Are UFOs Alien Tech? Avi Loeb vs Michael Shermer
Is there alien technology in our skies, or just birds, balloons and bad video? Two members of the White House UAP Science Advisory Council f...
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Adam Grant: Don't Trust Your Gut. Test It.
When two people are vibing, their brainwaves synchronize and so do their heartbeats. That is not a metaphor. It is a measurable physiologica...
Roman Yampolskiy vs Joscha Bach: Can Anyone Control Superintelligence?
Roman Yampolskiy says keeping a superintelligence safe forever is as impossible as building a perpetual motion machine. Joscha Bach says tod...
"I Thought It Would Fail!" Francis Halzen: Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize In Physics [Reupload from 2022]
The physicist who turned a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into a telescope says the most exciting moment of his career was not the discove...
Nobel Economist Daron Acemoglu WARNING: AI's Payoff Is NOT What You Think
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI's real productivity gain is an order of magnitude smaller than the industry claims. The bigger danger...
AI Is the New Tower of Babel (And Its Builders Know It)
The new Tower of Babel, and its builders are becoming like gods to us. The bigger threat isn't killer robots; it's how much of your own mind...
Robert Wright: AI Alignment Is a Moral Problem, Not a Technical One
The real AI alignment problem is not technical. It is moral. You cannot align a superintelligence to human values if humans cannot agree on...
Former NASA Physicist: The UAP Maneuver That Should Have Exploded
A physics professor ran the energy budget on the Nimitz tic-tac. The maneuver needs about a thousand gigawatts, more than ten times every nu...
Carlo Rovelli: Free Will Is Real. Physics Can Prove It.
This episode is sponsored by Abacus AI agent: agent.abacus.ai/keating I fed it Carlo's recent papers and asked for the argument, the counter...
They Built the Quietest Place on Earth to Find Dark Matter
They Built the Quietest Place on Earth to Find Dark Matter One event in 220 days. That is what the search for dark matter looks like right n...
Dark Matter Has a Problem. So Does MOND.
For 50 years I taught my students that dark matter surrounds the Milky Way in a giant halo, or that Newton’s laws break down at low accelera...
OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes Claim: Is This What AGI Looks Like? with Emad Mostaque
Did OpenAI just solve Navier–Stokes—and what would that actually mean for AGI? Emad Mostaque joins Brian Keating LIVE to examine the claimed...
Roman Yampolskiy vs Emad Mostaque: I Was The Only Optimist - #569
The man who open-sourced the most-used AI image model in history sat down with the man who has spent a decade proving superintelligence cann...
The Universe Didn’t Come From Nothing | The Peter McCormack Show
I joined Peter McCormack to dig into one of the deepest unanswered questions in physics: what is time, and why does it only seem to move in...
The Physics Reason AI Works When It Shouldn’t
The same mathematics that explains why a fridge magnet sticks to your refrigerator also explains why neural networks work when they have no...
Engineering Chair: Most People Should Not Go To College
The system that produces the world’s most important discoveries runs on metrics that nobody agrees on, odds that would stop most people, and...
John Martinis: The Nobel Physicist Behind Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling
John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for proving macroscopic quantum tunneling is real. Less than a year later he’s telling why...
Fermilab’s Scott Dodelson on Cosmology’s Crisis
Scott Dodelson spent ten years on the Dark Energy Survey testing the standard model of cosmology. It passed and missed by 2.5 sigma. The Dir...
Faith & the Physicist: Aliens, Astrobiology, String Theory, and the Search for Meaning
Two theoretical physicists helped design landmark surveys of 1,600+ scientists on the deepest unsolved questions in physics — and found almo...
Annie Jacobsen: How One Lab Leak Ends the World in 6 Days
Annie Jacobsen on BIOLOGICAL WAR: how a single lab leak could take us from outbreak to anarchy in six days — and why bio may be scarier than...