108 - Chiara Mingarelli: Supermassive Black Holes & the Gravitational Wave Background
Chiara Mingarelli is a gravitational-wave astrophysicist and a professor in the Department of Physics at Yale University. She studies supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies and their merg...
29 Jun 20231h 31min
107 - Kevin Dorst: Bayesian Reasoning, Irrationality, and Political Polarization
Kevin Dorst is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. He works at the intersection between philosophy and social science, focusing on rationality. In this episode Kevin an...
27 Jun 20231h 45min
106 - David Albert & Sean Carroll: Quantum Theory, Boltzmann Brains, & The Fine-Tuned Universe
David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Director of the Philosophical Foundations of Physics program at Columbia. David is a prior guest of the R...
25 Jun 20232h 10min
105 - Luciano Floridi: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Luciano Floridi is the Oxford Internet Institute’s Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethic...
23 Jun 20231h 1min
104 - Nicholas Christakis: Evolutionary Biology & Society’s Genetic Underpinning
Nicholas Christakis is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, where he is also Director of the Human Nature Lab and Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Scie...
21 Jun 20231h 24min
103 - Brad Schoenfeld: Muscular Hypertrophy and Maximizing Muscle Growth
Brad Schoenfeld is Professor of Exercise Science in the Department of Heath Promotion and Nutrition Sciences at Lehman College in the Bronx, New York, where he serves as the graduate director the Huma...
18 Jun 20231h 5min
102 - Stephen Wolfram: Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and Philosophy of Math
Stephen Wolfram is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech when he was...
16 Jun 20231h 57min
101 - Paul Bloom: Freud, Mental Illness, Psychoanalysis, and Cognitive Biases
Paul Bloom is Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He works quite broadly in psychology, and studies h...
13 Jun 20231h 57min
