Few events in recent astronomical history have had the worldwide emotional resonance as the 2006 announcement that Pluto was no […]
Episode 11: Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9 Read More
We’re all going to die. But while we are alive, it’s up to us how we understand and deal with
Episode 10: Megan Rosenbloom on the Death Positive Movement Read More
It’s fun to be in the exciting, chaotic, youthful days of the podcast, when anything goes and experimentation is the
Episode 9: Solo — Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing? Read More
Our understanding of heredity and genetics is improving at blinding speed. It was only in the year 2000 that scientists
Episode 8: Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes Read More
Both words in the phrase “liberal democracy” carry meaning, and both concepts are under attack around the world. “Democracy” means
Episode 7: Yascha Mounk on Threats to Liberal Democracy Read More
Poker, like life, is a game of incomplete information. To do well in such a game, we have to think
Episode 6: Liv Boeree on Poker, Aliens, and Thinking in Probabilities Read More
If you scale up an animal to twice its height, keeping everything else proportionate, its volume and weight become eight
Episode 5: Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life Read More
According to atheism, God does not exist. But religions have traditionally done much more than simply proclaim God’s existence: they
Episode 4: Anthony Pinn on Humanism, Theology, and the Black Community Read More
The human mind loves nothing more than to build mental boxes — categories — and put things into them, then
Episode 3: Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice Read More
Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two great triumphs of twentieth-century theoretical physics. Unfortunately, they don’t play well together
Episode 2: Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality Read More