Universe and Communicating about Science
2022-Nov-29
116 minutes
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Starry Messages, Science, Culture, and Life
2022-Nov-06
93 minutes
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Peter Boghossian: From Street Epistemology to Academic Freedom
2022-Oct-14
132 minutes
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Frans de Waal: Learning from Primates about ourselves: From Gender to Social Hierarchies
2022-Sep-27
150 minutes
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Janice Fiamengo: Feminism, Anti-Feminism, and Common Sense
2022-Sep-09
118 minutes
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Richard Dawkins: From Selfish Gene to Flights of Fancy
2022-Aug-26
123 minutes
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Alex Garland: Fundamental questions inspire art and science
2022-Aug-14
72 minutes
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Geoff Marcy: The Search for Exoplanets and Life Elsewhere in the Universe
2022-Jul-29
113 minutes
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Andy Knoll: The First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
2022-Jul-14
174 minutes
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Charles Murray: On Human Diversity
2022-Jul-01
139 minutes
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(Audio) John Mather: From the Big Bang to Searching for Life
2022-Jun-16
116 minutes
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Origins Podcast with Michael Shellenberger: From Apocalypse Never to Running for Governor
2022-Jun-02
206 minutes
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Jonathan Rauch: Free Thought, Democracy, and the Nature of Science
2022-May-19
103 minutes
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Alan Guth: Inflation of The Universe & More
2022-May-06
149 minutes
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Dorian Abbot: From Climate and Exoplanets to DEI and Free Speech.
2022-Apr-21
95 minutes
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Matt Ridley: The Origins of COVID-19
2022-Apr-07
145 minutes
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The Origins Podcast: Roger Penrose
2022-Mar-24
170 minutes
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
2022-Mar-02
141 minutes
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Stephen Wolfram on Math, Philosophy, & More
2022-Feb-21
143 minutes
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Steven Pinker on Rationality, Psychology, Language, & More
2022-Feb-02
63 minutes
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Tim Minchin Discussing Science, Culture, & Comedy
2022-Jan-18
122 minutes
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Science Matters: Understanding The James Webb Space Telescope
2022-Jan-18
28 minutes
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Jordan B Peterson on Confronting Value, Meaning, & More
2021-Dec-18
142 minutes
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Sabine Hossenfelder: Physics, Science Ideology, & More
2021-Nov-13
120 minutes
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Jim Simons: Math, Codes, Hunting Talent, Stocks, & Science
2021-Oct-28
102 minutes
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Heather Mac Donald | Part 2 of 2 | Updates & Clarifications
2021-Oct-06
70 minutes
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Stephen Fry on Current Events | Self-Censoring of Scientific Publications
2021-Sep-24
48 minutes
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Heather Mac Donald | Part 1 of 2
2021-Sep-19
126 minutes
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Current Events: Follow Up on Afghanistan with Noam Chomsky
2021-Aug-23
26 minutes
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Barry Barish | Exploring The History of Experimental Physics
2021-Aug-10
178 minutes
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David Gross
2021-Jul-02
135 minutes
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Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Censorship & More
2021-Jun-16
12 minutes
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Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Refugees & Border Policies
2021-Jun-02
19 minutes
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Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan
2021-May-26
10 minutes
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Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Iran
2021-May-23
15 minutes
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Werner Herzog
2021-May-01
121 minutes
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Ian Tattersall
2021-Apr-08
69 minutes
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Ian McEwan
2021-Mar-01
99 minutes
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Andrea Ghez
2021-Feb-01
105 minutes
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Woody Allen
2021-Jan-01
107 minutes
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Joseph LeDoux
2020-Dec-05
104 minutes
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Maryam Namazie
2020-Oct-30
75 minutes
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Stephen Fry
2020-Sep-22
125 minutes
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David Frum
2020-Jul-13
149 minutes
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George Church
2020-May-21
70 minutes
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Sheldon Glashow
2020-Feb-29
90 minutes
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Sir Trevor Nunn
2020-Feb-07
96 minutes
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Elizabeth Loftus
2020-Jan-13
89 minutes
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Stephen Greenblatt
2019-Dec-16
95 minutes
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Martin Rees
2019-Oct-24
83 minutes
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
2019-Oct-04
103 minutes
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A.C. Grayling
2019-Sep-06
102 minutes
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Penn Jillette
2019-Aug-21
101 minutes
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Gail Collins
2019-Aug-06
62 minutes
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Daniel P. Schrag
2019-Jul-23
96 minutes
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Brian May
2019-Jul-08
31 minutes
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Alan Stern
2019-Jul-07
67 minutes
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Jennifer Finney Boylan
2019-Jun-18
61 minutes
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Noam Chomsky
2019-Jun-18
124 minutes
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Ricky Gervais
2019-Jun-18
92 minutes
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Introduction
2019-Jun-08
2 minutes
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