252 - David Kipping: Alien Civilizations, Megastructures, Spacecraft, and Artificial Intelligence
David Kipping is a Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University, where he runs Cool Worlds Lab and researches planets and moons that revolve around stars other than our own, in addition to his own wo...
8 Juni 20253h 5min
251 - Eliezer Yudkowsky: Artificial Intelligence and the End of Humanity
Eliezer Yudkowsky is a decision theorist, computer scientist, and author who co-founded and leads research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He is best known for his work on the alignmen...
25 Maj 20252h 51min
250 - Norman Finkelstein: Trump, Israel, Gaza, and the Criminalization of Dissent
Norman Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department, and is best known for his research on Israel and Palestine. Norman also appeared on episodes 192, 218, 228, and ...
11 Maj 20253h
249 - Chris Hedges: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Rise of American Fascism
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times. He has covered numerous wars across the decades, written many b...
27 Apr 20253h
248 - Richard Wolff: Trump, Hitler, and the End of the American Empire
Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is Ri...
13 Apr 20253h 11min
247 - Garry Nolan: Aliens | The Case They’re Already Here
Dr. Nolan is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has published over 350 research articles and is the holder of 50 ...
30 Mars 20253h 22min
246 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on General Relativity
Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. This is Tim’s seventh appearance on the show. He last appeared on epis...
16 Mars 20254h 22min
245 - Leonard Susskind: String Theory and the Black Hole War
Leonard Susskind is Felix Block Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Along with other accomplishments, he is among the fathers of such revolutionary concepts in physics as string theory, black...
9 Mars 20252h
