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The Escaped Sapiens Podcast — 97 episodes

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1

The Fertility Crash Is Already Here | Lyman Stone | Escaped Sapiens #93

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What Killed the Dire Wolf… And Could We Bring It Back? | Julie Meachen | Escaped Sapiens #92

3

Why Powerful Countries Keep Losing Wars | Phillips O’Brien | Escaped Sapiens #91

4

Can Aging Be Hacked? | Matt Kaeberlein | Escaped Sapiens #90

5

Reviving Ancient Greece Through Its Lost Texts | Richard Janko | Escaped Sapiens #89

6

How Anesthetics Affect The Brain | Anthony Kaveh | Escaped Sapiens #88

7

A Path To Quantum Gravity | Sabrina Pasterski | Escaped Sapiens #87

8

The Philosophy Of Antinatalism | David Benatar | Escaped Sapiens #86

9

How We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs | Jan Smit | Escaped Sapiens #85

10

Causal Fermion Systems: A Radical New Vision Of Reality | Felix Finster | Escaped Sapiens #84

11

Is Aging Treatable? Radical Mouse Experiments Begin | Aubrey de Grey | Escaped Sapiens #83

12

`Last Unsolved Problem of Classical Physics' | Sasha Migdal | Escaped Sapiens #82

13

Are We More Divided Now Than Ever? | Sam Richards & Laurie Mulvey | Escaped Sapiens #81

14

Solving Quantum Gravity | Pedro Vieira | Escaped Sapiens #80

15

Drone Warfare in Ukraine and the Future Of Combat | Sam Bendett | Escaped Sapiens #79

16

AI, Control, and the path to Dystopia | Pedro Domingos | Escaped Sapiens #78

17

From Destruction to Regeneration: The Future of Economics | Kate Raworth | Escaped Sapiens #77

18

The Surprising Impact of Regenerative Farming | Joel Salatin | Escaped Sapiens #76

19

Regenerative Farming And Carbon Negative Beef | Will Harris | Escaped Sapiens #75

20

What is Reality Made Of? Unscrambling the Quantum Omelet | Rob Spekkens | Escaped Sapiens #74

21

The Future of Protein: Breeding The Super Tuber | Padraic Flood | Escaped Sapiens #73

22

The "Self" Is An Illusion | Thomas Metzinger | Escaped Sapiens #72

23

Alcohol And The Birth Of Civilization | Edward Slingerland | Escaped Sapiens #71

24

Building A Theory Of Everything | Stephen Wolfram | Escaped Sapiens #70

25

Should We Deregulate Housing? | Bryan Caplan | Escaped Sapiens #69

26

Decoding Human Speech From Brain Signals | Julia Berezutskaya | Escaped Sapiens #67

27

Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? | Carl Bender | Escaped Sapiens #67

28

Nuclear Energy: Rewards, Costs, and Advanced Reactors | Rachel Slaybaugh | Escaped Sapiens #66

29

Marx, Capitalism, and Neoclassical Economics | Steve Keen | Escaped Sapiens #65

30

Does Capitalism Destroy The Environment? | Jeffrey Sachs | Escaped Sapiens #64

31

Avoiding The Threats From AI | David Shapiro | Escaped Sapiens #63

32

Narcissism And Success | Mitja Back | Escaped Sapiens #62

33

Creating Synthetic Life | Kerstin Goepfrich | Escaped Sapiens #61

34

Earth & Life. 3.77 Billion Years Under Construction | Olivia Judson | Escaped Sapiens #60

35

Scientific Literacy And Democracy | Johannes Vogel | Escaped Sapiens # 59

36

The Ethics and Practice of Plastic Surgery | Gary Linkov | Escaped Sapiens #58

37

Rise Of The Blockchain | JP Vergne | Escaped Sapiens #57

38

Feeding The Future : The Ocean Farmers | Shawn Robinson | Escaped Sapiens #56

39

Genetic Biocontrol and De-Extinction | Stephen Frankenberg | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #55

40

The Birth Of Synthetic Intelligence | David Shapiro | Escaped Sapiens #54

41

What Science Learned From The Pandemic | Peter Doherty | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #53

42

Behind Closed Doors: The High Stakes Game Of Diplomacy | John Kornblum | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #52

43

Vertical Farming: A New Food System | Viviana Correa Galvis | Escaped Sapeins Podcast #51

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Reconstructing Limbs With Advanced Prosthetics | Munjed Al Muderis | Escaped Sapiens #50.b

45

A Refugee’s Story | Munjed Al Muderis | Escaped Sapiens #50.a

46

Good, Evil, and Social Engineering | Hans-Georg Moeller | Escaped Sapiens #49

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Moral Blindness, Political Division, and Bull$&%t | Philipp Huebl | Escaped Sapiens #48

48

Exploring the Illegal Trade in Human Organs | Frederike Ambagtsheer | Escaped Sapiens #47

49

What is money and who rules the world? | Yanis Varoufakis | Escaped Sapiens #46

50

The Atomic Priesthood and Messages From the Dead | Ola Wikander | Escaped Sapiens #45

51

A Different Look At Gender Equality. | Bryan Caplan | Escaped Sapiens #44

52

How Many Fish Should We Leave In The Ocean? | Trevor Branch | Escaped Sapiens #43

53

Engineering Life And Consciousness. | Michael Levin | Escaped Sapiens #42

54

What’s In An Eye? | Alex Müntz | Escaped Sapiens #41

55

Is warfare a science? | John Spencer | Escaped Sapiens #40

56

Geography is Destiny | Ian Morris | Escaped Sapiens #39

57

The Robots Of Mars | Tanya Harrison | Escaped Sapiens #38

58

Hacking The Blueprint Of Life | Michael Levin | Escaped Sapiens #37

59

This is What You Will Eat On Mars | Daniel Schubert | Escaped Sapiens #36

60

Do Animals Have Language? | Irene Pepperberg | Escaped Sapiens #35

61

When Nuclear Powers Meet | Ankit Panda | Escaped Sapiens #34

62

Forensic Science & the Insect Apocalypse | Mark Benecke | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #33.2

63

What We Learn At Crime Scenes | Mark Benecke | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #33.1

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The World’s First Planetary Defense Mission | Andy Rivkin | Escaped Sapiens #32

65

When Civilization Ends | Ian Morris | Escaped Sapiens #31

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Fusion Energy Is Coming | Thomas Sunn Pedersen | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #30

67

The Price We Pay For Carbon (Climate Change) | Glen Peters | Escaped Sapiens #29

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How Your Evolved Psychology Controls You | Diana Fleischman | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #28

69

Diet And The Environment | Marion Nestle | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #27 (Part 2 - Out-Takes)

70

Who Controls What You Eat? | Marion Nestle | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #27 (part 1)

71

How Did Life Begin and Where Are All The Aliens? | David Catling | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #26

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How Disgust Has Evolved to Help you Survive | Dan Fessler | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #25

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Can We Beat Climate Change? | Ketan Joshi | Escaped Sapiens #24

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The Science of Propaganda | Oliver Boyd-Barrett | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #23 (Part 1)

75

The Science of Propaganda | Oliver Boyd-Barrett | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #23 (Part 2)

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Survival at Sea, Human Endurance and Ingenuity | Steve Callahan | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #22

77

Deep Fakes and Manipulated Media | Matthew F. Ferraro | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #21

78

Environmental pragmatism and living a good life | Tim Flannery | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #20

79

Space Junk | Jonathan McDowell | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #19

80

The Missing Science of Men‘s Reproductive Health | Rene Almeling | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #18

81

Xenobots - Robots or Synthetic Life? | Josh Bongard | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #17

82

Deanna Barch: How do our brains work? | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #16

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Steve Furber: Simulating the Human Brain | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #15

84

Luisa von Albedyll: Exploring the arctic | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #14

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Katherine Moseby: Saving Australia's Endangered Mammals | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #13

86

Brian Nosek: Is science in (reproducibility) crisis? | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #12

87

Julian Bayliss: Discovering new species in the lost forests of Africa | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #11

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Fiona Wood: Spray on Skin and healing burns victims | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #10

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Michael Boyle: Drone Warfare | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #9

90

Iain Kerr: Saving the whales by collecting their snot with Drones | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #8

91

Robert Zubrin: Finding life on mars | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #7

92

Lee Cronin: Creating artificial life | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #6

93

Robert Zubrin: A blueprint for mars colonization | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #5

94

Kelly Lambert: Enhancing cognitive function through behavior | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #4

95

Dave Goulson: The worrying plight of the bumblebee | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #3

96

Ben Novak: Reviving extinct species | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #2

97

Gregg Suaning: Curing blindness with bionic eyes | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #1