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The Escaped Sapiens Podcast — 102 episodes
NO, Black Holes Don't Break Quantum Mechanics | Bill Unruh | Escaped Sapiens #98 RQI Collaboration
Is the Inside of a Black Hole Just a Physicist's Fantasy? | Niayesh Afshordi | Escaped Sapiens #97 RQI Collaboration
Do Black Holes Destroy Information? | Carlo Rovelli | Escaped Sapiens #96 RQI Collaboration
Engineered Bioweapons: What Is Currently Possible? | Keven Esvelt | Escaped Sapiens #95
AI Psychosis: What We Already Know | Joseph Pierre | Escaped Sapiens #94
The Fertility Crash Is Already Here | Lyman Stone | Escaped Sapiens #93
What Killed the Dire Wolf… And Could We Bring It Back? | Julie Meachen | Escaped Sapiens #92
Why Powerful Countries Keep Losing Wars | Phillips O’Brien | Escaped Sapiens #91
Can Aging Be Hacked? | Matt Kaeberlein | Escaped Sapiens #90
Reviving Ancient Greece Through Its Lost Texts | Richard Janko | Escaped Sapiens #89
How Anesthetics Affect The Brain | Anthony Kaveh | Escaped Sapiens #88
A Path To Quantum Gravity | Sabrina Pasterski | Escaped Sapiens #87
The Philosophy Of Antinatalism | David Benatar | Escaped Sapiens #86
How We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs | Jan Smit | Escaped Sapiens #85
Causal Fermion Systems: A Radical New Vision Of Reality | Felix Finster | Escaped Sapiens #84
Is Aging Treatable? Radical Mouse Experiments Begin | Aubrey de Grey | Escaped Sapiens #83
`Last Unsolved Problem of Classical Physics' | Sasha Migdal | Escaped Sapiens #82
Are We More Divided Now Than Ever? | Sam Richards & Laurie Mulvey | Escaped Sapiens #81
Solving Quantum Gravity | Pedro Vieira | Escaped Sapiens #80
Drone Warfare in Ukraine and the Future Of Combat | Sam Bendett | Escaped Sapiens #79
AI, Control, and the path to Dystopia | Pedro Domingos | Escaped Sapiens #78
From Destruction to Regeneration: The Future of Economics | Kate Raworth | Escaped Sapiens #77
The Surprising Impact of Regenerative Farming | Joel Salatin | Escaped Sapiens #76
Regenerative Farming And Carbon Negative Beef | Will Harris | Escaped Sapiens #75
What is Reality Made Of? Unscrambling the Quantum Omelet | Rob Spekkens | Escaped Sapiens #74
The Future of Protein: Breeding The Super Tuber | Padraic Flood | Escaped Sapiens #73
The "Self" Is An Illusion | Thomas Metzinger | Escaped Sapiens #72
Alcohol And The Birth Of Civilization | Edward Slingerland | Escaped Sapiens #71
Building A Theory Of Everything | Stephen Wolfram | Escaped Sapiens #70
Should We Deregulate Housing? | Bryan Caplan | Escaped Sapiens #69
Decoding Human Speech From Brain Signals | Julia Berezutskaya | Escaped Sapiens #67
Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? | Carl Bender | Escaped Sapiens #67
Nuclear Energy: Rewards, Costs, and Advanced Reactors | Rachel Slaybaugh | Escaped Sapiens #66
Marx, Capitalism, and Neoclassical Economics | Steve Keen | Escaped Sapiens #65
Does Capitalism Destroy The Environment? | Jeffrey Sachs | Escaped Sapiens #64
Avoiding The Threats From AI | David Shapiro | Escaped Sapiens #63
Narcissism And Success | Mitja Back | Escaped Sapiens #62
Creating Synthetic Life | Kerstin Goepfrich | Escaped Sapiens #61
Earth & Life. 3.77 Billion Years Under Construction | Olivia Judson | Escaped Sapiens #60
Scientific Literacy And Democracy | Johannes Vogel | Escaped Sapiens # 59
The Ethics and Practice of Plastic Surgery | Gary Linkov | Escaped Sapiens #58
Rise Of The Blockchain | JP Vergne | Escaped Sapiens #57
Feeding The Future : The Ocean Farmers | Shawn Robinson | Escaped Sapiens #56
Genetic Biocontrol and De-Extinction | Stephen Frankenberg | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #55
The Birth Of Synthetic Intelligence | David Shapiro | Escaped Sapiens #54
What Science Learned From The Pandemic | Peter Doherty | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #53
Behind Closed Doors: The High Stakes Game Of Diplomacy | John Kornblum | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #52
Vertical Farming: A New Food System | Viviana Correa Galvis | Escaped Sapeins Podcast #51
Reconstructing Limbs With Advanced Prosthetics | Munjed Al Muderis | Escaped Sapiens #50.b
A Refugee’s Story | Munjed Al Muderis | Escaped Sapiens #50.a
Good, Evil, and Social Engineering | Hans-Georg Moeller | Escaped Sapiens #49
Moral Blindness, Political Division, and Bull$&%t | Philipp Huebl | Escaped Sapiens #48
Exploring the Illegal Trade in Human Organs | Frederike Ambagtsheer | Escaped Sapiens #47
What is money and who rules the world? | Yanis Varoufakis | Escaped Sapiens #46
The Atomic Priesthood and Messages From the Dead | Ola Wikander | Escaped Sapiens #45
A Different Look At Gender Equality. | Bryan Caplan | Escaped Sapiens #44
How Many Fish Should We Leave In The Ocean? | Trevor Branch | Escaped Sapiens #43
Engineering Life And Consciousness. | Michael Levin | Escaped Sapiens #42
What’s In An Eye? | Alex Müntz | Escaped Sapiens #41
Is warfare a science? | John Spencer | Escaped Sapiens #40
Geography is Destiny | Ian Morris | Escaped Sapiens #39
The Robots Of Mars | Tanya Harrison | Escaped Sapiens #38
Hacking The Blueprint Of Life | Michael Levin | Escaped Sapiens #37
This is What You Will Eat On Mars | Daniel Schubert | Escaped Sapiens #36
Do Animals Have Language? | Irene Pepperberg | Escaped Sapiens #35
When Nuclear Powers Meet | Ankit Panda | Escaped Sapiens #34
Forensic Science & the Insect Apocalypse | Mark Benecke | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #33.2
What We Learn At Crime Scenes | Mark Benecke | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #33.1
The World’s First Planetary Defense Mission | Andy Rivkin | Escaped Sapiens #32
When Civilization Ends | Ian Morris | Escaped Sapiens #31
Fusion Energy Is Coming | Thomas Sunn Pedersen | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #30
The Price We Pay For Carbon (Climate Change) | Glen Peters | Escaped Sapiens #29
How Your Evolved Psychology Controls You | Diana Fleischman | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #28
Diet And The Environment | Marion Nestle | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #27 (Part 2 - Out-Takes)
Who Controls What You Eat? | Marion Nestle | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #27 (part 1)
How Did Life Begin and Where Are All The Aliens? | David Catling | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #26
How Disgust Has Evolved to Help you Survive | Dan Fessler | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #25
Can We Beat Climate Change? | Ketan Joshi | Escaped Sapiens #24
The Science of Propaganda | Oliver Boyd-Barrett | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #23 (Part 1)
The Science of Propaganda | Oliver Boyd-Barrett | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #23 (Part 2)
Survival at Sea, Human Endurance and Ingenuity | Steve Callahan | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #22
Deep Fakes and Manipulated Media | Matthew F. Ferraro | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #21
Environmental pragmatism and living a good life | Tim Flannery | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #20
Space Junk | Jonathan McDowell | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #19
The Missing Science of Men‘s Reproductive Health | Rene Almeling | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #18
Xenobots - Robots or Synthetic Life? | Josh Bongard | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #17
Deanna Barch: How do our brains work? | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #16
Steve Furber: Simulating the Human Brain | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #15
Luisa von Albedyll: Exploring the arctic | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #14
Katherine Moseby: Saving Australia's Endangered Mammals | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #13
Brian Nosek: Is science in (reproducibility) crisis? | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #12
Julian Bayliss: Discovering new species in the lost forests of Africa | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #11
Fiona Wood: Spray on Skin and healing burns victims | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #10
Michael Boyle: Drone Warfare | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #9
Iain Kerr: Saving the whales by collecting their snot with Drones | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #8
Robert Zubrin: Finding life on mars | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #7
Lee Cronin: Creating artificial life | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #6
Robert Zubrin: A blueprint for mars colonization | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #5
Kelly Lambert: Enhancing cognitive function through behavior | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #4
Dave Goulson: The worrying plight of the bumblebee | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #3
Ben Novak: Reviving extinct species | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #2
Gregg Suaning: Curing blindness with bionic eyes | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #1