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The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss — 151 episodes

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Alvin Roth: Moral Economics, from Prostitution to Kidney Transplant Markets

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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence | Ghost Murmers, New Wires, Cosmic Questions, And AI cures?

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Physics for Everyone, Lecture 3: Motion, from Galileo to Dark Mysteries

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Katie Herzog: The Science Behind Drinking To Get Sober

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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence | Fusion Dark Matter, String Theory in Biology, and Rapid Evolution

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Physics for Everyone, Lecture 2: The Gestalt of Physics, Tools for Seeing

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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence| New Year's Edition: Big ideas, precision measurements, and prebiotic molecules.

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The Like Button, and the Strange Power of Tiny Ideas | Martin Reeves

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Polarization, Powerlessness, and what We can Actually Do

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Announcing our new 12-part series: A dozen Lessons on Physics and Reality

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(Rebroadcast) Noam Chomsky | Prescient Predictions? | Trump, Brazil, and American Fear

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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

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Spooky Physics!

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Gad Saad: Final Episode of The War on Science Interviews

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Karleen Gribble | The War on Science Interviews | Day 20

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Dorian Abbot | The War on Science Interviews | Day 21

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Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan | The War on Science Interviews | Day 19

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Alex Byrne and Moti Gorin | The War on Science Interviews | Day 18

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Lauren Schwartz and Arthur Rousseau | The War on Science Interviews | Day 17

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Peter Boghossian | The War on Science Interviews | Day 16

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Roger Cohen and Amy Wax | The War on Science Interviews | Day 15

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Alessandro Strumia | The War on Science Interviews | Day 14

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Geoff Horsman | The War on Science Interviews | Day 13

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Janice Fiamengo | The War on Science Interviews | Day 12

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Carole Hooven | The War on Science Interviews | Day 11

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Frances Widdowson | The War on Science Interviews | Day 10

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Solveig Gold and Joshua Katz | The War on Science Interviews | Day 9

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Elizabeth Weiss | The War on Science Interviews | Day 8

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Sally Satel | The War on Science Interviews | Day 7

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John Armstrong | The War on Science Interviews | Day 6

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Abigail Thompson | The War on Science Interviews | Day 5

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Maarten Boudry | The War on Science Interviews | Day 4

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Nicholas Christakis | The War on Science Interviews | Day 3

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Niall Ferguson | The War on Science Interviews | Day 2

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The Origins Podcast: The War on Science Interviews: Day 1, Richard Dawkins

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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

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Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of Division with Robert George and Cornel WestRobert George and Cornel West

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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

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Neil Shubin: Science, Exploration, Patience, and Survival at the Ends of the Earth

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Stephanie Canizales on the human tragedy of undocumented and unaccompanied migrant youth in the US.

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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

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Ricky Gervais: Hall of Fame episode: Comedy, Philosophy, Religion and Science

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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

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Elizabeth Weiss: Indigenous Myths and Cancel Culture vs Science in Anthropology

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What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

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Jonathan Rauch:

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Cyan Banister: A master class in curiosity--Risk, Resilience and Betting on the Future

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Jennifer Doudna: Scientist and World Changer

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A Hitchmas Gift For All -Audio Version

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Jeffrey Sachs on Diplomacy, Conflict, and the Path to Peace

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Nicholas Christakis: From Social Networks to AI, Special Thanksgiving Podcast

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Charles Moxley Jr: Nuclear Weapons are Illegal

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Heather Mac Donald: When Race Trumps Merit and Reshapes Culture

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Saul Perlmutter: Third Millennium Thinking

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Origins Podcast: A Call For Support To Save A Family

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Helen Pluckrose

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Solving one of cosmology's biggest conundrums with Wendy Freedman

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Leonard Susskind: Strings, Quarks, Black Holes, and More.

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Werner Herzog

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Annie Jacobsen

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Mysteries of the Cosmos, From Dark Energy to the Big Bang: A State of the Universe report with Michael Turner

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Jeffrey Sachs: Economics, Conflict, and Real-World Diplomacy

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Mark Mattson: Building the Brain: Glutamate as Sculpture and Destroyer

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Charles Duhigg: The Art and Science of Communication

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From Quarks to Galaxies: A tour through the forefront of modern physics with Frank Wilczek

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(Audio) Katherine Brodsky: Speaking Out in an Age of Outrage

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A Conversation with Irwin Shapiro: Scientist Extraordinaire from the Earth to the Stars, and at 94, still going strong.

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A Dialogue with Label-Defying Journalist Jonathan Kay

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A dialogue with Brian Keating, at the San Diego Air and Space Museum

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Greg Lukianoff: : The Canceling of the American Mind. Free Speech and Academia

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Scott Aaronson: From Quantum Computing to AI Safety

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Dialogues with Richard Dawkins

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Carlo Rovelli: From Dante to White Holes

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Robert Sapolsky: The Illusion of Free Will

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Peter Singer: From Animal Liberation to Effective Altruism

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Hakeem Oluseyi: An unexpected life in Science, and unpopular truths

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The Best of the Origins Podcast, Part 1:

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Bart Ehrman: Revelations about Revelation...and more

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Martin Rees: If Science is to Save Us, Part 2

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Douglas Murray: From Poetry to Free Speech

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Andrei Linde: Inflation, Multiverses, and all that, from Mr. Eternal Inflation

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Boldly going where no podcast has gone before: William Shatner; Wonder, Awe, and Questions, Questions...

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Martin Rees: If Science is to Save Us, Part 1

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Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss Onstage at the Orpheum Theater, Nov 15, 2022

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John Preskill: From the Early Universe to the Future of Quantum Computing

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Tim Palmer: The Primacy of Doubt

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Elizabeth Kolbert: Can human technology solve unintended consequences of human technology

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Holiday Edition Part 2, Science Matters: How the Universe Made your Holiday Gifts

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Origins Podcast Wishful-Thinking Holiday Edition Part 1: A Dialogue with Augusten Burroughs: A Witch or Not A Witch

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An Origins Podcast EXCLUSIVE: A Dialogue with Cormac McCarthy About Science, on the occasion of his newest book releases

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Brian Keating: Probing the Early Universe and Communicating about Science

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Starry Messages, Science, Culture, and Life

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Peter Boghossian: From Street Epistemology to Academic Freedom

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Frans de Waal: Learning from Primates about ourselves: From Gender to Social Hierarchies

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Janice Fiamengo: Feminism, Anti-Feminism, and Common Sense

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Richard Dawkins: From Selfish Gene to Flights of Fancy

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Alex Garland: Fundamental questions inspire art and science

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Geoff Marcy: The Search for Exoplanets and Life Elsewhere in the Universe

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Andy Knoll: The First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

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Charles Murray: On Human Diversity

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(Audio) John Mather: From the Big Bang to Searching for Life

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Origins Podcast with Michael Shellenberger: From Apocalypse Never to Running for Governor

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Jonathan Rauch: Free Thought, Democracy, and the Nature of Science

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Alan Guth: Inflation of The Universe & More

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Dorian Abbot: From Climate and Exoplanets to DEI and Free Speech.

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Matt Ridley: The Origins of COVID-19

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The Origins Podcast: Roger Penrose

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Stephen Wolfram on Math, Philosophy, & More

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Steven Pinker on Rationality, Psychology, Language, & More

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Tim Minchin Discussing Science, Culture, & Comedy

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Science Matters: Understanding The James Webb Space Telescope

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Jordan B Peterson on Confronting Value, Meaning, & More

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Sabine Hossenfelder: Physics, Science Ideology, & More

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Jim Simons: Math, Codes, Hunting Talent, Stocks, & Science

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Heather Mac Donald | Part 2 of 2 | Updates & Clarifications

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Stephen Fry on Current Events | Self-Censoring of Scientific Publications

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Heather Mac Donald | Part 1 of 2

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Current Events: Follow Up on Afghanistan with Noam Chomsky

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Barry Barish | Exploring The History of Experimental Physics

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David Gross

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Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Censorship & More

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Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Refugees & Border Policies

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Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan

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Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Iran

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Werner Herzog

127

Ian Tattersall

128

Ian McEwan

129

Andrea Ghez

130

Woody Allen

131

Joseph LeDoux

132

Maryam Namazie

133

Stephen Fry

134

David Frum

135

George Church

136

Sheldon Glashow

137

Sir Trevor Nunn

138

Elizabeth Loftus

139

Stephen Greenblatt

140

Martin Rees

141

Neil deGrasse Tyson

142

A.C. Grayling

143

Penn Jillette

144

Gail Collins

145

Daniel P. Schrag

146

Brian May

147

Alan Stern

148

Jennifer Finney Boylan

149

Noam Chomsky

150

Ricky Gervais

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