I’m creating the university you wish you went to.

Brian Keating is the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, and the Principal Investigator of the Simons Observatory. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light — the cosmic microwave background — using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe.

He is a writer, podcaster, and best-selling author of one of Amazon Editors’ Best Nonfiction Books of All Time, Losing the Nobel Prize.

Are you sick of science popularizers who wax poetically about wormholes and breathlessly rhapsodize about the ‘Mind of God’? Me too. It’s frustrating when scientists play it safe — refusing to respect their audiences, or worse, disrespecting them by dumbing down the content. After nearly two decades as a professor, I’d had enough. I decided to do something about it.

Unlike your college professors, I don’t grade on a curve — because there is no curve. I’ll be your tour guide as we explore the most mesmerizing concepts in all of science, via first-person interviews with the magnificent minds behind them. Together, we’ll experience moments most of us never thought we’d get to hear, let alone participate in.