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Searching for Aliens. The Wrong Way? A dialogue with John Gertz

Physics for Everyone, Lecture 4. The Beating Heart of Modern Physics: The Dog Who Didn't Bark in the Night.

What's New in Science with Sabine and Lawrence | Cosmic oddities, Black Hole normalities, Quantum Batteries, and remote-controlled cockroaches

Saving a Family from Afghanistan

Physics for Everyone, Lecture 5: The Unification that Changed the World

What's New in Science | Cosmic Surprises, Newton Supreme, A New Collider, and Feynman Dines Out?

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

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

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

Katie Herzog: The Science Behind Drinking To Get Sober

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

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

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

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

Polarization, Powerlessness, and what We can Actually Do

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

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

What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

Spooky Physics!

Gad Saad: Final Episode of The War on Science Interviews

Karleen Gribble | The War on Science Interviews | Day 20

Dorian Abbot | The War on Science Interviews | Day 21

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

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

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

Peter Boghossian | The War on Science Interviews | Day 16

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

Alessandro Strumia | The War on Science Interviews | Day 14

Geoff Horsman | The War on Science Interviews | Day 13

Janice Fiamengo | The War on Science Interviews | Day 12

Carole Hooven | The War on Science Interviews | Day 11

Frances Widdowson | The War on Science Interviews | Day 10

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

Elizabeth Weiss | The War on Science Interviews | Day 8

Sally Satel | The War on Science Interviews | Day 7

John Armstrong | The War on Science Interviews | Day 6

Abigail Thompson | The War on Science Interviews | Day 5

Maarten Boudry | The War on Science Interviews | Day 4

Nicholas Christakis | The War on Science Interviews | Day 3

Niall Ferguson | The War on Science Interviews | Day 2

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

What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

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

What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

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

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

What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

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

What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

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

What's New in Science With Sabine and Lawrence

Jonathan Rauch:

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

Jennifer Doudna: Scientist and World Changer

A Hitchmas Gift For All -Audio Version

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

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

Charles Moxley Jr: Nuclear Weapons are Illegal

Heather Mac Donald: When Race Trumps Merit and Reshapes Culture

Saul Perlmutter: Third Millennium Thinking

Origins Podcast: A Call For Support To Save A Family

Helen Pluckrose

Solving one of cosmology's biggest conundrums with Wendy Freedman

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

Werner Herzog

Annie Jacobsen

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

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

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

Charles Duhigg: The Art and Science of Communication

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

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

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

A Dialogue with Label-Defying Journalist Jonathan Kay

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

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

Scott Aaronson: From Quantum Computing to AI Safety

Dialogues with Richard Dawkins

Carlo Rovelli: From Dante to White Holes

Robert Sapolsky: The Illusion of Free Will

Peter Singer: From Animal Liberation to Effective Altruism

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

The Best of the Origins Podcast, Part 1:

Bart Ehrman: Revelations about Revelation...and more

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

Douglas Murray: From Poetry to Free Speech

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

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

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

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

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

Tim Palmer: The Primacy of Doubt

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

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

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

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

Brian Keating: Probing the Early Universe and Communicating about Science

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

Peter Boghossian: From Street Epistemology to Academic Freedom

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

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

Richard Dawkins: From Selfish Gene to Flights of Fancy

Alex Garland: Fundamental questions inspire art and science

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

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

Charles Murray: On Human Diversity

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

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

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

Alan Guth: Inflation of The Universe & More

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

Matt Ridley: The Origins of COVID-19

The Origins Podcast: Roger Penrose

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Stephen Wolfram on Math, Philosophy, & More

Steven Pinker on Rationality, Psychology, Language, & More

Tim Minchin Discussing Science, Culture, & Comedy

Science Matters: Understanding The James Webb Space Telescope

Jordan B Peterson on Confronting Value, Meaning, & More

Sabine Hossenfelder: Physics, Science Ideology, & More

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

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

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

Heather Mac Donald | Part 1 of 2

Current Events: Follow Up on Afghanistan with Noam Chomsky

Barry Barish | Exploring The History of Experimental Physics

David Gross

Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Censorship & More

Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Refugees & Border Policies

Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan

Current Events: Noam Chomsky on Iran

Werner Herzog

Ian Tattersall

Ian McEwan

Andrea Ghez

Woody Allen

Joseph LeDoux

Maryam Namazie

Stephen Fry

David Frum

George Church

Sheldon Glashow

Sir Trevor Nunn

Elizabeth Loftus

Stephen Greenblatt

Martin Rees

Neil deGrasse Tyson

A.C. Grayling

Penn Jillette

Gail Collins

Daniel P. Schrag

Brian May

Alan Stern

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Noam Chomsky

Ricky Gervais

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