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Climate 201: Climate Doomism (II)

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Climate 201: Climate Doomism (I)

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UNLOCKED: Book Club: Tim Wu's The Attention Merchants

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Climate 201 NETS XI: Direct Air Capture, p2 and NETS conclusion

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Climate 201 NETS X: Direct Air Capture, part 1

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BONUS: Black Mirror IRL pilot - Be Right Back

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Climate 201: NETS VII: Ecosystem Restoration and Mangroves

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Climate 201, NETS IX: Ocean Iron Fertilization

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Climate 201: NETS VIII: Enhanced Weathering

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Climate201 NETS VI: Planting Trees and Afforestation

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Climate 201: NETS V: Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage

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Climate 201: Negative Emissions IV: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)

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Climate 201, Negative Emissions III: Technological Promises, or Prevarications

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Climate 201: Negative Emissions (II): We'll Always Have Paris?

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Climate 201: Negative Emissions I: The Last Thing We Should Be Talking About?

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Book Club: Jason Hickel's The Divide, Part I: The Origins of Global Inequality

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Cosmology, VII: Cosmological Contradictions

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TT: Climate, CCS Struggles as Adaptation Stalls

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Thermonuclear Takes: Amazon Carbon Stocks and Global Green Recovery Progress Update

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Thermonuclear Takes: The Little Robot That Couldn't

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Thermonuclear Takes: Muon Madness Melting Models... Maybe?

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Thermonuclear Takes: Show updates, cosmology feedback, particle physics

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Cosmology VI: Cosmic Eggs and the Edge of the Universe

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Cosmology, Episode V: Einstein's Mistake

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Cosmology IV: Einstein's Cosmos

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Cosmology III: Hubble's Law

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Cosmology II: Starting From Nothing

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Cosmology, Episode I: In The Beginning

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Climate 201: Discourses of Climate Delay II

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Climate 201: Discourses of Delay, p1

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Why Should We Listen to Scientists?

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Machine Learning and AI vs. Climate Change

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Attack of the 50ft Blockchain, with David Gerard

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Thermonuclear Takes: The Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Rant

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Climate 201: Energy Efficiency IV: Jevons' Paradox, and Conclusion.

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Climate 201: Energy Efficiency, Part 3: Industry

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Thermonuclear Takes: Climate News; Global Rebound, "Net" Zero, Green Homes, Cumbrian Coal

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Climate 201: Energy Efficiency II: Buildings

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Thermonuclear Takes: Gamestop Post-Mortem, Way Too Late

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Climate 201: Energy Efficiency I: Transport

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The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking "New Optimism", with Rodrigo Aguilera: Part II

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Thermonuclear Takes: Greensill Collapses and Uber in Court

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The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking "New Optimism", with Rodrigo Aguilera - Part I

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Graphene and the world of 2-D materials

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Short-Circuiting the Meaning of Life (II)

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Short-Circuiting the Meaning of Life (I)

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The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change, with Professor Rebecca Willis

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Climate 201: Drawdown, Part III: Cookstoves, Co-benefits, and Conclusions

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The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change, with Professor Steve Keen

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Climate 201: Drawdown II: Fridges, Regenerative Agriculture, and Technological Sliding Doors

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Debunking Economics, with Professor Steve Keen

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Climate 201: Project Drawdown's Solutions, Part I

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Climate 201: What Drives Global CO2 Emissions?

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Climate Conversations: How the Tech/IT Sector Should (+ Shouldn't) Address Climate Change, with Paul D Johnston

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Lord Martin Rees on Catastrophe, Cosmology, and the Future

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Thermonuclear Takes: Uber, Boston Dynamics, Income Inequality, Climate Change

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BONUS Thermonuclear Takes: Vaccine News and Pandemic Shield

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Climate 201: What Is A Climate Scenario? (RCP)

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Subprime Attention Crisis: The Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet, with Tim Hwang

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Climate 201: Carbon Budgets

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The Dream of a Solar Sahara

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Climate 201: Greenhouse Gases and Fungibility Questions

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Softbank's Singularity with Edward Ongweso Jr. of This Machine Kills Podcast

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Softbank's Blurry Vision VI: What We Lost In The Hype

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Softbank's Blurry Vision V: The Next Financial Crisis?

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TT Stonks III: Stocks Divorced from Reality, the Great Accelerator, Future of the Show, and Listener Mailbag

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Softbank's Blurry Vision, IV: Identifying as a Tech Company

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TT, Stonks I: FinCEN Files and the Story of Fake Tesla

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The Button: The Threat From Nuclear Weapons and What We Can Do About It, with Tom Collina

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Modern Monetary Theory with the MMT Podcast II: What Your Economy Can Do For You

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Modern Monetary Theory with the MMT Podcast I: Where Does Money Come From?

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Thermonuclear Takes: China Goes For Net Zero

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Softbank's Blurry Vision III: The Fall of WeWork

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Softbank's Blurry Vision II: Uber

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Extremely Thermonuclear Takes: Hints of Life on Venus?

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Climate Assembly: The World We Want to See

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Climate Assembly: What Is A Citizens' Assembly?

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Softbank's Blurry Vision, or, How To (Mostly) Burn $100bn: Part I, The Dream of Masoyoshi Son

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Rage Inside The Machine: Algorithmic Bias and What It Means to be Human, with Dr Robert Smith

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Statistical Mechanics and Information Entropy

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Off-Topic: The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories in US Political Life

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Stewart Lansley on Universal Basic Income

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Responsible Use of Algorithms - YouTube and Investigative Journalism

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Rebooting Civilization and Alien Life in the Cosmos, with Lewis Dartnell

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Interview with the CEO of Nori, A CO2 Removal Startup

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Felicity Boardman on the ethics of genetic screening and genome editing

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QE For the People with Frances Coppola, Part II: Helicopter Money?

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QE For the People with Frances Coppola, Part I - Economics 101

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Gravitational Waves and Science Outreach, with Brynley Pearlstone (SciCurious Podcast)

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BONUS: The Self-Indulgent Experimental Mystery Half-Hour

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Direct Detection of Dark Matter

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Can COVID-19 be a tipping point for action on climate change?

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Coronavirus and Climate Change: No Silver Lining (Unless We Want It)

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PREVIEW: Physical Attraction Book Club, The Attention Merchants

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Climate Change and the Coronavirus: Skeptics

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Interview with Phil Torres (@Xriskology) Part II: Existential Risk in the time of COVID-19

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Re-release: The Psychology of the End

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Phil Torres (@xriskology) I: Existential Risks in the time of COVID-19

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Kit Yates on the Maths of Life and Death

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Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future, and How to See Past It - with Gemma Milne