Craig Venter: Did He Make Life In The Lab?
Craig Venter: Did He Make Life In The Lab? Transcript Speaker: The only junk DNA is in my colleagues’ brains. Brian Keating: Today, we’re featuring Craig Venter, a world renowned biotechnologist known for his groundbreaking contributions to genomics. He had a pivotal role in leading the 1st draft sequence of the human genome and […]
EXCLUSIVE Craig Venter Q&A
EXCLUSIVE Craig Venter Q&A Transcript Brian Keating: Today, we’re featuring Craig Venter, a world renowned biotechnologist known for his groundbreaking contributions to genomics. He had a pivotal role in leading the 1st draft sequence of the human genome and assembling the pioneering team that achieved the transfection of a cell with a synthetic chromosome. […]
Michael Turner Explains the Origins & Mysteries ofDark Energy!
Michael Turner Explains the Origins & Mysteries of Dark Energy! Transcript Brian Keating: Michael Turner is a theoretical cosmologist, emeritus professor at the University of Chicago, and former director of the Kavli Institute For Cosmological Physics. He’s a pioneer in exploring what he called the dark side of the universe. He actually coined the term […]
Cumrun Vafa: Is String Theory Actually Science?
Cumrum Vafa: Is String Theory Actually Science? Transcript Speaker: There is no best viewpoint, and that best viewpoint is subject to the question. We should not say this is the way to look at it. Everything else is bad and so on and so forth. Contradictory sounding views are sometimes necessary to understand the […]
David Chalmers:The Matrix is REAL!
David Chalmer: The Matrix is REAL! Transcript Speaker: The human brain is a big complex machine. It’s an amazing machine. It’s a creative machine, but it’s still made up of these neurons which are appear to be computational units hooked up in amazing ways. The imagination, as far as we can tell, is itself a […]
Brian Greene: Does the MULTIVERSE Actually Exist?
Brian Greene: Does the MULTIVERSEActually Exist? Transcript Brian Keating: He’s known literally throughout the universe for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of string theory. He co invented mirror symmetry, and he brought the notion of Calabi Yau manifolds to the mainstream. Meet the one and only Brian Greene. Brian’s a Professor of physics and […]
Lawrence Krauss: The Mysterious Origins ofDark Energy
Lawrence Krauss: The Mysterious Origins of Dark Energy Transcript Brian Keating: Lawrence Krauss Brian Keating: is a world renowned theoretical physicist, a man who significantly changed our view and our understanding of the cosmos. He’s a fierce advocate for the public understanding of science and aims to bring it closer to the masses through […]
David Brin: Your Privacy is Overrated. So is the Government’s
David Brin: Your Privacy is Overrated. So is the Government’s Transcript Brian Keating: David Brin is a world renowned astrophysicist and award winning science fiction author. He explores the widest array of topics imaginable, ranging from groundbreaking technology to futuristic humans, political intricacies, and extraterrestrial phenomena. He advises NASA and think tanks around the world. […]
Exploring Curiosity with Nobel Prize Winner Barry Barish
Exploring Curiosity with Nobel Prize Winner Barry Barish Transcript Speaker: I think it’s innate. I think we’re all curious. Brian Keating: Mhmm. Speaker: So it’s hard for me to say that it’s something we have to teach. It’s something that we have to support and something that we have to let grow and […]
Bruce Partridge:What Happened AFTER the Big Bang?
Bruce Partridge: What Happened After the Big Bang? Transcript Brian Keating: Bruce Partridge, Emeritus professor of astronomy in the science department at Haverford College is a true pioneer and hero in the study of the cosmic microwave background. He’s one of the OGs. Speaker: But it sure helped establish the cosmic nature of the […]