BhTV: Science Faction (audio)
- Website
- http://bloggingheads.tv/programs/science-faction
- Description
- Science writers John Horgan and George Johnson take up new discoveries and ongoing mysteries, often with a skeptical eye.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-22 22:53
- last episode published
- 2024-04-22 20:05
- publication frequency
- 4.92 days
- Contributors
- Bloggingheads.tv
- Author
- Bloggingheads.tv Administrator
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 838
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Medicine Social Sciences Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2024-04-22 |
Putin, AI, Ukraine, Crypto, the Noosphere, Futurism & Other Stuff (Robert Wright & Anatoly Karlin) Anatoly’s strange CV ... How the 20th century set the stage for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ... Why did Putin turn against the West? ... Anatoly: I underestimated Russia’s incompetence ... Has the Ukraine war really shifted in Russia’s favor? ...... |
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| 2024-04-20 |
Israel Strikes Iran, David Cameron Crumbles (Robert Wright & Andrew Day) ... |
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| 2024-04-19 |
Just ONE MAGA Juror is All TRUMP Needs (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher) Did Trump blow it on abortion? ... Does the hush money trial jury have a secret Trump partisan? ... Is Mike Johnson Choosing Reagan over Trump? ... Should Sotomayor retire? ... |
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| 2024-04-17 |
How Iran’s Attack Benefits Israel (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis) Why Iran’s attack on Israel was an “own goal” ... Did Iran minimize casualties on purpose? ... The rising odds of Israel attacking Iran directly ... America’s contradictory relationship with Israel ... How conflict with Iran helps Israel ... What ... |
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| 2024-04-13 | ... |
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| 2024-04-11 |
Daniel Kahneman and the Rationalists (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom) Why Paul’s eclipse experience eclipsed Bob’s ... Remembering pioneering psychologist Daniel Kahneman ... Bob fails gender affirmation test ... Has the “replication crisis” tainted Kahneman’s legacy? ... Eastern vs. Western “enlightenment” ... How ... |
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| 2024-04-10 | Are Republican Trump critics returning to the GOP fold? ... Has Trump threaded the needle on abortion? ... Can Biden shift the nation's attention to abortion? ... |
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| 2024-04-05 |
Biden’s Israel Problem (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner) A brief message from Bob ... Derek and Danny stumble into Bob’s Zoom room ... Israel’s doubly out-of-control week ... How Biden's Gaza failures will shape the Democratic Party ... Biden’s political incentives on Israel-Palestine ... Heading to Ov... |
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| 2024-04-03 |
AI, Rationalism, and the “Great Filter” (Robert Wright & Robin Hanson) Robin’s history of thinking about the future ... Seeing AI as offspring, not adversary ... Robin’s famous answer to a great cosmic mystery ... Would evidence of aliens be good news or bad? ... Is rationalist culture cultist? ... LLMs: revolution o... |
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| 2024-03-31 |
The Cosmic Thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Robert Wright & Ilia Delio) Ilia’s background ... Things to know about the noosphere ... Teilhard’s transgressive theological and scientific thought ... Does AI suggest a “transcendent nature to nature”? ... The Teilhardian solution to the mind-body problem ... How Darwinian... |
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