Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Updated: 04 Oct 2025 • 555 episodes
briankeating.com/podcast

Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen — uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore reality’s deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all. If you’ve ever asked What’s out there? or What’s next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity. Learn to think like this. 🎙 Full episodes, notes & more: briankeating.com/podcast

Show episodes

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb joins Brian Keating to discuss a groundbreaking observation: the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has imaged 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar visitor, from the vantage point of Mars. In this episode, we explore: • What HiRISE detected and why it matters for planetary scie

116 min
00:00
01:56:52
No file found

Get started with 1 month free of Superhuman today, using my link:  https://try.sprh.mn/briankeating Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Is AI our partner in evolution, or is it a harbinger of our downfall? In this episode of Into the Impossible, I sit down with two br

72 min
00:00
01:12:39
No file found

The Dark Side of AI Hallucinations & Tech Predictions Watch the full episode with Steven Pinker here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP_0MpESQy0 Get my book FOCUS LIKE A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER on sale now, only for just 99 cents https://a.co/d/hi50U9U Join this channel to get access to perks like monthly Office Hours: htt

1 min
00:00
01:17
No file found

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/yt to win a meteorite 💥 Dive into the fascinating world of Lord Kelvin, a pivotal figure in the scientific revolution! In this video, we explore his groundbreaking contributions, including the concept of absolute zero and the Kelvin temperature scale. oin my

20 min
00:00
20:48
No file found
Brian Keating & Steven Pinker 24 Sep 2025 • EN

Steven Pinker on Cancel Culture, Common Knowledge & AI

Get 3 months off the annual plan and start learning faster at shortform.com/impossible In this episode, Steven Pinker unpacks how common knowledge shapes everything from why rational people can’t agree to disagree to why markets boom and bust. We explore the risks of falsifying expert claims, the power of social norms,

50 min
00:00
50:59
No file found

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/yt to win a meteorite 💥 Brian Keating sits in the guest chair on Julian Dorey's podcast. This fascinating conversation dives deep into the heart of science, skepticism, and the culture wars swirling around them. Together, Brian and Julian tackle everything f

88 min
00:00
01:28:45
No file found