Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Cutting-edge science • Physics • Astronomy • Space exploration • Artificial intelligence • Climate change • Theoretical discussions • Scientific discoveries • Interviews with experts • Book recommendations • Science outreach
The podcast "The State of The Universe" delves into a wide array of topics primarily centered around scientific exploration and discovery. Its show description highlights an ambition to keep up with the rapidly advancing pace of scientific knowledge, inviting listeners to explore cutting-edge developments ranging from particle physics to climate science.
Episodes feature expert guests from various scientific fields discussing topics such as astrophysics, cosmology, space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Several episodes focus on recent experiments and theories, including the implications of new findings from the Muon g-2 experiment and the intricacies of the Standard Model of particle physics. The podcast also examines celestial phenomena, touching on the nature of black holes, gravitational waves, and the origins of galaxies, often through the lens of contributions from distinguished astrophysicists and physicists.
Space exploration is a recurring theme, with discussions on NASA’s ventures, the complications of manned missions to Mars, and the potential for life on moons like Europa. The podcast also addresses the evolving role of commercial spaceflight and the technological advancements required to further our extraterrestrial endeavors.
In addition to the hard sciences, the podcast ventures into the social implications and cultural intersections within scientific fields. For example, episodes might discuss the integration of jazz in understanding physics or explore monoculture problems in science and the efforts toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Artificial intelligence is another significant topic, with episodes examining both its capabilities and ethical concerns. The discussions often involve how AI might impact industry and society, cautioning on the necessity of regulations and ethical considerations.
Finally, the series doesn't shy away from addressing contemporary concerns like climate change, explaining its connection to natural phenomena such as hurricanes and the potential future impact on global weather patterns. Overall, the podcast encapsulates a broad spectrum of current scientific thought, practice, and future possibilities.
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Episodes:
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#86 - Dr. Dan Hooper - New Physics or Faulty Calculations? All About the Muon g-2 Experiment
2021-May-24
64 minutes
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#85 - Dr. Stephon Alexander - Black Holes, Supersymmetry, and all that Jazz
2021-Mar-28
89 minutes
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#84 - Nate Stewart - America's Back (in Space), Baby!
2021-Mar-17
74 minutes
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#83 - Dr. Ethan Siegel - ʻOumuamua, Aliens, and The Scientific Commandments
2021-Mar-02
89 minutes
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#82 - Dr. Brian Keating - The Everlasting Lessons from Galileo's Life
2021-Feb-03
77 minutes
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#81 - Dr. Daniel Whiteson - The Standard Model and Its Many Quirks!
2020-Nov-13
101 minutes
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Why This Universe? - Please Stop Emailing Dan About MOND!
2020-Nov-11
33 minutes
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#80 - Dr. Jeyhan Kartaltepe - Galaxies, Galaxies, and More Galaxies!
2020-Oct-16
68 minutes
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#79 - Dr. Dan Hooper - Did NASA Really Detect a Parallel Universe!?!?
2020-Aug-27
88 minutes
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#78 - Brian McNoldy - Hurricanes and Climate Change, What's the Connection?
2020-Jun-17
80 minutes
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#77 - Dr. Maura McLaughlin - Detecting the Ripples from Merging Supermassive Black Holes
2020-May-07
84 minutes
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#76 - Peter Haas - Artificial Intelligence Should Scare You!
2020-Apr-16
91 minutes
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#75 - Dr. Kevin Peter Hand - Exploring Alien Oceans
2020-Apr-09
103 minutes
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#74 - Bernie Taylor - Finding the Origin of Dogs
2020-Apr-08
90 minutes
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#73 - Nate Stewart - The Difficulties of Getting to Mars!
2020-Mar-28
81 minutes
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#71 - Dr. Joel Kastner - Watching Planets Form!
2020-Mar-07
79 minutes
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#70 - Dr. Mike Poland - Yellowstone: The Gravity of the Situation
2020-Feb-18
95 minutes
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#69 - Dr. David Warmflash - Let's Rover the Moon!
2020-Feb-05
110 minutes
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#68 - Nate Stewart - The Rituals of Spaceflight!
2020-Jan-29
84 minutes
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#67 - Dr. David Fisher - How Human Spaceflight is Returning to the United States in 2020
2020-Jan-09
115 minutes
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#66 - Dr. Dan Hooper - Can We Answer the Biggest Questions in Astrophysics?
2019-Nov-05
115 minutes
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#65 - Dr. Josh Willis - OMG: The Oceans are Melting Greenland!
2019-Oct-16
80 minutes
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#64 - Bernie Taylor - Building the Thirty Meter Telescope: Unifying Science and Spirituality
2019-Oct-09
68 minutes
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#63 - Dr. Brian Keating - What Existed Before the Big Bang?
2019-Sep-25
71 minutes
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#62 - There May Not be a Clear Solution to Climate Change!
2019-Sep-17
41 minutes
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#61 - Dr. Sara Mazrouei - How The Moon Teaches us About Our Past!
2019-Sep-03
86 minutes
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#60 - Artificial Intelligence is Biased Because We Are! | Featuring Dr. Chris Kulp
2019-Aug-23
18 minutes
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#59 - July 2019 was the Hottest Month on Record, How do we Know That?
2019-Aug-21
61 minutes
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#58 - Dr. John Hoopes - Pseudo-archeology Tries to Rewrite History; From Mayan 2012 "Prophecies" to Ancient Aliens.
2019-Aug-13
103 minutes
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#57 - What Will Happen if The James Webb Space Telescope Fails? | Featuring Dr. Nathalie Ouellette
2019-Aug-06
22 minutes
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#56 - Dr. Chris Kulp - Machine Learning and the Big Data Revolution!
2019-Jul-30
103 minutes
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#55 - Is 5G Safe? | The Hottest June on Record has Passed!
2019-Jul-24
55 minutes
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#54 - We Chose to go to The Moon 50 Years Ago! IT'S TIME WE GO AGAIN!
2019-Jul-19
61 minutes
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#53 - Dr. Nathalie Ouellette - Exoplanets and the James Webb Space Telescope
2019-Jul-09
95 minutes
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#52 - Could Fast Radio Bursts be Aliens?, Helicopters on Mars, Quadcopters on Titan, and Buying Tickets to the ISS!
2019-Jul-05
103 minutes
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#50 - Why did we Stop Going to the Moon? | Featuring Dr. David Fisher
2019-Jun-19
19 minutes
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#49 - Dr. Duncan Lorimer - What are Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)?
2019-Jun-13
93 minutes
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#48 - Dr. David Fisher - We Must Return to The Moon!
2019-Jun-04
123 minutes
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#47 - The Pull Out Method... Works?
2019-May-31
52 minutes
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#46 - Getting LIGO Funded | Featuring Dr. Rai Weiss | TSOTU Short
2019-May-17
16 minutes
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#45 - Dr. David Warmflash - The History and Future of our Relationship with the Moon!
2019-May-14
101 minutes
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#44 - Nate Stewart - We're Returning to the Moon!
2019-May-09
91 minutes
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#43 - Exploring the Pseudoscience Spectrum!
2019-May-07
112 minutes
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#42 - Dr. Rai Weiss - Detecting Gravitational Waves and Winning a Nobel Prize in the Process
2019-Apr-24
68 minutes
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#41 - Can We Remove Carbon from the Atmosphere? | Featuring Dr. Stephen Pacala | TSOTU Short
2019-Apr-16
11 minutes
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#40 - Climate Change is Happening! Why Deny it? | Featuring Dr. Matt Fitzpatrick | TSOTU Short
2019-Apr-12
10 minutes
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#39 - Searching for Life on Europa | TSOTU Short
2019-Apr-06
14 minutes
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#38 - Dr. Matt Fitzpatrick - The Climate will feel very Different in 60 Years!
2019-Apr-02
77 minutes
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#37 - How the Seasonal Flu Vaccine is Made featuring Dr. Peter Barlow | TSOTU Clip
2019-Mar-28
8 minutes
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#36 - Where could we find Life Beyond Earth?
2019-Mar-26
107 minutes
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#35 - Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano due for an Eruption? featuring Dr. Michael Poland - TSOTU Clip
2019-Mar-22
8 minutes
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#34 - Bernie Taylor - The Influence of Biological Time on Intelligent Life and how it could Change our View of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
2019-Mar-18
102 minutes
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#33 - Discovering the First Fast Radio Burst featuring Dr. Duncan Lorimer - TSOTU Clips
2019-Mar-15
14 minutes
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#32 - Nate Stewart - How America is Returning to Human Spaceflight and The Purpose of the Lunar Gateway
2019-Mar-12
65 minutes
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#31 - The Importance of Radical Ideas in Science featuring Dr. Priya Natarajan - TSOTU Clip
2019-Mar-09
10 minutes
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#30 - How to Conceptualize a Black Hole featuring Dr. Priya Natarajan - TSOTU Clip
2019-Mar-06
7 minutes
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#29 - Dr. Priya Natarajan - Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Recognition in Science
2019-Feb-28
84 minutes
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#28 - Dr. Peter Barlow - Curing the Common Cold, Flu Vaccines, and Pandemics
2019-Feb-19
61 minutes
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#27 - Dr. Julia Young - How History Can Help Us Understand Modern Immigration to the U.S.
2019-Feb-04
92 minutes
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#26 - Brendan Gets Interviewed - Black Holes, Aliens, Fast Radio Bursts, and Flat Earthers
2019-Jan-31
109 minutes
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#25 - Understanding Black Holes: What We Know and What We May Never Know
2019-Jan-23
55 minutes
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#24 - 2018 Climate Change Recap, Fast Radio Bursts, and Putting Solar Panels on Trump's Wall
2019-Jan-14
103 minutes
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#23 - China on the Moon, Government Shutdown, and The ISS Hole
2019-Jan-07
80 minutes
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#22 - Dr. Aysha Akhtar - The Impact of Factory Farming and Animal Testing on Human Health
2019-Jan-01
98 minutes
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#21 - Nate Stewart - How Commercialization of Space Travel Can Lead Us To The New Space Age
2018-Dec-18
105 minutes
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#20 - Dr. Stephen Pacala - Understanding Our Changing Climate and Carbon Mitigation
2018-Dec-11
88 minutes
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#19 - Nate Stewart - Climate Change and Revitalizing Space Exploration
2018-Dec-04
78 minutes
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#18 - Dr. Ken Miller - Science Denial, Free Will, and Finding Common Ground Between God and Evolution
2018-Nov-29
96 minutes
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#17 - Dr. Michael Poland - Monitoring the Yellowstone Supervolcano and Predicting Eruptions
2018-Nov-21
72 minutes
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#16 - Dr. Maura McLaughlin - Gravitational Waves, NANOGrav and the Pulsar Search Collaboratory
2018-Nov-14
84 minutes
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#15 - Dr. Duncan Lorimer - Pulsars, Discovering Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), and Creating Music
2018-Oct-31
96 minutes
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#12 - Bernie Taylor - Before Orion, The First Astronomers, Astrology, and Recognizing Genius
2018-Oct-10
104 minutes
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#10 - Dr. Sam Sternberg - CRISPR, GMO's, and Bioethics
2018-Oct-03
56 minutes
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#9 - Dr. Brian Keating - Reforming the Nobel Prize
2018-Sep-26
46 minutes
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#8 - James Barrat - Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Us?
2018-Sep-24
40 minutes
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#6 - Dr. Joan Nichols - Bioengineering Lungs, Health Effects of Space Travel, and Succeeding in Science
2018-Sep-12
96 minutes
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#5 - Dr. Francis Halzen - Detecting Neutrinos, MultiMessenger Astronomy, and The IceCube Neutrino Observatory
2018-Sep-05
74 minutes
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#4 - Dr. David Fisher - Space Force, Going Back To The Moon, and Politics
2018-Aug-29
93 minutes
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#3 - Dr. Darold Treffert - Savant Syndrome, Psychedelics, and Paranormal Experiences
2018-Aug-22
105 minutes
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#2 - Dr. Nicole Gugliucci - Making Citizen Science Successful, Compensating Citizen Scientists, and Overpopulation
2018-Aug-17
77 minutes
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#1 - Dr. Chris Kulp - Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
2018-Aug-17
110 minutes
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