Podcasts by Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
A podcast about how we imagine, and how what we imagine shapes what we do. Each conversation brings together visionaries from the worlds of arts, sciences, humanities, and technology discussing the nature of imagination and how we collaborate to create the future. Hosted by Dr Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego. For show notes go to: https://briankeating.com/podcast.php
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Mentors, Pulsars & Prizes from 2022-02-16T13:00
In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell made an astounding discovery. On 28 November 1967, she detected a "bit of scruff" on her chart-recorder papers that tracked across the sky with the stars. The signal h...
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David Chalmers: You Are in a Sim from 2022-02-09T22:31
David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at...
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Harry Cliff: How to Make an Apple Pie from 2022-02-04T13:00
Win a copy of Harry’s book, HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE PIE! Click here Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge working on the LHCb experiment, a huge particle detector buried 1...
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Part 2 of 2: Brian Keating ? Lee Cronin on Life in the Universe, Assembly Theory, and the Meaning of Time - A debate on Curt Jaimungal's Theories of Everything YouTube Channel from 2022-02-01T13:00
Watch the debate here on Curt's channel https://youtu.be/BI7-5YnXSqk
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-Brian Keating's Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating
-Brian Keating's "L...
Part 1 of 2: Brian Keating ? Lee Cronin on Life in the Universe, Assembly Theory, and the Meaning of Time -A debate on Curt Jaimungal's Theories of Everything YouTube Channel from 2022-02-01T13:00
Watch the debate here on Curt's channel https://youtu.be/BI7-5YnXSqk
LINKS MENTIONED:
-Brian Keating's Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating
-Brian Keating's "Losing the ...
Nobel Prizewinner Reinhard Genzel: The Monster Black Hole at the Heart of our Galaxy! from 2022-01-25T22:33
Reinhard Genzel studied physics at Bonn Univ., and received his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy Bonn (1978), He was a Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for As...
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Christopher Sweat: Philosophizing in Public from 2022-01-21T13:00
Find Chris on Substack - his Writing & Podcast are not to be missed: https://christophersweat.substack.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SweatEm
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissw...
Paul Davies: What's Eating The Universe? from 2022-01-18T13:00
Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, where he runs the pioneering Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. H...
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Carlo Rovelli: Quantum Weirdness!? from 2022-01-04T13:17
Carlo Rovelli was born in Italy, is a US citizen and lives in France. His main activity is in theoretical physics, where he is known as one of the founders of loop quantum gravity. He has also inte...
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Eric Weinstein: UFOs, Crypto, Fatherhood, & The Portal Podcast Reboot from 2021-12-31T13:00
It's been a phenomenal year for some folks; a tough year for others. Join us live to review the year that was and look forward to 2022 too! A wide-ranging, fun, free for all conversation with my fr...
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The Best Guest I Never Had: An Elegy for Steven Weinberg from 2021-12-28T19:27
This episode is sort of "fan fiction" conversation with a dead man who will cast a shadow over physics, philosophy, and theology for decades to come: Steven Weinberg, co-recipient of the 1979 Nobel...
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Brian Schmidt:Nobel Prizewinner: Cosmic Acceleration and Collaboration from 2021-12-14T13:00
Brian Schmidt, is an astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University, formerly known as Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories. He works...
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JOANN ROBERTS Poetry for Physicists from 2021-12-10T15:28
A native of the Universe, Joann "Paradigm" Roberts was born and raised in the Chicago area. A Poet/MC and Musician/Producer; Paradigm is a 3 time Slam Champion as well as a Hip Hop Educator and Tea...
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Graham Farmelo: The Universe Speaks In Numbers from 2021-12-07T13:00
Graham Farmelo is an award-winning biographer and science writer. Based in London, he is a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge and a regular visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeto...
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Sabine Hossenfelder LOOK FOR INCONSISTENCY! from 2021-11-30T13:00
Sabine Hossenfelder has a PhD in physics and is presently a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS).
Sabine works on physics beyond the standard model, phenomenol...
Tom Bilyeu: Impact Experimentalist! from 2021-11-23T13:00
Tom Bilyeu is shaking up multiple industries on his way to impact a billion brains in the Universe! Boy, was this a fun interview to do! Tom runs a legit film studio out of his house and I was deli...
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Craig Callender: A Graphic History of Time from 2021-11-16T13:00
Craig Callendar is a Professor of Philosophy, and Founding Faculty of, and Co-Director of, the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego in the Department of Philosophy. He is also on the Free...
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Lee Cronin: The Chemistry of Life from 2021-11-09T13:00
Lee Cronin was born in the UK and was fascinated with science and technology from an early age getting his first computer and chemistry set when he was 8 years old. This is when he first started th...
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Barry Barish Interviews Brian Keating: Part 2 from 2021-11-03T22:31
In February 2021 Dr. Barry Barish, co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the LIGO experiment, interviewed me at his home in Los Angeles. The topic was his thoughts and reactions to my...
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Barry Barish Interviews Brian Keating: Part 1 from 2021-11-03T22:23
In February 2021 Dr. Barry Barish, co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the LIGO experiment, interviewed me at his home in Los Angeles. The topic was his thoughts and reactions to my...
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Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson: Frequently Asked Questions About The Universe from 2021-11-02T18:59
You’ve got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here. From the dynamic duo that brought you WE HABE N...
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Sarah Rugheimer: Searching for Extraterrestrial Life from 2021-10-26T12:00
Dr. Sarah Rugheimer is a Glasstone Research Fellow and a Hugh Price Fellow at Jesus College Oxford. Her research interests are modeling the atmosphere and climate of extrasolar planets with a parti...
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Ryan Holiday | Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave! @Daily Stoic ? from 2021-10-21T12:00
Ryan Holiday’s best-selling trilogy - The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key - captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring S...
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Jeremy England: Life is on FIRE? ?? from 2021-10-19T12:00
A preeminent physicist unveils a field-defining theory of the origins and purpose of life. Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And everything that is alive traces back to things t...
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Astronaut Nicole Stott: BACK TO EARTH from 2021-10-13T22:34
Inspired by insights gained in spaceflight, a NASA astronaut offers key lessons to empower Earthbound readers to fight climate change
When Nicole Stott first saw Earth from space, she realized ...
Chris Hadfield: The Apollo MURDERS! from 2021-10-12T21:14
In 1973: a final, top-secret mission was planned to go to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny spaceship, a quarter-million miles from home. A quarter-million miles from help.
NASA is about to ...
Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein: A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century. Frogs, Family, Freedom from 2021-10-05T12:00
Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein are evolutionary biologists. They both earned PhDs in Biology from the University of Michigan, where their research on evolution and adaptation earned awards. They...
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Anthony Aguirre: Cosmological Koans from 2021-09-21T12:00
Physicist Anthony Aguirre studies the formation, nature, and evolution of the universe, focusing primarily on the model of eternal inflation—the idea that inflation goes on forever in some regions ...
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Ben Shapiro: The Science™ of Authoritarianism from 2021-09-14T12:00
I spoke with Ben Shapiro about his thoroughly discursive new book: The Authoritarian Moment. Ben is prolific to say the least: his second book in just about a year. Some of you aren't Big Ben fans,...
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Part 1 of 2: Eric Weinstein n- WTF Happened in 1971: An INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Birthday Extravaganza ? ! from 2021-09-12T07:05
What happened in 1971 (besides my birth on September 9th, 1971)? Answer: a lot!
Topics: GU update, Science vs. Politics, Elon Musk vs. Physics, and WTF is a Kayfabe?
I'd be honored if you'd...
Julian Barbour: The Janus Point and the Arrow of Time from 2021-09-09T12:00
Julian Barbour is the author of the highly regarded The Discovery of Dynamics and the bestseller The End of Time and now, The Janus Point.
He received his PhD in physics from the University of ...
Stephon Alexander: Fear of a Black Universe from 2021-08-31T13:59
Stephon Alexander is a Professor of Physics at Brown University and the President of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP). Alexander has had previous appointments at Stanford University,...
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Danny Miranda and Dr. Brian Keating – How Religion Helps An Astrophysicist Make Sense Of The Universe. from 2021-08-26T12:00
Dr. Brian Keating is an American physicist who is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences in the Department of Physics at the University of California, ...
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Paul Halpern: Flashes of Creation from 2021-08-24T12:00
Paul Halpern is Professor of Physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. A prolific author, he has written sixteen science books and numerous articles. His interests range from space...
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James Altucher and Brian Keating: Stop using these 3 Lazy Words! from 2021-08-19T12:00
Do you use these 3 lazy words daily? Do you use these words when you tried to solve problems? Create businesses? Win a game? Well, it's time to change that. James Altucher and Brian Keating talk ab...
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Ashley Yeager: The Brilliant Legacy of Astronomer Vera Rubin from 2021-08-17T12:00
Ashley Yeager is an associate editor at The Scientist. Previously, she worked as a freelance writer, editor and multimedia producer, and also at the Simons Foundation as a science writer, at Scienc...
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Tom Delonge & Jim Semivan: An Honest Talk About Government Secrets! from 2021-08-13T21:25:55
Tom DeLonge started To The Stars Academy, a multi-pronged approach to address issues related to UFO/UAPs. TTSA has several divisions including:
Science & Technology Division wherein TTSA collec...
Eric Topol: AI Doctors, Medicine's Future, and The Delta Variant from 2021-08-10T14:38
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Dr. Eric Topol M.D. is a Physician-Scientist, Author, Editor and is The Gary & Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine, and the Executive VP, Scripps Res...
The Joy of Ex-perimental Astrophysics with UCSB Professor Ben Mazin from 2021-08-09T12:00
Benjamin Mazin is the Worster Chair in Experimental Physics at UC Santa Barbara. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1997. He then attended the California Institute of Technology, graduatin...
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Part 2 of 2 Lawrence Krauss: The Physics of Everything from 2021-08-03T12:00
Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author, as well as being an acclaimed lecturer. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and ho...
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Part of 1 of 2 – Lawrence Krauss: The Physics of Everything from 2021-07-27T12:00
Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author, as well as being an acclaimed lecturer. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and ho...
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Avi Loeb: Breaking News! from 2021-07-26T12:00
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Jo Dunkley: This Is Our Universe from 2021-07-20T12:00
Jo Dunkley is a Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University.
?Her research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the Universe. Her major projects ar...
Part 2 of a special 2 part episode - Brian Keating in Conversation with James Altucher: How to become an expert. Do aliens exist? The state of AI, theories of everything. from 2021-07-19T12:00
Brian Keating and James Altucher experiment, going live on Twitter! The experience was great and possibly better than the clubhouse!
The conversation started on how to become an expert, to the...
Part 1 of a special 2 part episode - Brian Keating in Conversation with James Altucher: How to become an expert. Do aliens exist? The state of AI, theories of everything. from 2021-07-17T12:00
Brian Keating and James Altucher experiment, going live on Twitter! The experience was great and possibly better than the clubhouse!
The conversation started on how to become an expert, to the...
Steven Kotler: Master Your Flow with The Art of the Impossible from 2021-07-13T12:00
Best-selling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers - athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs, and more - who have changed our definition of the ...
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Alan Lightman: Astronomy's Tolstoy -- Improbable Possibilities, Einstein's Dream, & More from 2021-07-06T12:00
Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his t...
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Caleb Scharf: The Ascent of Information from 2021-06-29T12:00
Caleb Scharf was born and educated in England. He received his B.Sc. in physics from Durham University, and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Cambridge. Following postdoctoral work in X...
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Brian Keating on Planetary Radio with Host Matt Kaplan: Special Crossover Episode from 2021-06-25T12:00
Mat Kaplan is the host of Planetary Radio Host and Producer, The Planetary Society. Mat Kaplan loves hosting and producing Planetary Radio. He was just 17 when he got his first job in broadcasting,...
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Michael Knowles: Speechless from 2021-06-22T12:00
Michael Knowles is the celebrated host of “The Michael Knowles Show” at the Daily Wire, “The Book Club” at PragerU, and “Verdict with Ted Cruz.” In 2017, Michael published the #1 national bestselli...
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Peter Timbie: My Academic Father! from 2021-06-20T15:00
More than any other person, my Ph.D advisor Peter Timbie, taught me how to be a scientist. We discuss Peter’s advisor David Wilkinson (namesake of the WMAP satellite) and Bob Dicke. Learn the histo...
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Steven Strogatz: The Infinite Power of Calculus from 2021-06-18T12:00
Steven Strogatz is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University.
Early in his career, he worked on a variety of problems in mathematical biology, including th...
Delilah Gates: Black Hole Basics! from 2021-06-10T12:00
Harvard's Dr. Delilah Gates joins to discuss the fascinating & foreboding subject of black holes! Black holes are mysterious objects that have perplexed humanity for centuries, yet Delilah reveals ...
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Seth Shostak: Alien Hunter ? from 2021-06-08T12:00
Since the first Martian “canals” were charted in 1877, space aliens have captivated sky-gazers, night travelers, and television watchers worldwide. Polls show that nearly half of all Americans beli...
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Mick West: Are UFO's here? from 2021-06-04T12:00
Mick West, a debunker, skeptic, writer, UFO investigator, and former video game programmer. This is the official channel for videos relating to the debunking and other experiments I do on my forum ...
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Denise Shull: The Psychology of Billions from 2021-05-31T11:00
Denise Shull is the author of MARKET Mind Games, which has been repeatedly called "ahead of its time", "a game-changer" and "the best book on trading psychology" in unsolicited Amazon reviews.Shull...
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Lee Smolin: String Theory is Still Wrong from 2021-05-27T12:00
Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist who has been since 2001 a founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His main contributions have been so far to the qua...
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Bill Pulte: Twitter Philanthropy! from 2021-05-25T12:00
Bill Pulte, a 30 something investor and entrepreneur coined the term “Twitter Philanthropy”. He has given away $800k+ via Cash App to those in need. Pulte’s grandfather (William Pulte) founded Pult...
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Michael Shermer & Brian Keating: Part 1: How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof from 2021-05-21T12:00
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Michael Shermer & Brian Keating Part 2: How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof from 2021-05-21T12:00
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Steven Pinker: Things are Getting BETTER! from 2021-05-19T12:00
Was 2020 really the "worst year ever," as some would have us believe? Or are things getting better? Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has shown that poverty, pollution and other challenges are on ...
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Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary from 2021-05-12T12:00
Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong spac...
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Eric Weinstein & Lee Smolin: Judging Theories of Everything, ID, & UFOs ? from 2021-05-10T12:00
Eric Weinstein & Lee Smolin: A conversation on Theories of Everything: String Theory, Geometric Unity, Loop Quantum Gravity, Lisi’s E8 etc.
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Hawking Hawking! The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity with NYU Prof. Charles Selfe from 2021-05-06T12:00
Immediately recognizable in his wheelchair and surrounded by an entourage of nurses, Stephen Hawking was a symbol of the power of mind over matter. The public adored him, and the media compared hir...
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MIT Professor Sara Seager: Love, Loss, & Life in the Cosmos from 2021-05-04T12:00
An MIT astrophysicist reinvents herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth, in this “bewitching” memoir.<...
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Phillip Greenspun: The Most Interesting Man in Massachusetts from 2021-05-01T12:00
Greenspun grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and received a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT in 1982. After working for Hewlett Packard Research Labs in Palo Alto and Symbolics, he became a founder of ICAD...
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142-Part 2: Michio Kaku: Is String Theory = The GOD Equation? from 2021-04-28T18:08
Dr. Michio Kaku — theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science. As co-founder of String Field Theory, Dr. Kaku carries on Einst...
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142-Part 1: Michio Kaku: Is String Theory = The GOD Equation? from 2021-04-27T12:00
Dr. Michio Kaku — theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science. As co-founder of String Field Theory, Dr. Kaku carries on Einst...
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141: Peter Boghossian: How to have IMPOSSIBLE conversations! from 2021-04-23T12:00
In How to Have Impossible Conversations, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay guide you through the straightforward, practical, conversational techniques necessary for every successful conversation -...
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140: David Pogue: How to Prepare for Climate Change! from 2021-04-22T12:00
For Earth Day 2021, we present a discussion of the comprehensive guide to surviving climate change and global warming, an existential issue of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help au...
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138: Kamal Ravikant: Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It! from 2021-04-20T16:15
Kamal Ravikant has trekked to one of the highest base camps in the Himalayas, earned the US Army Infantry patch, walked 550 miles across Spain, lived in Paris, and bungee jumped out of a perfectly ...
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137: Evidence for Planet 9? A conversations with Caltech Professor Konstantin Batygin! from 2021-04-19T12:00
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136: Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going. from 2021-04-13T12:00
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135, Part 1: Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity...REVEALED! from 2021-04-09T12:00
Eric Weinstein, host of the Portal Podcast, reveals Geometric Unity, his provocative new Theory of Everything. First discussed in 2013, later explored on the Joe Rogan Experience and Lex Fridman’s ...
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135: Part 2 Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity...REVEALED! from 2021-04-09T12:00
Weinstein, host of the Portal Podcast, reveals Geometric Unity, his provocative new Theory of Everything. First discussed in 2013, later explored on the Joe Rogan Experience and Lex Fridman’s podca...
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134: John Mather: The Very First Light from 2021-04-06T12:00
John Mather, is a driving force in space astronomy and cosmology. In 1989 he helped discover that the cosmic background radiation's spectrum corresponds to black-body radiation - radiation emitted ...
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133: Phil Plait, Bad Astronomer, on The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast from 2021-04-05T12:00
Philip Plait, also known as The Bad Astronomer, is an American astronomer, skeptic, writer and popular science blogger. Plait has worked as part of the Hubble Space Telescope team, images and spect...
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132: What did the Event Horizon Telescope Discover? Chat with Heino Falcke: black holes, polarization EHT from 2021-03-31T12:00
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131: Stephen Meyer: Return of the God Hypothesis from 2021-03-30T12:00
Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs Discovery Institute’s Center for Scien...
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130: David Spergel: Way of the Peaceful Cosmologist from 2021-03-26T12:00
David Spergel is one of today's most respected and accomplished astrophysicists. He has made foundational contributions to our understanding of the origin and evolution of the universe via the Cosm...
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129: Is there a Fifth Force? News from the Large Hadron Collider (CERN LHCb): James Beacham & Phil Ilten from 2021-03-25T11:30
Is there a Fifth Force? News from the Large Hadron Collider with James Beacham & Phil Ilten. Interesting new result from the LHCb Experiment collaboration was just announced, hinting at physics bey...
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128: Allison Schrager: Brothel Economics And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk from 2021-03-23T15:00
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Learn how an economist analyzes and manages risk in finance, love, retirement, and life in general in this wide-ranging discussion with first-time autho...
127: Don Hoffman: Reality Does NOT Exist! from 2021-03-16T15:00
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders ...
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126: James Jordan: The Speed of Life from 2021-03-14T23:31:28
James Jordan joins The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast to discuss his novel The Speed of Life: An Illustrated Novel.
What happens when a brutal crime threatens a mother’s love for her son? An old F...
125: Cory Klippsten (SwanBitcoin.com) The Case AGAINST Bitcoin EXPLAINED! from 2021-03-11T18:11
Cory Klippsten is the founder and CEO of SwanBitcoin.com. He also serves as an advisor to Unchained Capital, Bitcoin Venture Fund (TVP) and Riot Blockchain (NASDAQ: RIOT), and is a partner in Bitco...
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124: Deepak Chopra: How To Know God from 2021-03-09T16:00
DEEPAK CHOPRA™ MD, FACP, is the founder of The Chopra Foundation , a non-profit entity for research on well-being and humanitarianism, and Chopra Global , a whole health company at the intersection...
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123: Chiara Mingarelli: Hints of the Gravitational Wave Background from NANOGRAV! from 2021-03-08T22:03
Prof. Chiara Mingarelli is a gravitational-wave astrophysicist, looking to understand how supermassive black holes in the centers of massive galaxies merge, if at all. She does this by predicting t...
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121: Peter Schiff: BITCOIN BUBBLE! from 2021-02-27T04:50
According to @PeterSchiff, the only valid reason to buy Bitcoin is thinking the bubble will get much bigger before it bursts. Most #Bitcoin buyers don't know it's a bubble so they will never sell. ...
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120: Jay Wujun Yow: Podcast Producer, Sound Engineer – The Power of Audio from 2021-02-25T16:00
Jay Wujun Yow is the Audio Producer and Engineer for The James Altucher Show. He's become an indispensable part the Altucher media empire.
Jay is a very passionate person when it comes to music...
119: James Altucher: Skip The Line from 2021-02-23T18:44
In Skip The Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals, James Altucher busts the 10,000-hour rule of achieving mastery, offering a new mindset and dozens ...
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118: Andy Viterbi: Wireless Pioneer, Co-Founder of Qualcomm - A Historic Perspective from 2021-02-16T17:00
Communications pioneer Andrew J.Viterbi — who in 1962 earned one of the first doctorates in electrical engineering granted at the University of Southern California — has forever changed how people ...
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117: How to BEAT failure, CRUSH obstacles, and THRIVE with NASA Spacewalker Scott Parazynski! from 2021-02-16T06:04
Scott Parazynski is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, Parazynski's phenomenal book, THE SKY BELOW, tells the gripping ...
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116: Laurence Tribe: The Physics of IMPEACHMENT & The Curvature of Constitutional Space from 2021-02-16T06:04
Laurence Tribe Is an American legal scholar who is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the Harvard Law School of Harvard University. We are discussing the impeachment of Donald Trump and uniqu...
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115: Max Tegmark: Life 3.0 from 2021-02-09T16:00
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Max Tegmark is a physicist, cosmologist, and artificial intelligence - machine learning researcher. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the scient...
114: Jayant Narlikar - Giant of Cosmology! from 2021-02-06T19:25:11
Besides scientific papers and books and popular science literature, Narlikar has written science fiction, novels, and short stories in English, Hindi, and Marathi:
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113: Harvard’s Avi Loeb- Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth from 2021-02-02T19:00
In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Avi Loeb, Harvard’s t...
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11b Bonus: Andy Weir (author of The Martian and Artemis) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We have a mid-month bonus episode with Andy Weir, author of the novel The Martian, so memorably adapted in the film starring Matt Damon, and the new book Artemis, which launches today! Our own Bria...
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81: Brett Cyrgalis Author of “Golf’s Holy War”. Does science steal the soul of sports? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 a practicing scientist, GolfR...
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76: Ben Shapiro UNCENSORED! Daily Habits, Dream Guests, Science Fiction, Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Patrick Bet-David UNCENSORED!! Got Fired? Make these “Your Next Five Moves”! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Stephen Wolfram & Eric Weinstein: The Nature of Mathematical Reality from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This man commanded a Billion Dollar Submarine. Let him teach you Leadership Language: David Marquet from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Theories of Everything: Cosmic Controversies, Great Debates, and Scientific Speculations — Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Part 1 of A Conversation with James Altucher on his philosophies, investing strategies and how comedy works. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
James Altucher: Seinfeld Unfriended Me! A Special Livestream Edition from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
PBS Spacetime Presents: “Theory of Everything” Livestream Max Tegmark, James Beacham, Stephon Alexander from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Auschwitz Survivor Rose Schindler: Never Give Up Hope! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rapper & entrepreneur Zuby: A brief history of rhyme! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
YouTube’s #1 Astronomer Dr. Becky Smethurst: “Don’t Dumb It Down!” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A conversation with Noam Chomsky: Linguistics, SETI, Cognitive Science, & Artificial Intelligence. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jordan Harbinger: How Deep is Your Well? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Adam Riess: A Nobel Mind on a Cosmic Quest from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Heather Lynn Mac Donald: A Classic Modern University from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Fadel Zeidan on the neuroscience of mindfulness, and his research on pain, anxiety and psilocybin. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Janna Levin: Spots, Blues, and Madmen — revealing cosmic mysteries from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Many Worlds of Ann Druyan: Matriarch of the Cosmos from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jim Simons: Life Lessons from the ‘World’s Smartest Billionaire’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mathematician, codebreaker, Professor, hedge fund pioneer, & philanthropist Jim Simons makes his first-ever podcast appearance on this episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE with UC San Diego Profes...
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Chase Purdy: BILLION DOLLAR BURGER! Will you eat lab-grown Meat? Into the Impossible Podcast Ep. 56 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Eric Weinstein Part 2: Parenting, Peak Prosperity, & Weinstein University from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode#52: Stephon Alexander: The Jazz of Physics! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode#51: Sarah Frier : No Filter — The Inside Story of Instagram. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode#50: Dr. Jud Brewer : Fear, Freedom, and his book The Craving Mind. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dr. Jud Brewer is a mindfulness expert, using his background in addiction psychiatry to help people around the world. In this interview with Brian Keating, on INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE, Brewer talks a...
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Episode#49: Eric Weinstein: Theories of Everything, Geometric Unity & Science’s Paths. Into the Impossible from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sasha Sagan: Cosmic Rituals — INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Episode 46 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Peter Diamandis: Episode 45 of Into the Impossible from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Galileo & the Science Deniers Into the Impossible Ep. 44: Mario Livio from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode 29: Brian Keating Interviews Jim Gates about Proving Einstein Right, supersymmetry and other mysteries from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode 30: Brian Keating interviews Sean Carroll about his book Something Deeply Hidden & Many Worlds from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Remembering Stephen Hawking from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 2007, Erik Viirre, Associate Director of the Clarke Center, was fortunate to share a unique experience with the great Stephen Hawking: taking him into zero gravity. He shares his remembrance of ...
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Episode 15: Dark Matter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We’re going to get pretty dark today... by exploring dark matter, with one of the foremost theorists in physics: Sir Roger Penrose. Dr. Penrose visited the Clarke Center this past January to delive...
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Episode 14: Alien Contact from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We're digging in the vaults to explore ideas of alien contact, with Jill Tarter (SETI Institute) and Jeff VanderMeer (bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy). We'll talk about the Drake E...
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Episode 13: Life on the Moon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It’s the end of 2017, but we’ll spend this episode living, imaginatively, in the 2080s, on the first lunar city, called Artemis. Artemis is the invention of Andy Weir, the author of The Martian and...
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Episode 12: Speculative CubeSats from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How can CubeSats—the small, standardized satellites paving the way for the democratization of space—change our sense of the possible? We dive into two projects: the Planetary Society's Lightsail 2,...
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Bonus: Andy Weir (author of The Martian and Artemis) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We have a mid-month bonus episode with Andy Weir, author of the novel The Martian, so memorably adapted in the film starring Matt Damon, and the new book Artemis, which launches today! Our own Bria...
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Episode 11: Stranger Things (While Podcasting); or On Fear and Imagination from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In honor of Halloween, we're exploring the relationship between fear and imagination. First, a story about when the production of this very podcast was visited by a demon from the Upside Down (mayb...
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Episode 10: Pictures, Pastries, and the Matter of the Universe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Physics is cool—and sometimes very hard to understand. Today we talk to Duncan Haldane, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize, about quantum topology and why the Nobel committee brought a bagel, a pretzel...
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Episode 9: Artificial Imagination from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We kick off Season 2 of Into the Impossible by diving into the world of artificial imagination. As the artificial intelligence dream comes closer to AI reality, are the doomsday stories about AI co...
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Episode 8: Fantastica, with George R.R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Science fiction and fantasy have gone from the sidelines to the mainstream. We bring you a live conversation between two of the field's living legends, George R.R. Martin (“A Song of Ice and Fire,”...
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Episode 7: New Spaces from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We’re looking at new spaces in space, speaking with Drs. Yvonne Cagle (astronaut and physician) and Adam Burgasser (astrophysicist). We talk about why we send humans into space, the discovery of po...
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Episode 6: Designing the Future from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How do you design the future? Today we talk with cyberpunk founder and design theorist Bruce Sterling and feminist/activist writer Jasmina Tešanović about speculative design, design fictions, open ...
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Bonus #1: Entanglements with Rae Armantrout from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In advance of our upcoming event Entanglements: Rae Armantrout and the Poetry of Physics, we have a bonus episode: a conversation between the inimitable poet Rae Armantrout and Clarke Center cosmol...
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Episode 5: Limits of Understanding from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this episode, we’re touching up against the outer limits of cosmology, and through that bringing up questions of limits on the imagination, the role of theology, and the end (and ends) of the un...
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Episode 4: How to Make a Spaceship from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How do you jumpstart the private spaceflight industry? Passion, commitment, bold risk-taking, some inspiration from Charles Lindbergh, and a little luck. On today's show, we hear from Peter Diamand...
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Episode 3: The Hard Problem from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today is an unusual and very special episode of Into the Impossible. In winter of 2015, the Clarke Center produced a collaborative project with the performance artist Marina Abramović and the scien...
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Episode 2: Becoming a Galactic Wonder from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We’re looking at wonder and imagination today, through the plays of Herbert Siguenza (playwright, actor, and director; founding member of Culture Clash) that take us from Pablo Picasso in 1957 to a...
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53: Chase Purdy: BILLION DOLLAR BURGER! Will you eat lab-grown Meat? Into the Impossible Podcast Ep. 56 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
112: Leonard Mlodinow – My Friend, Stephen Hawking from 2021-01-26T21:51:57
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
Leonard Mlodinow was Stephen’s closest colleague in his final years. Who better to put us in the room as Hawking indulges his passion for wi...
111- Part 2: John Preskill – Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Encountering Richard Feynman from 2021-01-19T00:12
Learn about the exciting promise of quantum computing and how it may solve problems in fundamental physics.
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111: John Preskill – Part 1 – Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Encountering Richard Feynman from 2021-01-18T21:59:22
Part 1 of 2
Learn about the exciting promise of quantum computing and how it may solve problems in fundamental physics.
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110: Michael Saylor – The Physics of Bitcoin from 2021-01-13T21:56:26
Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur and business executive, who co-founded & leads MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services....
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109: Nobel Prize Winner Frank Wilczek: Fundamentals — What Are The 10 Keys To Reality? from 2021-01-12T23:59:41
Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics. Win a FREE copy of his newest book Funda...
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108: Fundamentally Closer to Truth? A conversation with Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow, & Frank Wilczek from 2021-01-06T06:30:47
Does your mind create matter?
What happens when an irresistible force meets an unmovable object?
What is the nature of free will?
Find out, in this special episode o...
107: Lord Martin Rees On The Future from 2021-01-06T06:25:16
Lord Martin Rees has played a huge role in my career and is an inspiration to me and millions of scientists around the world. There is literally nothing beyond his purview and our conversation bore...
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106 (part 2): Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein in Conversation from 2021-01-01T08:56
Max Tegmark and Eric Weinstein chat on the last day of 2020! Let’s say ‘good riddance’ with good friends and great conversation! We’ll talk a bit about Artificial Intelligence, Theories of Everythi...
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106 (part 1): Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein in Conversation from 2021-01-01T08:53
Max Tegmark and Eric Weinstein chat on the last day of 2020! Let’s say ‘good riddance’ with good friends and great conversation! We’ll talk a bit about Artificial Intelligence, Theories of Everythi...
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105: Nobel Prize Winner Rainer Weiss: Feeling Spacetime Shudder: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Nobel Prizes! from 2020-12-29T06:26
MIT Physics Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss won a 1/2 share of The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 For his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. He was born in ...
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104: Cumrun Vafa: Puzzles to Unlock The Universe! from 2020-12-25T06:54:42
Join me in welcoming Prof. Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) in his first major podcast interview! We discussed a wide range of topics including what message he’d put into a billion-year time capsule. Plus, we...
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103: Jill Tarter – Proxima Centauri, the Drake Equation, and SETI in 2021! from 2020-12-23T06:38:59
Last week the Guardian and Scientific American announced that Breakthrough Listen astronomers using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia saw a weird radio signal coming from Proxima Centauri, th...
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102: Eric Weinstein – Ask Me Anything Live from 2020-12-22T07:19:53
Eric Weinstein is the managing director of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel‘s investment firm, a position he has held since 2015. Though not an academic physicist, he proposed a unified theory of physics...
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101: Nobel Prizewinner Frank Wilczek: Beautiful Questions, God, Nobels, Imposters & the Power of Beauty from 2020-12-17T07:31:58
Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?
Join me on a cosmic journey with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek. We will embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to ...
100: Barry Barish – Black Holes, Nobel Prizes & The Imposter Syndrome from 2020-12-15T23:21
Barry Barish is an emeritus professor at Caltech, where he has worked since 1963. He became director of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) project in 1997, which led to ...
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99: Sheldon Glashow: The Power of Useless Ideas! from 2020-12-03T06:13:09
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 unified theory and also worked as a visiting scienti...
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98: Bill Perkins: Winners DIE WITH ZERO! from 2020-11-28T01:08
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 maximize our earnings, save early and often, and,...
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97: Eric Weinstein: Imposter Syndrome, Donald Trump, & the Future of Theoretical Physics from 2020-11-28T01:05:48
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, Shelly Glashow, and Barry Barish and Eric’s rec...
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96: Paul Sutter – How To Die In Space from 2020-11-20T18:19:57
Paul M. Sutter is a research professor in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and a guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute in New York Cit...
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95: Evan Carmichael: What Is Your One Word? from 2020-11-20T18:18:43
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 $500,000 to $15 million. He now runs EvanCarmich...
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94: Lenny Susskind: Black Hole War My BATTLE w Stephen Hawking Made the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics from 2020-11-19T00:06:24
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 theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind. The book covers th...
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93: Janna Levin: How to Survive A Black Hole Encounter! from 2020-11-14T00:50:43
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 subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKe...
92: Clifford Will and Nicolas Yunes: Is Einstein Still Right? from 2020-11-13T22:15:02
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 theory is the rigorous test of experiment, not the ...
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91: Astronomy’s Great Debate – The Nature of the Universe and the Future of Astronomy! from 2020-11-13T18:30:30
Host of Into The Impossible Professor Brian Keating, David Spergel, Janna Levin, Sara Seager, Wendy Freedman, & Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess debate the hottest topics in modern astronomy while cel...
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90: Sir Roger Penrose: Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, Black Holes Nobel Prize w/ Eric Weinstein Janna Levin from 2020-11-09T06:43:29
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 Cosmology, Black Holes, and of course, Nobel Prizes!
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89: Marwa El-Diwiny: Using Soft Robotics to Solve Hard Problems from 2020-11-08T01:40:29
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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88: Seth Godin: How Creatives use The Practice to make great art, overcome fear & thrive on constraints! from 2020-11-06T21:05:30
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 AltMBA program. He has written 20 books, includ...
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87: Unni Turrettini: Betraying the Nobel: Secrets, Corruption, and the World’s Most Prestigious Prize from 2020-11-04T19:58
Betraying the Nobel: Secrets, Corruption, and the World’s Most Prestigious Prize! This was a fascinating interview for me to conduct, with a ‘sister-in-arms” who is rallying the world to restore Al...
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86: Gentry Patrick: Race & Diversity in Science from 2020-10-30T18:03
Race and diversity issues in STEM can no longer be ignored.
Professor Gentry Patrick is a neurobiologist and the Director of Mentorship and Diversity at UC San Diego. As a kid from Compton, he ...
85: How Big is the Universe? It’s Debatable… An Essay By Brian Keating from 2020-10-27T06:04
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 War ended only 17 months earlier. A p...
84: Sean Carroll: Is the Universe Twisted? Limits on Lorentz Violation & other Screwy Ideas! from 2020-10-27T00:04
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 my career as a young graduate student in the 1990...
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83:Emily Levesque: Will Today’s Astronomers Be The Last Stargazers? from 2020-10-23T11:59
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 me, When I was shown the charts and diagram...
82: Gad Saad: The Parasitic Mind – the cure for mental pathogens! from 2020-10-21T17:43
Why are politics and society becoming more polarized? How does misinformation, disinformation, bigotry, and hatred spread? How are decisions really made? Dr. Gad Saad has answers and we get to many...
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80: Carl Hagen: Spontaneous Symmetries, the Higgs Mechanism and the Nobel Prize from 2020-10-09T18:18
I delighted in this remarkable opportunity to chat with Carl Hagen , a man who, as much as anyone alive was responsible for discovering the so-called Higgs Mechanism”. I found Carl fascinatin...
79: Paul Halpern Synchronicity: Wolfgang Pauli & Carl Jung from 2020-10-09T18:07
Paul Halpern’s latest book is “Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect.” Paul joins me to discuss the book as well as big topics like quantum entang...
78: Rabbi David Wolpe: Atheism, The Simulation Hypothesis, & Judaism’s view of the Multiverse! from 2020-09-27T20:58
A discussion with Rabbi Wolpe, Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles.
Subscribe to Sinai Temple’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmwpoCGsU7wIgcF0E6licEg...
77: Juan Maldacena: On Theories of Everything, Blackholes, Wormholes, Inflation, & God vs the Multiverse from 2020-09-24T19:09
Juan Maldacena joined me to discuss his fascinating new paper on human traversable wormholes and other topics in fundamental physics. Join in the chat to participate! We discussed the Multive...
75: Did Scientists Discover Life on Venus? MIT Professor Sara Seager and The Verge’s Loren Grush from 2020-09-17T23:24
A conversation with MIT Professor Sara Seager and The Verge Journalist Loren Grush, with Prof. Brian Keating. Loren Grush writes: “Deep within the acidic clouds of Venus, astronomers have det...
74: Alex Heyne: Youtube’s #1 Monk! from 2020-09-17T21:05
Alexander Heyne is the creator of Modern Health Monk, a popular YouTube channel devoted to helping people learn healthy habits and manifest a happy life. Alex is also the author of “Master th...
73: Astrophysicist Moiya McTier, Folklorist of the Cosmos from 2020-09-09T18:02
Moiya McTier is in the final year of her PhD in astrophysics at Columbia, but she is already a science communication star. With a background in folklore, she is an accomplished storyteller wo...
72: Futurist, Author, Pundit: David Brin — Where Are We Headed? from 2020-09-09T17:47
Watch my previous conversation with David from April 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HXf22FVVXk?sub_confirmation=1 Watch David’s recent talk at Google: https://youtu.be/eBqeIKx93A8
71: James Altucher: Seinfeld Unfriended Me! A Special Livestream Edition from 2020-09-05T03:59
A conversation with @James Altucher about the explosive controversy surrounding his LinkedIn piece “NYC is DEAD”, the repercussions of which are still resonating around the globe! We begin by...
70: Auschwitz Survivor Rose Schindler: Never Give Up Hope! from 2020-09-01T18:05
Rose Schindler survived Auschwitz and has shared her remarkable story with thousands of people over the course of 50 years. Her memories of the Holocaust have remained clear over the decades,...
69: YouTube’s #1 Astronomer Dr. Becky Smethurst: “Don’t Dumb It Down!” from 2020-09-01T13:12
Rebecca Smethurst is known as Dr. Becky on her popular YouTube channel. She is an astrophysicist and science communicator, answering questions about physics and astronomy in engaging videos. ...
68: Jordan Harbinger: How Deep is Your Well? from 2020-08-30T17:30
Well, well, well…now you’re thirsty? Podcast host Jordan Harbinger brings his unique and trenchant expertise to this episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE. He shares invaluable advice from a 16 year...
67: Heather Lynn Mac Donald: A Classic Modern University from 2020-08-29T17:02
Heather Lynn Mac Donald is an American conservative political commentator, essayist, and attorney. She is a Thomas W. Smith Fellow of the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of the ...
66: Patrick Bet-David UNCENSORED!! Got Fired? Make these “Your Next Five Moves”! from 2020-08-19T16:36
Patrick Bet-David runs one of the most successful YouTube channels in history, Valuetainment: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIHdDJ0tjn_3j-FS7s_X1kQ Let his clarity of purpose and ability t...
65: Stephen Wolfram & Eric Weinstein: The Nature of Mathematical Reality from 2020-08-14T05:21
I thoroughly enjoyed this deep and wide-ranging conversation with two mathematical mavericks. Thanks goes out to both Eric and Stephen for a fascinating live conversation!
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64: This man commanded a Billion Dollar Submarine. Let him teach you Leadership Language: David Marquet from 2020-08-12T06:56
David Marquet’s leadership transformed the fate of those aboard the U.S. Navy submarine under his command. Watch this episode to learn tips from his latest book and motivate people through yo...
63: Theories of Everything: Cosmic Controversies, Great Debates, and Scientific Speculations — Part 2 from 2020-08-12T06:53
Experimental evidence for any current Theory of Everything is, at best, inconclusive. This is perhaps the greatest fundamental challenges facing physics. That lack of progress has opened up a...
62: Part 1 of A Conversation with James Altucher on his philosophies, investing strategies and how comedy works. from 2020-08-05T15:18
James Altucher is an American hedge-fund manager, author, podcaster and entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded over 20 companies. He has published 20 books and he is a contributor to publi...
61: PBS Spacetime Presents: “Theory of Everything” Livestream Max Tegmark, James Beacham, Stephon Alexander from 2020-07-30T15:26
What are the Leading Theories of Everything? In this 90 minute summit with some of the world’s leading physicists, we’ll go beyond the hype into the heart and soul of physics. The search for ...
60: Rapper & entrepreneur Zuby: A brief history of rhyme! from 2020-07-29T15:52
Rapper and entrepreneur Zuby shares his thoughtful brand of straight talk on this episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE. Topics included whether an AI rapper will ever pass the “Turing Test”, his fi...
59: A conversation with Noam Chomsky: Linguistics, SETI, Cognitive Science, & Artificial Intelligence. from 2020-07-23T23:17
Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential and highly cited scholars of our time. He is a pioneer in the fields of linguistics and cognitive science. This episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE cove...
58: Adam Riess: A Nobel Mind on a Cosmic Quest from 2020-07-15T22:44
Nobel Prize-winning astronomer Adam Riess is my guest on this episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE. Adam was an essential character in my book, Losing the Nobel Prize. Though at the top of his fiel...
57: Fadel Zeidan on the neuroscience of mindfulness, and his research on pain, anxiety and psilocybin. from 2020-07-15T02:52
Producer Stuart Volkow interviews Dr. Fadel Zeidan, PhD, the Associate Director for Research at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at UCSD. He and his l...
56: Janna Levin: Spots, Blues, and Madmen — revealing cosmic mysteries from 2020-07-15T02:44
Theoretical cosmologist Janna Levin is an-award winning author of both nonfiction and fiction. In her interview on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE podcast, she emphasizes the important role of creat...
55: The Many Worlds of Ann Druyan: Matriarch of the Cosmos from 2020-07-15T02:00
Ann Druyan has brought the universe to millions around the world. The wife of the late Carl Sagan, Ann is a renowned science communicator and producer/writer and co-creator of the upcoming s...
54: Jim Simons: Life Lessons from the ‘World’s Smartest Billionaire’ from 2020-06-27T15:20
Mathematician, codebreaker, Professor, hedge fund pioneer, & philanthropist Jim Simons makes his first-ever podcast appearance on this episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE with UC San Diego Professor Bri...
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52: Eric Weinstein Part 2: Parenting, Peak Prosperity, & Weinstein University from 2020-06-17T05:05
Part 2 of Brian Keating’s conversation with Eric Weinstein on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE podcast pivots from faith & family to the course catalog at “Weinstein University” (fictional, for now!)...
51: Stephon Alexander: The Jazz of Physics! from 2020-06-04T20:10
Physicist, jazz musician, & President of the National Society of Black Physicists, Stephon Alexander is this week’s guest on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE podcast. He discussed the foundations of ...
50: Sarah Frier : No Filter — The Inside Story of Instagram. from 2020-06-02T16:21
Sarah Frier is a prolific technology reporter for Bloomberg. Her new book, “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram,” is both a compelling account of Instagram’s history and a record of the...
49: Dr. Jud Brewer : Fear, Freedom, and his book The Craving Mind. from 2020-06-02T00:56
Dr. Jud Brewer is a mindfulness expert, using his background in addiction psychiatry to help people around the world. In this interview with Brian Keating, on INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE, Brewer talks abou...
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48: Eric Weinstein: Theories of Everything, Geometric Unity & Science’s Paths. Into the Impossible from 2020-05-20T22:28
Part 1 of Brian Keating’s fascinating interview with mathematician & economist Eric Weinstein on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. Topics include Eric’s provocative new ideas on physics and s...
Ep#47: Author, Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain discusses her films, book 24/6, and the human side of tech from 2020-05-20T16:33
#TechShabbat #character #neuroscience Filmmaker, and author Tiffany Shlain discusses her life, films and her book 24/6, about the neuroscience of how technology reshapes our brains and how t...
46: Sasha Sagan: Cosmic Rituals from 2020-05-19T05:51
Sasha Sagan’s stirring debut book, “For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World,” is the topic of this week’s episode of INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE. Sagan is t...
45: Peter Diamandis, Founder of the XPrize Foundation and Singularity University from 2020-05-15T03:22
Peter Diamandis is a remarkable entrepreneur, and futurist, best known as the Founder & Executive Chairman of XPRIZE Foundation. His new book, written with Steven Kotler, is “The Future is ...
44: Galileo & the Science Deniers with Mario Livio from 2020-05-14T20:26
Mario Livio is a renowned astrophysicist & best-selling author. His new book “Galileo and the Science Deniers” is the gripping first biography of Galileo Galilei written by an astronomer. Th...
Episode 43: Sarah Scoles, Journalist and Author of “They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers” from 2020-05-12T02:36
Science journalist and author Sarah Scoles talks about her new book “They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers”, a study of UFO culture and its critics. What makes people bel...
Episode 42: Brian Keating & Dave Rubin — DON’T BURN THIS BOOK: using free speech to avoid a Sci Fi dystopia from 2020-05-05T05:06
Brian Keating interviews Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) on the most interesting issues of the day: free speech and expression, classical liberalism, lessons from Jordan Peterson, and the impe...
Episode 41: Stephen Wolfram, Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research, Computing the Cosmos from 2020-04-23T23:33
Stephen Wolfram, Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research, Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Author of A New Kind of Science, discusses computational science, his new Project to Find a Fundame...
Episode 40: Greg Zuckerman, author of THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution from 2020-04-20T21:13
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Brian Keating, Director of the Simons Observatory, interviews Greg Zuckerman, author of the bestselling biography of Jim Simons, “The Man Who Sol...
Episode 39: A Conversation with Physicist and Science Fiction Author David Brin from 2020-04-13T23:44:18
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2020/04/more-repercussions-in-plague-year-and.html
https://www.davidbrin.com
http://www.davidbrin.com/fiction/givingplague.ht...
Episode 38: Giving the Devil His Due: a conversation with Michael Shermer & Brian Keating from 2020-04-13T23:40:32
Brian Keating Interviews Skeptic Magazine publisher and author of “Giving The Devil His Due” Michael Shermer. Get Michael Shermer’s Books here:
GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE
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Episode 37: The Physics of Krav Maga with author and physics Professor John Eric Goff from 2020-04-13T23:28:49
https://www.mmaacademy.com
https://www.facebook.com/John.Eric.Goff.Sports.Physicist
http://johnericgoff.blogspot.com
https://www.lynchburg.edu
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Episode 36: Brian Keating interviews Professor Elena Aprile about the search for dark matter and her life in science from 2020-03-12T19:45:08
https://chasingeinsteinfilm.com http://www.xenon1t.org Elena Aprile is UCSD’s Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor at UC San Diego and Professor of Physics at Columbia University. She is the foun...
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Episode 35: SETI and Beyond: A discussion with Brian Keating, Paul Davies, Jim Benford and Mat Kaplan from 2020-02-10T21:19
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence by Paul Davies
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the...
Episode 34: Brian Keating interviews Sir Roger Penrose: The Emperor’s New Mind — Consciousness & Computers from 2020-01-14T19:56
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness<...
Episode 33: UC San Diego Alumni discuss their careers & Quantum Design Inc. with Brian Keating from 2020-01-14T19:49
Dr. Stefano Spagna, PhD. and Ivy Lum Fipps, MS are both alumni of UC San Diego Physics. Dr. Spagna is Chief Technology Officer and Mrs. Fipps is Final Test Engineer specializing in dilution ...
Episode 32: Brian Keating Interviews Richard Panek about The Trouble With Gravity from 2020-01-07T21:28
Books mentioned:
The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Empiricism, heavens and earth, gravity in history, god, religion, and politics, a thrilling tour guid...
Episode 31: UC San Diego Alumnus, Nanome.ai Co-Founder & CEO Steve McCloskey interviewed by Stuart Volkow from 2019-12-21T02:02
https://nanome.ai/
@StevenMcCloskey
Steve McCloskey is an Alumni from the first class of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Steve’s work is focused on emergi...
Episode 30: Brian Keating Interviews Jim Gates about Proving Einstein Right, supersymmetry and other mysteries from 2019-12-20T00:23
Proving Einstein Right on Amazon
Jim Gates is the Ford Foundation Professor of Physics, and the Director of The Brown University Theoretical Physics Center. He is a 2013 recipient of th...
Episode 29: Brian Keating interviews Sean Carroll about his book Something Deeply Hidden & Many Worlds from 2019-12-20T00:00
Buy Sean’s books on Amazon
Find Sean Carrol online and listen to his Mindscape podcast
Sean Carroll on Joe Rogan
Sean M. Carroll is a Research Professor of Physics at CalTech. H...
Episode 28: Dan Hooper discusses his book At The Edge of Time from 2019-11-14T20:53
At The Edge of Time
Dan Hooper is a senior scientist and the head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He is also Associate Professor o...
Epidsode 27: Innovator Series – Additive Rocket Corporation from 2019-09-11T22:14
Links:
The Additive Rocket CorporationReiley Weekes, CSO
Kyle Adriany, CTO
The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination on Facebook and Twitter
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Episode 26: The Origins of Life and the Work of Primo Levi from 2019-07-16T23:11
Links:
Dr. Luca Legnani, Ph.D., The Blackmond Lab, Scripps Research Institute
Primo Levi
The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination on Facebook and Twi...
Episode 25: A Discussion of Quantum Theory and the book “What Is Real?” by Adam Becker from 2019-06-25T19:59
This podcast is about the book, "What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics". The conversation was part of the "Into the Impossible" podcast at the UC San Diego Arthur C....
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Episode 24: Julian Guthrie Discusses Alpha Girls from 2019-06-04T22:58
Co-Director of the Clarke Center Professor Brian Keating interviews bestselling author Julian Gurthrie about her latest book Alpha Girls. The stories of 4 women who achieved prominence in the male-...
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Episode 23 – Matthew Stanley & Einstein’s War from 2019-05-21T00:22
How history can shape science, and how science can change the tide of history? NYU Professor Matthew Stanley is our guest, here to discuss about his latest book: Einstein's War: How Relativity Triu...
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Episode 22 – Journalist & Author Annalee Newitz from 2019-04-22T18:04
Meet Annalee Newitz, nonfiction and fiction author, science-journalist, and co-host of the podcast series Our Opinions are Correct. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award and nominee for the Nebula an...
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Episode 21: Beyond 10,000 Hours from 2019-03-06T16:45
On this episode, we explore physics, education, and what it takes to train imaginative scientists with Carl Wieman, Nobel Prize winning physicist with joint appointments as Professor of Physics and...
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Episode 20 – The Second Kind of Impossible from 2019-01-08T02:34
THE SECOND KIND OF IMPOSSIBLE: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter is the exciting, first-hand story of how Paul Steinhardt, the award-winning physicist and Albert Einstein Professor i...
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Episode 19 – Nature Has More Imagination from 2018-10-01T06:00
In a ranging conversation, associate director Brian Keating interviews the preeminent scientist and thinker Freeman Dyson, discussing his career in science and letters, the role of creativity and s...
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Episode 18 – Internet of All Kinds of Things from 2018-05-01T07:00
How is the internet changing our humanity, and what can we do about it? We explore these questions and more with Antonio Garcia Martinez (author of Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure...
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Episode 17: Graphic Science from 2018-04-18T07:30:46
On May 8th, the Clarke Center will host an evening of Graphic Science: Comics Engage the Cosmos. In advance of that, associate director Brian Keating chatted with Jorge Cham, creator of PHD Comics,...
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Episode 16: Alien Contact: Part 2 from 2018-04-01T07:00
We’re continuing our conversation from episode 14 about alien contact by focusing on language barriers: barriers betweens humans and aliens, humans and animals, and, in what some consider the most ...
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15b Bonus Episode: Remembering Stephen Hawking from 2018-03-15T17:54
In 2007, Erik Viirre, Associate Director of the Clarke Center, was fortunate to share a unique experience with the great Stephen Hawking: taking him into zero gravity. He shares his remembrance of ...
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