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The show that tries to explain physics, one chat-up line at a time.
In the last episode, we briefly introduced "climate change doomers" and some of their misleading claims. In this episode, I talk about despa...
We're going there. In this episode, I discuss why civilization is not going to imminently collapse due to climate change, explain why doomis...
A new episode released from behind the Patreon paywall. This episode, we'll review and discuss some of the issues raised by Tim Wu's The Att...
In this episode, we will continue our analysis of Direct Air Capture and conclude the series on negative emissions - crucial component of de...
Direct Air Capture - machines that suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Could this be the solution to a scaleable negative emissions i...
Hi all! This is a slightly special bonus episode. Some years ago I had plans for another series "Black Mirror IRL", which was going to be a...
What are "nature-based solutions" to climate change? Can we restore the ecosystems that we've destroyed? And how can restoring mangroves hel...
"Give me a tanker full of iron, and I'll give you a new Ice Age." It might sound like something Hank Scorpio would say, but this episode wil...
How could grinding up rocks and sprinkling the dust over vast areas help to combat climate change? In this episode, we deal with "enhanced w...
Mention carbon capture, and the refrain you'll often hear is "why invent a machine that captures CO2? We already have one - it's called a tr...
N/B: Owing to a ridiculously hectic schedule until the end of the year, episodes will continue to be released on a fortnightly basis until f...
In this episode, we get into some of the specific technologies that might be called upon to deliver negative emissions at scale. Specificall...
In this episode, we discuss whether the promises that some new technology - like negative emissions - will come along and "solve climate cha...
Increasing levels of negative emissions are envisioned by models in climate-change scenarios that are compatible with the Paris Agreements....
Negative emissions technologies (NETs), also called carbon dioxide removal (CDR), are seen by many as an increasingly essential part of clim...
The book club returns, with a two-part review and overview of anthropologist Jason Hickel's book "The Divide", about global inequality, its...
In this episode, we discuss the ongoing battle throughout the 1930s and 1940s between those who believed in a steady-state Universe, and tho...
To close out this series of news episodes, we discuss the depressing failure of carbon capture and storage projects in Australia, as well as...
In this episode of Thermonuclear Takes, we tackle a couple of recent climate-related news stories - the "tipping point" carbon flux measurem...
Updates on the Softbank Vision Fund and the sad fate of Pepper the robot.
In this news episode, I discuss recent anomalies around the muon - B-particles decaying into muons, and the muon's anomalous magnetic moment...
In this news-y episode, I will give you some updates on how the show is progressing, share some listener emails on our cosmology series, and...
In this episode, we cover the different kinds of universal horizon, whether the Universe has an edge, and talk about how theoretical physici...
At the dawn of theoretical cosmology, Einstein introduced the so-called "Cosmological Constant" into his equations to explain how the Univer...
In this episode, we look at how Einstein's theory of general relativity gave rise to a theoretical framework for examining cosmology - the e...
In 1929, Edwin Hubble published his findings. The redshifts from distant galaxies were proportional to their distance away from us. Theoreti...
Everything we have been able to infer about the Universe began in total ignorance. Many early theories about how the Universe was structured...
When you're trying to narrate the history of the entire Universe, where do you begin? I decided to start in a radio studio in London in Marc...
Arguments surrounding climate change have become subtler. Outright denial is gradually shifting to rhetoric that supports delaying urgent ac...
As the climate change debate has advanced, the arguments surrounding it have become more subtle. Outright denial of the climate problem is r...
Folks, It's been over a year since we had a break from producing content and it just so happens that things are getting rather hectic in non...
Why should we listen to scientists? Well, because they're right a lot of the time. But also because - ideally - the institutions of science...
How can machine learning and artificial intelligence help us in the fight against climate change? I explore literally dozens of ideas for po...
I interviewed David Gerard, author of the cryptocurrency blog and book of the same name "Attack of the 50ft Blockchain", as well as a new bo...
I have generally held back on talking about bitcoin - because I'm super opinionated and it's one topic that generates a lot of heated discus...
In The Coal Question, Jevons - alongside realising that we needed a transition to renewable energy 150 years ago - posed the efficiency para...
In this episode of our series on energy efficiency, we are going to talk about industrial applications - how we can improve the way that hig...
It's a smorgasboard of climate news as global emissions rebound, slippery definitions of Net Zero abound, the Green Homes Grant collapses, a...
In the second part of our series on energy efficiency and its role in combatting climate change, we talk about how buildings can be made mor...
Sigh. Yeah I did a thing about the Gamestop, meme stocks, financial asset bubbles, and so on, if only so that these opinions don't have to r...
In this episode, we discuss the vital role of energy efficiency in reducing carbon emissions, and the potential to reduce energy consumption...
This week, we have a guest on the show - Rodrigo Aguilera. Specifically, we're talking to him about his book "The Glass Half-Empty: Debunkin...
Listeners to our series on Softbank Vision Fund will be interested - albeit perhaps not surprised - to hear that one of its major investment...
This week, we have a guest on the show - Rodrigo Aguilera. Rodrigo is an economist - born in Mexico, lives in London, and his writing has ap...
From the discovery of graphene to the invention of Van Der Waals heterostructures, this episode explores the potential and possibilities sur...
In the concluding part of this mini-series on technological implications for being human, we discuss the idea that humans will manipulate th...
In this experimental, unusual, and wildly speculative episode, we'll discuss philosophy, and the implications of the imagined techno-future...
I sat down with Professor Rebecca Willis, author of the new book Too Hot To Handle, about the democratic challenge of climate change, how po...
On this episode, we conclude our series examining the work of Project Drawdown and its climate mitigation solutions, and discuss the additio...
This episode, we have a guest on the show that I'm very excited about. Professor Steve Keen is an economist and author who has been a longst...