The Escaped Sapiens Podcast
By Shane Farnsworth
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Episodes: 98
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Escaped Sapiens is a long-form podcast exploring science, intelligence, exploration, and the edges of human understanding through in-depth conversations with researchers, thinkers, and field experts.
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AI Psychosis: What We Already Know | Joseph Pierre | Escaped Sapiens #94
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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The Fertility Crash Is Already Here | Lyman Stone | Escaped Sapiens #93
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May 04, 2026 |
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What Killed the Dire Wolf… And Could We Bring It Back? | Julie Meachen | Escaped Sapiens #92
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Why Powerful Countries Keep Losing Wars | Phillips O’Brien | Escaped Sapiens #91
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Can Aging Be Hacked? | Matt Kaeberlein | Escaped Sapiens #90
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Reviving Ancient Greece Through Its Lost Texts | Richard Janko | Escaped Sapiens #89
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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How Anesthetics Affect The Brain | Anthony Kaveh | Escaped Sapiens #88
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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A Path To Quantum Gravity | Sabrina Pasterski | Escaped Sapiens #87
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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The Philosophy Of Antinatalism | David Benatar | Escaped Sapiens #86
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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How We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs | Jan Smit | Escaped Sapiens #85
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Causal Fermion Systems: A Radical New Vision Of Reality | Felix Finster | Escaped Sapiens #84
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Is Aging Treatable? Radical Mouse Experiments Begin | Aubrey de Grey | Escaped Sapiens #83
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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`Last Unsolved Problem of Classical Physics' | Sasha Migdal | Escaped Sapiens #82
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Are We More Divided Now Than Ever? | Sam Richards & Laurie Mulvey | Escaped Sapiens #81
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May 05, 2025 |
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Solving Quantum Gravity | Pedro Vieira | Escaped Sapiens #80
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Drone Warfare in Ukraine and the Future Of Combat | Sam Bendett | Escaped Sapiens #79
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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AI, Control, and the path to Dystopia | Pedro Domingos | Escaped Sapiens #78
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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From Destruction to Regeneration: The Future of Economics | Kate Raworth | Escaped Sapiens #77
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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The Surprising Impact of Regenerative Farming | Joel Salatin | Escaped Sapiens #76
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Regenerative Farming And Carbon Negative Beef | Will Harris | Escaped Sapiens #75
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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What is Reality Made Of? Unscrambling the Quantum Omelet | Rob Spekkens | Escaped Sapiens #74
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The Future of Protein: Breeding The Super Tuber | Padraic Flood | Escaped Sapiens #73
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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The "Self" Is An Illusion | Thomas Metzinger | Escaped Sapiens #72
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Alcohol And The Birth Of Civilization | Edward Slingerland | Escaped Sapiens #71
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Building A Theory Of Everything | Stephen Wolfram | Escaped Sapiens #70
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Should We Deregulate Housing? | Bryan Caplan | Escaped Sapiens #69
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Decoding Human Speech From Brain Signals | Julia Berezutskaya | Escaped Sapiens #67
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? | Carl Bender | Escaped Sapiens #67
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May 17, 2024 |
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Nuclear Energy: Rewards, Costs, and Advanced Reactors | Rachel Slaybaugh | Escaped Sapiens #66
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Marx, Capitalism, and Neoclassical Economics | Steve Keen | Escaped Sapiens #65
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Does Capitalism Destroy The Environment? | Jeffrey Sachs | Escaped Sapiens #64
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Avoiding The Threats From AI | David Shapiro | Escaped Sapiens #63
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Narcissism And Success | Mitja Back | Escaped Sapiens #62
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Creating Synthetic Life | Kerstin Goepfrich | Escaped Sapiens #61
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Earth & Life. 3.77 Billion Years Under Construction | Olivia Judson | Escaped Sapiens #60
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Scientific Literacy And Democracy | Johannes Vogel | Escaped Sapiens # 59
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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The Ethics and Practice of Plastic Surgery | Gary Linkov | Escaped Sapiens #58
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Rise Of The Blockchain | JP Vergne | Escaped Sapiens #57
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Feeding The Future : The Ocean Farmers | Shawn Robinson | Escaped Sapiens #56
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Genetic Biocontrol and De-Extinction | Stephen Frankenberg | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #55
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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The Birth Of Synthetic Intelligence | David Shapiro | Escaped Sapiens #54
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May 30, 2023 |
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What Science Learned From The Pandemic | Peter Doherty | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #53
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May 15, 2023 |
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Behind Closed Doors: The High Stakes Game Of Diplomacy | John Kornblum | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #52
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Vertical Farming: A New Food System | Viviana Correa Galvis | Escaped Sapeins Podcast #51
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Reconstructing Limbs With Advanced Prosthetics | Munjed Al Muderis | Escaped Sapiens #50.b
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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A Refugee’s Story | Munjed Al Muderis | Escaped Sapiens #50.a
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Good, Evil, and Social Engineering | Hans-Georg Moeller | Escaped Sapiens #49
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Moral Blindness, Political Division, and Bull$&%t | Philipp Huebl | Escaped Sapiens #48
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Exploring the Illegal Trade in Human Organs | Frederike Ambagtsheer | Escaped Sapiens #47
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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What is money and who rules the world? | Yanis Varoufakis | Escaped Sapiens #46
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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The Atomic Priesthood and Messages From the Dead | Ola Wikander | Escaped Sapiens #45
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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A Different Look At Gender Equality. | Bryan Caplan | Escaped Sapiens #44
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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How Many Fish Should We Leave In The Ocean? | Trevor Branch | Escaped Sapiens #43
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Engineering Life And Consciousness. | Michael Levin | Escaped Sapiens #42
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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What’s In An Eye? | Alex Müntz | Escaped Sapiens #41
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Is warfare a science? | John Spencer | Escaped Sapiens #40
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Geography is Destiny | Ian Morris | Escaped Sapiens #39
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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The Robots Of Mars | Tanya Harrison | Escaped Sapiens #38
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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Hacking The Blueprint Of Life | Michael Levin | Escaped Sapiens #37
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May 02, 2022 |
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This is What You Will Eat On Mars | Daniel Schubert | Escaped Sapiens #36
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Do Animals Have Language? | Irene Pepperberg | Escaped Sapiens #35
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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When Nuclear Powers Meet | Ankit Panda | Escaped Sapiens #34
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Forensic Science & the Insect Apocalypse | Mark Benecke | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #33.2
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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What We Learn At Crime Scenes | Mark Benecke | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #33.1
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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The World’s First Planetary Defense Mission | Andy Rivkin | Escaped Sapiens #32
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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When Civilization Ends | Ian Morris | Escaped Sapiens #31
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Fusion Energy Is Coming | Thomas Sunn Pedersen | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #30
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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The Price We Pay For Carbon (Climate Change) | Glen Peters | Escaped Sapiens #29
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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How Your Evolved Psychology Controls You | Diana Fleischman | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #28
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Diet And The Environment | Marion Nestle | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #27 (Part 2 - Out-Takes)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Who Controls What You Eat? | Marion Nestle | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #27 (part 1)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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How Did Life Begin and Where Are All The Aliens? | David Catling | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #26
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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How Disgust Has Evolved to Help you Survive | Dan Fessler | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #25
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Can We Beat Climate Change? | Ketan Joshi | Escaped Sapiens #24
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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The Science of Propaganda | Oliver Boyd-Barrett | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #23 (Part 1)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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The Science of Propaganda | Oliver Boyd-Barrett | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #23 (Part 2)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Survival at Sea, Human Endurance and Ingenuity | Steve Callahan | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #22
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Deep Fakes and Manipulated Media | Matthew F. Ferraro | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #21
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Environmental pragmatism and living a good life | Tim Flannery | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #20
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Space Junk | Jonathan McDowell | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #19
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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The Missing Science of Men‘s Reproductive Health | Rene Almeling | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #18
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Xenobots - Robots or Synthetic Life? | Josh Bongard | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #17
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Deanna Barch: How do our brains work? | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #16
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Steve Furber: Simulating the Human Brain | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #15
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Luisa von Albedyll: Exploring the arctic | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #14
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Katherine Moseby: Saving Australia's Endangered Mammals | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #13
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Brian Nosek: Is science in (reproducibility) crisis? | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #12
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May 09, 2021 |
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Julian Bayliss: Discovering new species in the lost forests of Africa | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #11
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May 09, 2021 |
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Fiona Wood: Spray on Skin and healing burns victims | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #10
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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Michael Boyle: Drone Warfare | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #9
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Iain Kerr: Saving the whales by collecting their snot with Drones | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #8
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Robert Zubrin: Finding life on mars | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #7
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Lee Cronin: Creating artificial life | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #6
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Robert Zubrin: A blueprint for mars colonization | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #5
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Kelly Lambert: Enhancing cognitive function through behavior | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #4
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Dave Goulson: The worrying plight of the bumblebee | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #3
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Ben Novak: Reviving extinct species | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #2
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Gregg Suaning: Curing blindness with bionic eyes | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #1
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Mar 01, 2021 |