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