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The State of The Universe — 77 episodes

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#82 - Dr. Brian Keating - The Everlasting Lessons from Galileo's Life

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#81 - Dr. Daniel Whiteson - The Standard Model and Its Many Quirks!

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Why This Universe? - Please Stop Emailing Dan About MOND!

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#80 - Dr. Jeyhan Kartaltepe - Galaxies, Galaxies, and More Galaxies!

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#79 - Dr. Dan Hooper - Did NASA Really Detect a Parallel Universe!?!?

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#78 - Brian McNoldy - Hurricanes and Climate Change, What's the Connection?

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#77 - Dr. Maura McLaughlin - Detecting the Ripples from Merging Supermassive Black Holes

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#76 - Peter Haas - Artificial Intelligence Should Scare You!

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#75 - Dr. Kevin Peter Hand - Exploring Alien Oceans

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#74 - Bernie Taylor - Finding the Origin of Dogs

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#73 - Nate Stewart - The Difficulties of Getting to Mars!

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#71 - Dr. Joel Kastner - Watching Planets Form!

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#70 - Dr. Mike Poland - Yellowstone: The Gravity of the Situation

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#69 - Dr. David Warmflash - Let's Rover the Moon!

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#68 - Nate Stewart - The Rituals of Spaceflight!

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#67 - Dr. David Fisher - How Human Spaceflight is Returning to the United States in 2020

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#66 - Dr. Dan Hooper - Can We Answer the Biggest Questions in Astrophysics?

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#65 - Dr. Josh Willis - OMG: The Oceans are Melting Greenland!

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#64 - Bernie Taylor - Building the Thirty Meter Telescope: Unifying Science and Spirituality

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#63 - Dr. Brian Keating - What Existed Before the Big Bang?

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#62 - There May Not be a Clear Solution to Climate Change!

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#61 - Dr. Sara Mazrouei - How The Moon Teaches us About Our Past!

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#60 - Artificial Intelligence is Biased Because We Are! | Featuring Dr. Chris Kulp

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#59 - July 2019 was the Hottest Month on Record, How do we Know That?

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#58 - Dr. John Hoopes - Pseudo-archeology Tries to Rewrite History; From Mayan 2012 "Prophecies" to Ancient Aliens.

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#57 - What Will Happen if The James Webb Space Telescope Fails? | Featuring Dr. Nathalie Ouellette

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#56 - Dr. Chris Kulp - Machine Learning and the Big Data Revolution!

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#55 - Is 5G Safe? | The Hottest June on Record has Passed!

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#54 - We Chose to go to The Moon 50 Years Ago! IT'S TIME WE GO AGAIN!

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#53 - Dr. Nathalie Ouellette - Exoplanets and the James Webb Space Telescope

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#52 - Could Fast Radio Bursts be Aliens?, Helicopters on Mars, Quadcopters on Titan, and Buying Tickets to the ISS!

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#50 - Why did we Stop Going to the Moon? | Featuring Dr. David Fisher

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#49 - Dr. Duncan Lorimer - What are Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)?

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#48 - Dr. David Fisher - We Must Return to The Moon!

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#47 - The Pull Out Method... Works?

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#46 - Getting LIGO Funded | Featuring Dr. Rai Weiss | TSOTU Short

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#45 - Dr. David Warmflash - The History and Future of our Relationship with the Moon!

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#44 - Nate Stewart - We're Returning to the Moon!

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#43 - Exploring the Pseudoscience Spectrum!

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#42 - Dr. Rai Weiss - Detecting Gravitational Waves and Winning a Nobel Prize in the Process

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#41 - Can We Remove Carbon from the Atmosphere? | Featuring Dr. Stephen Pacala | TSOTU Short

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#40 - Climate Change is Happening! Why Deny it? | Featuring Dr. Matt Fitzpatrick | TSOTU Short

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#39 - Searching for Life on Europa | TSOTU Short

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#38 - Dr. Matt Fitzpatrick - The Climate will feel very Different in 60 Years!

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#37 - How the Seasonal Flu Vaccine is Made featuring Dr. Peter Barlow | TSOTU Clip

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#36 - Where could we find Life Beyond Earth?

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#35 - Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano due for an Eruption? featuring Dr. Michael Poland - TSOTU Clip

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#34 - Bernie Taylor - The Influence of Biological Time on Intelligent Life and how it could Change our View of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets

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#33 - Discovering the First Fast Radio Burst featuring Dr. Duncan Lorimer - TSOTU Clips

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#32 - Nate Stewart - How America is Returning to Human Spaceflight and The Purpose of the Lunar Gateway

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#31 - The Importance of Radical Ideas in Science featuring Dr. Priya Natarajan - TSOTU Clip

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#30 - How to Conceptualize a Black Hole featuring Dr. Priya Natarajan - TSOTU Clip

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#29 - Dr. Priya Natarajan - Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Recognition in Science

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#28 - Dr. Peter Barlow - Curing the Common Cold, Flu Vaccines, and Pandemics

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#27 - Dr. Julia Young - How History Can Help Us Understand Modern Immigration to the U.S.

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#26 - Brendan Gets Interviewed - Black Holes, Aliens, Fast Radio Bursts, and Flat Earthers

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#25 - Understanding Black Holes: What We Know and What We May Never Know

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#24 - 2018 Climate Change Recap, Fast Radio Bursts, and Putting Solar Panels on Trump's Wall

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#23 - China on the Moon, Government Shutdown, and The ISS Hole

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#22 - Dr. Aysha Akhtar - The Impact of Factory Farming and Animal Testing on Human Health

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#21 - Nate Stewart - How Commercialization of Space Travel Can Lead Us To The New Space Age

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#20 - Dr. Stephen Pacala - Understanding Our Changing Climate and Carbon Mitigation

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#19 - Nate Stewart - Climate Change and Revitalizing Space Exploration

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#18 - Dr. Ken Miller - Science Denial, Free Will, and Finding Common Ground Between God and Evolution

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#17 - Dr. Michael Poland - Monitoring the Yellowstone Supervolcano and Predicting Eruptions

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#16 - Dr. Maura McLaughlin - Gravitational Waves, NANOGrav and the Pulsar Search Collaboratory

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#15 - Dr. Duncan Lorimer - Pulsars, Discovering Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), and Creating Music

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#12 - Bernie Taylor - Before Orion, The First Astronomers, Astrology, and Recognizing Genius

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#10 - Dr. Sam Sternberg - CRISPR, GMO's, and Bioethics

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#9 - Dr. Brian Keating - Reforming the Nobel Prize

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#8 - James Barrat - Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Us?

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#6 - Dr. Joan Nichols - Bioengineering Lungs, Health Effects of Space Travel, and Succeeding in Science

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#5 - Dr. Francis Halzen - Detecting Neutrinos, MultiMessenger Astronomy, and The IceCube Neutrino Observatory

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#4 - Dr. David Fisher - Space Force, Going Back To The Moon, and Politics

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#3 - Dr. Darold Treffert - Savant Syndrome, Psychedelics, and Paranormal Experiences

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#2 - Dr. Nicole Gugliucci - Making Citizen Science Successful, Compensating Citizen Scientists, and Overpopulation

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#1 - Dr. Chris Kulp - Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence