
The DemystifySci Podcast
Support Us! https://www.patreon.com/DemystifySci DemystifySci is Dr. Michael Shilo DeLay and Dr. Anastasia Bendebury. Together they untangle complex theories of nature, making analysis accessible through conversations with exceptional thinkers. Each week they interview a new theorist about the ideas that are going to rewrite our understanding of the world. Power them via Patreon: @demystifysci
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When a Theory’s Popularity Masks a Cultural Crisis - Drs. A.V. Bendebury & M.S. DeLay - #322
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(PART 2/2) A President, The Mafia, and a Lost Future - Louis Ferrante, Ex-Mobster, #320
MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADIGM DRIFT! Sign up to present YOUR theory: https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showWhat’s still hidden inside the JFK files Trump has promised to release? Since the 1960s historians have been

A President, The Mafia, and a Lost Future (PART 1/2) - Louis Ferrante, Ex-Mafia #319
MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025 PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show What’s still hidden inside the JFK files Trump has promised to release? Since the 1960s historians have been trying to assemble an accurate

The Secretive Dynasties Who Hijacked the Food Supply - Austin Frerick, Barons, Yale University, #318
Austin Frerick is an economist, Yale Fellow, former Congressional Research Assistant, and author of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry. He investigates how the U.S. food system became both outrageously expensive and dangerously toxic—not just for consumers, but for the farmers who grow

Language v. Thought in Animals, AI, and Humans - Dr. Gašper Beguš, UC Berkeley Linguistics, #317
Dr. Gašper Beguš is a UC Berkeley professor of linguistics who studies the interface between human, machine, and animal language. We head into the conversation with a question - is there something fundamentally different about the way that humans learn and the way that machines like LLMs learn? Vector embeddings of the