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Physical Attraction — 247 episodes
Climate 201: Climate Doomism (II)
Climate 201: Climate Doomism (I)
UNLOCKED: Book Club: Tim Wu's The Attention Merchants
Climate 201 NETS XI: Direct Air Capture, p2 and NETS conclusion
Climate 201 NETS X: Direct Air Capture, part 1
BONUS: Black Mirror IRL pilot - Be Right Back
Climate 201: NETS VII: Ecosystem Restoration and Mangroves
Climate 201, NETS IX: Ocean Iron Fertilization
Climate 201: NETS VIII: Enhanced Weathering
Climate201 NETS VI: Planting Trees and Afforestation
Climate 201: NETS V: Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage
Climate 201: Negative Emissions IV: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)
Climate 201, Negative Emissions III: Technological Promises, or Prevarications
Climate 201: Negative Emissions (II): We'll Always Have Paris?
Climate 201: Negative Emissions I: The Last Thing We Should Be Talking About?
Book Club: Jason Hickel's The Divide, Part I: The Origins of Global Inequality
Cosmology, VII: Cosmological Contradictions
TT: Climate, CCS Struggles as Adaptation Stalls
Thermonuclear Takes: Amazon Carbon Stocks and Global Green Recovery Progress Update
Thermonuclear Takes: The Little Robot That Couldn't
Thermonuclear Takes: Muon Madness Melting Models... Maybe?
Thermonuclear Takes: Show updates, cosmology feedback, particle physics
Cosmology VI: Cosmic Eggs and the Edge of the Universe
Cosmology, Episode V: Einstein's Mistake
Cosmology IV: Einstein's Cosmos
Cosmology III: Hubble's Law
Cosmology II: Starting From Nothing
Cosmology, Episode I: In The Beginning
Climate 201: Discourses of Climate Delay II
Climate 201: Discourses of Delay, p1
Why Should We Listen to Scientists?
Machine Learning and AI vs. Climate Change
Attack of the 50ft Blockchain, with David Gerard
Thermonuclear Takes: The Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Rant
Climate 201: Energy Efficiency IV: Jevons' Paradox, and Conclusion.
Climate 201: Energy Efficiency, Part 3: Industry
Thermonuclear Takes: Climate News; Global Rebound, "Net" Zero, Green Homes, Cumbrian Coal
Climate 201: Energy Efficiency II: Buildings
Thermonuclear Takes: Gamestop Post-Mortem, Way Too Late
Climate 201: Energy Efficiency I: Transport
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking "New Optimism", with Rodrigo Aguilera: Part II
Thermonuclear Takes: Greensill Collapses and Uber in Court
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking "New Optimism", with Rodrigo Aguilera - Part I
Graphene and the world of 2-D materials
Short-Circuiting the Meaning of Life (II)
Short-Circuiting the Meaning of Life (I)
The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change, with Professor Rebecca Willis
Climate 201: Drawdown, Part III: Cookstoves, Co-benefits, and Conclusions
The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change, with Professor Steve Keen
Climate 201: Drawdown II: Fridges, Regenerative Agriculture, and Technological Sliding Doors
Debunking Economics, with Professor Steve Keen
Climate 201: Project Drawdown's Solutions, Part I
Climate 201: What Drives Global CO2 Emissions?
Climate Conversations: How the Tech/IT Sector Should (+ Shouldn't) Address Climate Change, with Paul D Johnston
Lord Martin Rees on Catastrophe, Cosmology, and the Future
Thermonuclear Takes: Uber, Boston Dynamics, Income Inequality, Climate Change
BONUS Thermonuclear Takes: Vaccine News and Pandemic Shield
Climate 201: What Is A Climate Scenario? (RCP)
Subprime Attention Crisis: The Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet, with Tim Hwang
Climate 201: Carbon Budgets
The Dream of a Solar Sahara
Climate 201: Greenhouse Gases and Fungibility Questions
Softbank's Singularity with Edward Ongweso Jr. of This Machine Kills Podcast
Softbank's Blurry Vision VI: What We Lost In The Hype
Softbank's Blurry Vision V: The Next Financial Crisis?
TT Stonks III: Stocks Divorced from Reality, the Great Accelerator, Future of the Show, and Listener Mailbag
Softbank's Blurry Vision, IV: Identifying as a Tech Company
TT, Stonks I: FinCEN Files and the Story of Fake Tesla
The Button: The Threat From Nuclear Weapons and What We Can Do About It, with Tom Collina
Modern Monetary Theory with the MMT Podcast II: What Your Economy Can Do For You
Modern Monetary Theory with the MMT Podcast I: Where Does Money Come From?
Thermonuclear Takes: China Goes For Net Zero
Softbank's Blurry Vision III: The Fall of WeWork
Softbank's Blurry Vision II: Uber
Extremely Thermonuclear Takes: Hints of Life on Venus?
Climate Assembly: The World We Want to See
Climate Assembly: What Is A Citizens' Assembly?
Softbank's Blurry Vision, or, How To (Mostly) Burn $100bn: Part I, The Dream of Masoyoshi Son
Rage Inside The Machine: Algorithmic Bias and What It Means to be Human, with Dr Robert Smith
Statistical Mechanics and Information Entropy
Off-Topic: The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories in US Political Life
Stewart Lansley on Universal Basic Income
Responsible Use of Algorithms - YouTube and Investigative Journalism
Rebooting Civilization and Alien Life in the Cosmos, with Lewis Dartnell
Interview with the CEO of Nori, A CO2 Removal Startup
Felicity Boardman on the ethics of genetic screening and genome editing
QE For the People with Frances Coppola, Part II: Helicopter Money?
QE For the People with Frances Coppola, Part I - Economics 101
Gravitational Waves and Science Outreach, with Brynley Pearlstone (SciCurious Podcast)
BONUS: The Self-Indulgent Experimental Mystery Half-Hour
Direct Detection of Dark Matter
Can COVID-19 be a tipping point for action on climate change?
Coronavirus and Climate Change: No Silver Lining (Unless We Want It)
PREVIEW: Physical Attraction Book Club, The Attention Merchants
Climate Change and the Coronavirus: Skeptics
Interview with Phil Torres (@Xriskology) Part II: Existential Risk in the time of COVID-19
Re-release: The Psychology of the End
Phil Torres (@xriskology) I: Existential Risks in the time of COVID-19
Kit Yates on the Maths of Life and Death
Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future, and How to See Past It - with Gemma Milne
Coronavirus Updates (May, part I): Interview with a vaccine trial participant, risk factors, "herd immunity" thresholds and serology.
Technology, Inequality, and Catastrophic Risks: Solutions?
BONUS: Walter Schiedel's Coronavirus Op-Ed
Coronavirus Updates - The Vaccine
Coronavirus Updates: Exit Strategy (For A Pandemic)
Coronavirus Updates: Modelling, Uncertainties, and Antivirals
Coronavirus Updates: Estimating R0, Serology, and Bayes' Theorem
Technology, Inequality, and Catastrophic Risks III: How technology can fuel inequality
Technology, Inequality, and Global Catastrophic Risks II: Does Technology Help or Harm?
Technology, Inequality, and Global Catastrophic Risks I: The Great Leveller
Coronavirus: The Next 18 Months
Coronavirus: Serology, Misinformation, Uncertainty
The Coronavirus Pandemic
Hiatus until the New Year
Interviewed by Richard Foster-Fletcher (Boundless AI)
Who Wants to Live Forever?
Bonus: Google Investigates Cold Fusion?
Drexler and Xiaoice: Tales from AI
Fusion Conclusion: Building Cathedrals
Fusion's Dark Horses, Episode II
Nuclear Fusion: Fusion's Dark Horses, I
TT: What Can Four-Year-Olds Do that AI Can't?
Justin Ball and Jason Parisi on The Future of Fusion Energy - Part II
Justin Ball and Jason Parisi on The Future of Fusion Energy - Part I
Nuclear Fusion XXIV: Is ITER "The Way"?
Nuclear Fusion XXIII: ITER's Challenges
Thermonuclear Takes: Tech Giants Move Into Healthcare - and Outer Space
Nuclear Fusion XXII: The National Almost-Ignition Facility
Nuclear Fusion XXI: NIF-ty Business
Nuclear Fusion XX: Halite/Centurion and Secret Codes
Free Energy Scams Part II Premium Episode
Nuclear Fusion XIX: Cold Comfort
BONUS: Description of a JET Pulse
Nuclear Fusion XVIII: From JET to ITER
Nuclear Fusion XVII: Penthouse Fusion
Nuclear Fusion XVI: The Big Three Tokamaks
Nuclear Fusion XV: The Buzzkill Episode
Nuclear Fusion XIV: Simple Engineering Problems?
Nuclear Fusion XIII: Two-Faced Gods
Nuclear Fusion XII: Frickin' Lasers
Nuclear Fusion XI: The Tokamak Revolution
Kate Devlin on Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots
Nuclear Fusion X: Doldrums and Tokamaks
Nuclear Fusion IX: A Sun of Our Own
Nuclear Fusion VIII: Kinky and Unstable
Nuclear Fusion VII - Juan Step Beyond
Thermonuclear Takes: Teenage Fusion Cloudless Skies and a new AI
Nuclear Fusion VI: Pinches, Stellarators, Perhapsatrons
Nuclear Fusion V: Teller's Bomb [REUPLOAD]
Nuclear Fusion IV: Teller's Dream
Announcing 100th Episode "What Is Physics" Competition, with FABULOUS PRIZES
Huey Long: Episode V-VI Omnibus
Nuclear Fusion III: Semi-Empirical Mass Formula
Nuclear Fusion II: The Gold Foil Experiment
Nuclear Fusion I: Darwin vs Kelvin
Huey P Long Omnibus - From Election to Impeachment
Karin Kuhlemann on Overpopulation
Amy Westervelt on Drilled: the True Crime podcast about Climate Denial
Bonus: Huey P Long, Episode 1-2: The Whirlwind
Thermodynamics III: You Can't Get Out of The Game
Thermonuclear Takes: CRISPR Babies, Future of the Show
Free Energy Scams: No, Really, You Can't Break The Laws of Thermodynamics
Minisode: Kelvin and Clausius are Equivalent Statements
Thermodynamics, The Second Law: You Can't Break Even
Thermodynamics, The First Law: You Can't Win
BONUS: Stalin Episode XI-XII-XIII Omnibus
Interstellar Travel: Shooting for the Stars
Malicious Uses for Artificial Intelligence: Part II
Malicious Uses of Artificial Intelligence, Part 1
Nobel Prize 2018 Special!
Superconductors: Hard to Resist
Thermonuclear Takes: #ExxonKnew and Solar Road to Nowhere
Concealing A Hadron III: I'm Sparticle!
Concealing a Hadron II: The Standard Model
Autocracy Now: Stalin Omnibus Ep VIII, IX, X The Storm
Concealing a Hadron: Particle Physics 101.1
Thermonuclear Takes: Hothouse Earth and Heatwaves
Units and Dimensional Analysis II: GI Taylor and the Bomb
Units and Dimensional Analysis, Pt I: The Metric Revolution
CJ Schilt (Corpus Newtonicum) on Isaac Newton, part 2
CJ Schilt (Corpus Newtonicum) on Isaac Newton: Part I
BONUS: Stalin Omnibus (Episodes IV-V-VI-VII)
Antimatter
Newton IV: Alchemy, Mercury, Legacy
Newton III: The Cosmic Ballet
Newton II: Calculus, Corpuscles, and the Plague Years
Autocracy Now Bonus: Stalin Episode III: Taking Control
Isaac Newton, Part I : Burning Down The House
How to Save the World, part II
TEOTWAWKI: How To Save The World, Part 1
Future of Work, Part II - The Rant Edition
Bonus: Stalin Episode II, Revolution and Civil War
The Future of Work (I)
TEOTWAWKI - The End of Everything
TEOTWAWKI - Utopia
BONUS: Autocracy Now, Stalin I: Rebel to Revolutionary
BONUS: Autocracy Now - Commodus
TEOTWAWKI Failed Predictions - Part I (Free Episode)
Startup Nectome Promises Immortality or Death: Can they deliver?
Stephen Schwartz, Atomic Analyst, on nuclear weapons: from the Cold War to Trump
Simon Ings on Stalin and the Scientists: Triumph and Tragedy
Simon Ings on Stalin and the Scientists: The Revolution.mp3
We Can Always Shoot Them Later - Stalin, Soviet Science, and the Bomb (II)
We Can Always Shoot Them Later - Stalin, Soviet Science, and the Bomb (I)
Stephen Hawking: The Voice of Physics
TEOTWAWKI 1, Nuclear Weapons II: In The Shadow of the Bomb
Martin Pfeiffer (@NuclearAnthro) Interview
TEOTWAWKI 1 - Nuclear Weapons: A Delicate Balance
Climate Conversation with Ben Franta: Scientist, Historian, Activist (II)
Climate Conversation with Ben Franta: Scientist, Historian, Activist (I)
TEOTWAWKI: The Psychology of the End
Climate Change - Mitigation and Controversies
Climate Change and the Ozone Layer: Lessons from Montreal
TEOTWAWKI, Climate Change - Part II
TEOTWAWKI 2.2, Climate Change - Part I
TEOTWAWKI 2.1: Ecotastrophe
Stuart Armstrong - AI and the Future of Humanity
Britt Wray on CRISPR, De-Extinction and Necrofauna
Zach Weinersmith on Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
TEOTWAWKI: The Singularity, Part II
Phil Torres, XRiskology Interview, Part 2: Superintelligence
TEOTWAWKI 3 - The Singularity, Part I
Rafael Alves-Batista: Resilience of Life, Astrobiology and Fine-Tuning
TEOTWAWKI 4, Supervirus II: The Human Factor
Announcing Patreon and how to Support the Show
TEOTWAWKI Bonus: Alien Attack (Free Episode)
TEOTWAWKI 4, Supervirus Part I: Nature
Rafael Alves-Batista: Cosmic Rays and the Multiverse
News: Neutron Star Merger, Yay Science!
TEOTWAWKI 5: Peak Oil
2017 Nobel Prize Special: Gravitational Waves
TEOTWAWKI 6: Malthus' Revenge
XRiskology: Existential Risks with Phil Torres, Part I
TEOTWAWKI 7 - Supervolcanoes
Bonus Episode: Solar Panels + Splitting Sunbeams
TEOTWAWKI 8: Cyberwarfare
TEOTWAWKI 9: It Came From Outer Space
TEOTWAWKI 10: Earthquakes
Get Ready for the Apocalypse
Fermi and Drake
Bonus: AI Shakespeare vs. AI Trump, call for Listener Questions
Seduced By A Robot
Unusually Hot: The Radiation Episode
Good Vibrations
Physics Gets Hot and Heavy II
Physics Gets Hot and Heavy I
Physical Attraction: Trailer