Newton III: The Cosmic Ballet
In this episode, we get into the heart of Isaac Newton's scientific contribution. His laws of mechanics and gravitation fundamentally changed the way that we viewed both motion, and one of the (now fo...
13 Heinä 201835min
Newton II: Calculus, Corpuscles, and the Plague Years
We discuss some of Isaac Newton's most notable discoveries, from the invention of calculus (simultaneously with Leibniz) and his early grappling and wrestling with a physical theory of light. Was Newt...
5 Heinä 201829min
Autocracy Now Bonus: Stalin Episode III: Taking Control
As Lenin's health declined, Stalin sought to outmanouver his rivals in the Bolshevik party and consolidate single-handed, dictatorial control over Russia. Follow us on Twitter @autocracynow, our sist...
3 Heinä 201833min
Isaac Newton, Part I : Burning Down The House
Isaac Newton made an almost incomparable contribution to physics - practically founding the field with his famous Laws that defined the mechanics of how bodies move for centuries, and by discovering g...
28 Kesä 201825min
How to Save the World, part II
Should we be talking about a one-world government to head off existential threats? What about schemes to preserve human genetic information, or launch relics from our civilisation to land on the moon?...
17 Kesä 201841min
TEOTWAWKI: How To Save The World, Part 1
So, now that I've thoroughly frightened us all with the terrifying visions of the apocalypse, I guess I should answer the question: what can we do to save ourselves? What should we do to save ourselve...
8 Kesä 201849min
Future of Work, Part II - The Rant Edition
Last episode on the Future of Work, I described the problem – artificial intelligence is going to potentially make a lot of people unemployed in the near-term future; and the range of opinions, you ca...
1 Kesä 201840min
Bonus: Stalin Episode II, Revolution and Civil War
The last bonus from the Autocracy Now feed for a while - we take Stalin's career up to the Russian Revolution and Civil War. For the rest of his story, head over to www.autocracynow.libsyn.com Or s...
30 Touko 201831min
