Robert Revell: Composing for film, craft vs creativity
Robert Revell’s grandfather was a poet who fled Mao’s China - and Robert tells the story of how he went back to find his family’s house, sti...
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Wunderdog
If life stays on one planet, then one day that planet will be uninhabitable and that will be the end of all life in the universe.We should get out more.Wunderdog is a collection of talks wit...
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20 episodesTerry Phan & Tomo Goto: Planet nine - finally detected?
"Extreme trans-Neptunian Objects" - or chunks of rock that orbit the sun on average 250 times further away from the sun than Earth does - ar...
Noland Arbaugh, world's first Neuralink human: a pinky in the brain
Noland is an affable Arizonian with an advanced piece of tech in his skull: A Neuralink. With it, Noland can see his own brainwaves and cont...
Astrobiologist Maya D. Yanez: Could acetylene fermentation be an energy source for microbes on Titan?
NASA JPL intern Maya D. Yanez has recently defended her Ph.D. on acetylenotrophy. This is the ability to extract energy from acetylene, and...
Vinay Gupta: We must not let the climate refugee situation turn into a global Gaza
Blockchain is a mystery to me, so I don't usually talk about blockchain projects. But Vinay Gupta is awesome. He thinks about climate refuge...
Kevin Fischer, founder and CEO of OpenSouls: Giving AI souls
Note my NEW FORMAT: 10 minutes of quick questions first, then a deeper talk about ideas, motivation and process after. "I don't think it rea...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson: "If noone in society is thinking that way, however realistic or unrealistic it is, then ... we're not going anywhere ever."
At 3 in the night at Starmus 2017 I finally managed to get ten minutes with astrophysicist, science communicator, director of the Hayden Pla...
Norwegian episode: Ingvild Bræin og ai-trøbbel for barnebokkritikk.no
Ein kommentar på nettsida www.barnebokkritikk.no vart illustrert med bilete genererte av Microsoft Ai Copilot. Eit bortimot samla korps av n...
Vinay Gupta: Mattereum: A blockchain identity layer for things + Better refugee camps
Vinay Gupta: Mattereum, giving our things a trackable identity layer. Bonus: Climate refugees! Vinay has a plan! Vinay used to work at Ether...
Robin Hanson: Grabby aliens, a horrifying solution to the Fermi Paradox
"One of the most original thinkers in the world" (list of people who have said this at the bottom) is BACK for a second visit! Robin Hanson...
Anders Sandberg: Future of Life Institute
Anders Sandberg talks volcano engineering, Freeman Dyson's computer at the end of everything, moving planets, how transparent society should...
Casey Handmer: Is cheap, giga-scaleable carbon capture possible?
Casey Handmer: On leaving Hyperloop One and NASA to bet on cheap, giga-scaleable carbon capture. First he took a PhD in gravity waves, then...
Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King from Adventure Time, the NFT-financed Jesus 2. part 1 of 2
The second part of the Jesse Moynihan interview! Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "household name" when h...
Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King from Adventure Time, the NFT-financed Jesus 2. part 1 of 2
For the first non-space related episode of Wunderdog, I have a MASSIVE nugget of artistic GOLD. Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird un...
Eugene Chudnovsky: How life could evolve inside stars
In 2020, the esteemed physics professors Eugene Chudnovsky and Luis Anchordoqui published thatr describes a theoretical form of life unlike...
Ana Bonaca: Galactic bullet holes
While studying the stellar stream GD-1, Harvard astronomer Ana Bonaca made a literally enormous discovery: Cosmic "bullet holes" in our gala...
Cynthia Phillips: Visiting Jupiter moons
Jupiter's moon Europa is the most exciting place in the solar system to look for life. Cynthia Phillips from NASA tells us why. Cynthia Phil...
James Fallon + Jakob Løvstad: Psychopath professor vs MMA legend
Professor James Fallon talks psychology and space travel for "psychopaths" with psychologist and former coach of the Norwegian MMA national...
Robin Hanson: Mind uploads will be a bigger gamechanger than AI
Robin Hanson on how mind uploads could make space irrelevant. The Fermi paradox is the mysterious lack of traces of alien civilized life. Pr...
Philip Lubin: Breakthrough Starshot, the world-saver laser, and how Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner took it closer to reality
NASA professor Philip Lubin and his potentially asteroid-deflecting and planet-saving laser, Breakthrough Starshot. Stephen Hawking's last s...