Into the Impossible
A podcast of stories, ideas, and speculations from the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. Each month, we'll bring you into a conversation between visionaries from the worlds of arts, sciences, humanities, engineering, and medicine on the nature of the imagination and how, through speculative culture, we collaborate to create the future.
- Website
- http://imagination.ucsd.edu/_wp/the-podcast/
- Description
- A podcast of stories, ideas, and speculations from the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. Each month, we'll bring you into a conversation between visionaries from the worlds of arts, sciences, humanities, engineering, and medicine on the nature of the imagination and how, through speculative culture, we collaborate to create the future.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-18 12:41
- last episode published
- 2024-11-17 13:00
- publication frequency
- 6.01 days
- Contributors
- Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 490
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Literature Technology Natural Sciences Science & Medicine Gadgets Arts
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Episodes
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| 2024-11-17 | Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Simulations today are powerful tools for exploring the mysteries of our universe, but how close can they come to replicating reality? Can we recreate everything thro... |
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| 2024-11-11 |
Is Our Universe Just a Math Problem? Max Tegmark’s Shocking Theory on Reality Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Is reality fundamentally mathematical? Is our universe just one of many? And will we ever discover extraterrestrial life? This week on Into the Impossible, I sit d... |
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| 2024-11-03 |
The mRNA Breakthrough That Changed Medicine Forever with Nobel Laureate Katalin Karikó Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 What if the secret to saving millions of lives was hidden for years—overlooked, dismissed, and even rejected? That’s the story behind the groundbreaking mRNA technolo... |
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| 2024-10-27 |
Is Earth Truly One of a Kind? Exploring Exoplanets with Josh Winn Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Is Earth truly one of a kind? This question has fascinated humans for decades, and with today's advanced technology, we're finally able to explore it scientifically.... |
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| 2024-10-24 |
What’s Holding Back Your View of the Stars? Common Eye Deficiencies Explained Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if your eyes were enough to capture all it has to offer? Spoiler alert: They’re not! While our eyes are absolute... |
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| 2024-10-23 |
Searching for a Theory of Everything with Max Tegmark, James Beacham & Stephon Alexander What are the leading theories of everything, and are we any closer to discovering the one true theory of everything? In this 90-minute summit, some of the world’s top physicists—Max Tegmark, James Beacham, Stephon Alexander—go beyond the hype to explor... |
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| 2024-10-20 |
How Being Wrong in Science Can Lead to Great Breakthroughs w/ Rocky Kolb Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 How can embracing mistakes, challenging common assumptions, and daring to be wrong lead to groundbreaking discoveries in cosmology? Here to talk about why being wrong... |
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| 2024-10-17 | Have you ever wondered how your eyes compare to a telescope? The answer is more surprising than you might think! Today, we will look at the fascinating parallels between the human eye and one of the most powerful astronomical instruments - the telesco... |
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| 2024-10-15 |
Uncovering the Lost Connection Between Science and Faith with Spencer Klavan Can science and religion be reconciled to provide a deeper understanding of the universe? How do modern scientific discoveries, like quantum mechanics and cosmology, relate to ancient religious texts? And what role do consciousness and language play in... |
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| 2024-10-12 |
Think Like Galileo: My Brown University Commencement Address In 2022, I had the honor of delivering the commencement address at Brown University. I used this incredible opportunity to talk about a personal hero of mine: Galileo Galilei. Galileo was a scientist like no other. He boldly challenged the status quo t... |
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