Beste Demystifysci podcasts (2024)

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It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way - Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures, DSPod #297 2:33:45

2d ago2:33:45

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Helena Norberg-Hodge, from Local Futures, joins us to discuss a brighter future than that which is most commonly advertised. Her particular wisdom is drawn from her experiences in pre-globalized Ladakh, highlighting the corrosive effects of 'West envy' and the accelerating race toward techno-utopia. Together, we challenge inherited narratives about…

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Origins of Evolution Itself - Dr. Michael Lachmann, SFI, DSPod #296 2:27:41

6d ago2:27:41

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Today we're digging into the deep and often overlooked connections between neodarwinian evolution, life’s origins, and the evolution of non-living systems. We're guided by Dr. Michael Lachmann of the Santa Fe Institute, who investigates how life may have begun as a more generalized cosmic selection process, with planetary conditions shaping its eme…

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How Math Is Used to Manipulate You - Dr. Norman Fenton & Dr. Martin Neil - DS Pod #295 2:37:46

9d ago2:37:46

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Dr. Norman Fenton and Dr. Martin Neil are mathematicians from Queen Mary University of London who are experts in the unreasonable power of mathematics. For example - it is possible to produce an algorithm that will predict the likelihood that a piece of hardware or software will fail - and then to use that information to predict the stability of mu…

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Entropic Gravity + Atomic Interconnectome - Dr. Andreas Schlatter - DS Pod #294 2:08:44

13d ago2:08:44

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Dr. Andreas Schlatter is a classically trained physicist (EPFL, Princeton) with a decidedly heretical approach to physics. Though deeply mathematical in his approach, he dispenses with the purely field-based approach to understanding the building blocks of nature, and asks far deeper question about what the mathematics is telling us about the hidde…

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The Silent Disaster Behind the 2008 Crash - Jeff Snider, Eurodollar University, DSPod #293 1:05:27

16d ago1:05:27

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Today we're back for round 2 of 3 with Jeff Snider from Eurodollar University. This round we're digging into the hidden meaning of the 2008 financial crisis, focusing on the often-overlooked Eurodollar system. Jeff Snider is an economic outsider who has subtle but unique perspectives on mainstream economics, modern monetary theory (MMT), and the ro…

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Global Banking’s Secret Weapon - Jeff Snider, Eurodollar University, DSPod #292 58:43

20d ago58:43

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Today we are introduced to the world of Eurodollars and their critical role in shaping the global financial system. Our guide is Jeff Snider, of Eurodollar University - a street smart scholar and former investment manager. We begin by dispelling myths about the evolution of money from the gold standard to ledger-based systems, and discover how Euro…

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Teleology of Progress & The Dawn of Everything - Drs. A.V. Bendebury & M.S. DeLay - DS Pod 291 1:50:07

23d ago1:50:07

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Is the arrow of history one of progress, where things just keep getting more bureaucratic and more complex, or is there another story that we could tell about the past? This week we’re cracking open David Graeber and David Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything, which argues that the arrow of progress is flat out WRONG. Instead of there being a single story …

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Checking the Doom Temperature - Katja Grace, AI Impacts - DS Pod #290 2:41:17

26d ago2:41:17

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Katja Grace is an AI Impacts researcher who has written extensively on the possible future where we design intelligent machines that destroy the human race. We have always been somewhat skeptical of AI doom arguments - mostly because the machines we interact with tend to be terribly, irredeemably dumb in a way that seems incompatible with intellige…

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C.G. Jung & The Undiscovered Self - Drs. M.S. DeLay & A.V. Bendebury, DSPod #289 1:52:23

29d ago1:52:23

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Dr. A.V. Bendebury and Dr. M.S. DeLay examine the strange role that religious faith plays in a secular society. Rather than disappearing, religion is subsumed in an atheistic society to do the work of creed-based state crafting. To aid us in this discussion we’re reading from Carl Jung’s 1957 work “The Undiscovered Self,” where he makes the case th…

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Tally Sticks, Paper Money, and Central Banking - Dr. L. Randall Wray, Levy Institute, DSPod #288 2:42:39

1M ago2:42:39

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L. Randall Wray is a professor of Economics at Bard College and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute who is a long-term proponent of Modern Monetary Theory, a heterodox macroeconomic theory that teaches the government should not worry about accruing debt, because it is always able to print more money to service that debt. This is one of t…

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Ancient Star Myths Encode Scientific Truths - Dr. Duane Hamacher, U. of Melbourne, DSPod #287 2:31:04

1M ago2:31:04

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We bring you a discussion about the secrets of ancient astronomy with Dr. Duane Hamacher, an Associate Professor of Cultural Astronomy in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne. Our conversation explores the importance of astronomical observation to ancient people around the world, but particularly those of aboriginal Australia. We as…

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Terrence Howard Discusses his Theory of Everything - DSPod #286 2:50:47

1M ago2:50:47

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We sit down, in-person, with the unorthodox mathematical theorist and actor, Terrence Howard. Terrence joins us to discuss his geometric model of physical reality, which resurrects the luminiferous aether...sort of. Instead of taking the aether to be a formless fluid, Terrence proposes a subunit structure for the fabric of reality, which is based o…

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Bio-fields & Psychoneuroimmunology - Dr. Shamini Jain, DSPod #285 2:20:52

1M ago2:20:52

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Dr. Shamani Jain is a scientist, clinical psychologist, musician, and founder of the Consciousness and Healing Initiative, who wants to bring about a world where our health doesn’t stop and start with a managed care system dominated by the bottom line of pharmaceutical corporations and insurance companies. Her focus is on psychoneuroimmunology and …

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How Rome Seeded a Viral Global Religion - Dr. Robyn Walsh, DSPod #284 2:13:18

2M ago2:13:18

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Dr. Robyn Faith Walsh is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami, who takes an unconventional approach to studying the origin of Christianity. What if, she asks, instead of using one dictionary for biblical texts, and a different one for all other contemporaneous Greek literature, we read the gospels as if they were t…

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Walter Russell & the Universal One - Drs. A. V. Bendebury and M. S. DeLay DSPod #283 1:17:33

2M ago1:17:33

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DemystifySci is on the road again, still thinking hard about the nature of the universe. In this episode, recorded on a tropical island somewhere in the middle of the Pacific, we dive into the noble tradition of mystical physics, with a little help from Walter Russel, a painter, sculptor, and mystic from the turn of the 20th century. Our goal is tw…

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Stress-Testing the Prometheus Project - Dr. Simon Michaux, GTK - DSPod #282 2:37:24

2M ago2:37:24

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Simon Michaux is an associate professor at the Geological Survey of Finland who is obsessed with ensuring humanity survives the transition away from fossil fuels that he and many others see looming on the horizon. We’ve previously spoken with him about his “purple transition,” his thorium reactor, ammonia engine, and alternative battery chemistry v…

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Meet Your Dark Side - Rex Riepe, Eristics, DSPod #281 2:42:06

2M ago2:42:06

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Rex Riepe is a philosopher who created the Eristics Test as a tool for helping people understand how they process emotions. In his view, emotions are a deeply rational aspect of our personalities that argue for us to take specific actions in three spheres - the self, the world, and society. We discuss the structure that he has developed for underst…

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Transactional Quantum Mechanics - Dr. Ruth Kastner - DSPod #280 2:05:32

2M ago2:05:32

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Dr. Ruth Kastner is a historian of Physics and philosopher of Science who is preoccupied with rational interpretations of quantum mechanics. She serves as the third pole of the transactional quantum mechanics big tent where she, alongside John Cramer and Carver Mead, argue that the apparent mysteries of quantum mechanics can be rationalized by mode…

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Physics vs Mysticism - Dr. M.S. DeLay & A. V. Bendebury, DS Pod #279 1:53:17

2M ago1:53:17

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We sit down for a discussion about the futility of rationalism, by way of William James' Varieties of Religious Experience. We start with the question of utopias, and try to diagnose why, if they're doomed to fail, it's still worth trying to create them, and then move on to the question of the scientific project - which seems to be an attempt to cr…

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Magic, CIA Research & ESP Abilities - Dr. Dean Radin, IONS - DSPod #278 2:42:19

2M ago2:42:19

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Dr. Dean Radin is an investigator of parapsychological phenomena whose career has spanned Bell Labs, Stanford Research Institute as part of the Stargate Project, Princeton, and who is now the Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Radin approaches his search for evidence of psychokinesis and extrasensory perception as an engineer, and…

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Push the River, It Pushes Back - Kevin Fedarko, Author - DS Pod 277 1:57:08

2M ago1:57:08

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Kevin Fedarko is a writer, journalist and river guide explores the interface between wilderness and industrialization, most recently through the lens of the Grand Canyon. Fedarko recently published "A Walk In the Park," the story of his somewhat ill-conceived but ultimately successful quest to walk the trail-less expanse of desert wilderness that h…

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Then I Am Myself The World - Christof Koch, Neuroscientist, DS Pod #276 2:45:42

3M ago2:45:42

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Christof Koch is a neuroscientist who studies consciousness, and is best known for integrated information theory. IIT is a consciousness-first theory, which states that the experience of being someone (or something) is directly related to the causal powers of the underlying system. Up until relatively recently, Koch was something of a materialist -…

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Building a State From Scratch - The Venus Project, Simon Michaux, DSPod #275 2:26:29

3M ago2:26:29

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The Venus Project was started in the 1980s by Jacques Fresco and Roxanne Meadows with the aim of showing that it was possible to lead a more human centered existence… as long as you built outside of the capitalist market system. Over the decades, the fortunes of the project have fluctuated - from an initial burst of enthusiasm and action (Meadows a…

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Harmonic Keys to Olfaction and Consciousness - Dr. Luca Turin, University of Buckingham - DSPod #274 2:58:28

3M ago2:58:28

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Dr Luca Turin is a biophysicist, writer, and perfume connoisseur whose work on fragrances seems to suggest that we don’t smell molecules, per se - we smell the complex vibrations of an atomic structure. Turin came to be convinced of this model for olfaction at the expense of the standard model of receptors binding smell molecules just on the basis …

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Another Failed Bureaucratic Utopia - Drs. M.S. DeLay & A.V. Bendebury - DSPod #273 1:47:51

3M ago1:47:51

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Today we're examining the impact of bureaucracy and financialization on modern society through the lens of David Graeber's "Utopia of Rules," with reference to another of his works, "Bullshit Jobs." We explore how these forces shape political ideologies, wealth extraction, and everyday life. Starting with the alienation caused by bureaucratic syste…

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Transactional Interpretation Explains Quantum Spookiness? - Dr. John Cramer, U. Washington, DSPod #272 2:34:36

3M ago2:34:36

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Today we're looking at how atoms talk to one another using light. This transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics, was developed by today's guest, Dr. John Cramer and former guest, Dr. Carver Mead back in the 1980s. We cover key concepts such as the double atom, handshake process, and the roles of Schrödinger and Heisenberg's approaches. The…

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Human Hybrids, Autism & Discrete Evolution - Dr. Emily Casanova, Loyola University - DS Pod 271 2:18:23

3M ago2:18:23

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Dr. Emily Casanova is a professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at Loyola University in New Orleans who studies autism, human/neanderthal hybridization, and sundry soft tissue disorders that are often co-inherited with autism. Her research has shown that autism spectrum disorders are underpinned by a complex network of genetic interactions whose f…

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How the Economy Actually Works - Dr. Yeva Nersisyan, Franklin and Marshall - DS Pod 270 2:47:18

3M ago2:47:18

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Dr. Yeva Nersisyan is a professor of economics at Franklin and Marshall College whose research focus includes Modern Monetary Theory, Post-Keynesianism, and the Institutionalist traditions. She has published widely on the subject of banking and financial instability, which is why we invited her on to talk about how the economy *actually* works. MMT…

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Henry Corbin's Poetic Fabric of Reality - Dr. Tom Cheetham, Author - DS Pod #269 3:03:43

3M ago3:03:43

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Dr. Tom Cheetham is a naturalist, poet, and author who has spent the last few decades of his life engrossed in the work of Henry Corbin, who inspired a century of studies of the unconscious mind. Corbin’s aim was to understand the line that cut across the mystic traditions of the world, in the hopes of finding something that was the universal groun…

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Endless War - Dr. Jeremi Suri, University of Texas, Austin - DSPod #268 2:31:56

3M ago2:31:56

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Dr. Jeremi Suri is a professor of Public Affairs and History at the University of Texas, Austin whose recent work explores the idea that the American civil war never ended. Suri argues that the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse at the end of the Civil War was just a superficial conclusion of outright hostilities, not a true end to the massive divi…

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Needle in the Hay Sense-Making - Drs. M.S. DeLay & A.V. Bendebury DSPod #267 1:50:46

4M ago1:50:46

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The last few weeks we've had some really explosive theories on the show, which have caused a stir in the comments and beyond. We sit down to talk about the philosophy behind why we believe exploring far out theories is so important, and use Paul Feyerabend's Against Method as the backbone for our discussion. We introduce the idea of scientific anar…

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Dark History of Manmade Disease - Forrest Maready, Author - DSPod #266 3:25:39

4M ago3:25:39

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Forrest Maready is an author, filmmaker, and radio show host who is driven by trying to understand alternate versions of the history of religion, culture, and disease. He's written a number of books on the subject of environmental toxins and disease, which include radical revisions to the story of polio and autism. In this conversation we explore h…

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Reverse Physics - Dr. Gabriele Carcassi, U. Michigan, DSPod #265 2:59:56

4M ago2:59:56

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Prof. Gabriele Carcassi is a University of Michigan Physicists who became obsessed with a simple question during his training. Where do the mathematics of physics actually come from? They are handed down to us as students as if they were immutable laws of nature… but are they? Or are they simply mathematical transformations that have long ago left …

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Could We Be This Wrong About the Solar System? - Simon Shack, Tychos - DSpod #264 3:01:05

4M ago3:01:05

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Simon Shack is an amateur astronomer, independent researcher, and author. He is the modern champion of an old idea, last held in Tycho Brahe’s time, that the sun is not at the center of the solar system. At first blush, this sounds preposterous, for we have hundreds of years of data that supports the heliocentric Copernican model. But the more you …

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A Sudden Savant: Futons to Fermions, Quantum Holography, and a New Calculus - Jason Padgett, #263 2:33:33

4M ago2:33:33

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Today's episode features Jason Padgett, a physicist and artist whose path to a mathematical conception of reality began with a violent attack in his early 30s. We discuss this transformation after brain injury. How with zero mathematical background he found himself reinventing calculus. We discuss his attempts to bring himself into line with peers …

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Endgame: Big Tech Bytes the Dust - Jim Keller, Tenstorrent, Tesla, Apple, AMD, Intel #262 2:53:25

4M ago2:53:25

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Jim Keller is a microprocessor engineer who has run the gauntlet of today’s leading tech companies during their peak performance years. He’s designed for Intel, AMD, Apple, and Tesla, he’s worked for Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, he’s survived the boom and bust cycle of the tech world, and is still surfing a wave of progress at least partially of his m…

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Morphic Realities: Picasso Physics, Myth, & The New Philosophy - Formscapes, Kehlan Morgan #261 2:26:31

4M ago2:26:31

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Today on the show we are meeting up with Kehlan Morgan, from @Formscapes on YouTube. Kehlan is a master of the past and helps wrestle with a wide range of favorite philosophical dilemmas. We question whether matter can produce consciousness or if it's a separate phenomenon.We discuss intergenerational memory and Sheldrake's theory of morphic fields…

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What Stops Our Interstellar Future? - Devon Eriksen, Theft of Fire #260 2:00:57

5M ago2:00:57

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Devon Eriksen is the author of the ongoing Space Orbital trilogy, which opened up with Theft of Fire, described as a "Shoot-em-up space opera, [of] mysterious alien artifacts, freedom-minded Belters versus corporate oligarchs..." In his work, Devon explores many of the themes we tinker with on the show - particularly the ethics of space exploration…

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No Petroleum, No Problem? - Dr. Simon Michaux, Geological Survey of Finland # 259 2:59:25

5M ago2:59:25

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Dr. Simon Michaux is a professor of geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland. After having spent several years in private industry, he was laid off during one of the regular busts that inevitably accompany booms in the mining sector. In that period, Simon found a new appreciation for the material basis of civilization while taking temporar…

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What's Making People So Fat? - DemystifyPod #258 2:05:18

5M ago2:05:18

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Dr. Barbara Corkey is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Boston University. Over her prolific and outstanding academic career she went deep into the mechanics of metabolic disease. Along the way, she stumbled upon some shocking insight about the nature of obesity as she watched the epidemic unfold in real time. Despite the popula…

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Understanding Nature Without Models? - Dr. Gopi Vijaya, DemystifyPod #257 2:15:15

5M ago2:15:15

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Dr. Gopi Vijaya began his scientific career in solar physics but quickly branched out into fields as diverse as projective geometry, Goethean Science, foundations of astronomy, calculus, and the Reciprocal System of physics. Our conversation begins with the relationship between science and technology and moves into the philosophical realm asking se…

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Transhumanism: Path to Transcendence or Extinction? - Dr. Miklos Lukacs, USMP - DemystifyPod #256 2:00:47

5M ago2:00:47

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Dr. Miklos Lukacs is a Research Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the University of San Martin de Porres in Lima, Peru. He also happens to be one of the leading critics of transhumanism, which he defines as the technologically-driven push for super longevity, super intelligence, and super wellbeing. Lukacs argues that this campaign thre…

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What Happens When the Party Ends? - Drs. A. V. Bendebury & M. S. DeLay - DemystifyPod #255 1:28:01

5M ago1:28:01

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Anastasia has been reading Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization, so we decided to sit down for a meta conversation about petroleum, prime movers, and geopolitics. This solo chat ties together a bunch of the conversations we've had on the show in the last year about climate, technology and the energy transition. Historically, we've been pretty skep…

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Was Einstein Wrong to Ignore Ernst Mach? - Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan, #253 2:38:08

5M ago2:38:08

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Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan is a professor at the School of Quantum Technology at the Defense Institute of Advanced Technology. Unnikrishnan is also a key member of the LIGO-India project and a member of the global LIGO Scientific Collaboration. His work has led him to some revolutionary conclusions about the nature of gravity, light, and the missing med…

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Can Intuition Outperform Reason? - Dr. Michael Hughes, DemystifyPod #254 2:29:08

5M ago2:29:08

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This is Dr. Hughes second appearance on the podcast. His background is in biochemistry and biophysics of protein folding, and water hydration structures. But today we're digging under the floorboards of science itself. Is it possible to have a science that isn't built on some set of assumed values? To tackle this issue, we dig into esoteric mystici…

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Can Donut Economics Change How We View Progress? - Kate Raworth, DSPod #252 1:46:54

5M ago1:46:54

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Kate Raworth is an Economist best known for “donut economics,” a model that attempts to map the balance between essential human needs and planetary boundaries. She proposes that the last few hundred years of economic theories were created with a monomaniacal focus on growth that was only possible on a planet with relatively untapped natural resourc…

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How Much Money Can We Print? - Warren Mosler, Modern Monetary Theory - DSPod #251 2:41:36

6M ago2:41:36

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Warren Mosler is an economist, hedge fund manager, and proponent of modern monetary theory, an economic model that posits fiscal crises are caused by governments not spending enough money. From Mosler’s perspective, the reversal of any recession starts with getting very comfortable with deficit spending. Opponents argue that unchecked spending even…

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Invisible Light Matters - Scott Zimmerman, DSPod #250 1:43:49

6M ago1:43:49

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Scott Zimmerman is a mechanical engineer whose life took a sharp turn when he started to think about the relationship indoor lighting, biology, and solar radiation. He believes that near-infrared light, an invisible component of sunlight from ~800 to 3,000 micrometer wavelengths, is vital for human health. Unfortunately, these are the exact frequen…

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Goodbye to Dark Matter - Dr. Raj Gupta, Cosmologist, DSPod #249 1:40:19

6M ago1:40:19

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Dr. Rajendra Gupta is a physics professor at the University of Ottawa who was in the headlines a few months ago for his assertion that the universe might be at least twice as old as we realize. He’s back at the radical reshaping of physics with his latest paper, which proposes that we can do away with dark matter and dark energy. Currently, these i…

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Where do Physical Constants Come From? - Thad Roberts, DemystiCon '24, DSPod #248 2:23:35

6M ago2:23:35

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Another talk from our recent April conference in Austin, TX, with Thad Roberts from The Physics Monastery. Thad speaks about his institute's recent progress in an ongoing struggle to comprehend the secrets of the constants of nature. These are the steady quantities that scale all the behaviors of the natural world, from electricity and magnetism, t…

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