Physical Attraction
Physical Attraction is the show that explores topics in science, technology, and the future - from a physicist's perspective. From the birth of stars to the end of the world, from interviews with experts to meticulously-researched deep dives, we'll explore the topics that shape our world.Podcasts
Climate 201: Climate Doomism (II)
Published: March 9, 2022, 8:47 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 15 seconds
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Climate 201: Climate Doomism (I)
Published: Feb. 21, 2022, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 9 seconds
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UNLOCKED: Book Club: Tim Wu's The Attention Merchants
Published: Feb. 8, 2022, 7:17 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 48 seconds
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Climate 201 NETS XI: Direct Air Capture, p2 and NETS conclusion
Published: Jan. 24, 2022, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 21 seconds
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Climate 201 NETS X: Direct Air Capture, part 1
Published: Jan. 10, 2022, 10:53 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 57 seconds
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BONUS: Black Mirror IRL pilot - Be Right Back
Published: Dec. 28, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 10 seconds
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Climate 201: NETS VII: Ecosystem Restoration and Mangroves
Published: Dec. 19, 2021, 12:34 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 33 seconds
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Climate 201, NETS IX: Ocean Iron Fertilization
Published: Nov. 29, 2021, 2:50 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 12 seconds
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Climate 201: NETS VIII: Enhanced Weathering
Published: Nov. 16, 2021, 9:16 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 32 seconds
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Climate201 NETS VI: Planting Trees and Afforestation
Published: Nov. 1, 2021, 9:39 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 24 seconds
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Climate 201: NETS V: Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage
Published: Oct. 18, 2021, 6:43 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 15 seconds
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Climate 201: Negative Emissions IV: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)
Published: Oct. 4, 2021, 9:18 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 56 seconds
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Climate 201, Negative Emissions III: Technological Promises, or Prevarications
Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 12:37 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 34 seconds
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Climate 201: Negative Emissions (II): We'll Always Have Paris?
Published: Sept. 13, 2021, 12:22 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 17 seconds
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Climate 201: Negative Emissions I: The Last Thing We Should Be Talking About?
Published: Sept. 6, 2021, 5:20 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds
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Book Club: Jason Hickel's The Divide, Part II
Published: Aug. 30, 2021, 8:37 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 47 seconds
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Book Club: Jason Hickel's The Divide, Part I: The Origins of Global Inequality
Published: Aug. 24, 2021, 7:54 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 37 seconds
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Cosmology, VII: Cosmological Contradictions
Published: Aug. 16, 2021, 9:02 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 45 seconds
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TT: Climate, CCS Struggles as Adaptation Stalls
Published: Aug. 7, 2021, 10:25 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 9 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: Amazon Carbon Stocks and Global Green Recovery Progress Update
Published: Aug. 3, 2021, 8:05 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 15 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: The Little Robot That Couldn't
Published: July 30, 2021, 5:59 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 58 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: Muon Madness Melting Models... Maybe?
Published: July 26, 2021, 10:04 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: Show updates, cosmology feedback, particle physics
Published: July 23, 2021, 7:33 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 6 seconds
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Cosmology VI: Cosmic Eggs and the Edge of the Universe
Published: July 20, 2021, 3:16 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 2 seconds
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Cosmology, Episode V: Einstein's Mistake
Published: July 13, 2021, 5:38 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 25 seconds
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Cosmology IV: Einstein's Cosmos
Published: July 6, 2021, 7:32 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 10 seconds
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Cosmology III: Hubble's Law
Published: June 29, 2021, 5:43 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 49 seconds
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Cosmology II: Starting From Nothing
Published: June 21, 2021, 9:55 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 45 seconds
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Cosmology, Episode I: In The Beginning
Published: June 15, 2021, 7:59 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 49 seconds
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Climate 201: Discourses of Climate Delay II
Published: June 7, 2021, 9:59 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 23 seconds
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Climate 201: Discourses of Delay, p1
Published: May 31, 2021, 9:58 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 1 second
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Why Should We Listen to Scientists?
Published: May 11, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds
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Machine Learning and AI vs. Climate Change
Published: May 4, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 3 seconds
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Attack of the 50ft Blockchain, with David Gerard
Published: April 27, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 1 second
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Thermonuclear Takes: The Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Rant
Published: April 20, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 52 seconds
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Climate 201: Energy Efficiency IV: Jevons' Paradox, and Conclusion.
Published: April 13, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 39 seconds
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Climate 201: Energy Efficiency, Part 3: Industry
Published: April 6, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 56 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: Climate News; Global Rebound, "Net" Zero, Green Homes, Cumbrian Coal
Published: April 4, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 13 seconds
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Climate 201: Energy Efficiency II: Buildings
Published: March 30, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 8 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: Gamestop Post-Mortem, Way Too Late
Published: March 26, 2021, 11:29 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 31 seconds
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Climate 201: Energy Efficiency I: Transport
Published: March 23, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 45 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: Greensill Collapses and Uber in Court
Published: March 13, 2021, 10:37 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds
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The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking "New Optimism", with Rodrigo Aguilera - Part I
Published: March 8, 2021, 2:35 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 30 seconds
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Graphene and the world of 2-D materials
Published: March 2, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 31 seconds
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Short-Circuiting the Meaning of Life (II)
Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 45 seconds
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Short-Circuiting the Meaning of Life (I)
Published: Feb. 22, 2021, 1:36 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 24 seconds
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The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change, with Professor Rebecca Willis
Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 12 seconds
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Climate 201: Drawdown, Part III: Cookstoves, Co-benefits, and Conclusions
Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 10:54 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 15 seconds
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The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change, with Professor Steve Keen
Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 9:04 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 18 seconds
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Climate 201: Drawdown II: Fridges, Regenerative Agriculture, and Technological Sliding Doors
Published: Jan. 30, 2021, 11:36 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes
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Debunking Economics, with Professor Steve Keen
Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 35 seconds
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Climate 201: Project Drawdown's Solutions, Part I
Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 9:52 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 41 seconds
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Climate 201: What Drives Global CO2 Emissions?
Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 1:28 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 34 seconds
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Climate Conversations: How the Tech/IT Sector Should (+ Shouldn't) Address Climate Change, with Paul D Johnston
Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 10:09 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 59 seconds
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Lord Martin Rees on Catastrophe, Cosmology, and the Future
Published: Jan. 1, 2021, 12:25 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 54 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: Uber, Boston Dynamics, Income Inequality, Climate Change
Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 6:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 seconds
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BONUS Thermonuclear Takes: Vaccine News and Pandemic Shield
Published: Dec. 19, 2020, 10:06 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 55 seconds
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Climate 201: What Is A Climate Scenario? (RCP)
Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 10:38 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 34 seconds
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Subprime Attention Crisis: The Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet, with Tim Hwang
Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 12:08 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 49 seconds
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Climate 201: Carbon Budgets
Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 9:51 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 2 seconds
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The Dream of a Solar Sahara
Published: Nov. 29, 2020, 7:21 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 30 seconds
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Climate 201: Greenhouse Gases and Fungibility Questions
Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 11:34 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 7 seconds
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Softbank's Singularity with Edward Ongweso Jr. of This Machine Kills Podcast
Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 10:07 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 42 seconds
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Softbank's Blurry Vision VI: What We Lost In The Hype
Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 3 seconds
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Softbank's Blurry Vision V: The Next Financial Crisis?
Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 9:26 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 36 seconds
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TT Stonks III: Stocks Divorced from Reality, the Great Accelerator, Future of the Show, and Listener Mailbag
Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 3:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 47 seconds
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Softbank's Blurry Vision, IV: Identifying as a Tech Company
Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 9:57 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds
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TT, Stonks I: FinCEN Files and the Story of Fake Tesla
Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 12:06 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 52 seconds
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The Button: The Threat From Nuclear Weapons and What We Can Do About It, with Tom Collina
Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 11:06 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 44 seconds
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Modern Monetary Theory with the MMT Podcast II: What Your Economy Can Do For You
Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 9:46 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 45 seconds
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Modern Monetary Theory with the MMT Podcast I: Where Does Money Come From?
Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 9:28 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 19 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: China Goes For Net Zero
Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 1:44 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 33 seconds
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Softbank's Blurry Vision III: The Fall of WeWork
Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 10:07 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 54 seconds
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Softbank's Blurry Vision II: Uber
Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 11:01 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 46 seconds
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Extremely Thermonuclear Takes: Hints of Life on Venus?
Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 2:19 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 15 seconds
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Climate Assembly: The World We Want to See
Published: Sept. 13, 2020, 3:27 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds
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Climate Assembly: What Is A Citizens' Assembly?
Published: Sept. 13, 2020, 12:28 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 11 seconds
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Softbank's Blurry Vision, or, How To (Mostly) Burn $100bn: Part I, The Dream of Masoyoshi Son
Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 9:23 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 27 seconds
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Rage Inside The Machine: Algorithmic Bias and What It Means to be Human, with Dr Robert Smith
Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 10:35 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 38 seconds
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Statistical Mechanics and Information Entropy
Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 10:18 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 1 second
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Off-Topic: The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories in US Political Life
Published: Aug. 24, 2020, 11:38 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 9 seconds
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Stewart Lansley on Universal Basic Income
Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 12:24 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 51 seconds
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Responsible Use of Algorithms - YouTube and Investigative Journalism
Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 9:42 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 10 seconds
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Rebooting Civilization and Alien Life in the Cosmos, with Lewis Dartnell
Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 4:09 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 34 seconds
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Interview with the CEO of Nori, A CO2 Removal Startup
Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 9:08 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 13 seconds
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Felicity Boardman on the ethics of genetic screening and genome editing
Published: July 28, 2020, 11:34 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 19 seconds
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QE For the People with Frances Coppola, Part II: Helicopter Money?
Published: July 22, 2020, 11:20 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 49 seconds
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QE For the People with Frances Coppola, Part I - Economics 101
Published: July 15, 2020, 12:35 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 24 seconds
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Gravitational Waves and Science Outreach, with Brynley Pearlstone (SciCurious Podcast)
Published: July 7, 2020, 11:09 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 24 seconds
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BONUS: The Self-Indulgent Experimental Mystery Half-Hour
Published: July 7, 2020, 10:58 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 7 seconds
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Direct Detection of Dark Matter
Published: June 30, 2020, 11:34 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 32 seconds
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Can COVID-19 be a tipping point for action on climate change?
Published: June 24, 2020, 9:45 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds
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Coronavirus and Climate Change: No Silver Lining (Unless We Want It)
Published: June 17, 2020, 8:24 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 25 seconds
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PREVIEW: Physical Attraction Book Club, The Attention Merchants
Published: June 10, 2020, 8 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 18 seconds
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Climate Change and the Coronavirus: Skeptics
Published: June 8, 2020, 12:50 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 2 seconds
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Interview with Phil Torres (@Xriskology) Part II: Existential Risk in the time of COVID-19
Published: June 4, 2020, 6:38 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 14 seconds
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Re-release: The Psychology of the End
Published: June 1, 2020, 2:31 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 30 seconds
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Phil Torres (@xriskology) I: Existential Risks in the time of COVID-19
Published: May 28, 2020, 5:13 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 17 seconds
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Kit Yates on the Maths of Life and Death
Published: May 21, 2020, 12:34 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 seconds
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Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future, and How to See Past It - with Gemma Milne
Published: May 15, 2020, 8:21 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 6 seconds
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Coronavirus Updates (May, part I): Interview with a vaccine trial participant, risk factors, "herd immunity" thresholds and serology.
Published: May 9, 2020, 6:20 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 17 seconds
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Technology, Inequality, and Catastrophic Risks: Solutions?
Published: April 30, 2020, 11:55 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 42 seconds
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BONUS: Walter Schiedel's Coronavirus Op-Ed
Published: April 26, 2020, 11:50 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds
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Coronavirus Updates - The Vaccine
Published: April 23, 2020, 5:11 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 43 seconds
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Coronavirus Updates: Exit Strategy (For A Pandemic)
Published: April 17, 2020, 5:58 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 40 seconds
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Coronavirus Updates: Modelling, Uncertainties, and Antivirals
Published: April 16, 2020, 6:48 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 45 seconds
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Coronavirus Updates: Estimating R0, Serology, and Bayes' Theorem
Published: April 15, 2020, 5:40 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 41 seconds
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Technology, Inequality, and Catastrophic Risks III: How technology can fuel inequality
Published: April 11, 2020, 11:40 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 40 seconds
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Technology, Inequality, and Global Catastrophic Risks I: The Great Leveller
Published: March 31, 2020, 5:27 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 15 seconds
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Coronavirus: The Next 18 Months
Published: March 25, 2020, 11:30 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 49 seconds
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Coronavirus: Serology, Misinformation, Uncertainty
Published: March 25, 2020, 1:51 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 4 seconds
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The Coronavirus Pandemic
Published: March 17, 2020, 10:52 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 39 seconds
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Hiatus until the New Year
Published: Dec. 18, 2019, 3:32 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
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Interviewed by Richard Foster-Fletcher (Boundless AI)
Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 4:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 27 seconds
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
Published: Nov. 7, 2019, 8:30 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes
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Bonus: Google Investigates Cold Fusion?
Published: Nov. 2, 2019, 2:02 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 54 seconds
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Drexler and Xiaoice: Tales from AI
Published: Oct. 24, 2019, 7:46 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 31 seconds
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Fusion Conclusion: Building Cathedrals
Published: Oct. 12, 2019, 9:51 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 41 seconds
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Fusion's Dark Horses, Episode II
Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 8:37 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 16 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion: Fusion's Dark Horses, I
Published: Sept. 13, 2019, 10:17 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 54 seconds
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TT: What Can Four-Year-Olds Do that AI Can't?
Published: Sept. 5, 2019, 9:18 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 7 seconds
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Justin Ball and Jason Parisi on The Future of Fusion Energy - Part I
Published: Aug. 21, 2019, 11:41 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 4 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XXIV: Is ITER "The Way"?
Published: Aug. 6, 2019, 9:04 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 41 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XXIII: ITER's Challenges
Published: July 25, 2019, 7:20 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 26 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: Tech Giants Move Into Healthcare - and Outer Space
Published: July 18, 2019, 7:29 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 46 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XXII: The National Almost-Ignition Facility
Published: July 11, 2019, 6:49 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 42 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XXI: NIF-ty Business
Published: July 4, 2019, 3:13 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 19 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XX: Halite/Centurion and Secret Codes
Published: June 27, 2019, 9:31 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 1 second
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Free Energy Scams Part II Premium Episode
Published: June 27, 2019, 9:30 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 9 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XIX: Cold Comfort
Published: June 20, 2019, 6:59 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 43 seconds
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BONUS: Description of a JET Pulse
Published: June 13, 2019, 6:18 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 23 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XVIII: From JET to ITER
Published: June 6, 2019, 12:45 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XVII: Penthouse Fusion
Published: May 30, 2019, 10:46 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 14 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XVI: The Big Three Tokamaks
Published: May 23, 2019, 10:56 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 45 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XV: The Buzzkill Episode
Published: May 17, 2019, 7:09 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 1 second
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Nuclear Fusion XIV: Simple Engineering Problems?
Published: May 9, 2019, 10:30 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 48 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XIII: Two-Faced Gods
Published: May 2, 2019, 4:41 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 3 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XII: Frickin' Lasers
Published: April 24, 2019, 1:32 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 33 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion XI: The Tokamak Revolution
Published: April 12, 2019, 8:31 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 20 seconds
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Kate Devlin on Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots
Published: April 5, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 33 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion X: Doldrums and Tokamaks
Published: March 22, 2019, 10:33 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 45 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion IX: A Sun of Our Own
Published: March 15, 2019, 11 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion VIII: Kinky and Unstable
Published: March 8, 2019, 7:33 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 55 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion VII - Juan Step Beyond
Published: March 1, 2019, 7:50 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 49 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: Teenage Fusion Cloudless Skies and a new AI
Published: Feb. 25, 2019, 11:38 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 55 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion VI: Pinches, Stellarators, Perhapsatrons
Published: Feb. 22, 2019, 11:50 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion V: Teller's Bomb [REUPLOAD]
Published: Feb. 15, 2019, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 40 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion IV: Teller's Dream
Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds
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Announcing 100th Episode "What Is Physics" Competition, with FABULOUS PRIZES
Published: Feb. 5, 2019, 4:09 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds
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Huey Long: Episode V-VI Omnibus
Published: Feb. 3, 2019, 6:39 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 38 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion III: Semi-Empirical Mass Formula
Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 7:13 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 51 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion II: The Gold Foil Experiment
Published: Jan. 25, 2019, 8:27 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 15 seconds
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Nuclear Fusion I: Darwin vs Kelvin
Published: Jan. 18, 2019, midnightDuration: 23 minutes 38 seconds
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Huey P Long Omnibus - From Election to Impeachment
Published: Jan. 8, 2019, 10:20 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 49 seconds
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Karin Kuhlemann on Overpopulation
Published: Jan. 1, 2019, 11:36 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 49 seconds
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Amy Westervelt on Drilled: the True Crime podcast about Climate Denial
Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 11:34 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 10 seconds
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Bonus: Huey P Long, Episode 1-2: The Whirlwind
Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 11:53 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 57 seconds
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Thermodynamics III: You Can't Get Out of The Game
Published: Dec. 7, 2018, 1:10 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 28 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: CRISPR Babies, Future of the Show
Published: Nov. 28, 2018, 6:56 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 1 second
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Free Energy Scams: No, Really, You Can't Break The Laws of Thermodynamics
Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 7:52 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 8 seconds
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Minisode: Kelvin and Clausius are Equivalent Statements
Published: Nov. 20, 2018, 12:36 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 14 seconds
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Thermodynamics, The Second Law: You Can't Break Even
Published: Nov. 16, 2018, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 58 seconds
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Thermodynamics, The First Law: You Can't Win
Published: Nov. 8, 2018, midnightDuration: 30 minutes 36 seconds
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BONUS: Stalin Episode XI-XII-XIII Omnibus
Published: Nov. 4, 2018, 6:08 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 6 seconds
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Interstellar Travel: Shooting for the Stars
Published: Oct. 29, 2018, 7:38 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 3 seconds
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Malicious Uses for Artificial Intelligence: Part II
Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 11:13 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 20 seconds
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Malicious Uses of Artificial Intelligence, Part 1
Published: Oct. 18, 2018, 11:19 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 32 seconds
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Nobel Prize 2018 Special!
Published: Oct. 9, 2018, 9:41 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 13 seconds
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Superconductors: Hard to Resist
Published: Oct. 5, 2018, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 6 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: #ExxonKnew and Solar Road to Nowhere
Published: Sept. 25, 2018, 5:29 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 36 seconds
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Concealing A Hadron III: I'm Sparticle!
Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 8:21 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 47 seconds
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Concealing a Hadron II: The Standard Model
Published: Sept. 14, 2018, 10:53 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 51 seconds
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Autocracy Now: Stalin Omnibus Ep VIII, IX, X The Storm
Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 5:53 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 52 seconds
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Concealing a Hadron: Particle Physics 101.1
Published: Sept. 7, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 5 seconds
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Thermonuclear Takes: Hothouse Earth and Heatwaves
Published: Sept. 3, 2018, 4:17 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 11 seconds
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Units and Dimensional Analysis II: GI Taylor and the Bomb
Published: Aug. 31, 2018, 11:18 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 51 seconds
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Units and Dimensional Analysis, Pt I: The Metric Revolution
Published: Aug. 24, 2018, 7 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 29 seconds
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CJ Schilt (Corpus Newtonicum) on Isaac Newton, part 2
Published: Aug. 10, 2018, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 21 seconds
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CJ Schilt (Corpus Newtonicum) on Isaac Newton: Part I
Published: Aug. 3, 2018, 5:58 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 35 seconds
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BONUS: Stalin Omnibus (Episodes IV-V-VI-VII)
Published: July 28, 2018, 10:23 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes 21 seconds
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Newton IV: Alchemy, Mercury, Legacy
Published: July 19, 2018, 10:22 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 52 seconds
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Newton III: The Cosmic Ballet
Published: July 13, 2018, 12:34 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 4 seconds
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Newton II: Calculus, Corpuscles, and the Plague Years
Published: July 5, 2018, 11:30 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 57 seconds
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Autocracy Now Bonus: Stalin Episode III: Taking Control
Published: July 3, 2018, 10:27 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 54 seconds
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Isaac Newton, Part I : Burning Down The House
Published: June 28, 2018, 9:50 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 59 seconds
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How to Save the World, part II
Published: June 17, 2018, 7:51 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 27 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI: How To Save The World, Part 1
Published: June 8, 2018, 10:49 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 19 seconds
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Future of Work, Part II - The Rant Edition
Published: June 1, 2018, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 32 seconds
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Bonus: Stalin Episode II, Revolution and Civil War
Published: May 30, 2018, 4:31 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 18 seconds
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The Future of Work (I)
Published: May 25, 2018, 10:50 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 53 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI - The End of Everything
Published: May 18, 2018, midnightDuration: 23 minutes 58 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI - Utopia
Published: May 11, 2018, midnightDuration: 26 minutes 55 seconds
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BONUS: Autocracy Now, Stalin I: Rebel to Revolutionary
Published: May 9, 2018, 4:03 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 20 seconds
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BONUS: Autocracy Now - Commodus
Published: May 8, 2018, 7:28 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 32 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI Failed Predictions - Part I (Free Episode)
Published: May 3, 2018, 5:01 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 59 seconds
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Startup Nectome Promises Immortality or Death: Can they deliver?
Published: April 27, 2018, midnightDuration: 25 minutes 4 seconds
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Stephen Schwartz, Atomic Analyst, on nuclear weapons: from the Cold War to Trump
Published: April 19, 2018, 9:58 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 18 seconds
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Simon Ings on Stalin and the Scientists: Triumph and Tragedy
Published: April 12, 2018, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 22 seconds
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Simon Ings on Stalin and the Scientists: The Revolution.mp3
Published: April 5, 2018, 10:08 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 54 seconds
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We Can Always Shoot Them Later - Stalin, Soviet Science, and the Bomb (I)
Published: March 22, 2018, 11:59 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 33 seconds
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Stephen Hawking: The Voice of Physics
Published: March 18, 2018, 11:58 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 52 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 1, Nuclear Weapons II: In The Shadow of the Bomb
Published: March 15, 2018, 11:58 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 41 seconds
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Martin Pfeiffer (@NuclearAnthro) Interview
Published: March 8, 2018, 11:58 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 44 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 1 - Nuclear Weapons: A Delicate Balance
Published: March 1, 2018, 11:58 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 58 seconds
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Climate Conversation with Ben Franta: Scientist, Historian, Activist (I)
Published: Feb. 14, 2018, 8:37 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 57 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI: The Psychology of the End
Published: Feb. 8, 2018, 8:50 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 37 seconds
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Climate Change - Mitigation and Controversies
Published: Jan. 26, 2018, 8:01 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 2 seconds
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Climate Change and the Ozone Layer: Lessons from Montreal
Published: Jan. 19, 2018, noonDuration: 39 minutes 2 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI, Climate Change - Part II
Published: Jan. 12, 2018, 11:18 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 15 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 2.2, Climate Change - Part I
Published: Jan. 5, 2018, 11:51 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 52 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 2.1: Ecotastrophe
Published: Dec. 29, 2017, 9:30 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 56 seconds
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Stuart Armstrong - AI and the Future of Humanity
Published: Dec. 26, 2017, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 17 seconds
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Britt Wray on CRISPR, De-Extinction and Necrofauna
Published: Dec. 15, 2017, 11:45 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 25 seconds
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Zach Weinersmith on Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Published: Dec. 8, 2017, 6:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 40 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI: The Singularity, Part II
Published: Dec. 5, 2017, 3:04 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 5 seconds
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Phil Torres, XRiskology Interview, Part 2: Superintelligence
Published: Dec. 1, 2017, 9:20 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 37 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 3 - The Singularity, Part I
Published: Nov. 24, 2017, 9:12 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 48 seconds
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Rafael Alves-Batista: Resilience of Life, Astrobiology and Fine-Tuning
Published: Nov. 17, 2017, 9:24 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 46 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 4, Supervirus II: The Human Factor
Published: Nov. 10, 2017, noonDuration: 35 minutes 43 seconds
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Announcing Patreon and how to Support the Show
Published: Nov. 3, 2017, 1:30 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 39 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI Bonus: Alien Attack (Free Episode)
Published: Nov. 3, 2017, 12:58 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 5 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 4, Supervirus Part I: Nature
Published: Oct. 27, 2017, 12:20 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 59 seconds
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Rafael Alves-Batista: Cosmic Rays and the Multiverse
Published: Oct. 21, 2017, noonDuration: 39 minutes 38 seconds
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News: Neutron Star Merger, Yay Science!
Published: Oct. 16, 2017, 7:51 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 10 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 5: Peak Oil
Published: Oct. 14, 2017, 9:03 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 31 seconds
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2017 Nobel Prize Special: Gravitational Waves
Published: Oct. 4, 2017, 3:14 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 50 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 6: Malthus' Revenge
Published: Sept. 30, 2017, 10:59 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds
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XRiskology: Existential Risks with Phil Torres, Part I
Published: Sept. 24, 2017, 3:55 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 5 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 7 - Supervolcanoes
Published: Sept. 15, 2017, 4:15 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 32 seconds
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Bonus Episode: Solar Panels + Splitting Sunbeams
Published: Sept. 10, 2017, 5:08 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 45 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 8: Cyberwarfare
Published: Sept. 2, 2017, 3:08 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 9: It Came From Outer Space
Published: Aug. 26, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 13 seconds
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TEOTWAWKI 10: Earthquakes
Published: Aug. 19, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 25 seconds
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Get Ready for the Apocalypse
Published: Aug. 16, 2017, 3:38 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
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Fermi and Drake
Published: Aug. 12, 2017, 1:10 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 24 seconds
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Bonus: AI Shakespeare vs. AI Trump, call for Listener Questions
Published: Aug. 8, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds
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Seduced By A Robot
Published: Aug. 5, 2017, 9:55 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 8 seconds
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Unusually Hot: The Radiation Episode
Published: July 29, 2017, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 26 seconds
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Physics Gets Hot and Heavy II
Published: July 15, 2017, 4:35 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 41 seconds
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Physics Gets Hot and Heavy I
Published: July 8, 2017, 5:48 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 9 seconds
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Physical Attraction: Trailer
Published: June 28, 2017, 8 a.m.Duration: 58 seconds
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