The biggest gap in science: complexity
Everyone loves to talk about complex problems and complex systems, but no one has any idea what it means. I think that understanding complexity is THE biggest gap in science today. What do we even mea...
17 Des 202316min
A new competitor for string theory (and other science news of the week)
In this week's science news, we have a new contender for a theory of quantum gravity, claim that a famous proof is wrong, bad climate news, the first transatlantic flight with sustainable aviation fue...
17 Des 202321min
These scientists got sued for doing their job
Science and the law come in to conflict more often than you might think. In this episode I want to tell you about several cases that I have followed which have concerned me greatly. The issue here isn...
17 Des 202315min
A particle accelerator that's just 10 cm long, and other science news of the week
In this episode we have an experiment that wants to measure nothing, a particle accelerator that's just 10 cm long, a nucleus the shape of a dumbbell, a drone that saved 6 lives, what social media doe...
8 Des 202318min
Why was Sam Altman fired from Open AI? And other science news of the week.
Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about the leading theories for why Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI, cosmic rays with HUGE energies, evidence of a an overdue supervolcan...
30 Nov 202318min
All you need to know about Long COVID
Estimates say that as many as 1 in 10 people who had COVID were still affected more than 3 months later. This health condition has become known as long COVID. In this video, we will be discussing what...
30 Nov 202318min
Is Science Dying?
Is science coming to an end? On the one hand, it seems like scientific progress has slowed to a crawl and no big breakthroughs are happening any more. On the other hand, we are left with many unsolved...
22 Nov 202314min
Mars glows green, and other science news of the week
Today we’ll talk about why Mars glows green, an amazingly cool way to make magnets hover, a study which found that a supposed piece of alien tech isn’t alien tech, surprising absolutely no one, plans ...
22 Nov 202315min
