Science: Natural Sciences

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Top episodes in Science: Natural Sciences

Michael Shermer & Lisa Kaltenegger 04 May 2024 • EN

The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we’re alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life? As founding director of Cornell Universi

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Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! The multiverse has captured the imagination of scientists and thinkers for centuries, sparking debates in physics, philosophy, and beyond. But is it a valid scientific theory or just

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Brian Keating & Sam Harris 17 Mar 2024 • EN

Sam Harris: God Did NOT Write the Bible!

Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Today’s guest needs no introduction… Meet Sam Harris. Neuroscientist, philosopher, New York Times best-selling author, host of Making Sense, creator of Waking Up, and one of the most

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Michael Shermer & Nick Bostrom 16 Apr 2024 • EN

An AI... Utopia? (Nick Bostrom, Oxford)

Nick Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller. It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong. But what if things go right? Bostrom and Shermer discuss: An AI Utopia and Protopia • Trekonomics, post

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Brian Keating & Robert Sapolsky 18 Feb 2024 • EN

Why There’s No Such Thing as Free Will w/ Robert Sapolsky

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Whether or not there is free will has tortured scientists from many fields since philosophers in ancient Greece started wondering about it. But for one scientist, there’s no question about it… Meet neuroendocrinology researcher, bes

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Brian Keating & Stephen Wolfram 19 Jan 2024 • EN

Did Stephen Wolfram Finally Prove the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Has the second law of thermodynamics finally been proven? The second law of thermodynamics has been shrouded in mystery for a century and a half. Now, after building on the recent breakthroughs in the foundations of physics, Stephen

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