Malicious Uses of Artificial Intelligence, Part 1
A recent report released at https://maliciousaireport.com/ on the potential malicious uses for artificial intelligence brings us sharply to the present. In the TEOTWAWKI episodes on AI, we focused o...
18 Okt 201832min
Nobel Prize 2018 Special!
So, as you probably already know by now, the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded to another trio: Gérard Mourou, Arthur Ashkin and Donna Strickland, "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of ...
9 Okt 201836min
Superconductors: Hard to Resist
In this episode, we'll discuss the discovery and possible applications of superconductors - these seemingly miraculous materials which have an electrical resistance that drops to zero at a low enough ...
5 Okt 201827min
Thermonuclear Takes: #ExxonKnew and Solar Road to Nowhere
Welcome to Thermonuclear Takes, our roundup of all the news in science and technology that's been fascinating me lately. Some of it will relate to things that we've discussed on the show before; some ...
25 Sep 201825min
Concealing A Hadron III: I'm Sparticle!
Everything is made up of fundamental particles. You have the leptons: that's the electron, muon, tau, and their ghostly neutrinos that help us to conserve momentum. You have the quarks, which make up ...
20 Sep 201841min
Concealing a Hadron II: The Standard Model
Quarks, hadrons, baryons, leptons - we explore the material particles, ponder the question of why the electron has two heavier cousins, and describe the snark of Wolfgang Pauli in this - our second ep...
14 Sep 201825min
Autocracy Now: Stalin Omnibus Ep VIII, IX, X The Storm
A triple helping of our sister podcast, as we follow Stalin's career from the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact to the Battle of Stalingrad.
12 Sep 20181h 43min
Concealing a Hadron: Particle Physics 101.1
Can you tell your quarks from your elbow? If not, never fear, because these episodes will be your guide to particle physics, and, specifically, what's called the Standard Model. Has absolutely nothing...
7 Sep 201831min
