Physical Attraction

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Subscribers: 664
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 251

flimflam
 Apr 2, 2020
insightful and witty

Phillipa Watts
 May 27, 2019
I adore this show. thorough, comprehensive histories and scientific explanations in physics, technology and beyond

Pete Ellinger
 Dec 16, 2018
Clear, concise, mild humour and listenable. Together with great incidental music makes for an enjoyable podcast. Helps me relate to what my youngest is doing at uni.

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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.

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