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Coronavirus Updates (May, part I): Interview with a vaccine trial participant, risk factors, "herd immunity" thresholds and serology.

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Technology, Inequality, and Catastrophic Risks: Solutions?

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BONUS: Walter Schiedel's Coronavirus Op-Ed

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Coronavirus Updates - The Vaccine

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Coronavirus Updates: Exit Strategy (For A Pandemic)

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Coronavirus Updates: Modelling, Uncertainties, and Antivirals

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Coronavirus Updates: Estimating R0, Serology, and Bayes' Theorem

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Technology, Inequality, and Catastrophic Risks III: How technology can fuel inequality

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Technology, Inequality, and Global Catastrophic Risks II: Does Technology Help or Harm?

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Technology, Inequality, and Global Catastrophic Risks I: The Great Leveller

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Coronavirus: The Next 18 Months

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Coronavirus: Serology, Misinformation, Uncertainty

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The Coronavirus Pandemic

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Hiatus until the New Year

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Interviewed by Richard Foster-Fletcher (Boundless AI)

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Who Wants to Live Forever?

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Bonus: Google Investigates Cold Fusion?

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Drexler and Xiaoice: Tales from AI

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Fusion Conclusion: Building Cathedrals

120

Fusion's Dark Horses, Episode II

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Nuclear Fusion: Fusion's Dark Horses, I

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TT: What Can Four-Year-Olds Do that AI Can't?

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Justin Ball and Jason Parisi on The Future of Fusion Energy - Part II

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Justin Ball and Jason Parisi on The Future of Fusion Energy - Part I

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Nuclear Fusion XXIV: Is ITER "The Way"?

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Nuclear Fusion XXIII: ITER's Challenges

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Thermonuclear Takes: Tech Giants Move Into Healthcare - and Outer Space

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Nuclear Fusion XXII: The National Almost-Ignition Facility

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Nuclear Fusion XXI: NIF-ty Business

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Nuclear Fusion XX: Halite/Centurion and Secret Codes

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Free Energy Scams Part II Premium Episode

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Nuclear Fusion XIX: Cold Comfort

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BONUS: Description of a JET Pulse

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Nuclear Fusion XVIII: From JET to ITER

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Nuclear Fusion XVII: Penthouse Fusion

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Nuclear Fusion XVI: The Big Three Tokamaks

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Nuclear Fusion XV: The Buzzkill Episode

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Nuclear Fusion XIV: Simple Engineering Problems?

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Nuclear Fusion XIII: Two-Faced Gods

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Nuclear Fusion XII: Frickin' Lasers

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Nuclear Fusion XI: The Tokamak Revolution

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Kate Devlin on Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots

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Nuclear Fusion X: Doldrums and Tokamaks

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Nuclear Fusion IX: A Sun of Our Own

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Nuclear Fusion VIII: Kinky and Unstable

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Nuclear Fusion VII - Juan Step Beyond

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Thermonuclear Takes: Teenage Fusion Cloudless Skies and a new AI

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Nuclear Fusion VI: Pinches, Stellarators, Perhapsatrons

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Nuclear Fusion V: Teller's Bomb [REUPLOAD]

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Nuclear Fusion IV: Teller's Dream

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Announcing 100th Episode "What Is Physics" Competition, with FABULOUS PRIZES

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Huey Long: Episode V-VI Omnibus

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Nuclear Fusion III: Semi-Empirical Mass Formula

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Nuclear Fusion II: The Gold Foil Experiment

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Nuclear Fusion I: Darwin vs Kelvin

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Huey P Long Omnibus - From Election to Impeachment

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Karin Kuhlemann on Overpopulation

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Amy Westervelt on Drilled: the True Crime podcast about Climate Denial

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Bonus: Huey P Long, Episode 1-2: The Whirlwind

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Thermodynamics III: You Can't Get Out of The Game

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Thermonuclear Takes: CRISPR Babies, Future of the Show

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Free Energy Scams: No, Really, You Can't Break The Laws of Thermodynamics

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Minisode: Kelvin and Clausius are Equivalent Statements

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Thermodynamics, The Second Law: You Can't Break Even

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Thermodynamics, The First Law: You Can't Win

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BONUS: Stalin Episode XI-XII-XIII Omnibus

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Interstellar Travel: Shooting for the Stars

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Malicious Uses for Artificial Intelligence: Part II

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Malicious Uses of Artificial Intelligence, Part 1

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Nobel Prize 2018 Special!

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Superconductors: Hard to Resist

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Thermonuclear Takes: #ExxonKnew and Solar Road to Nowhere

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Concealing A Hadron III: I'm Sparticle!

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Concealing a Hadron II: The Standard Model

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Autocracy Now: Stalin Omnibus Ep VIII, IX, X The Storm

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Concealing a Hadron: Particle Physics 101.1

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Thermonuclear Takes: Hothouse Earth and Heatwaves

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Units and Dimensional Analysis II: GI Taylor and the Bomb

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Units and Dimensional Analysis, Pt I: The Metric Revolution

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CJ Schilt (Corpus Newtonicum) on Isaac Newton, part 2

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CJ Schilt (Corpus Newtonicum) on Isaac Newton: Part I

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BONUS: Stalin Omnibus (Episodes IV-V-VI-VII)

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Antimatter

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Newton IV: Alchemy, Mercury, Legacy

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Newton III: The Cosmic Ballet

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Newton II: Calculus, Corpuscles, and the Plague Years

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Autocracy Now Bonus: Stalin Episode III: Taking Control

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Isaac Newton, Part I : Burning Down The House

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How to Save the World, part II

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TEOTWAWKI: How To Save The World, Part 1

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Future of Work, Part II - The Rant Edition

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Bonus: Stalin Episode II, Revolution and Civil War

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The Future of Work (I)

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TEOTWAWKI - The End of Everything

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TEOTWAWKI - Utopia

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BONUS: Autocracy Now, Stalin I: Rebel to Revolutionary

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BONUS: Autocracy Now - Commodus

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TEOTWAWKI Failed Predictions - Part I (Free Episode)

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Startup Nectome Promises Immortality or Death: Can they deliver?

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Stephen Schwartz, Atomic Analyst, on nuclear weapons: from the Cold War to Trump