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
- 2025-03-28 02:48
- last episode published
- 2025-03-28 01:02
- publication frequency
- 4.57 days
- Contributors
- Bloggingheads.tv
- Author
- Bloggingheads.tv Administrator
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 976
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Medicine Social Sciences Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-28 |
Tesla, Tufts, and More Trump Chaos (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom) Bob and Paul duel over their sleep deficits ... Trump’s Tesla-friendly tariffs ... Who’s favo(u)red to win the Canadian election? ... Tufts and Columbia as authoritarian bellwethers ... Did Bob predict MAGA in 1999? ... God vs Hitler ... Heading ... |
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| 2025-03-27 |
The CIA and the JFK Assassination (Robert Wright & Jefferson Morley) The new JFK documents dump ... The conflict between JFK and the CIA ... The Pentagon false flag plan that JFK vetoed ... How CIA funding shaped the Oswald narrative ... James Jesus Angleton’s handling of Oswald ... Some lies told by CIA officials ... |
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| 2025-03-21 |
War in Yemen, Peace in Europe? (Connor Echols & Justin Logan) Will Trump get locked into war in Yemen? ... Competing instincts in Trump’s foreign policy team ... How should the restraint movement respond to Trump? ... Justin: Trump's pitch-perfect approach to Europe ... What happens if Trump pulls US troops f... |
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| 2025-03-20 |
The Case for Religious Belief (Robert Wright & Ross Douthat) Ross’s new book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious ... An argument for cosmic purpose ... The mysterious persistence of weird shit ... Does human consciousness point to something bigger? ... Tensions between science and Christian orthodoxy... |
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| 2025-03-19 |
The Long Lineage of Trump’s Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Jeet Heer) Jeet’s plans for Canadian resistance ... Trump 2.0: Making “autarkic imperialism” great again? ... The hidden logic of Trump’s tariffs ... The historical roots of Trumpism ... How Trump won the GOP civil war ... Heading to Overtime ... |
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| 2025-03-14 | Connor’s Cuba adventure ... Chinese-owned Manus AI makes waves ... Is Manus just a fancy ‘wrapper’ for US AI? ... Why Manus makes global AI cooperation more urgent ... Can Trump deport a green card holder over political speech? ... Making sense of... |
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| 2025-03-13 |
Canada, Tesla, and Other Trump-Musk Troubles (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom) Does Paul have CDS (Chaos Desensitization Syndrome)? ... Worthwhile Canadian backlash ... Elon’s Tesla problem ... Trump 2.0’s free speech crackdown ... The primal psychology of Trump and Elon ... Bezos and university presidents bow to Trump ..... |
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| 2025-03-11 | Is the chaos starting to subside? ... Trump’s tariff strategy (or lack thereof) ... Trump’s baffling, backfiring Canada obsession ... Elon’s darkly weird grandfather ... Has America gone full oligarchy? ... Heading to Overtime ... |
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| 2025-03-07 |
Trump’s Disruptive Foreign Policy (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner) What could go right with Trump’s foreign policy? ... Trump’s Bibi-pleasing Middle East path ... How would Europe-led defence of Europe work? ... What most miss about the Oval Office blowup ... Has relying on America doomed Ukraine? ... Heading ... |
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| 2025-03-05 |
Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (Robert Wright & Dan Hendrycks) Dan’s new paper, “Superintelligence Strategy” ... “Mutually assured AI malfunction” ... Does China see America’s AI policy as a grave threat? ... How likely is US-China conflict over superintelligence? ... How America’s chip war makes war over Tai... |
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