Notable Guests
QG
Quantum Gravity
3x
AH
Adam Rutherford on Humans
1x
AC
Alison Gopnik on Children
1x
AT
Alan Lightman on Transcendence
1x
AN
Alex Rosenberg on Naturalism
1x
AS
Alice Dreger on Sexuality
1x
AD
Addy Pross on Dynamics
1x
AO
All at Once
1x
AM
Ancient and Modern
1x
AF
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
1x
AM
Andrew Jaffe on Models
1x
AE
Anil Seth on Emergence
1x
AG
Adam Gurri
1x
Recent Episodes
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Black holes emit radiation, lose mass, and eventually evaporate, challenging our understanding.
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Science thrives on ignorance and uncertainty, not just known facts.
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LLMs create human-sounding speech and synthesize novel concepts.
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Sean Carroll answers Patreon supporter questions in this AMA.
August 2026
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Large cities foster more patents and faster walking speeds per person.
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Bacteria communicate using quorum sensing to coordinate group behaviors.
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Sean Carroll answers Patreon-submitted questions for July 2026.
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Modern life disconnects us from nature, impacting our minds.
Marc Berman
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Discusses theories of dynamical dark energy beyond the cosmological constant.
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Explains the accelerating universe and the cosmological constant.
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mRNA's central role in life and potential for therapeutics.
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Andrea Wulf explores the history of ideas from the Enlightenment.
03:57:29
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Quantum mechanics challenges our everyday intuition about reality.
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Christian List explores free will and compatibilism.
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Alvin Roth discusses how economic markets efficiently determine prices.
04:06:12
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Bing Brunton discusses the brain's connectome, its neural wiring diagram.
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Discussed consequentialism, utilitarianism, and metaethical questions with Peter Singer.
Peter Singer
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J. Eric Oliver discusses the complexity of understanding our "self."