Vinay Gupta: Mattereum: A blockchain identity layer for things + Better refugee camps
Vinay Gupta: Mattereum, giving our things a trackable identity layer. Bonus: Climate refugees! Vinay has a plan! Vinay used to work at Ethereum. Now he's trying to develop Mattereum, a digital ident...
29 Aug 20221h 41min
Robin Hanson: Grabby aliens, a horrifying solution to the Fermi Paradox
"One of the most original thinkers in the world" (list of people who have said this at the bottom) is BACK for a second visit! Robin Hanson explains his "grabby aliens" idea. This episode has a new j...
29 Aug 20221h 54min
Anders Sandberg: Future of Life Institute
Anders Sandberg talks volcano engineering, Freeman Dyson's computer at the end of everything, moving planets, how transparent society should get after quantum computers, and what is the best type of g...
18 Aug 20221h 51min
Casey Handmer: Is cheap, giga-scaleable carbon capture possible?
Casey Handmer: On leaving Hyperloop One and NASA to bet on cheap, giga-scaleable carbon capture. First he took a PhD in gravity waves, then he got a position at Hyperloop One because of some truly ...
31 Mar 20222h 40min
Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King from Adventure Time, the NFT-financed Jesus 2. part 1 of 2
The second part of the Jesse Moynihan interview! Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "household name" when his friend and colleague Tom Herpich suggested Pendleton War...
31 Mar 20221h 57min
Jesse Moynihan: On creating FORMING, the Ice King from Adventure Time, the NFT-financed Jesus 2. part 1 of 2
For the first non-space related episode of Wunderdog, I have a MASSIVE nugget of artistic GOLD. Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "household name" when his friend a...
31 Mar 20221h 42min
Eugene Chudnovsky: How life could evolve inside stars
In 2020, the esteemed physics professors Eugene Chudnovsky and Luis Anchordoqui published thatr describes a theoretical form of life unlike anything else. Eugene and Luis suggested that a combinatio...
31 Mar 20221h 20min
Ana Bonaca: Galactic bullet holes
While studying the stellar stream GD-1, Harvard astronomer Ana Bonaca made a literally enormous discovery: Cosmic "bullet holes" in our galaxy, several light years across. Something with around a mill...
6 Mar 20221h 4min
