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Memories, The Here and Now, and Our Future- Time, Religion, and Physics

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Ep 99: New York Underwater: Art and Climate Change - with guest Carolyn Hall

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Ep 98: The Problems and Promise of AI in Healthcare - with guest Dr. Muhammad Ahmad

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Ep 97: Floods in India - A View of Climate Change from Under the River - with guest Dr. Luisa Cortesi

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Ep 96: AI, Ethics, and the Vatican - with guest Dr. Brian Patrick Green

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Ep 95: Grief in the Time of COVID: with guest Dr. Kristel Clayville

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Ep 94: Quantum Entanglement, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality: with guest Dr. Eric Cavalcanti

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Ep 93: Gratefulness, Hope, and COVID – with guest John Van Sloten

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Ep 92: Merging Man and Machine: Transhumanism and Religion - with guest Seth Villegas

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Ep 91: Seeing Patterns, Seeing God: The Neuroscience of Belief - with guest Dr. Adam Weinberger

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Ep 90: How Can We Find Life Within the Solar System?: with Dr. Niels Ligterink

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Ep 89: Can Online Privacy Exist Today? - with guest Rob Shavell

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Ep 88: Why We Need Nature – with guest Dr. Peter Kahn

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Ep 87: Environmental Racism and Climate Change

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Ep 86: The Science of Subjectivity: The World Your Brain Creates - with guest Dr. Jorge Morales

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Ep 85: How Paleolithic is the Paleo Diet? What did our Ancestors Eat Anyways?

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Ep 84: The Coronavirus, Social Media, Online Dating and Black Lives Matter

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Ep 83: The West: On the Cusp of a MegaDrought

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Ep 82 : The Origins of Language May Go Much Farther Back Than We Thought

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Ep 81: Staying Connected During COVID-19 (with Technology!)

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Ep 80: Smart Replies Aren't So Smart

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Ep 79: Evolution in the South

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Ep 78: This Is Not A Normal Podcast Episode

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Ep 77: Yes, It's Possible To Feed The World

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Ep 76: How We Found Out Meteors Are Actually Little Rocks From Space Burning Up In The Atmosphere

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Ep 75: From Self-Driving Cars to Autonomous Weapons Systems - Can We Trust AI?

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Ep 74: Is the Biodiversity of Earth Doomed?

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Ep 73: Mind Uploading - The Key To Eternal Life?

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Ep 72: Reversing Climate Change: Turning CO2 Into Rock

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Ep 71: Epileptics with Mystical Experiences

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Ep 70: Hack My Heart

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Ep 69: Cameras that can See Around Corners

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Ep 68: They're Not Speaking English - Decoding a Message from ET

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Ep 67: Space Industry - A Future in the Stars

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Ep 66: What the Future May Hold: The Future of Technology

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Ep 65: The Plausibility of Implausible Science Fiction

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Ep 64:Thriving with Autism through Art

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Ep 63: Deep Brain Stimulation

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Ep 62: Improving Women's Healthcare: The Calla Campaign

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Ep 61: Technology and the Notre Dame Fire: with guest Dr. Stephen Murray

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Ep 60: Science, Religion, and Evolution

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Ep 59: Climate Change on Alien Worlds

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Ep 58: Who Are You Anyways? Does Dementia and Alzheimer's Change Who You Are?

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The Far Future of the Universe

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Ep 56: It's About Time - A Podcast in the Fourth Dimension

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Ep 55: 3D Printed Buildings: From Earth to Mars

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Ep 54: Transforming Agriculture in Africa

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Ep 53: Down the Rabbit Hole - Scientific Comics and Storytelling

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Ep 52: To GM or not to GM: GMOs in a Changing World

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Ep 51: From Rosie to RoboCop: Gender, Religion, and Robots

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Hurricane Florence

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Ep 50_ Keep on Moving, Stop Climate Change

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Ep 49: Ice Cream and Nazis: The Origin of Moral Choices

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Ep 48: Let There be Light: First Stars and Cosmic Dawn

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Ep 47: Crowdsensing the Noise

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Ep 46: The Geology of Us: The Anthropocene

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Ep 45: Can Science Help Us Live Forever?

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Summer Hiatus

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Ep 44: Subglacial Lakes and Life on Frozen Moons

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Ep 43: Is there Bias in Machine Learning Algorithms?

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Space Junk, Trash on the Moon, and the Earth's Copper Ring

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Ep 41: The Pope's Astronomer

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Ep 40_ There's More to Color than Meets the Eye

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Ep 39: Can AI be Creative

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Ep. 38: What Happens Next Will Blow Your Mind! - Using Natural Language Processing to Find Fake News, Satire, and Clickbait

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Ep. 37: The Philosophy of the Self - From Spirituality to Neuroscience

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Climate Change, Religion, and Ethics – A Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspective (rerun)

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Made In Space - with guest Brad Kohlenberg (rerun)

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CRISPR – With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility – with guest Dr. Leila Jamal (rerun)

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The Star of Bethlehem – A Real Event – with guest Dr. Peter Barthel (rerun)

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The Robotic Moral Code – Programming Ethics into Machines - with guest Dr. Don Howard (rerun)

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Getting a Second Chance: Space Ethics, Mining, and Colonization

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Lending a Hand - a Prosthetic Hand

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Zombees! A Halloween Episode

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From Steak to Insects - The Future of Food

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Humanitarian and Privacy Concerns with AI

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Women in Science - Ruby Payne-Scott - with guest Dr. Miller Goss

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The Solar Eclipse - Awe, Wonder, and Science

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Teaching Science with Animals and Travel

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Autism Therapy and Zen

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A Slice of Life

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The Ethics of Augmented Reality and Our Future

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Sustainability - The Bigger Picture

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Robots That Eat Trash and the Entrepreneurs Who Build Them

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CRISPR – With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

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Your Body in Space

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The Energy Future of America – from Renewable Energy to Carbon-Negative Technology – with guest Dr. David Babson

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Educational Hotspots for Children of the Developing World

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The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Monks, and Science

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Volcanoes - Making Your Planet Habitable for 4.6 Billion Years

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World Upon World, Universe Upon Universe

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The Robotic Moral Code – Programming Ethics into Machines with guest Dr. Don Howard

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Create Your Own Brain

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Climate Change, Religion, and Ethics - A Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspective

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The Star of Bethlehem - A Real Event?

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Space: East and West - Space, Technology, and Culture with Dr. Susmita Mohanty

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Dress to OS

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Made In Space

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The International Space Station and I: The World from Above

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Galactic Cannibalism