347: Brian Keating | Losing the Nobel Prize

347: Brian Keating | Losing the Nobel Prize

Brian Keating (@DrBrianKeating) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California San Diego, host of the Into the Impossible podcast, and the author of Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor.

What We Discuss with Brian Keating:
  • What compelled dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel to annually reward outstanding contributions for humanity, and how would he feel about the way Nobel prizes are awarded today?
  • What is an ethical will, and why should you make sure you have one in place sooner rather than later?
  • How accolades like the Nobel prize and the Academy Awards have taken on outsized importance in their respective fields in spite of being selected arbitrarily by an anointed few — with sometimes deadly consequences.
  • How Brian turned around surface losses like getting fired from an academic dream job and missing his shot at the Nobel prize from disasters into catalysts of great happiness.
  • How you can have a chance at winning a fragment of the 4.3-billion-year-old supernova that created Earth and the hemoglobin in your blood!
  • And much more…

Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/347

Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!

Like this show? Please leave us a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally!

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episoder(1293)

1243: Christopher Whitcomb | A Life Among Spies Part Two

1243: Christopher Whitcomb | A Life Among Spies Part Two

Ex-FBI sniper Christopher Whitcomb survived warlords, black ops, and helicopter crashes. He's here to explain how calculating risk kept him alive. [Pt. 2/2]Full show notes and resources can be found h...

20 Nov 20251h 4min

1242: Christopher Whitcomb | A Life Among Spies Part One

1242: Christopher Whitcomb | A Life Among Spies Part One

Ex-FBI sniper Christopher Whitcomb survived warlords, black ops, and helicopter crashes. He's here to explain how calculating risk kept him alive. [Pt. 1/2]Full show notes and resources can be found h...

18 Nov 202550min

1241: Ketamine | Skeptical Sunday

1241: Ketamine | Skeptical Sunday

From horse tranquilizer to mental health treatment — what's the real story about ketamine? Nick Pell breaks it down on Skeptical Sunday!Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Har...

16 Nov 202541min

1240: Warned Not to Wed Wife, You Fear for Your Life | Feedback Friday

1240: Warned Not to Wed Wife, You Fear for Your Life | Feedback Friday

You married her even after her father, her ex, and your friends warned you not to. Now she's threatening your life. Welcome to Feedback Friday!Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanha...

14 Nov 20251h 13min

1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

1239: Rizwan Virk | The Real Mysteries of the Simulation Hypothesis

Reality might be rendered, not real. The Simulation Hypothesis author Rizwan Virk explains this wild idea and why even physicists take it seriously.Full show notes and resources can be found here: jor...

13 Nov 20251h 17min

1238: Ken Burns | What If the American Revolution Isn't Over?

1238: Ken Burns | What If the American Revolution Isn't Over?

The American Revolution isn't over — it just changed uniforms. Documentary legend Ken Burns explains why we're still debugging an experiment from 1776.Full show notes and resources can be found here: ...

11 Nov 20251h 24min

1237: Light Pollution | Skeptical Sunday

1237: Light Pollution | Skeptical Sunday

Humans have managed to pollute darkness itself. Jessica Wynn explains how artificial light erases stars and harms wildlife and health on Skeptical Sunday!Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition...

9 Nov 202556min

1236: Bedroom Blame Game Sparks Consent Shame | Feedback Friday

1236: Bedroom Blame Game Sparks Consent Shame | Feedback Friday

She felt coerced into sex throughout your marriage. You woke to her initiating without consent. Both victims? Both guilty? Welcome to Feedback Friday!And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Har...

7 Nov 20251h 15min

Populært innen Business og økonomi

stopp-verden
dine-penger-pengeradet
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
e24-podden
rss-penger-polser-og-politikk
rss-borsmorgen-okonominyhetene
pengepodden-2
finansredaksjonen
utbytte
pengesnakk
livet-pa-veien-med-jan-erik-larssen
morgenkaffen-med-finansavisen
tid-er-penger-en-podcast-med-peter-warren
rss-sunn-okonomi
okonomiamatorene
lederpodden
liberal-halvtime
rss-markedspuls-2
rss-investering-gjort-enkelt
rss-andelige-tanker-med-camillo