What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?
What is the world fundamentally, deeply made of? What is life? We are always searching for Scientific Breakthroughs: those leaps in knowledge and jumps in understanding that change how we see the worl...
1 Feb 202326min
Sabine Hossenfelder on Physics and the Big Questions
Sabine Hossenfelder talks about if the past exists, how the universe began and how it will end, information, math as reality, time, and consciousness. She also discusses her new book, Existential Phys...
25 Jan 20231h 4min
How the Subconscious Affects Us
How does the subconscious affect us? There is more to our mental lives than the current content of our awareness. Our subconscious affects what we sense, think, feel and do. How does the subconscious ...
18 Jan 202326min
Stephon Alexander on the Fear of a Black Universe
Stephon Alexander, cosmologist and professor of theoretical physics at Brown University, discusses his most recent book, Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics, an impo...
11 Jan 20231h 8min
What is Philosophy of Biology?
What is philosophy of biology? Biology has big questions: What is life, language, race, gender, morality, wisdom, religion, extraterrestrial intelligence? A new field of inquiry seeks underlying struc...
4 Jan 202326min
Noam Chomsky on Closer To Truth’s Big Questions (Part 4)
Closer To Truth is proud to present this four-part miniseries with distinguished theoretical linguist, analytic philosopher, and cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky. In our final part, Chomsky offers his...
21 Dec 20221h 8min
Noam Chomsky on Linguistic Theories and the Evolution of Language (Part 3)
Closer To Truth is proud to present this four-part miniseries with distinguished theoretical linguist, analytic philosopher, and cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky. In Part 3, Chomsky discusses linguist...
21 Dec 202239min
Noam Chomsky on Theories of Linguistics (Part 2)
Closer To Truth is proud to present this four-part miniseries with distinguished theoretical linguist, analytic philosopher, and cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky. In Part 2, Chomsky discusses generati...
14 Dec 202242min
